OMG I got my really old Motorola STARTAC activated on Pageplus!!!!!! works PERFECT!!!!! I`m uploading a video of it now ringing!. And Gets texts but Cant send texts. But it works! and awesome too!
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How does it feel using a 10 year old phone on a current network, against FCC regulation? Page Plus could end up with a big, fat fine for allowing you to activate it.
That's pretty fantastic. I remember having one of these back in the day. It eventually got messed up and and powered off all the time for no reason. Also, my sister had one that the battery exploded on. Fun times though. It was the coolest phone of it's time.
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Originally Posted by UrbanBounca
How does it feel using a 10 year old phone on a current network, against FCC regulation? Page Plus could end up with a big, fat fine for allowing you to activate it.
There is nothing in the FCC rules that prevent a carrier from activating a non E911 phone and nothing in the FCC rules that prevent a person from using and owning a non E911 compliant phone.
Here is an portion of info from the FCC website
Compliance
Wireless service providers may comply with certain FCC E911 rules by ensuring that 95 percent of their customers’ handsets are E911-capable (also referred to as location-capable). The FCC’s rules permit providers to choose how they will meet this requirement. Some providers may provide incentives to encourage customers without location-capable phones to obtain new, location-capable phones. For example, they may offer location-capable handsets at a discount. Some providers may choose to prevent reactivation of older handsets that don’t have E911 capability, or may adopt various other measures.
If a provider declines to reactivate a handset that is not location-capable, the FCC requires the provider to still deliver a 911 call from that handset to the appropriate PSAP.
The provider, however, may not be able to accurately and automatically determine your location for the PSAP. Therefore, when replacing your handset, you should always ask about the new handset's E911 capabilities.
There is a requirement that carriers have at least 95% of the phones on their network E911 but not one for 100%.
Hence a Startac currently on Verizon is allowed on the network for as long as it works provided the owner does not remove it as after it is removed they can not put it back on the network.
Page Plus is an MVNO
MVNOs do not own their own networks, but sell minutes of use to customers purchased from traditional mobile operators.
Since they don't own the network but only buy minutes, they can not be fined for being e911 compliant.
While I am pretty sure the FCC wants all non E911 phones to be deactivated, there is no rule that says a carrier can not actiavate a non E911 phone and there is no rule that says that a person can not use a non E911.
But all that is moot because to be quite honest exactly how many Startacs or other pre 2002 phones are still running.
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Originally Posted by joey3002
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