Turn your Tracfone or Tmobile phone into Net10?

I couldn't find information on this so thought I'd ask. Does anyone know if it's possible to turn a Tracfone or a T-mobile phone into a Net10 phone?

I have three family members that want to switch over but we already have almost new phones and rather not buy new ones if we don't have to.

Any comments welcome.

Thanks

If Net10 operates on a GSM network then the answer would be no. I do believe that Tracfone still operates on a TDMA network & so all you would have to do is re-program the phone. T-Mobile operates on a GSM network & their phones are locked to work on their network.

The answer is NO, but for a different reason. Net10 and Tmobile operate on GSM. Tracphone operates on TDMA, CDMA, and GSM, depending on where you buy the phone, and on what plan. Net10 operates on both Tmobile and Cingular networks, and some they don't advetise. Reprogramming a TDMA tracphone wont enable it to work for Net10, which is GSM.

The reason why no other phone will work with Net10 is that their phones use a special firmware that ties Net10 SIMs to Net10 phones, and this cannot be unlocked.

You'll have to buy new Net10 phones for Net10 service.
By the way Tracfone and Net10 are owned by the same company. The difference is Net10 is expensive phones with cheap minutes, where tracphone is cheap phones with expensive minutes. FYI, the firmware rule applies to GSM tracfones as well.

there are a couple of Net10 phones that are TDMA/CDMA they are the Kyocera K126c and the LG 200c. I sell them both at the wal-mart I work at. (i have the K126c personaly.) neither one uses a sim card. just an fyi