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Phone question??

curlyfries425

Aug 30, 2005, 10:31 PM
Is is possible to buy a phone off of ebay for say Sprint or Qwest and use it on the VZW network. Just wondering cause I'm sick of my phone and my can't get a new one for another like year and my friend just got a new phone from Sprint and I love love love her old phone and she offered to give it to me. And thanks in advance for your answers!! 😁
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5329377

Aug 31, 2005, 9:01 AM
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sorry, can't use another provider's phone with VZW. Rather, let me rephrase that, we won't allow it to work, even if it did work, b/c there would still be some inconsistencies with service because you're using a non verizon phone and then, b/c of those inconsistencies, you'll call up and bitch at us (or maybe not, but you'll be annoyed with your phone and we don't want that). 🙂 so we just say no, but truthfully, for the most part, 99% of other provider's phones won't work with our system anyway, and only the other 1% fall into the category i described above.

I always tell customers who are looking for a used phone 2 things. 1). make SURE it says "Verizon" on it. if it doesn't say "Verizon" then it falls into one of the tw...
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