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I am thinking about buying a Diamond, but I was told by Sprint that I need to have a data plan to activate it, even if it was a used phone. I currently have the original Touch with no data plan and I even use a program that blocks data usage and that seems to work just fine.

Does anyone know if there's a way to activate the Diamond on Sprint without the data plan?

Also, I couldn't figure this out from the other postings, but if I were to unlock an Alltel or any other CDMA phone, can I just activate it on Sprint without a problem? Or is there an extra step I need to take?