Droid bionic st newbie question

[droidtastic101]

I bought a clean Bionic on a website and i want to go to the ST network but i few questions as i called ST and couldnt only understand half of what was said.

1. I was told i had to buy a code from ST for 14.99 plus a 45.00 pre paid card as Verizon in my area is CDMA towers but my phone is CDMA. What is this code do?

2. I was told i would be right on the edge of the 4g network so i may get it or maybe not. But i was told by a few people that said get the Bionic its a solid phone but will it automatically switch to 3G or is this a manual setting i must do?

Thanks guys i really appreciate it I never had an android prior just cheapy phone from sprint like the free junkers they give out as im an older gentleman and am just know confident enough to try a more techie phone.

 

[Rukbat]

1) The $14.99 is stuff they sell you to cover their cost of putting your phone on their network. It's legit. (Well, I think it's a bit of an overcharge, but that's what they charge everyone for CDMA BYOP.) The $45 is the first 30 days of use. You pay that every month, in advance. You can do it online, you can do it on the phone or you can sign up for them to deduct it from your credit card automatically. (Or you can buy 3 month cards from some pretty good sellers on eBay for about $125. That comes to about $41.67/month.)

2) The phone will use the best signal it can get. If you're in a 4G area and walk out into a 3G area, the phone will switch by itself - you'll never notice anything, except that your downloads will be slower. Same thing in reverse oif you walk from a 3G area to a 4G area. (Talking on the phone is 2G, so that won't change. 3G andf 4G are just for data.)

Welcome to the 21st century from another old ... well, man, anyway - I don't know how gentle I am. Remember the old 5 cent pay phones? The ones you held to your ear and talked into the part that was on the phone? We've come a really long way, baby. Our great-grandkids will have phones implanted into them at birth.

 

[droidtastic101]

thank you Rukbat . I remember when a coke was 65 cents and came in a glass bottle

Have you any idea how the droid bionic is over all on the ST cdma network? I heard that they are alright but getting it set up is a pain. I really hope they walk me through all of this tech stuff. My kids still tease me because up until this past week i still had my Nokia 8810 i have had since the mid 90's the only reason i bought this droid bionic was because my Nokia just stopped getting a signal. I took it in to the verizon store to see if they could look at it. They said they would trade me my phone for an unopened Bionic box with an untouched phone plus 50.0. I paid the guy and got my Droid bionic and i went back to the store yesterday (sat) and they had it in a display that said not for sale i just smiled.....