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Can I Switch Alltel Phone on Alltel Plan

titanbose

Oct 22, 2009, 5:36 PM
I just switched over to Verizon from Alltel and have a great plan with Alltel. I do not want to loose this plan, but I need a new phone. If I purchase an Alltel phone from ebay, will Verizon allow me to activate it? Will they allow me to activate it without switching my plan? Will they allow me to activate it without extending my contract? With Alltel, this was no problem, it's just an ESN change.

Thanks for your help.
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justmarried

Oct 22, 2009, 9:48 PM
You can do a esn change as long as it is an Alltel phone. If you get a VZW phone, it can not have a html browser it would cause you to change the plan.
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Below.Me

Oct 22, 2009, 10:15 PM
You can use any Verizon or Alltel phone on an Alltel plan that was converted to Verizon.

HTML phones still work. Beware that you incur megabyte billing if you get an html phone and use the internet without a data feature. I have had smartphones work by switcihng to a smartpack plan, and by adding the standalone VZW data features.

Using a verizon phone might cause some feature changes. Not a core plan change.

I had a customer come in the other day. They had a $30 tether feature on the account. The same feature on verizon is $50. I could not re-add the $30 feature if I processed the upgrade to VZW equipment.
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justmarried

Oct 23, 2009, 6:54 PM
There are no tethering features on VZW for 50.00. The only feature is tethering for non pda phones for 59.99.
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VZW611LA

Oct 22, 2009, 10:04 PM
You can even use a Verizon phone if you wanted to.
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