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i want to uncarrier to tmobile, will this work?

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kepler28

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So I'm on a verizon family plan, and I want to switch us to tmobile; not a big deal.


Some of us are on contract and not (e.g. I have unlimited, and 2 of 4 of my family has either 3-16mo left on their contracts), again not an issue going to tmobile.

There are 2 of us who don't have a 2 year contract. Can't we just get a new $200 phone, get a new contract, but then reactivate the old phones on the line and use those as tradeins at tmobile? thus we'd just ebay the new $200 phones for profit?

this has got to work, right???
 
kepler28 said:
So I'm on a verizon family plan, and I want to switch us to tmobile; not a big deal.


Some of us are on contract and not (e.g. I have unlimited, and 2 of 4 of my family has either 3-16mo left on their contracts), again not an issue going to tmobile.

There are 2 of us who don't have a 2 year contract. Can't we just get a new $200 phone, get a new contract, but then reactivate the old phones on the line and use those as tradeins at tmobile? thus we'd just ebay the new $200 phones for profit?

this has got to work, right???
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Wut? Tmobile doesn't do the subsidized phone anymore so their 200 dollar phone you will probably take a lost.. then again I could be completely. Misunderstanding what your asking
 
I've heard that the pay back process can take up to a month of longer for the etf repayment. Something to keep in mind
 
DirtyDee said:
Wut? Tmobile doesn't do the subsidized phone anymore so their 200 dollar phone you will probably take a lost.. then again I could be completely. Misunderstanding what your asking
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Hi DD,

No, what I'm proposing is that I buy a subsidized phone through verizon and reactivating my 2 year contract, only to have tmobile pay it off the etf through their uncarrier program.

The benefit for me is that I can sell the verizon phone on ebay because I still have an s4 that I originally purchased off contract and can use that as the trade in through their uncarrier requirements.

my question is will tmobile care or notice that I am obviously trading in a verizon phone that wasnt tied to that new 2 year contract. I can't seem to find much on the internet with this, but I don't see how it won't work because I can activate any smartphone phone on my verizon line.
 
kepler28 said:
Hi DD,

No, what I'm proposing is that I buy a subsidized phone through verizon and reactivating my 2 year contract, only to have tmobile pay it off the etf through their uncarrier program.

The benefit for me is that I can sell the verizon phone on ebay because I still have an s4 that I originally purchased off contract and can use that as the trade in through their uncarrier requirements.

my question is will tmobile care or notice that I am obviously trading in a verizon phone that wasnt tied to that new 2 year contract. I can't seem to find much on the internet with this, but I don't see how it won't work because I can activate any smartphone phone on my verizon line.
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From what I understand, from what others have posted, it should work fine. The only thing it will effect is that you will get less trade in money.
 
kepler28 said:
Hi DD,

No, what I'm proposing is that I buy a subsidized phone through verizon and reactivating my 2 year contract, only to have tmobile pay it off the etf through their uncarrier program.

The benefit for me is that I can sell the verizon phone on ebay because I still have an s4 that I originally purchased off contract and can use that as the trade in through their uncarrier requirements.

my question is will tmobile care or notice that I am obviously trading in a verizon phone that wasnt tied to that new 2 year contract. I can't seem to find much on the internet with this, but I don't see how it won't work because I can activate any smartphone phone on my verizon line.
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Or you could still use the s4 on tmobby ...but that bootloader
 
trophynuts said:
are you sure that the VZW S4 supports all of the Tmo Frequency Bands? Specifically LTE?
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Yes, almost all Verizon devices released since the beginning of 2013 have supported T-Mobile's AWS band. Mainly because Verizon now uses it as a capacity boost.
 
Gman9831 said:
Yes, almost all Verizon devices released since the beginning of 2013 have supported T-Mobile's AWS band. Mainly because Verizon now uses it as a capacity boost.
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depending on what Band of T mo LTE is available in the OP's market it may or may not get LTE on that phone.
 
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