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Originally Posted by luv2chill
As for actually cloning, it's a felony in this country, prohibited by the Wireless Telephone Protection Act of 1998. No one should attempt to clone a phone without being aware of the potential consequences.
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I think this is the post people should be focusing on. Yeah, why not learn cloning it for educational purposes? But it doesn't change the fact it's illegal. Official documentation of the 1998 act can be found here
http://www.ussc.gov/publicat/cloning.PDF
The argument that both phones are yours and you're not using for fraudulent activity still doesn't fly, IMHO, because the act itself of changing a phone serial's number to another is illegal.
Likelihood of getting nabbed or busted is probably unlikely on a larger network like Sprint or Verizon unless your phones are being used on two different towers, but I bet a smaller network like Cricket will flag or even temporarily cancel your service.
What we, the PPC community, should be focusing on are alternatives especially since cloning an ESN is still imperfect like the OP mentioned. A quick alternative is
http://www.grandcentral.com/ which GIVES YOU one phone number that rings to all your phone numbers and a host of other features. For the longer run we should be pressuring our CDMA carriers to start using RUIM cards, which kind of work like SIM cards for GSM networks. It's not fair we pay just as much if not more than GSM subscribers and can't easily change handsets.