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SE T608 on Verizon?

dnorton

Jan 8, 2004, 4:45 AM
Can Verizon activate the SE T608 that Sprint is offering? My limited knowledge re: these two carriers was that Verizon now required ti-band phones (1900MHz and 800MHz CDMA, 800MHz AMPS) for activation (which the T608 is). Or maybe it is just their policy that they will only activate phones "configured" for their network.

Sprint,however, only has 1900MHz CDMA (and access to 800 MHz analog, which it charges its customers when they use it, unlike Verizon).

Is there really a 'hard-wired' configuration within the phone which predisposes it to look for a particular carriers towers as its primary? Or is it like the GSM phones which often only need to have their software and/or firmware changed to "unlock" them?

Why? I want a bluetooth...
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Big Poppa

Jan 8, 2004, 2:44 PM
Search ebay for the Motorola 270c, It is a Verizon phone with Bluetooth.. but it is not a 3G phone though. so it has a data speed limit of 14.4kpbs
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PupaScoopa

Jan 20, 2004, 4:48 PM
Technically, if it's a CDMA Trimode phone, it can work. The only way to make it work is by loading the correct preferred roaming list (PRL) into the phone which instructs it to search for specific networks over others. This may not be possible since Verizon Wireless doesn't support this phone and has no computer hardware/software to do so.

Verizon has a list of "approved phones" which have been tested to work on the network. They do not have to activate any non-approved phone, and most employees will refuse to do so.
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