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Hellosunshine
Mar 08, 2021Follower
Help using Verizon on my Lte modem
So after reading that this modem can connect to Verizon and knowing Verizon gets good service in my area I bought a SIM card from Verizon and activated it with the unlimited plan using an old unlocked...
lumpy123
Mar 08, 2021Aspirant
Hello
I am a telecom guy and used to do a good bit of work with Verizon during the great days of 2/3g 1X/CDMA EVDO.
During that time, the way the VzW network worked was , on the equipment side,
vendors built equipment which was approved by Verizon for their network (phones modems routers etc)
The vendors would create a list of these devices with an ID that related to the equipment.
If you look at the device you may see an ESN (electronic serial number) or MEID (mobile electronic equipment ID) for 2/3g devices
IMEIs (internaltion mobile equipment ID) for 4G devices and
ICCID for 4G sims
These are uploaded on a Verizon device management Database
When a customer bought a device, they would scan the SIM and then the hardware and associate the two to you
THis would prevent customers from swapping sims around or using unapproved hardware on their network.
This was they way it worked as far as I recall some years back. Given your brief description, sounds like that is still the case and may be the reason you are seeing the error.
You could try swapping the sim to other devices to see if that sim is locked to one particular device