howardforums has a free esn checker on her website. You have to wait a little while for an email response . NOBODY can match Verizon's coverage, one to one, gsm or cdma. Especially ini prepaid where even Att's gsm coverage pales. It is like this, 1)Verizon 2)Att, Tmobile, Sprint and everyone else.
But Boost does cover enough in terms of population. Most of the prepaid/mvno divisions of the Big Four national carriers have way less geographic coverage. That's just how it is. But Boost also has unlimited data, an area where Verizon mvnos do not. It's a tradeoff. If you have the coverage and need the data, Boost is it. If you need the coverage and can live with limited data, Verizon mnvnos are it. If you need both, get a contract if its a smartphone with the exception of Straight Talk's Finesse being their closest equivalent substitute.
I advocate whatever works for the individual and Page Plus does not work for everyone. Certainly their devastated byod could use some simplicity. Boost is a good alternative for Sprint phone users if they are willing to go to the Hofo bmcdma site and do a little reading. Any Sprint phone except the exclusives like Palm Pre/Pixi, HTC Hero, Instinct series (hit or miss) and a few Blackberries..
No stupid 2% random screwups like PPC has, in addition to their prepaid and smartphone bans.
I bet the problem this time is in ST taking the phone off their system. If a phone is showing up active on Verizon's network because ST has the ESN still in the system then you shouldn't be able to do an activation on any other Verizon MVNO(or Verizon itself) without a port or calling ST and them really removing the phone from their system and making sure Verizon(who owns the master database) also knows the phone is now free. I wonder what STs terms and conditions state on their packaging.
It might be worth nothing that one of the Ampd handsets, the E816, was banned from the Verizon network entirely after they went under. You're not going to be activating one any time soon on Page Plus.
Some threads have referenced New Verizon Prepaid phones as banned, and some have said that all Verizon Prepaid phones are banned. Is there any word on which one it is? I bought an Inpulse V3m in 2007 (after my E816 was banned from PP) and have been using it ever since. Should I be concerned about this? If it matters (since a couple of the threads are unclear on that as well) the phone was purchased at Best Buy.
I bet the problem this time is in ST taking the phone off their system. If a phone is showing up active on Verizon's network because ST has the ESN still in the system then you shouldn't be able to do an activation on any other Verizon MVNO(or Verizon itself) without a port or calling ST and them really removing the phone from their system and making sure Verizon(who owns the master database) also knows the phone is now free. I wonder what STs terms and conditions state on their packaging.
According to PP prepaid phone from the V that were previously activated and met the required time limit as a V prepaid are eligible for activation on PP. The reality contrary to that official pronouncement (PP dealer newsletter source) the reality is that most if not all V prepaid phones even meeting the criteria are not able to be activated.
Whether this will change is anyone's guess. In the meantime treat any V prepaid phone as ineligible for activation on the PP system.
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==But then I have no life==
with alltel, when you went into an alltel store (at least the ones I went into) there were no actual "prepaid" phones but you could get some regular phones for full price and put them on prepaid. there were 5-6 of them. and they could be activated pre or post paid, if they black list all of these, this could be a big mess.
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