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Cellular Phone Forum / General / General Topics / September 2006New phone without "new activation?"
Currently have a phone, Sprint month to month, and want to upgrade to a newer model (Treo 700p). Good price at buy.com, but a "new activation is required." Is it possible to buy a phone without activation? My question assumes "new activation" means I can't keep my existing number. Dave See my post a little further down. Mainly everyone says go to e-bay & buy a used phone. Someone should start a class action anti-trust suit against these phone companies who refuse to sell you a phone without activation or extension of your contract. And they won't let anyone else sell you a phone either. > Currently have a phone, Sprint month to month, and want to upgrade to a > newer model (Treo 700p). Good price at buy.com, but a "new activation [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Dave >See my post a little further down. Huh? "further down" depends on how your news reader is configured. >Mainly everyone says go to e-bay & buy a >used phone. Someone should start a class action anti-trust suit against >these phone companies who refuse to sell you a phone without activation or >extension of your contract. And they won't let anyone else sell you a phone >either. Really? Which carrier is that? Oh Evan your sooooooooo smart.. >>See my post a little further down. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Really? Which carrier is that? > Oh Evan your sooooooooo smart.. The point is, these days it's everyone...  SignatureSteve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room. >Oh Evan your sooooooooo smart.. You may want to read up on the difference between "your" and "you're". Jim0624 wrote in alt.cellular > See my post a little further down. Mainly everyone says go to e-bay & > buy a used phone. Someone should start a class action anti-trust suit > against these phone companies who refuse to sell you a phone without > activation or extension of your contract. And they won't let anyone else > sell you a phone either. Getting angry about something that you do not understand is a waste of energy. First of all, the technology involved, CDMA, means that the phones have to have special firmware to work on a carrier. That limits the choice of phones. And this is not something that can be changed easily. Plus, Sprint does sell the phones without a plan. They just cost more. The carriers are in business to make money. They sell the phones at a discount so that they can make money on the plans. And the op is on month to month, so there is nothing to keep him from moving to another carrier and getting a phone there. SignatureDick #1349 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin Home Page: dickcr.iwarp.com email: dickcr@comcast.net |
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