Why cant' Canadian CDMA Phones get on Verizon
A friend of mine from Canada used to roam around the USA on Verizon's network for years on Bell Mobility and Telus CDMA phones.
But when he wanted to move the phone to their network permanantly, Verizon said "No way, it won't work on our network because of security reasons". Korean subscribers roam here on CDMD every day. What's the security logic??
I thought about terrorism control but got stumped when I learned that foreigners can roam our network any time they want to.
But when he wanted to move the phone to their network permanantly, Verizon said "No way, it won't work on our network because of security reasons". Korean subscribers roam here on CDMD every day. What's the security logic??
I thought about terrorism control but got stumped when I learned that foreigners can roam our network any time they want to.
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The big thing about it is that carriers input ESN numbers into a database to verify if the phone is E911. So even if a phone is E911 the system doesn't know it since that ESN is not in the database. Also, it does not have VZW programming on it so it might have some features not work and have some extra features that VZW does not want to have available.
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It has nothing to do with Canada, VZW doesn't activate any phone that wasn't made specifically for VZW. Roaming on the voice network is fine, but being a VZW customer requires a VZW phone.
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