Can I buy an iphone with bad ESN and connect it with net10? - 1
To avoid paying up to $700 for an iphone in order to pay $50 a month without contract with net10, i'm looking all over ebay and amazon for cheap iphones but mostly all that are new are that price but others say "bad esn" meaning I won't be able to ever connect it with that company it belonged to right? So, if i buy an iphone for 300 or 400 with bad esn from sprint or at&t, can i still flash it and connect it with net10?
A phone with a bad ESN can never be used with the original or any other provider again.
You can't use CDMA, Verizon or Sprint phones with Net10. The only phones that you can bring to the Net10 bring your own phone program are unlocked GSM, AT&T and T-Mobile phones.
Yes you can on 2014 they have a unlocking program
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