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Old 03-18-2009, 12:39 AM
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Re: What If?

While I don't personally encourage this - if you currently have TEP on your plan and buy the "broken" phone, and do an esn swap - as long as you can actually activate and use the phone by programming it, you can go to a sprint store/repair center and swap out for a new one. The only reason I personally feel this isn't the reason that assurion deductibles are going up is that the TEP is tied to the line (phone number), not the ESN or actual phone. So - theoretically, you could get a phone that works just fine, activate it, and use it for a week, month, or year. And once that phone has a problem, you could use TEP to do an advance exchange. The true fraud is when people intentionally break, "lose" or otherwise damage their phones to call assurion to do a replacement for $50 when they just want a new phone. 2 completely different scenarios.
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