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i share a sprint plan with my dad but i was wondering is it possible to stay with sprint but get a phone from another phone company? like could i buy a phone from verison, take it to the sprint store and put a sprint plan on it?
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Unfortunately, no. Each company expects you to buy a phone from their company, and stick to their plan. I wish it was that easy, though.
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no, it doesn't work that way. the phones from a given phone company... take cingular, for instance. are built to work only with cingular plans. same thing with verizon and sprint. sprint phones are built to work only with sprint plans, and verizon phones are built to work only with verizon plans. it wouldn't work. the sim cards don't fit. so good idea, but it won't work.
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Phones at the verizon store are made for verizon plans. You can go on ebay.com or amazon.com and buy an unlocked phone which is a phone that is able to be taken to any phone company and turned on so long as they accept that phone. For example. You cannot take a sidekick II to a verizon store and have them activate it. Sidekicks are only for Tmobile because verizon doesnt support phones with SMS Cards in them. If you are interested in a phone I would tell you to get the name of it and call sprint and ask if they are able to activate that type of phone. If so, then go on one ofthose websites or a radioshack or some electronics store and buy an unlocked phone then take it to sprint and activate it. Unlocked phones are expensive and run around 300 dollars. The reason phones are so cheap when you sign up with a plan is because the plan lowers the price so you'd have to get a contract to get the price. Make sure its a phone you really like because of the price, unless money isnt an object
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