[Noisebridge-discuss] SIMS card to CDMA

[Jonathan Lassoff]

Not sure what you mean by "SIMS", but I would presume you mean a GSM or
iDEN phone that has a SIM card.

If so, no, there's no way to get a GSM or iDEN phone to start speaking CDMA.

As far as I know, Boost has been a Sprint-backed MVNO (meaning they don't
own the cell towers, but lease access for their customers).
Apparently, Sprint is stopping their iDEN service in June 2013, so
presumably they're getting users to migrate now before they lose service.

However, I see no reason that a CDMA phone wouldn't have a removable
battery. Do all the Boost phones have fixed batteries? Looking at a couple
of the ones they offer on their site, some seem to have removable batteries.

Cheers,
jof


On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:35 PM, N <jpk at pobox.com> wrote:

>  I found out by accident today that my BOOST MOBILE phone account is
> dumping all of their SIMS card phone customers and forcing us to buy *new
> *CDMA phones which presumably do not allow the batteries to be removed* *and
> thus will be just a traceable as all the modern phones out there.
>
> Is there any way I can convert my SIMS card phone to a CDMA phone?  I do
> not want to throw away my old phone nor the shards of privacy I have.
>
> Nick
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