Have sprint contract and son lost his phone. Can this be used as a replacement? That is, can it be activated on my current contract?
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Yes, it can. I have the same phone and got mine off of Amazon. Sprint is my carrier and there was no problem activating it.
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Activations Via Sprint # 1800-877-4020 , Please call Sprint and see if you can do that.
1050414
You can activate it on other service providers. That use sprints network. I activated mine with Ting, it was really easy and had it working within 5 minutes.
240190
You can use the phone if you have a contract with sprint but you can't use for prepaid phone with sprint.
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i broke my verizon phone, still under contract. can i use this one with my current line/number?
2245672
Tiffany, I cannot speak to exactly how SPRINT would handle this, but I suspect it would be similar to my experience. I am a TING.com customer. TING is a reseller of the SPRINT telephone network. TING sells phone and data services under its own terms but since they use the SPRINT network, the phones they support are phones that work under SPRINT. TING identifies the types of phones that are included and they have a method that you can use on their web site to verify if a specific phone is capable. The HTC EVO Shift 4G is a SPRINT supported phone. After I bought my HTC EVO, I registered it with TING.com and requested they port my number from my old phone to the new one. This took a day or two. I don't know if SPRINT would do this, too, if you don't buy the phone from them. They may or may not. By the way, you may want to look at the TING service, as their no contract pricing is unique and quite cost effective for my type of usage. Many people with "unlimited" usage plans with SPRINT don't use nearly as much data and minutes as they think they do and they end up paying much more than necessary. Ting users pay for exactly what they use. My son and his wife switched from a SPRINT unlimited plan covering both of them to a TING account and they save about $80 a month.
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We bought it specifically, because we have a Sprint account and it was a Sprint phone. I'm not sure then if it can be used with other carriers as we didn't use a different one. The phone has worked great. Basic, but good.
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Yes you can u just take the phone to sprint and tell u want to use this phone instead of the one u are currently using u could even just call them just tell them that u just want to use this phone keeping the same number now if u have a smart phone that u are using ur plan will probably need to change
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This phone is sold without a contract so you can use it to replace your current phone, but if you don't already have a contract you will need to purchase some kind of 4G LTE service to use it. 4G LTE Phones are not locked, so you don't have to use Verizon if you don't want to. Sprint and AT&T; also have 4G LTE.
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I bought this phone for my mother and she has a contract with verizon, so the answer is yes, you can use it as a contract phone. Just bring it to your phone company and tell them you want that phone activated
185408
Yes, this phone can be used on your existing Verizon contract. I just had to go to the Verizon store and have one of the sales reps there program it for me and move all my contacts from my old phone to the new phone. Took only a few minutes for him to do and didn't cost me a thing.
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Yes you can as long as you already have a contract with them all you have to do is Call Verizon customer service from another working phone and tell them you want to activate a new phone and they will tell you step by step how and it only takes a few minutes. If you don't already have a contract with Verizon you might need to go to verizon and speak directly to them. I hope this helped :)
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I bought this phone as a replacement for one that was lost at the airport. We got a new sim card from AT&T.; Our contract expired years ago and we did not have to renew it. If you're just replacing an old phone and your sim card is still activated, you don't need to renew a contract and can just install the old card in the new phone. It can connect to the web on a limited basis but AT&T; will charge you for using that feature. Hope this helps.
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I don't think so, this device doesn't work out of the box, it has to be activated by sprint and has its own phone number
1023983
This was a Sprint exclusive phone. Assuming you already have a Sprint account, they will be happy to activate it for you. Then they will try to sell you an iPhone.
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I was able to activate my phone under the verizon plan that I already had. You will have to have some sort of plan/contract in order to use the phone.
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I don't believe you can. I've been looking into the same thing and I've found that even if you get Sprint to unlock it (which apparently they will now) Virgin won't necessarily pick it up.