Veriizon ph alltel service/ Using Verizon towers

You can try calling Alltel and see if they will let you activate the Verizon phone. I don't think you are going to get anywhere though.

I would suggest you just get a new Alltel phone and stay with them. With Alltel you should have free roaming off Verizon and Alltel is cheaper. Also you don't have Verizon's crippled phones and frusterating UI.

Hope that helps.

 

does Alltel do the roaming thing like other CDMA carriers where if your roaming it uses your anytime minutes?

 

Yesterday I tried to activate a Verizon phone on the Alltel System for my brother (Audiovox 8900).

Alltel said that they can not activate it because,
1, it's a Verizon phone, and,
2, Verizon phones have special programming & UI's that tie them to the Verizon system

Even though they use the same technology (CDMA),

There are two label tags (for roaming purposes) on the phone I tried to activate:
Not roaming: Verizon Wireless
Roaming: Extended Network

Nothing can be done (AFAIK) to make these phones work on Alltel (for Alltel customers),
unless your tech savy and physically try to break into the phone, which I found somewhat impossible.
It's like verizon gives you a phone with a menu & an UI that is locked and cannot be changed, or overridden.

 

On a CDMA system all ESNs have to be activated on the carriers network. Simply programming the old information to the new phone won't make it work.

 

Do your plan not allow roaming or were you using an ancient PRL? Alltel will roam off other carriers if native Alltel coverage in unavailable. Verizon is one of their roaming partners.

 

How do you now you are even in an Alltel native area? How do you know you are roaming on Verizon? I find it hard to believe that Verizon has a better network in TX than Alltel. Something does not sound right.

 

Thats exactly what I have been wondering. And to answer the other guys question, no, you do not get charged to roam on alltel and it does not take your anytime minutes either.

 

Your best bet would be to get a new phone my friend. If you have been messing with that for over a year, just get a new one. No need to hassle with it.

 

You are not in an Alltel served area. It is not that Alltel has a crummy network there, it's that they have no network there. You are roaming on most likely Verizon. If you switch to Verizon, you will get identical service. If you have to mail your phone in to get an update, then you are not in an Alltel served area. As far as the 611 thing, that is weird. I always get Alltel when dialing 611 no matter where I am or who I am roaming on. Strange. RE: The original question. Yes, you should be able to get a Chocolate on the Alltel network. Just tell Alltel it is a LG AX8600.

 

If you give Alltel the ESN nuber to add to your account. Then change the sid and min and mdn to what your old phone had. It should work fine for voice and basic sms. Even with a Verizon PRL.

Make sure you change both mdn and min. Then call alltel to add the esn. Then try and make a test call. If it is successful then try a prl update. *228 option 2. You could also just try to use the VZW sid as home SID.