You obviously don't know what you're talking about.

Verizon isn't opening their network to GSM handsets; only CDMA. This goes into effect on February 14th. This isn't speculation on my part, it's confirmation.

So I could buy a black sprint touch, and activate it on the 14th?

If it's approved by Verizon and Sprint allows it to be "unlocked", yes. However, not all of the features can be guaranteed to work. They really haven't told us how they're going to work the whole thing out, but when I get more information, you'll know it.

I thought about getting the Sprint Touch, but I'm just gonna get the XV6900. The white doesn't bother me at all on it.

no. its not on the 14th. its the end of 2008. if you buy it u'll b wasting your $$.

Bro... I trust BloodiedWraith. He's one of maybe 5 people on here thet give accurate info. To be frank, have you posted here before? 🤨

im am female. and work for verizon wireless directly. not an agent.

your typing is horrible. guy or gal. 🤣

w.e im done talking.. haha 😁 🤣

Feb 14 is the date as stated by the other poster. You will be able to use other companies CDMA devices if unlocked. The process is outlined to VZW employess and cust service could confirm this by calling them.

i work for verizon... we are opening it to ALL phones end of 2008.. not just cdma. we arent even opening it to just cdma in feb. no such thing.

How is a GSM phone going to work on Verizon's CDMA network? Verizon doesn't have a GSM network.

they are taking over unicel (which is GSM) so we will just use both towers.. we currently share towers with unicel and uscellular, trust me its not hard at all...its basically like turning on a switch

US Cellular is a CDMA carrier, not GSM.

thats what i said!! i said that we ALREADY use uscellular and unicel towers!! lol, wow you need to learn how to read! lol... u MUST b an auth agent... lol, they need to educated you guys better

I've never even heard of Unicell. I'm sure they exist but they must be a rather small or regional carrier. Verizon can't use a network like that for GSM nationwide and expect it to work. They never would. Your story has no merit. You're a joke.

they arent using t NAtion wide.. it is in new england only carrier. (knwo ur stuff b4 u say im lying) we are in the middle of a buying them. google it if you dont beleive me.. and are for the rest .. we will just make enhansements to our network to be able to use gsm phones on our network.. i JUST went to mass for trainging onthe topic. we WILL b able tot use ALL gsm and cdma phone on Verizon Wireless network at the end of 2008.

Okay, I can tell you right now, flat out, that Verizon Wireless will not be allowing GSM phones onto it's 100% CDMA network. That would be impossible. There would be so many articles released already (of which I am subsribed to) and other forums would be talking about this. Unicel (for your information, you must not have looked this up very well) is a CDMA carrier for the most part except in Minnesota and in other areas around there. If Verizon does acquire them, those customers will be phased over to CDMA phones and that GSM network will be overlayed with CDMA towers. The GSM network there will be kept up and running for GSM roaming means for other carriers.

With this said, NO, Verizon will not be allowing anybody to get a GSM phone to ...
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unless you work for vzw... and u dont.. well i work for them. and yes we ARE going to allow the use of ALL phones on our network as of the end of 2008-we have had commercials about it also- and YES we are. i work for verizon wireless. and we HAVE publisized that we will be allowing ALL phones on our network...

Dramatically reversing a long-standing policy, Verizon Wireless on Tuesday said it will no longer restrict the types of cellphones its customers can use on its network.- usa today

if you google. "verizon wireless opens network" you will see that we are opening it.. so there is ur proof. you should have just beleived me instead of making a fool of yourselves.

thanks I did just that and the first atricle here READ yourself;
Update: More from Verizon on this. Dick Lynch, Verizon's CTO says, "If someone has the technical capability of building something in their basement on a breadboard ... have at it," which should quickly open the market to small-scale device companies. Also of note, only CDMA devices will be supported (naturally) and pricing should be "competitive."

Please go back to the mailroom and stop posting pure BS. k, thnx.

Verizon Wireless said yesterday that it would allow customers to use any compatible device or software on its network, responding to growing pressure on the wireless industry to give people more control over how they use their phones. -washington post

hate to say it but.. told u so, and here is yet another article as proof. just google it. and ull see its RIGHT THERE! were not trying to hide it. we publisized it about a month ago!

phoneXpert00 said:
Verizon Wireless said yesterday that it would allow customers to use any compatible device or software on its network, -washington post

Keyword there is any compatible device. So gsm phones are will work with cdma now. I am going to go buy an iphone tommorow.. 😳

duckbutter said:

phoneXpert00 said:
Verizon Wireless said yesterday that it would allow customers to use any compatible device or software on its network, -washington post

Keyword there is any compatible device. So gsm phones are will work with cdma now. I am going to go buy an iphone tommorow.. 😳

No...The keyword is COMPATABLE...No GSM phone is compatible with a CDMA phone. IF it were there would be a lot of Verizon users cheering.

No...The keyword is COMPATABLE...

spell check nazi... the first two were correct: compatible.

Umm, maybe you should read what write before you post it. And maybe you should read into what it says first! That would help! I really don't think you work for Verizon, because if you do, then you might need to go through some more training.

The articles that you've posted have all said COMPATIBLE DEVICES. KEYWORD: COMPATIBLE. Only CDMA phones are compatible with Verizon's network. Get it?

a very small GSM company offering flat rate cell phone services and also CDMA coverage. In my city of Sioux Falls, SD they have unlimited local GSM (like 25 mile radius around town) coverage with unlimited minutes for 44.95 a month go to unicel.com and use zip code 57104

They have CDMA service in East North Dakota and Northern Minnesota. They actually have great coverage in Northern Minnesota!!!

I work for VZW also as a direct agent. Apparantly you went to a special training class because noone I know went to any training of that sort. Lamo.

norteast has differnt training. either way i work for vzw and have for two years now.. so w.e im not gonna argure about soemthing that is true.. lol so w.e lmao 🤣 🤣

Mr. xpert. I work for VZW in the Northeast, and just searched infomanager for stuff you posted.

I hope you enjoy giving out disinformation.

what store do you work for then??? 🤣 🤣 and whats ur name?......
thats what i thought.. lmao

I've yet to see your name, Sales code, location ID or anything to substantiate the fact that you work for Verizon.

the information on it is in infodesk if you dont think im telling the truth
🤣 lol

your an idiot.


GSM will never work on our current network period. If they told you that in training then the person training you is equally an idiot. They are two totally different frequencies. It is much more complicated then just allowing it, they can allow it all they want but a gsm phone will not pick up our towers.

Please keep in mind(and most of us that have been around for a long time have learned) That internal training is always about why vzw is the best, it is always focused on the positives, sometimes in a biased manner, in this industry you should keep some space in your head for something other then the propaganda they feed you. Verizon is the best, i love verizon, but i keep my mind a little more open and just blindly ...
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i dont like it either because you will have a lot of angry current customers who want to just do an esn change to another networks phone

you dont like it? its an enhansement to our systems that is only for the better. there is nothing bad about this. customer now have more freedom for phone choices

there would be no etf for existing customer you would simply by changing your priceplan... you wouldnt even be signing a new contract.

It actually makes perfect sense. Opening the network to other phones will likely create many problems. Since the phones are not ones that Verizon subsidizes, I can understand them offering only a connection and no customer service of warranties.

I work for them just like you do. Ive been to meetings where we talked on this. We will not be allowing gsm on our network because like in west virginia the network is being transitioned to cdma. We are not going to be acting like sprint and using 2 networks which makes no sense. If you realized what the company said was that those gsm phone can be made to cdma if the manufacturer wants to but we wont warranty those phone since not sold through us. I am not sure on which manu wants to do this personally but this is how it has been listed to work. There is no way a gsm phone can work on cdma.

apparently you werent awake for the meeting.. 🤣 🤣 lol

🙄 Apparently you never learned that cdma and gsm are 2 different technologies that don't work together. Please learn your facts before saying incrrect info.

please stop posting and do some things you say. GOGGLE it and read all the articles. They all say you have to be an idiot to think its for GSM devices!

👿 I never said it was for gsm device. I said the manufactures would have to make cdma versions of the gsm devices for it to work. Maybe you should learn to read.

dssl said:
👿 I never said it was for gsm device. I said the manufactures would have to make cdma versions of the gsm devices for it to work. Maybe you should learn to read.

Manufacturers would not HAVE to make anything. Nokia and Sony,two of the largest cell phone makers don't consider the market worth the same effort they put into GSM.

Verizon is fortunate Vodaphone has a lot to say becasue their 45% ownership and being a GSM company will influence technological changes to blur the line.

🙄 To work ok vzw's network they would. If they choose not to thats up to them.

cricket, cricket, Nope guess not.

Did you expect something differant from Verizon. I just don't see how it would benifit them to offer to use brand new devices from other networks. But I could be missing somethign and probably am.

wow sad is not the word. No samsungs. Kyocera when did the last one of those come out on any major network? WOW

sad, but a start.

wtf is this, bs! what C'mon

i got my info from an m&p. we will see soon enough

very true, not to say that my am is always right, but she hasn't steered my wrong so far, either way i'm excited for it 😛

...I posted a screenshot of it in this topic. I don't think it gets more official than that =)

The SKU is active, but no price or release date.

LMAO! hoy-ohhhh! "how frozen was it?"

you put the "8" right next to the ")" see what you get for supporting emoticons???

🤣 yeah i needed another space in there

if bill gates knew about this you wouldn't be breathing any more...

totally off topic, i got sent some propaganda email from someone last night with a link to youtube, for a video about how "dub-yah" sold off the rights to U.S. and now we have some N. American Union...no borders, the "amero" is our new dollar, etc...i don't know about you but open borders to our friendly neighbors to the north would do a lot for beer import and export! i could sign onto something like that...the less governing bodies the better! one world leader would rock. we could get away with so much, no way to keep track of all of us hoodlums!

but then i wouldn't get to look forward to watching the value of the dollar drop every day

☹️ i don't have any money anyway, i work in a call center in cali, i barely scrape by and i don't have to pay rent so i don't know what i would do if my mommy wasn't here... 🤣

yup, home phones to