Some moons ago, I inquired about substituting Sprint service for the
built-in Verizon WWAN in Lenovo Thinkpads. Since then, I've poked here
and there, but the bottom line seems to be that it cannot be done.

I called Sprint's tech support. They said nope, no way, absolutely not.
Not surprising.

I searched a few Thinkpad and EVDO discussion sites, and I haven't found
anyone who has actually managed the feat. There are mentions of Sprint
and Verizon whitelisting/blacklisting blocks of ESN's.

Worse, there are people who actaully replaced the Verizon mini-card with
a Sprint card, but the Thinkpad BIOS would not recognize the new one.

The new (thin, expensive) Thinkpad X300 comes with Verizon WWAN only,
but no PCCard slot, meaning that Sprint has no shot at this (admittedly
small) market.

O well.


Bill

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