[Moltke]

Sorry to hear you got stuck with an uncooperative provider.

Not to point out the obvious, but did you try to just use your new Sprint SIM cards with your previous phones?

I’m not aware that the cell net would be able to discriminate between the phone devices if a valid SIM card is recognized.

[fireman15]

Sim cards are used only on GSM networks. Sprint is CDMA. From what I have read this ruling affects Sprint customers who want to use their older Sprint phones on Cricket, Boost Mobile or other pay as you go providers using CDMA networks. To me it appears to be a typical government one size fits all solution to what is basically a non-problem.

[fireman15]

If Sprint did use SIM cards the phones most likely still would not have worked unless they were “unlocked”; that is the whole point of “unlocking” the phone. Even if your phone is using the same towers the phone is still tied to the provider and will not work with any other provider. In my case I felt betrayed by Qwest whose service took a radical turn for the worse after I had purchased expensive phones and accessories.