Spectrum is offering
Existing Spectrum Internet Customers: 1-Year of Spectrum Mobile Unlimited Service for
Free (for one line) when you bring your own device or purchase one from Spectrum.
Thanks to Community Member
yangt0720 for finding this deal.
Note: Offer is valid for existing Spectrum Internet customers only. 1-Year of free service is valid for adding one line only. The free offer is not valid to convert an existing line, or to add more than one line.
Deal Instructions:
- Go to Spectrum
- Sign in to your Spectrum Internet account
- Add a Spectrum Mobile line by either bringing your own device or purchasing one from Spectrum Mobile
- Make sure to select the Unlimited plan (regularly priced $30/month)
- Proceed to checkout
- At checkout, you should see the Spectrum Unlimited plan be discounted from $30/month to free
- Note: Autopay is required for this deal. At the end of the 12-months of free service, the $30/month bill credit will end and you will be charged the regular price for the plan every month (unless you cancel).
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For this to work, your phone must:
- Work on the Verizon 4G/5G network with other carriers
- Have a physical SIM card slot (will not work for eSIM)
- Be unlocked so you can port it to other carriers
- Fail Spectrum's IMEI check (not really required, but no reason to do this if it passes the IMEI check)
It worked for my Tracfone/Samsung Galaxy a54.
Instructions:
1) Go to https://www.imei.info/google-imei-generator/
2) Generate an IMEI for a Google Pixel 6 Pro.
3) Sign up for the deal using that IMEI. They will ship a physical sim card for free.
4) Activate your phone using that card.
It's as easy as that. It worked. If it doesn't work for you, just cancel. No loss.
Great deal for me - I'm on a grandfathered $25/month internet plan, so for $25/mo, I'm getting high speed internet AND phone service!
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So will I still be getting my total of $182 trade in amount off if I pay the phone off early, unlock, and proceed port out of spectrum? Or does that trade in amount (includes a $100 value bonus promo) only count if I stay with them for 3 years? I only pay $14 for service on Tello for more service than I even need, so honestly don't plan on sticking with Spectrum past the free year of service.
Would suck having to choose between forfeiting the remainder of my trade in "credits", or paying double my usual phone bill for two years.
If you go that route, you can do it at a Spectrum store and you get the credit immediately, instead of mailing it in and waiting.
https://www.spectrum.co
I able to get 965Mbps download and 34.3 Mbps Upload.
Lfggggg
- Buy a cheap, spectrum-locked phone off Swappa for $50 (probably a Galaxy a03s).
- Get it activated.
- Swap the SIM card into my a54.
- Recycle the original phone.
Why the hell would I do this?
My current phone (Galaxy a54) is with US Mobile on the Verizon network. Works great. Like the phone. Don't want to upgrade.
But, Spectrum doesn't activate Galaxy A series phones that originally came from Tracfone like mine did. It fails Spectrum's IMEI check.
Alternate ideas are:
- Buy a phone from Spectrum and swap the SIM, but their cheapest smartphone is the a15 at $200, less $100 if I can dig up a trade-in. I was also considering the a35, which is a lot like my a54, but it's overpriced at $300 ($200 with trade). Paying $200+ for basically the same phone I have now isn't a great deal.
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- Buy a cheap, spectrum-locked phone off Swappa for $50 (probably a Galaxy a03s).
- Get it activated.
- Swap the SIM card into my a54.
- Recycle the original phone.
Why the hell would I do this?
My current phone (Galaxy a54) is with US Mobile on the Verizon network. Works great. Like the phone. Don't want to upgrade.
But, Spectrum doesn't activate Galaxy A series phones that originally came from Tracfone like mine did. It fails Spectrum's IMEI check.
Alternate ideas are:
- Buy a phone from Spectrum and swap the SIM, but their cheapest smartphone is the a15 at $200, less $100 if I can dig up a trade-in. I was also considering the a35, which is a lot like my a54, but it's overpriced at $300 ($200 with trade). Paying $200+ for basically the same phone I have now isn't a great deal.
If you go through ebay, you can maybe find and then run the IMEI on Spectrum site to be absolutely sure it'll be accepted for service
- Go to https://www.imei.info/imei_generator/
- Generate an IMEI for a Google Pixel 6 Pro
- Use that when registering online with Spectrum. The IMEI will be accepted, and they will send you a SIM kit free.
Use that SIM in whatever phone you have that will work on the Verizon network. In my case, I know my Galaxy a54 works on Verizon.
So, I'm past the first hurdle. Next, we'll see if it activates.
If it doesn't, the SIM kit was free. No risk.
If you go through ebay, you can maybe find and then run the IMEI on Spectrum site to be absolutely sure it'll be accepted for service
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Tried real phones and generated IMEI. None of them worked.
then swapped the sim into my 'unsupported' motorola phone. it worked.
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