Verizon wireless - Re: Beware of trying to activate older phones (Success)

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Re: Beware of trying to activate older phones (Success)

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2005-08-21, 2:48 am

I have no doubt that these spinners will again rise up!

As regards the activation of non GPS phones, there seems to be a
misunderstanding about the term "grandfathered". It simply means that
so long as you keep your service, plan or phone and pay your bill, the
companies will generally let it ride.

However, if you give up a plan that the provider no longer offers, you
will not get it back. The same holds for older phone technology. So
long as a user keeps a "grandfathered" phone in service, Verizon has
allowed it. Once the user replaces it, that phone, by definition, is no
longer "grandfathered".

That's just reality. Again, I don't have to like it. I actually just
had to purchase a GPS phone to replace one that was lost--it had been
in service for 10 days. They wouldn't reactivate the older, non-GPS
phone. Was I happy? No. But that's how grandfathering works.

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