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Phone fan
Hi all,
so I have a question on pay as you go options. If I am already a verizon customer and I am either out of contract or pay the ETF, can I move to a pay as you go plan and use my current phone? Or am I forced to buy a new phone? Likewise if my current phone is compatible with other pay as you go carriers, can I use it outside of my current contract if I cancel that contract?
Just curious.
Radiation is good
I don't fully understand the first part of your post, but you can use the phone on a prepaid verizon carrier since your phone's esn should be good to go.Originally Posted by crowdx38
I think you're saying you're in your contract still and you'd pay an ETF if you cancel which is true if you switched to prepaid. This really has no effect on the phone at all - it only deals with your monthly service and charges.
Phone fan
Correct, so then the phone should work fine as long as I stick with Verizon, otherwise other carriers would not work unless the phone was unlocked.
Radiation is good
VZW uses CDMA phones - which are locked to a specific carrier. They don't use sim cards (the 3g phones, LTE uses them now) so you can't really switch to another carrier. I don't know which phone you have obviously, but some VZW phones have GSM radios in them that I'm sure are possible to use but they are generally locked in America.
It's possible to flash or clone phones but the forums don't allow for chat about these grey practices.
Short answer - you're stuck using it with VZW
I've climbed a cellphone tower
The phone you had active on the line will be blacklisted until some time after the ETF is actually paid. So switch to an old phone before porting out a line.
Most 3G phones can be used on Verizon Prepaid, except iPhones. Page Plus will activate except for Blackberries. 4G phones have to stay on postpaid, because no one else supplies the new SIM card you would need.
My screen is bigger than yours
Not true. You can convert to prepay in a corporate store without paying the etf. 100%sure.
My screen is bigger than yours
me 2. I have family plan with 5 lines on verizon. I am thinking about having 2 lines on page plus prepaid or something. Those 2 lines use less minutes and no text.
I will save money too.
Radiation is good
The last time I looked at this (and to be fair - is has been a while), if you were under contract and ported to prepaid, you still had to pay the ETF because you're still breaking your contract with the post-pay carrier. It didn't matter that the prepay and postpay were the same carrier.
I'll look at that again tomorrow.
I've got more phones than fingers
This would make the most sense. Otherwise, what's to stop somebody from porting to pre-pay and then never paying?
Radiation is good
Ok - checked in Infomanager.
Post-Pay to Prepay migration - if there's an ETF, you still pay the ETF - although standard reasons for an ETF being waived still apply.
Translation: 99% of the time, you're paying the ETF.
My screen is bigger than yours
Certainly. You just don't have to pay the etf prior to activating the prepaid service.
Radiation is good
Right, but you originally stated that
.Not true. You can convert to prepay in a corporate store without paying the etf. 100%sure.
Words matter. If you're converting (i.e. porting your number from post pay to prepay) and there's an ETF you're on the hook for the ETF. If you're just starting a new line of prepay service, that's a bit different.
My screen is bigger than yours
In all fairness, I was responding to someone who said the esn would be blacklisted until the etf was paid. My apologies, its quite obvious an etf occurs upon prepaid conversion, otherwise people could take contract pricing, then convert to prepaid with no contract.Right, but you originally stated that
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Words matter. If you're converting (i.e. porting your number from post pay to prepay) and there's an ETF you're on the hook for the ETF. If you're just starting a new line of prepay service, that's a bit different.
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