Sprint WILL NOT Activate Non-Sprint Phones

Thanks for making this thread. So many people join just to make their own thread about Sprint BB to Verizon, or Verizon Q on Sprint, or Can I use my Verizon 8830 on Sprint? It is downright annoying because the answer is always the same. Thanks for making the thread to avoid future questions. I bet some people will still ask anyway, but hopefully this will get their attention before they go and make a new thread about a question that has been discussed many many times already.

In case you didn't read all of Mike's post, here it is one more time everyone. Yes it can be done, but it is more trouble than it is worth. Just sell your old phone and buy a new one from that carrier.

If you are thinking about bringing your old phone along, don't post here and ask if it is possible. If you make your own thread when this one already tells you the answer, you will look like a fool.

 

The thread outa be a nice prominent sticky.

 

Yeah mike thanks I am with you as well but people are still going to post it lo.l.

 

so youre saying they limit service exclusively to the phones they offer on their website? and pretty much absolutely nothing else? because i really would like an ericsson, but i think im going to have to switch to t-mobile, although i hear their service isnt so great...

 

If it doesn't say Sprint on the phone itself, Sprint won't activate it.

On a side note, I haven't seen an Ericsson CDMA handset in a while, here in the US I think it's been almost four or five years since I've seen one.

 

Well if the phone you want is a GSM phone Sprint won't activate it because they don't use GSM. If you want an Ericsson, but you don't want T-Mobile, you can get an unlocked Ericsson and use it on AT&T or another GSM carrier. With GSM you can take the SIM card out and put another SIM in the phone. CDMA phones don't use SIM cards and the phone must be activated by the carrier. CDMA carriers usually don't activate phones that they did not sell.

 

Yeah I haven't seen one in years either, and now they are all known as Sony Ericsson's so I bet it's a really old CDMA phone or a old TDMA phone, since I believe they became SE when AT&T went GSM or right around that time. I had the old Ericsson GAIT phone before they changed names.

 

It is to bad that nokia and sony are gsm only they do make some good phones.

 

I like the high end Nokia devices. The N95 is so nice. It came out before than the iPhone and I like it more. I wish Nokia would make some nice CDMA phones.

 

I hear you my man

 

Yeah it is to bad they went this way oh well

 

We activate non sprint phones on the sprint network on a daily basis...

 

this thread is really not that true anymore, like the person above me said some places do active sprint phones.

but it was a helpful thread thou, don't get me wrong

 

There is no reason to close this thread at this time.

-Jay

 

Do you work for a third party affiliate or for Sprint corporate? I've never heard of Sprint corporate employees activating a non-Sprint phone by any means short of a miracle.

 

I guess as long as the company that does the activion is getting there money, it really does not matter if its a sprint or verizon phone.