Purchasing a phone from Amazon

Will my local Verizon store activate a phone I purchase from Amazom?

Can I port a number from my current provider?

"Steve Braun" <sjbraun@dakotacom.net> wrote in message
news:110dfkn5tvhn55f@corp.supernews.com...
> Will my local Verizon store activate a phone I purchase
> from Amazom?
>
> Can I port a number from my current provider?

Would you be buying a phone with a verizon plan? If so the
phone will arrive activated, and yes you can port an
existing number from a different provider.

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 18:04:21 -0700, "Steve Braun"
<sjbraun@dakotacom.net> wrote:

>Will my local Verizon store activate a phone I purchase from Amazom?
>
If it is used, the phone may have a vendor lock installed by the
previous vendor ... phones are usually sold for less than cost.
Sometimes vendors will lock the phone so only they can provision the
phone... VZW does this on almost all it's phones nowdays. My rule of
thumb is if it wasn't originally sold by VZW then you have no
assurance it will work on VZW. ... but if you don't know bring in the
phone and the store will try! (assuming it isn't a GSM phone '-)

>Can I port a number from my current provider?
>
FCC Regs require this.