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Verizon maybe doesn't whitelist, but they sure act like they do. An unlocked phone supporting Verizon's frequency bands might not get allowed to be used. Happe

Verizon maybe doesn't whitelist, but they sure act like they do. An unlocked phone supporting Verizon's frequency bands might not get allowed to be used. Happened twice to my family members, switched them both to AT&T. In both cases I bought phones advertising Verizon support, and double-checked that the frequency bands were supported. In one case, the phone worked for a while with moving the Verizon SIM into it from the old phone (except for SMS). When I mentioned that to Verizon, they said I shouldn't do that, and it would be disabled randomly after Verizon systems noticed it was an unsupported phone.

joecool1029 2y ago
> Verizon maybe doesn't whitelist, but they sure act like they do. They don't. There's one thing they do that's annoying as hell though. esim technically only needs a EID to activate, but most carriers use a database of EID to IMEI pairings, since the IMEI is much shorter to read out. Verizon will not let an esim device they don't know or recognize the IMEI of to activate. For me that means they refuse to activate my esim.me in a oneplus 11 which is an otherwise cleared device on their network with a built-in esim. I have a removable esim called a euicc (from esim.me, there are cheaper versions now) and T-Mobile is currently the only US carrier that will activate using just a EID. I can then take the card out and even use back to 3G era devices, they don't care. (I have a K850i from 2007 I've done this with, it works on 2G currently since 3G turned off).