is this legal

[j_p36]

So, first of all I want to make it very clear that I'm not trying to get something free out of this.* I'm already paying for a data plan.* I am with cellular south (a cdma carrier)I am just curious that if I bought another CDMA phone (say the Storm 2, or the droid), could I use the ESN from my current blackberry and make the ESN on the Storm 2 or the droid match?* I'm not trying to incite rebellion or go to federal prison or anything here. I just want to know because I want a nice touchscreen phone but the hero (the best touch screen phone cellular south currently offers) isn't doing it for me, and I feel it may be many many more months before cellular south gets a touchscreen phone I would really like. Also, I do know that they could just add the new ESN to their database (if it was a CDMA phone), but I also know that unless you have a really really good friend in cellular south willing to lose their job for you that its not going to happen.* So, thanks in advance for the discussion I imagine will soon follow. Also I would like to say I am not planning on using two phones at the same time. If this works I would disable my current blackberry.

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[Micwag2]

At the consumer level you can't legally change the ESN on your phone. That's what they do when they clone phones. That's why its not legal.

[j_p36]

So is it the act of changing your esn that's illegal? Or the stuff you can do once you changed is what is illegal?

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[F0nage]

It's like changing the serial number on your engine block. If you do that you're presumed guilty. Don't go there.