Verizon mvnos with byod policies besides Page Plus

[balthasaradell]

Hey
I paid for a 40 dollar a month on my PCS contract and hacked it to get free web. they didnt provide web because i brought my own device. but i found a way to hack in, change the settings and now I'm online. can i do that with verizon air voice? im using a blackberry storm 1
THANKS!

Verizon is unique as a cdma carrier in that it allows its resellers/mvnos to have a large degree of byod with original Verizon phones. In general it works like this.

Any clean esn/postpaid Verizon phone can be used on most Verizon mvnos with at least talk/text. Often mms. Smartphones often work out of the box with everything working, especially Palm OS/Winmo devices. Blackberries, ymmv.

A higher degree of byod on Verizon mvnos is that some allow other Verizon mvno phones on their system too. Like Ampd and Straight Talk handsets can be used on PPC and Ampd is generally accepted among most other byod Verizon mvnos (except E816).


Another degree is that Alltel handsets can be activated. Usually with talk/text only.


Carriers that accept all Verizon clean esn handsets as of today are :
Air Voice Express. H20 Cdma. Mingo Wireless. Black Dog Wireless (non unlimited plans).
Lucky Wireless.

Carriers that accept Alltels. Black Dog Wireless. Air Voice Express (claims to).

Carriers that accept Ampd/possibly other mvnos. All.

This is of interest as Page Plus has been implementing increasingly restrictive policies on allowed handsets. In January, they banned all Verizon new prepaid phones (except via calling CS directly). And on Feb. 5 they banned Blackberries and Treos officially but virtually all Palms and some non meid HTC devices got caught up in it too.

[mobilefreedom]

Air Voice Cdma is dead. It only had talk/text anyway. Look at the later posts, they will indicate that Mingo Verizon, Air Voice cdma, Myway Wireless, and Lucky wireless all died in the last few months.

There are only three serious byod Verizon based prepaid carriers:
Verizon Prepaid itself.
Page Plus.
H20 Cdma.

Neither Page Plus or H20 have unlimited data. H20 only has mms. Paygo mms.