Les Jones: Switched from Sprint PCS to Verizon

February 22, 2004

Home Life > Switched from Sprint PCS to Verizon

I made the leap today. So far, so good. The cell phone number portability act went into effect last November. When you switch cell phone carriers, you can keep your cell number.

How well does it work? I signed the contract at 4:30 PM. The salesman said it would probably take a day to switch the number to the new phone on Verizon, or maybe two days since it was the weekend.

At 8:00 PM we were driving to the Old City and I though to ask Melissa to try calling my number. It rang my new phone. In less than four hours I changed cell phones and cell phone carriers. That's pretty darned slick.

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Comments

Congrats...did the same thing a few months ago. Good riddance to Sprint.

Posted by: Manish at February 22, 2004

It seems to be a trend. A couple of the Verizon users I talked to had been Sprint users, and none of them had any regrets about switching.

One reason I didn't mind dumping Sprint is that they moved away from some of very things I liked about them. Especially the fact that you didn't need a contract, and nights started at 7:00 PM (now they start at 9:00, which is pretty useless).

Glad to hear you're liking Verizon. I think I'm gonna like it, too.

Posted by: Les Jones at February 22, 2004