[BC] Cell phones

[Grant Merrill]

I have seen Cricket trade out phones in just about every medium/large market
I have been around.

Verizon will trade for adlibs, or they have been known to do so before.

On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Bob Barnswatts <amfan at collins21e.com>
wrote:

> Hmmm I have T=mobile and on my family plan I have phones with local numbers
> in New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta and Miami.    They said it couldn't be done,
> but I did it. You just have to talk to the right operator.  A little
> trickery might be in order to get you started.
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> Being a member since "Before T-mobile" (voicestream) always helps me build
> my case.
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> I forget how I tricked them into this the first time.  It seems that I went
> and got a phone and new account in one of the other areas, Atlanta.  Then I
> came home and told them I was going to cancel that line unless they could
> put it on my family plan and they did.  That seems to be how I did it but
> I'm vague on that as that was years ago.  After that the others were easy, I
> went in walmarts in Miami and told them in the tmobile booth i wanted a
> local phone and i wanted it on my family plan.  They said they won't do it
> but I said try it and she called it in and away I went phone in hand no
> questions asked.  Then for New Orleans I had 2 phones with a Dallas # on it
> and called up and said I need to change the number on (one of these) to a
> 504 number and they did it.  Since then I have mixed and matched several
> different ways depending on where my lovely daughters are going to school,
> etc.
>
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> Never believe them when they say it can't be done.
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