Can I do this?
Hey guys and gals,
I have broke several phones in the last several months. I want to buy an unlocked phone because of the prices. Will Sprint let me buy, say, an unlocked pebble or razor?
Thanks
I have broke several phones in the last several months. I want to buy an unlocked phone because of the prices. Will Sprint let me buy, say, an unlocked pebble or razor?
Thanks
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no. sorry. It has to be a Sprint phone, and we have never carried the PEBL
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The reason that you cannot simply buy an unlocked phone is because they run on a different network. They require a sim card to connect to a network and sprint does not use sim cards.
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There are unlocked CDMA phones, but yes generally unlocked refers to GSM. But even if you were to buy an unbranded unlocked RAZR you would not be able to add it to a sprint account. So to reinforce what you say. Double No
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There is no such thing as a locked CDMA phone. Any Verizon or Sprint phone can be activated by the other carrier, they simply just choose not to mostly because the default network in the phone is not determined by the Sim card but is preloaded in the PRL, and the other carrier is not going to rewrite the PRL so that it can be loaded in a few phones. Technically any CDMA phone with a ESN can be activated by any other CDMA carrier the same way it would be on the original network.
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locked on CDMA refers to having an MSL (Master Subsidy Lock) so yes there are locked phones for CDMA
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In that sense all cdma phones are locked and no, the definition implied in the original message would be locked from using on another carrier and no CDMA phone is locked from being able to do that.
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no, it does not mean that, unlocked and unbranded CDMA phones MSL is always 000000.
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SprintLynchburg_VA said:
no, it does not mean that, unlocked and unbranded CDMA phones MSL is always 000000.
I agree with the unbranded part. If a phone were unlocked there would be no need for a MSL (master lock code) hence it's name. There is no such thing as an unlocked CDMA phone based on your definition, just ones where the lock code is known. Based on the definition of the original question (locked so that it could be used on a specific carrier) there is no such thing as a locked CDMA phone.
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