[tenthirty2]

Careful giving blanket information there Cricket boy, I just talked to Verizon customer service the other day and tried to activate an old digital star tac for use just when I'm on the ATV and don't want to trash my 6700. It was CDMA, and as your post suggests, should have been fine, but in fact it wasn't. The ESN wouldn't take. The customer service rep told me that Verizon has recently had a memo circulating advising of a new policy in which they will no longer activate phones from other carriers. He said the computer will reject an ESN from any other carrier, even though the phone may be CDMA. Alltel has enacted a similar policy in our area, except it is enforced by their reps, and the ESN's aren't actually locked out of the system like Verizon. That was my experience recently anyway, same thing happened to me with an Alltel Blackberry too. Couldn't activate it because the ESN wasn't from Verizon, computer wouldn't accept it.