[pacosuave]

I guess I thought it would be possible to get an unlocked Kin on sprint like you can get an unlocked AT&T phone to work on T-Mobile or like some people have done with getting the EVO 4G onto Cricket.

Sprint, Verizon, and Cricket are all CDMA so I thought their phones could all be unlocked and used on any CDMA network that shares the same frequency bands.

So I guess as I understand from your replies each carrier will only allow devices to use their network if the ESN is registered to work. ie a registered Sprint ESN is required in order to use Sprints Network.

So ESN cloning, which is illegal, would be the only way to use a CDMA phone on a Network it wasn't originally designed to work on. I take it, that is what is going on with the EVO running on cricket.