Can I use a pre-paid phone with regular plan?

I am new to Verizon and since there is no sim card I wasn't sure if you could buy a pre-paid phone but use it with a regular monthly plan? My husband already lost his phone and we are about 18 months from an upgrade!

sh0425,
I'm sorry about your husband's phone, luckily we do have options. Currently, a pre-paid device must be activated on a pre-pay account for six months before eligible to activate on a standard post-pay account. However, we do offer Certified Pre-Owned devices at a fraction of the cost of the devices at full retail. You can review all of our devices here: http://bit.ly/CPOdevices. If you have insurance on his line, you can file an insurance claim with Asurion at www.phoneclaim.com.
Have a great day!
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Use a pre-paid phone with regular plan?

I am fairly new to Verizon and my husband already lost his phone. Since there are no sim cards, can I still buy a pre-paid phone to use with our regular monthly plan? If so how?

You cannot purchase a phone packaged for Verizon's prepaid service and use it immediately with a monthly (postpaid) plan. You must use the phone with prepaid service for 6 months before it can be activated on a contract line.
So, you need to either buy a phone at full retail price, or get a used phone for your husband's line.

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Thanks, spottedcatfish, for your reply.
Hello AshleyNBarron,
Spottedcatfish is correct. You’re not able to activate a non Verizon Wireless device in our network. Additionally, I would to provide you with a way for you to check the ESN of a device to see if it can be activated in our network. Just click on the following link. Keep in mind if you would like to activate a Verizon Wireless prepaid device, the device has to be active on a prepaid account for at least 6 months prior to being activated on a post paid account. We constantly offer different promotions with our devices so I do encourage you to review our current devices to see if one fits your needs. Thanks for being part of Verizon Wireless.

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HT3702 Is there any way to use a pre-paid Visa card with my iTunes account?

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jkhitunes wrote:
Wonder why an Apple person told me this would work??
Apple should read this stuff once in a while.
Some prepaid cards appear to act as credit cards to the merchant. If yours is one of them it should work, but debit cards are not accepted for the iTunes Store.
Can you use a pre-paid credit card from Wal-Mart?
Do you mean an iTunes Card, the kind sold at Wal-Mart? Sure, that will work.
"Pre-paid" and "credit" are mutually exclusive.
I believe this way of thinking about it ought to be valid: if you need a PIN code, the card won't work.
I don't use debit cards so I can't be certain if this will apply consistently, but let me know if that makes sense.

Why can't you use a pre-paid credit card on your itunes account?

i tried using apre paid credit card for my itnunes account to purchase songs and it won't let me

jkhitunes wrote:
Wonder why an Apple person told me this would work??
Apple should read this stuff once in a while.
Some prepaid cards appear to act as credit cards to the merchant. If yours is one of them it should work, but debit cards are not accepted for the iTunes Store.
Can you use a pre-paid credit card from Wal-Mart?
Do you mean an iTunes Card, the kind sold at Wal-Mart? Sure, that will work.
"Pre-paid" and "credit" are mutually exclusive.
I believe this way of thinking about it ought to be valid: if you need a PIN code, the card won't work.
I don't use debit cards so I can't be certain if this will apply consistently, but let me know if that makes sense.

Use a Pre-Paid Card then Credit Card

I searched the board before publishing, but didn't find a clear answer, so I will ask here.
I set up an iTunes account with a credit card because I assumed that was the only way to get an account.
I eventually I plan to use the credit card to buy individual songs. But before I start using the credit card, I want to use my Pre-Paid Gift Card first.
My question, is there a way to use up my gift card first (just to buy songs) then start using my credit card once I run out of funds on the credit card?
Separate question - is there a way to set up the account where I can not use a credit card and only use a pre-paid gift card? (this would be for added protection against credit card fraud)
Thanks.

jkhitunes wrote:
Wonder why an Apple person told me this would work??
Apple should read this stuff once in a while.
Some prepaid cards appear to act as credit cards to the merchant. If yours is one of them it should work, but debit cards are not accepted for the iTunes Store.
Can you use a pre-paid credit card from Wal-Mart?
Do you mean an iTunes Card, the kind sold at Wal-Mart? Sure, that will work.
"Pre-paid" and "credit" are mutually exclusive.
I believe this way of thinking about it ought to be valid: if you need a PIN code, the card won't work.
I don't use debit cards so I can't be certain if this will apply consistently, but let me know if that makes sense.

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Thanks for the response. I ended up being able to buy a used LG Tritan from a friend for $20 to put on there, so it's all good now.

I am from argentina and i want to buy an iPhone 5s, but in my country i can only use it if the phone is unlocked , i want to know if i buy one of t mobile with no contract and i travel to mi country ( internationaly) i can use it with a sim from argentina

i am from argentina and i want to buy an iPhone 5s, but in my country i can only use it if the phone is unlocked , i want to know if i buy one of t mobile with no contract and i travel to mi country ( internationaly) i can use it with a sim from argentina

You should go onto the Tmobile web site and look around. Very soon a pop up window will ask you if you want to chat. You can try asking for someone who knows Spanish (if you prefer), they might have someone available who can chat with you in Spanish.
I give this suggestion because I remember on the Tmobile website, you can order on line, but they let you choose to pay only a little money up front, then pay off the rest over 24 months, or you can choose to pay for it in full. However, their ordering process does not say whether the paid for in full phone is going to be unlocked or not.
It may not be, You may have to make a request and say that since you have paid in full please unlock. I am not so sure that a paid for in full phone is automatically sold in unlocked state.
This is why I suggest you talk to Tmobile to get a definite answer.
Unless someone else on this forum knows for sure? Hope someone else jumps in to answer. But the best way is to ask for yourself directly from Tmobile.

My iphone 4s with the ISO 7.0.2 keeps crashing, i can barely use it as a phone. Going to switch to samsung tomorrow!!!!

Ever since i upgraded to the newer ISO 6 and above my iphone 4s keeps crashing!
I can barely use it as a phone, emails keeps crashing, crashing halfway during calls and even candy crush wont open!
I was so upset to hear that the only solution was to 'purchase the newer iphone 5c or 5s to fix this problem' as you cannot go backwards with the ISO.
I have always been loyal to Apple, but it seems such a shame that a piece of perfectly good hardware is now made obselete due to its software and the inflexibility of the company.
This is environmentally unfriendly and just a big corporates money hungry way of hitting targets and satisfying its stakeholders!
Apple if you want anymore of my money in the future, you better fix this problem.
Maybe Samsung has a better solution to my phone issues.....

Okay, switch.
Why exactly do you believe that anyone in these user to user support forums cares?
Tinglez wrote:
Ever since i upgraded to the newer ISO 6 and above my iphone 4s keeps crashing!
I can barely use it as a phone, emails keeps crashing, crashing halfway during calls and even candy crush wont open!
I was so upset to hear that the only solution was to 'purchase the newer iphone 5c or 5s to fix this problem' as you cannot go backwards with the ISO.
Maybe if basic troubleshooting was tried, instead of whining, a resolution could be found.
There is no need to purchase a newer iPhone. The 4S runs iOS6 and 7 perfectly fine.
Basic troubleshooting from the User's Guide is reset, restart, restore (first from backup then as new). Try each of these in order until the issue is resolved.

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