If I have a sprint iphone 5 can I activate it on verizon?

I have an iphone 5 that I bought from sprint. I switched to verizon and I was wondering if the sprint iphone 5 would work on verizon

In theory it would work, but in reality, Verizon does not allow customers use "non-Verizon" phones, even if they have the same model.

It sucks, but that is one of the ways that Verizon uses to wring as much money out of it's customers as possible.

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