Thread: Is it a good idea to buy clean-ESN phone from eBay to avoid mandatory data plan?
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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 Ludacrisvp View Post
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.
Exactly.

You can have an xv6800 with no data, any PPC newer than that will not activate without data.

~John
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