>"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
>news:448a22eb$0$96921$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net.. .
<snip>
> Hey, I agree with this. I think it's very unethical that they have those
> fake high prices, but they do so in order to get people to sign new
> contracts for a big discount. It really hurts people that need a new phone
> in the middle of the contract. Few people realize the workaround of buying
> a prepaid phone and sticking a postpaid SIM into it (or the CDMA method of
> simply changing the SID of the phone on-line).
>
You don't change the SID, youi change the ESN.
SID=System ID. The location. The ESN=Electronic Serial Number.
The ESN tells the system that your phone is valid

Andrew Sisson
VX 8100 on VZW since 1993
X497 on Cingular since 2006