Activating a Globalstar/Qualcomm GSP-1600

I tried asking this on the VZW group and essentially got a "yeah, right!" answer,
so now I'm trying here because Western Wireless, now Alltel, has a large (in terms
of land/licensed area) system just east of here.

The question is: will they allow activation, perhaps with limitations, of a single-
band CDMA/AMPS phone w/o PRL capability (AFAIK) on their network. The
GSP-1600 is a satellite phone used with the Globalstar service, but also has in
the same package an 800 MHz CDMA/AMPS phone. You used to be able to
activate it on VZW, and maybe other carriers, but I guess not anymore. It sure
would be kewl if I could, though...

Thanks for any help, Mike

 

Interesting, thanks for clearing that up more than the VZW guys. But we have a
little quandry here: Alltel just bought WW and I'm betting a lot of those TDMA
radios are still up there as WW (AFAIK) never had any plans to install CDMA; in
fact, word was they wanted to go GSM because their primary roamers around
here have always been AWS and Cingular (being on the A-side). But now, I
don't know, and if the E-911 mandate is that tough, I guess I would be screwed
in that regard. (My understanding is only a few people ever really activated the
cellular portion of that phone, anyway--the damn thing is bigger than the old
original Motorola AMPS phones!)

Thanks again, Mike