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- 10-21-2005, 04:43 PM #1mcGuest
Is it possible and / or cost effective to have two phones on the same
Sprintpcs number ? I'm thinking it might be good to have one phone in the
car and one at home or at the office etc. I recently got a new phone and my
old one is still in pretty good shape and it seems a shame for it to just
sit in the drawer switched off.
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- 10-21-2005, 05:14 PM #2NotanGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
mc wrote:
>
> Is it possible and / or cost effective to have two phones on the same
> Sprintpcs number ? I'm thinking it might be good to have one phone in the
> car and one at home or at the office etc. I recently got a new phone and my
> old one is still in pretty good shape and it seems a shame for it to just
> sit in the drawer switched off.
While it might seem like a good idea, it can't be done.
Notan
- 10-21-2005, 05:33 PM #3Jerome ZelinskeGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
It is not possible to have two phones on the same number. You could
activate a second (family share) number and explore the various ways of
call forwarding.
mc wrote:
> Is it possible and / or cost effective to have two phones on the same
> Sprintpcs number ? I'm thinking it might be good to have one phone in the
> car and one at home or at the office etc. I recently got a new phone and my
> old one is still in pretty good shape and it seems a shame for it to just
> sit in the drawer switched off.
>
>
- 10-21-2005, 06:28 PM #4Brad HouserGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:43:59 GMT, mc wrote:
> Is it possible and / or cost effective to have two phones on the same
> Sprintpcs number ? I'm thinking it might be good to have one phone in the
> car and one at home or at the office etc. I recently got a new phone and my
> old one is still in pretty good shape and it seems a shame for it to just
> sit in the drawer switched off.
One phone per number. Each phone has an Electronic Serial Number that is
unique. Each line (phone number) is mapped to one ESN. You can add a second
line and share minutes, but it might be a change to your plan.
Brad H
- 10-22-2005, 07:12 AM #5mcGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
Thanks a lot for the info guys.
"Brad Houser" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:43:59 GMT, mc wrote:
>
> > Is it possible and / or cost effective to have two phones on the same
> > Sprintpcs number ? I'm thinking it might be good to have one phone in
the
> > car and one at home or at the office etc. I recently got a new phone and
my
> > old one is still in pretty good shape and it seems a shame for it to
just
> > sit in the drawer switched off.
>
> One phone per number. Each phone has an Electronic Serial Number that is
> unique. Each line (phone number) is mapped to one ESN. You can add a
second
> line and share minutes, but it might be a change to your plan.
>
> Brad H
- 10-22-2005, 08:17 AM #6Guest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
Why not? Years ago I had three cars with a car phone installed in each.
Cellular One was able to program the same phone number to each phone.
It took a day or so to activate, but they did it. They offered it as an
advertised service for an additional monthly fee.
- 10-22-2005, 08:21 AM #7NotanGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
[email protected] wrote:
>
> Why not? Years ago I had three cars with a car phone installed in each.
> Cellular One was able to program the same phone number to each phone.
> It took a day or so to activate, but they did it. They offered it as an
> advertised service for an additional monthly fee.
While I don't remember any carriers offering this as an option (There were
a number of companies offering it, ILLEGALLY!), you're talking the days of
analog.
With digital, no can do.
Notan
- 10-22-2005, 09:02 AM #8Guest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
What was illegal about it, and what prevents a digital service, other
than a legal or marketing restriction, from doing something that the
carriers were able to do with analog?
- 10-22-2005, 01:30 PM #9John RichardsGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
Using the example of one person owning three cars, each having its
own built-in phone, all three sharing one phone number, what
prevents more than one phone from being on at the same time?
This would confuse the heck out of the service provider's network.
--
John Richards
<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> What was illegal about it, and what prevents a digital service, other
> than a legal or marketing restriction, from doing something that the
> carriers were able to do with analog?
- 10-22-2005, 04:30 PM #10Guest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
It didn't then. In the normal course of events, only one phone was on
at a time. But whenever I had more than one on at a time, all would
ring, and I could answer the call from any of them.
- 10-22-2005, 04:41 PM #11Jerome ZelinskeGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
Phone cloning is usually considered illegal. It is at least against
ToS. It would certainly open the door for a whole lot of fraud. One of
the main reasons for dumping analog for digital was the ability to stop
cloning/fraud.
[email protected] wrote:
> What was illegal about it, and what prevents a digital service, other
> than a legal or marketing restriction, from doing something that the
> carriers were able to do with analog?
>
- 10-22-2005, 05:02 PM #12Guest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
In the situation I had with the three car phones, the phones were NOT
cloned. Each had the same phone number programmed in, and retained
their unique ESN. The Cellular One system handled it, and any
programming changes occurred at their side, not in the phone.
- 10-22-2005, 11:17 PM #13Kyler LairdGuest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
"John Richards" <[email protected]> writes:
>Using the example of one person owning three cars, each having its
>own built-in phone, all three sharing one phone number, what
>prevents more than one phone from being on at the same time?
The ESN is registered with Sprint. You *can* program multiple phones
with the same number but only one will work. (I've been through this
a lot recently while trying to switch to a phone that works reliably
after my old one became flakey.)
You can certainly have calls to a single non-SprintPCS phone number
ring multiple Sprint phones though. I often have calls to our home
phone number ring my phone and my wife's (in addition to our home
phone). A little VoIP magic is all it takes.
'course if SprintPCS would just offer VoIP service for their mobile
phones stuff like this would become really clean and easy to do.
--kyler
- 10-23-2005, 09:33 AM #14John S.Guest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Why not? Years ago I had three cars with a car phone installed in each.
> Cellular One was able to program the same phone number to each phone.
> It took a day or so to activate, but they did it. They offered it as an
> advertised service for an additional monthly fee.
>
Because no one off ers the service any more. That's why not.
- 10-23-2005, 09:34 AM #15John S.Guest
Re: 2 phones/1 number
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> What was illegal about it, and what prevents a digital service, other
> than a legal or marketing restriction, from doing something that the
> carriers were able to do with analog?
>
What you described that you had wasn't illegal, it was offered by the
company.
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