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# 22 February 2010 at 3:22 am
simplepe said:
Yes but not if it was stolen or acquired through insurance fraud.
There are many reasons phone ESNs are blacklisted.
If the previous owner was a deadbeat then you can’t subscribe it to the same carrier but cricket WILL let you, unless it was stolen or fraud. Your best bet is to call or take it in to cricket and give them the ESN and ask them if it can be activated. MAny buyers especially on Ebay won’t pay for a phone they won unless they get the ESN first and call the carrier to make sure its clean. But sellers won’t give the ESN to just any bidder because then people could commit insurance fraud.
Really though, the only problem w/having it on Cricket is if you’re ever roaming on the original carrier’s network they either won’t connect you, or will connect you to their fraud dept.
I would recommend finding someone (craigslist) to change the ESN to clone the new phone to the ESN of an old phone you don’t use anymore, but be sure to destroy the old junky one or else somebody might someday activate it and start making calls on your bill.
There are court cases right now working their way through the legal system regarding the illegal practice of carriers collusion in blacklisting phones from their networks in order to sell more phones. Think about it… That’s like if a car was repoed nobody else could ever drive it again.. ever…
Ask their helpline/customer care
wrong section
ask in home>consumer electronics>mobile phones and plans
Yes but not if it was stolen or acquired through insurance fraud.
There are many reasons phone ESNs are blacklisted.
If the previous owner was a deadbeat then you can’t subscribe it to the same carrier but cricket WILL let you, unless it was stolen or fraud. Your best bet is to call or take it in to cricket and give them the ESN and ask them if it can be activated. MAny buyers especially on Ebay won’t pay for a phone they won unless they get the ESN first and call the carrier to make sure its clean. But sellers won’t give the ESN to just any bidder because then people could commit insurance fraud.
Really though, the only problem w/having it on Cricket is if you’re ever roaming on the original carrier’s network they either won’t connect you, or will connect you to their fraud dept.
I would recommend finding someone (craigslist) to change the ESN to clone the new phone to the ESN of an old phone you don’t use anymore, but be sure to destroy the old junky one or else somebody might someday activate it and start making calls on your bill.
There are court cases right now working their way through the legal system regarding the illegal practice of carriers collusion in blacklisting phones from their networks in order to sell more phones. Think about it… That’s like if a car was repoed nobody else could ever drive it again.. ever…
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