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Re: Is it a good idea to buy clean-ESN phone from eBay to avoid mandatory data plan?

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Originally Posted by isdnmatt View Post
You're not going to get around the data plan. It will make you add it when you try to activate, end of story. Doesn't matter where you got the phone, if you want to active, you will have to add Email and Web for Smartphone at the minimum.
He is right you cannot no matter what activate the phone on VZW regardless of Clean or dirty ESN/IMEI/MEID without a data plan.
The VZW system knows what kind of device you have based on the number you put in and it says "Data Plan Required to activate = true" somewhere in the description stored in the system at vzw, there is no way around it.
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