Sprint Nextel agrees to unlock phones

Cybergal · Oct 26, 2007

Sprint Nextel agrees to unlock phones
10/25/07

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Wireless subscribers of Sprint Nextel Corp. may no longer have to buy a new phone if they jump to a new carrier.

As part of a proposed class-action settlement, the Reston, Va.-based provider, with operational headquarters in Overland Park, Kan., has agreed to provide departing Sprint PCS customers with the code necessary to unlock their phones' software.
That would allow the phones to operate on any network using code division multiple access technology, or CDMA. Competitors using that technology include Verizon Wireless and Alltel Corp., although the Sprint handset would still have to meet those networks' technical standards to work.
The codes won't work for Sprint's Nextel-branded phones, which use iDEN technology, and don't allow switching to AT&T or T-Mobile, which use global system for mobile communication, or GSM, technology.
Sprint made the offer as part of the proposed settlement of a California class-action lawsuit, filed last year, accusing the company of anticompetitive practices.
The plaintiffs claimed the software "lock" forced customers wanting to switch carriers to have to buy a new phone, throwing up a barrier to competition. A similar lawsuit was filed in Palm Beach County, Fla., and is covered by the proposed settlement.
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TruckingBum · Oct 26, 2007

interesting just renewed and changed plans yesterday
got another line and have an aircard also.
both phones are nextel
been happy for 7 years with sprint/nextel.

ConcreteAngel · Oct 27, 2007

Been with Nextel/Sprint x 1.5 yrs and I wish I had never signed up with them.... Come February.. I'm going elsewhere... I never get any reception/dropped calls and every month, there's a mystery charge...(I'm sick of calling them)..

Good to hear that someone actually likes them! .. Ya must be the only one! .. LOL

CA

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