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Originally Posted by teddat
thx for your response. Im just wondering if its worth it to them to potentially lose their Sero customers. It might be red ink to them. but not if we bought the phones outright. they don't have to subsidize the plans if we do that.
if we can buy a CDMA winmo, blackberry, phone and use on sero, why not android. is this a new under the table bullying tactic to get their loyal OLD customers to sign up to new plans? i think its hitting below the belt especially if we buy a nexus one from google and just want to use the phone on our existing plans.
can they really prevent us from using the phones on the network? ESN is different on say a winmo phone than a android?
might be a lost cause but im just running through some theoreticals...
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Actually sprint is not loosing money on SERO people..they just aren't making as much as they'd want to off them.for every sero person they can get off the plan they get double from that person.
Now here is what sucks about US CDMA, the carriers pretty much are the only ones you can get the phone for..and they got a ESN Table with all the devices registered. When you try to input the ESN it will automatically say it is not compatible with your plan.
They want ppl to buy the phones with upgrade because then it locks them into a 2 year contract..a 150$ upgrade is easily worth locking someone in for sprint.
There is a small possibility the nexus one will be an exception due to google doing the activation though..