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Originally Posted by unscathed
Oh my office can care less about the phone I use.. hell, The only reason I brought this up was because the contract company was limited by sprint and only allowed to offer like 5 different phones max.
I will ask them if I have a sprint phone if they could activate it.. hehe.. but my inside man thinks they won't do it.
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Originally Posted by clockcycle
My Question is, if you set up the account and get whatever phone on the service. What's to stop you from calling Sprint and having them swap out the ESN to a phone you want after the service is set up. I would inquire on that as an option.
-CC
P.S. New Sprint accounts allow you to personally swap out ESN online.
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This is actually right up my alley from what I have done at Sprint and from my stint at embarq.
The company you are moving to is an MVNO of Sprint (correct?). I could guess which one and would probably get close. The problem has to do with the same reason I can no longer sell my Q or A960.
They are using a different billing system and database that what actual sprint uses. They use pls. Sprint does not limit the phones that this company actually gets other than Sprint exclusive and flagship phones usually appear later.
There used to be a way to add the ESN to the sprint database. How I was able to use the Q on Sprint in the first place (it was a qwest phone). This no longer works with ensemble. (Hence the I can't sell it).
The point. You would have to convince a Sprint Corporate employee to add a Sprint Q9c to the database of allowed phones that your company has in pls. This is against the policy and agreement of the company that you are using. This would negate the MVNO agreement and get the Sprint employee fired. They are only allowed to offer white label phones that they themselves purchased from the OEM.
There is absolutely no way to activate a Q9c on a Sprint MVNO until they pick up the phone and purchase a white-label phone. Moto hates MVNO's and the only reason they sold the Q to them was to get rid of their built up supply in wake of the Q9 coming out.
Sorry for the bad news. Please ask if you have any other questions.
I worked in EQ corp wireless division and we had to explain this to top execs all day long.