I bought a verizon iPhone 5 from the apple store at full price as I visiting and called verizon to have a prepaid plan activated on the iPhone 5 and the sales guy said I can't activate my iPhone 5 with verizon on a prepaid plan even though I paid the full price for the phone already he wanted me to signal for a contract which I can't because I don't have a bank account or SSN here is this for real ?
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Verizon won't activate my iPhone 5 prepaid
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Verizon doesn't do prepaid IPhones so yeah it is.
You'll have to go with s GSM provider such as Straight Talk or NET10.
Well you wouldn't have to sign a contract since you already have a phone but you do need an SSN to sign up for service. Try doing AT&T prepaid or t-mobile I think the Verizon iPhone works on both
Yup, since VZW doesn't offer prepaid services on the iPhone. They also require SSN for signing up (not sure about SSN on prepaids though).
sorry about the typos in the original post i was typing from my phone and half asleep, i was trying to get a verizon plan because of the 4G service i dont think any other networks will even give me good 3G, which other networks would be able to give out good internet speeds on the verizon iPhone 5 ?
No offense, but wouldn't you have called Verizon first to ensure they would/could provide you service before you bought a phone?
...except that they use it for credit verification, so if it doesn't match up they won't give you service.
Verizon does do prepaid on the iPhone, just the 4 and 4s are capable of working on their 80 dollars per month plan.
Um, what?!
Yes they do!! They run your SSN to check your credit, see how many lines you qualify for, etc.
You can't get a postpaid acct without some sort of credit check (requires Ssn) or a deposit.
It doesn't matter if he is locked into a contract or not.
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Dumbest post so far today. Of course they check it.
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You would of thought so...considering how much a full price Iphone 5 costs.
You can use an iPhone with PagePlus and they use the Verizon network. It's a prepaid carrier, so no problem if you don't have a SSN.
http://pageplusiphone.net/
So where are all of the "What did you think, that the US Govt. doesn't track you?" posts? 
Wouldn't iPhone 5 work with Metro PCS?
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And incredibly expensive. I remember getting 3g, 3000+ minutes, free incoming calls, .20/sol texts for $30? in Peru if I remember right.
Wouldn't iPhone 5 work with Metro PCS?
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And incredibly expensive. I remember getting 3g, 3000+ minutes, free incoming calls, .20/sol texts for $30? in Peru if I remember right.
and how do i get them to do that ? when i called them the sales people were very rude and when i told them i dont have a SSN he just said well call us back when you do have one and just hung up !
Verizon now does support the iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S on prepaid. This started rather recently. They do not support the iPhone 5 on prepaid, however. I don't think they support any 4G phones on prepaid yet.
