Update. According to more then one dealer and other sources, ALL Verizon prepaid phones AND Alltel prepaid phones are PERMANENTLY banned form being activated on ANY Verizon mvno with byod. No six month activation on Vz prepaid and it's okay either . The problem with this is they don't say if it is EVERY prepaid Verizon and Alltel EVER made or is it only new ones. Where is the cutoff point? Just like Page Plus's simplistic (and only partially accurate) smartphone ban list, there will guaranteed be lots and lots of grey areas (Prepaid Vzs that became refurbs, etc). I can forsee this being one more big mess courtesy of Big Red and PPC. The sad thing is that it is spilling over onto the other mvnos.

Right now, the execs at Verizon mvno and Tracfone subsidiary Straight Talk are hearing about this and laughing. Their byod is dead simple. There isn't any. Some customers may not like that, but at least you know where you stand with them. With PPC, who freaking knows?