Dennis Ferguson wrote:

> On 2008-06-06, Dutch <buryit@blackholespam.net> wrote:
>> Jong Kim wrote:
>>
>>> I have a Virgin Mobile cell phone that I purchased on Mon. and I'm
>>> having problems activating it to my Sprint network. I spoke with a few
>>> of Sprint's tech. support agents and they all said that you need a
>>> Sprint phone. They asked for my Virgin cell phone's ID and it didn't
>>> work. I read some article on the internet where they said Sprint
>>> agreed back on Oct. '07 to allow their subscribers to connect to their
>>> network with non-Sprint phones. I know I'm not the only one in this
>>> predicament. I hope someone can help me out.
>>
>> Pretty much all of the major carriers have talked about opening up their
>> networks at some point in the future, but I'm not aware of any that have
>> actually implemented it yet.
>
> Well, except for T-Mobile, AT&T and Alltel. T-Mobile and AT&T have
> always let you use any phone you could slide the SIM card into (they
> have no way to prevent it), while I'm told Alltel will let you use any
> phone they know how to program if you have the password for the programming
> menus.
>
> Verizon and Sprint have been the problems.

Can you move an Iphone from AT&T to T-Mobile? :-)

I agree that GSM by its core design is more "open" than CDMA...

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Dutch
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