LG V VX-9800
Can I switch my LG9800 from Verizon to Sprint/Nextel?
I just bought a new LG 9800 thru Verizon. But the new job has given me a new phone with Nextel/Sprint Service and I'm wondering if there is a way to use it with new service.
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You can't put the LG 9800 on any other network because its a CDMA phone. Other networks are GSM i believe. I mean correct me if im wrong bu im pretty sure because a lot of other companies use SIM cards and Verizon does not.
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Incorrect. You actually MIGHT be able to put a Verizon phone on Sprint. Verizon and Sprint are both CDMA. But the ESN will be a giveaway, and Sprint likely won't activate the phone. A good number of phones are made for both Sprint and Verizon, but just have different model numbers but are identically the same phone. Those you'd have better luck activating. It's a 50/50 toss up if the rep at Sprint will activate it.
Nextel however is iDEN, not GSM.
Nextel however is iDEN, not GSM.
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Well now I know the correct information although before, I kind of had an idea of the networks that Sprint uses. I still doubt that they'll activate the phone for you under their service though and besides why would you want to I mean doesn't Sprint get not as good service as Verizon does?
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They probably want to because it sounds like their employer will be paying the bill!
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I doubt that Sprint would allow it. Both Verizon and Sprint are CDMA, however Sprint is heavily PCS (remember those corny commercials where they actually BRAGGED about being totally PCS) which is 1900 megaherz and in my opinion inferior to 800 megaherz. Verizon is a mixture of both but mainly only PCS on the Gulf Coast and in parts of Texas. One may ask: "Why wouldn't Sprint want to activate a Verizon programmed phone?" The reason is because that Verizon phone will favor Verizon's network over Sprint's which would cost Sprint revenue as even with a roaming agreement in place, every carrier would prefer to generate its own minutes rather than pay a few pennies more for its customer's to roam on a competitor's network. It might be poss...
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