goleafs86 said:
I'd rather not sign a contract cause Im not completely sure what I want to do yet.

So can I just walk into a Verizon store in Syracuse or Ithaca with my old phone, get a pay as you go phone number for Ithaca? Then how do I add more money to the phone number?

And say I decide to switch carriers I can take my phone number with me right?

Thanks for your help.

Yes you can, but as along as your phone works correctly and it also might have to have GPS on it. (global Positioning System) FCC is starting to crunch down making it mandatory on phones. You just buy "pay as you go" cards. ($15,$30,$50, etc.)

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No GPS isn't required to have service, the FCC mandates it on any newly manufactured phones but not to have service.

Yes you can port pre-paid numbers, all numbers have to be portable unless the company has a waiver to allow them out... thats a very small list of who gots waivers and a Company our size sure don't get one of those things.

oh, k, thanks, so i can port my number after, cool (hopefully i won't have to 😁 )

Now do note, if if you are on a verizon pre-paid and move to a verizon post paid, will have to get a new number.

as for choosing your prefix, to a limit, certain ones are reserved for Pre-paid and others reserved for post paid. I dont' know which are which for your area because I work in CA 😛

There is a trick to saving your number if you wish to move from pre to post paid in verizon but its ALOT of work. You start a service with some other company, port your number to them, then port it back to one of our post paid lines during the other company's trial period... I know it is a stupid way to do it but at this time there is no way to change pre paid to post paid with us.

WynneFox said:
No GPS isn't required to have service, the FCC mandates it on any newly manufactured phones but not to have service.

Yes you can port pre-paid numbers, all numbers have to be portable unless the company has a waiver to allow them out... thats a very small list of who gots waivers and a Company our size sure don't get one of those things.

To have phones activated, GPS is supposed to be on 100% of phones being activated, per FCC. There is a database that has to approve a phone brought in by a customer. If it does not approve the ESN provided by the customer, it will be blocked completely. You might want to check that out. This was recently sent out.

according to the M&P

The following are scenerios of how E911 / GPS compliant and non-E911 / non-GPS compliant handsets may be used by customers according to the federal mandate:
Scenerio Description
Use Handset
1
Customer walks into store, selects non-GPS compliant handset, and wants to sign up with new line of service. (eRoes will give a pop up message to store personel.) No
2
Customer walks into store with own non-E911/non-GPS handset and wants to sign up with new line of service. Yes
3
Customer calls Telesales and wants to sign up with new line of service, owns a non-E911/non-GPS compliant handset. Yes
4
Exisiting customer owns a non-E911/non-GPS compliant handset and wants to process an ESN change on current MTN. (...
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WynneFox said:
according to the M&P

The following are scenerios of how E911 / GPS compliant and non-E911 / non-GPS compliant handsets may be used by customers according to the federal mandate:
Scenerio Description
Use Handset
1
Customer walks into store, selects non-GPS compliant handset, and wants to sign up with new line of service. (eRoes will give a pop up message to store personel.) No
2
Customer walks into store with own non-E911/non-GPS handset and wants to sign up with new line of service. Yes
3
Customer calls Telesales and wants to sign up with new line of service, owns a non-E911/non-GPS compliant handset. Yes
4
Exisiting customer owns a non-E911/non-GPS compliant handset and wants to proc

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I couldn't' find the information that you are referring to. Are you in the West area and under what E-mail header was it sent out under so I can do a search. I referenced with 3 other reps here and a sup and the closest thing we came up with is about the global phones need to be activated through a specific route now, we no longer do those, but this is no where near what the customer wants. Hear in telesales we do service only on customer provided equipment all the time with and with out having GPS. Also Non-GPS phones will still show up in the equipment database when you run them through.

WynneFox said:
I couldn't' find the information that you are referring to. Are you in the West area and under what E-mail header was it sent out under so I can do a search. I referenced with 3 other reps here and a sup and the closest thing we came up with is about the global phones need to be activated through a specific route now, we no longer do those, but this is no where near what the customer wants. Hear in telesales we do service only on customer provided equipment all the time with and with out having GPS. Also Non-GPS phones will still show up in the equipment database when you run them through.

I am in the midwest and we got an email that was embedded in infocenter on our E*ROES activation syst...
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it says all new equipment though, mines not new, im bringing it in, right?

goleafs86 said:
it says all new equipment though, mines not new, im bringing it in, right?

I looked on the Samsung website and they have no phone at all that is a samsung sph-t100. You might want to take off the battery and look again.

The closest ones are the SCH-n300 or the SPH-i700. Go to http://www.samsungusa.com/cgi-bin/nabc/produc t/b2c_product_subtype.jsp?eUser=&prod_path=%2 fPhones+and+Fax+Machines%2fWireless+Phones%2f Verizon

Digital Pimp said:

goleafs86 said:
it says all new equipment though, mines not new, im bringing it in, right?

I looked on the Samsung website and they have no phone at all that is a samsung sph-t100. You might want to take off the battery and look again.

The closest ones are the SCH-n300 or the SPH-i700. Go to http://www.samsungusa.com/cgi-bin/nabc/produc t/b2c_product_subtype.jsp?eUser=&prod_path=%2 fPhones+and+Fax+Machines%2fWireless+Phones%2f Verizon

Actually just go to www.samsungusa.com that link didn't work like i wanted it to lol.

i know its not on their site, cause ive checked before

its about 3 years old, so thats prolly why its not there, but search google and you'll find it

goleafs86 said:
i know its not on their site, cause ive checked before

its about 3 years old, so thats prolly why its not there, but search google and you'll find it

If it's that old you might not want to use it. What service was it on before? Where did you get it?

it works now, its on Bell Mobility here in Toronto, I only need to use it for a bit until i get a new phone

goleafs86 said:
it works now, its on Bell Mobility here in Toronto, I only need to use it for a bit until i get a new phone

Toronto Canada?

ya

goleafs86 said:
ya

Again where was the phone bought? If in canada you might not be able to use it in the states. And if the phone is that old you should just consider going online and purchasing one of the phones on the Verizon Wireless website for prepaid. Great deals. And you will have GPS for emergencies.

why not? US carriers had the same phone back when I bought it

again, i only need this as a temporary thing, until I figure out which phone I want to get, I don't want to buy a cheaper phone before i decide on which one to spend my money on

goleafs86 said:
why not? US carriers had the same phone back when I bought it

again, i only need this as a temporary thing, until I figure out which phone I want to get, I don't want to buy a cheaper phone before i decide on which one to spend my money on

Where did you buy the phone? I keep asking you that....need an answer. If it is in Canada your out of luck I believe.

i got it in Toronto, from Bell, I phoned Verizon and talked to people at Bell, all they said they would have to do is unlock the phone and they could do it

I don't think the phone will work.. but hey, you might get a surprise. I once did an activation on a Russian import and it worked as well I have done one on one of those Korean 10th anaveristy edition startacs.

You may not get someone who wants to try to activate it though, it will be... difficult. the Russian phone I had to spend about 45 minutes searching for programing instructions on the internet and finally found a page in Russian that I had to run through babble fish to translate to English 😛

GO WITH ATT GO WITH ATT GO WITH ATT 😁

Big Daddy said:
GO WITH ATT GO WITH ATT GO WITH ATT 😁

Why should he go with a company that sold itself to another carrier? Verizon wireless has better customer service and a LARGER network anyway.

😈

not once we merge sparky

god please don't turn this into another Flame war. If he wants AT&T then so be it.

I dont know whats with this guy, Im just doing my research and posting on a bunch of forums and then he freaks out when he sees me here and wont leave me alone, right now Verizon is looking a lot better than ATT

You should see when KingFrog77 is around, the flames get nasty in these forums then.

frog legs are yummy

ha, I'd figure people would act a little more mature when trying to get customers,

I tell em 3 times then I send them to the store, so it can be drawn out in crayon so they can better understand, saves them a lot of time

~~looks over to big Daddy~~

HHhhhmmmmm ~~pulls out her bag of tricks, pulling out a crown~~

Damn you have become a prince, you having beat the king frog yet, but you are close.
😉

Thank you my dear, going to lunch, be back in 3600 seconds, you kids play nice now and look both ways before you cross the street

wonders how long it took him to get the Math right on that equations.

I have to give Froggy credit, at least his rants and raves have some level of substance to them most of the time. This was just empty pokeing fun.

haha, i found it pretty funny, a really smart way to impress your potential customers, haha

did you get my email wynnefox?

I have been in the middle of moving so I haven't been able to get to you right away when not at work. sorry.

no worries, i just emailed you cause im leaving soon and figured it would be quicker that way, thanks

probably never smeagol

no kidding -.-

oh, okay, thanks

WynneFox said:
I don't think the phone will work.. but hey, you might get a surprise. I once did an activation on a Russian import and it worked as well I have done one on one of those Korean 10th anaveristy edition startacs.

The Russian phone I had to spend about 45 minutes searching for programing instructions on the internet and finally found a page in Russian that I had to run through babble fish to translate to English 😛

Damn.

Now THATS customer service. Show me ANYONE that would go that extra mile for a customer. This is the basis on VZW's customer service. I just wish that VZW would get back to these standards.

😲

holy crap, now that's dedication!

Hey, I just like making people happy. I remember back when I worked for the Rat Shack and one of my idiot sales reps (he only lasted about 5 months before he was let go) sold this customer about $150 with of extra cables to hook this guy's kid's Cable box to VCR to his TV... To give the Sales rep credit, this guy had no clue on what he was talking about and to give the customer credit, the first word's out of the customer's mouth when he came back to me is, haven't got a clue what I'm doing."

I got confused on what he was talking about so after my shift I went to his house (he lived near the store) looked things over, had him return most of the stuff he got, wired things up and headed home. The guy a couple months later just showed up out...
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Any phone can be activated on Pay as you go. We just sell 2 phones packaged for it though.

Gotcha 😉 that is what i get for giving customer wrong info dang it....replays that in her head for notes later.

oh okay, so 1oo% sure, I can walk into a store in upstate new york, and leave with a pay as you go number in ithaca on my old phone?

thanks

Sure, (607) 227, (607) 342, (607) 351, and (607) 592 are verizon's Ithica numbers.

oh, okay, so i just walk in, and how long would it take? would i get to choose which prefix number i wanted?

goleafs86 said:
oh, okay, so i just walk in, and how long would it take? would i get to choose which prefix number i wanted?

You might get to choose from a few prefixes, but not make your own up, depends on the market how many prefixes will come up for Ithaca.

okay, someone else just listed them

so whats with this GPS thing? can i or can't I use my phone on a prepaid Verizon plan?

Whats the model number of your phone?

goleafs86 said:
okay, someone else just listed them

so whats with this GPS thing? can i or can't I use my phone on a prepaid Verizon plan?

GPS = GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM

Means if you dial 911 they can pinpoint your location via GPS better. Instead of you saying I'm buy the brown spotted cow, next to the barn and a creek on the corner of blah blah.

thats cool, i know what GPS is, just havent heard of this new 911 thing,

my phone is a samsung sph-t100

SPH T-100? are you sure? samsung lists only a SGH T-100 and This phone transmits GSM, it wont work on Verizon's service you need one that transmits on CDMA. I don't have a listing for an SPH

ya, it is, its an older phone, mabe 3 years, i know its CDMA because my network is CDMA

I was looking at the pay as you go map, and had a question:

from what it looks like, I can phone anyone in the US in the digital coverage area and not pay long distance charges, is that right?

full of questions arent we? 🤣

This is correct. Pay as you go is national.

k, thanks

so other carriers national plans are the same thing, cause this other guy is trying to tell me no

dont put words in my mouth

im not, bu said there was no difference between national and local, even when i asked many times

not with att there is not depending on the plan I said

what? thats not a sentence, it makes no sense 🤣

THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE ON THE LARGER PLANS 🙄 🙄 🙄

haha, calm down there buddy, 😉 why didnt you tell me that before? you were trying to mislead me on purpose.

no I was not, I forgot I was talking to a lay person

haha, wow 😳 , ur a loser, "lay person" haha, wow! 🤣

well when it comes to cell phones and how they work apparently you are as sharp as a bag of hammers

haha, and hows that? what have i said that makes you say that? the only thing ive talked about is the difference between the two plans, what does that have to do with how cell phones work? haha

haha, you funny haha, if a frog had wings he would not bump his azz when he hopped

wow! could u please just leave and not post here as Im trying to get some real information, not argue with some idiot

thanks

I am the idiot ok, that makes sense who was asking who for help 10 min ago? I am tired of talking to you, I will do something for useful like go argue with a stop sign

WynneFox said:
This is correct. Pay as you go is national.

His phone may not be tri-mode though. If it isn't it won't be able to be used nationwide. But it can be activated on the nationwide network as long as the evil GPS worm doesn't get em lol.

its a tri-mode

switch it to stupid mode and you will have more luck

wow, how old is this guy ? haha, leave me alone

ha ha smarter than you ha ha

what? im not gonna reply to this idiot anymore, LEAVE ME ALONE

you just replied there buttercheeks 🙄

goleafs86 said:
its a tri-mode

Welp I believe you could give it a try. But I would be prepared with some method of payment for a newer prepaid phone if it doesn't go through our system. Good luck to ya!

thanks for your help

you are welcome

Iyvonne said:
I thought that only two phone could be used on our post paid plans, on the web site you can only purchase a lg3200 and a Kiyocera 414 so i assumed only those two phones are useable?

If you mean the "pay as you go plan" no. Other phones are definitely fine to use. You could use the Nokia 2285 if you wanted. (Cheap phone) You just pay more money for the phone you want if you want a LG 7000 for instance on a PREPAID plan. The cost of the phone is more, when more features are present on the phone. (Color screen, Speaker phone, Video, etc..

For instance:

Nokia 2285 is about $100 + to buy it on prepaid.

Nokia 2285 is $1 or free in most stores on a 2 year contract.

thank you so much I appericate the clarification, one thing they don't train us alot about is pre pay and Data plans.

So thank you for the information 😎

Iyvonne said:
thank you so much I appericate the clarification, one thing they don't train us alot about is pre pay and Data plans.

So thank you for the information 😎

Welcome 😎

Tosses, digial pimp a kiss and a wink,
Oh wise one educated us less intellegent then your self.

Ok what are the hidden fees if any that come from the vzw pay as you go
😉 😈

Iyvonne said:
Tosses, digial pimp a kiss and a wink,
Oh wise one educated us less intellegent then your self.

Ok what are the hidden fees if any that come from the vzw pay as you go
😉 😈

Awww 🤭

No hidden fees at all. What you pay for is what you get. 25 cents a minute to connect/receive and 10 cents a minute thereafter.

$15 - $29.99 expires in 30 days
$30 - $74.99 expires in 60 days
$75 - $149.99 expires in 90 days
$150 and above expires in 120 days

Your minutes expire at 12:01 a.m. on the day stated at the time of replenishment. To carry your balance forward, simply buy and initialize another card before your expiration date. Card art may vary.

Pay As You ...
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