Can you use a Verizon BB on sprint network

**zeni** · 11-14-2008, 11:17 AM

Thanks for answering.
I am giving my BB 8830 WE to my friend who has sprint if she will be able to use it on that network. Will she be able to activate it on sprint.
Can anyone help me with the answer.

**MsRandall** · 11-14-2008, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by zeni

Thanks for answering.
I am giving my BB 8830 WE to my friend who has sprint if she will be able to use it on that network. Will she be able to activate it on sprint.
Can anyone help me with the answer.

Simple answer no, unless it is a Sprint ESN -Sprint wont activate it.

**zeni** · 11-14-2008, 12:51 PM

thanks so much for the quick answer

**SmoothG** · 11-14-2008, 03:11 PM

The best bet is to have her sell the verizon world phone and use that money to buy a sprint blackberry.

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**tchapp** · 11-15-2008, 01:12 AM

you guys know sprint will activate verizon phones now.

**ENORYT** · 11-15-2008, 04:30 AM

Originally Posted by tchapp

you guys know sprint will activate verizon phones now.

How do you know!?! I mean please explain I would like to know more of what you know.

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**Mic_Tech** · 11-15-2008, 07:50 AM

Since when will sprint activate a verizon phone?

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**nydog** · 11-15-2008, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by zeni

thanks so much for the quick answer

Not true. Over a year ago, sprint started allowing customers to activate other CDMA carrier phones on their network. I think it was due to a cases they lost. If you search engadgetmobile you will find the article. I don't think its somethong that customers do often by it is possible. The aticle was posted in Oct 07, if I remember correctly.

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**tx_dbs_tx** · 11-16-2008, 02:01 AM

Good luck with that guys! I recently left Verizon and opened a new Sprint account and I have 2 brand new Blackberry Curves for Verizon with clear esn's and Sprint would not activate them. The lawsuit mentioned above does not mean Sprint will actually let you activate a cdma phone from a different carrier on Sprint's network but they will unlock their own Sprint phones to activate on a different cdma carrier. I think it could easily be done if Sprint really wanted to but I doubt that day will ever come.

**tchapp** · 11-18-2008, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by nydog

Not true. Over a year ago, sprint started allowing customers to activate other CDMA carrier phones on their network. I think it was due to a cases they lost. If you search engadgetmobile you will find the article. I don't think its somethong that customers do often by it is possible. The aticle was posted in Oct 07, if I remember correctly.

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yeah, you are 100% right. verizon will activate sprint, sprint will activate verizon and metro pcs will activate all cdma.

**bigdj24** · 11-18-2008, 09:03 AM

if i buy a sprint phone on ebay will it work with the telus network?

**midwest_kc** · 11-18-2008, 10:48 AM

So - in theory - that means that I could by a Storm and use it on Sprint?

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**marialmt** · 11-18-2008, 11:59 AM

I just spoke with a Sprint representative. They explained that you would need to get the unlock code to the device from Verizon, and then reach out to Sprint to activate the unit. She also stressed that they could not guarantee that all services would work on the unit so that could potentially be a problem.

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**papped** · 11-18-2008, 12:23 PM

Yep, the lawsuit resulted in Sprint stating they would unlock THEIR phones. Good luck getting them to activate phones from another carrier. They've been pretty heavily against this since forever.

**DarkPhoenix** · 11-18-2008, 02:17 PM

I have been seeing Storms on Ebay for $400 USD. Heh heh heh!

**tchapp** · 11-18-2008, 02:35 PM

Originally Posted by papped

Yep, the lawsuit resulted in Sprint stating they would unlock THEIR phones. Good luck getting them to activate phones from another carrier. They've been pretty heavily against this since forever.

all cdma carriers in the US lost the case, they have to have open networks like GSM.

it can be done.

**papped** · 11-18-2008, 03:26 PM

Yeah, you can techinically use a CDMA phone on another CDMA carrier.

Doesn't mean Sprint will do it, which is where the whole problem is. Again, the case they lost was about providing unlock codes for their own phones, which they did not do prior. I see recent examples of people in this post that tried that very thing with Sprint and failed, whereas I can easily find people who did the same thing but activated on Verizon and Verizon did not put up a fight.

**lasix** · 11-23-2008, 07:55 PM

just called *2

Sprint will let you use an unlocked bb storm on your account, but you will not have access to many of the features of the phone such as the internet.. They are built for vz's network specs... It will be able to be used as a phone.

**tx_dbs_tx** · 11-23-2008, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by lasix

just called *2

Sprint will let you use an unlocked bb storm on your account, but you will not have access to many of the features of the phone such as the internet.. They are built for vz's network specs... It will be able to be used as a phone.

That is false information. When you actually have the Verizon phone of choice in your hand, go ahead and call Sprint customer support and spend several hours on the phone or to your heart's desire and you will not get a non Sprint branded phone activated on Sprint's network. Period. Clear ESN, locked, unlocked, it doesn't matter. And just because the Storm is a "global" device and the sim is unlocked doesn't mean that another cdma carrier can or will activate it on their network. As for a different gsm network that may actually be more possible but no guarantees there either. Some dreams are just that... simply a dream.

**l3lueMage** · 11-25-2008, 03:05 AM

Its not that we ppl that work for sprint dont want to unlock and give you the code, its we dont know how :P

Atleast in the corporate stores we cant unlock them, and if someone comes in with an unlocked CDMA phone, our system just doesn't allow us to activate it.

And trust me with the way sprint does stuff, if they had to redo their system to allow unlocked phones, its going to be like when they merged with nextel, a big freakin mess that will screw sprint over again and for the final time hahaha