Actually, when I worked my stint at VZW, the ongoing thing told to customers was that only VZW phones could be activated on their network...whether or not that was a sales pitch, I'm not sure, but finding someone that would activate just any CDMA phone (even though Alltel and US Cellular phones are pretty much the same) due to sales quotas if nothing else.
And before you ask, this was in a corporate store...actually, the largest corporate store on the east coast. :[
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Actually, when I worked my stint at VZW, the ongoing thing told to customers was that only VZW phones could be activated on their network...whether or not that was a sales pitch, I'm not sure, but finding someone that would activate just any CDMA phone (even though Alltel and US Cellular phones are pretty much the same) due to sales quotas if nothing else.
And before you ask, this was in a corporate store...actually, the largest corporate store on the east coast. :[