[Android Central Question]

I am trying to change carriers from AT&T to Sprint I went into the Sprint store. they said that the phone is not able to be hooked up to sprint. It was something with the IMIE do any of you have your phone on sprint if so what did the reps do to activate it please any help would be greatly appreciated

[ManiacJoe]

ATT uses GSM tech, Sprint uses CDMA tech, which are not compatible with each other.
Phones on one will not work on the other.

Your ATT phone is compatible with TMobile and any carrier using either of those networks.

[Rukbat]

And don't depend on the information salesdroids give you to be accurate - or even close (as in this case - not even far off is a better description). My Pixel 2 is on TMobile, a GSM carrier, but I also have a SIM from a Sprint MVNO (Tello), and it works fine. Some phones have radios for both GSM and CDMA. (They had to be made that way or Project Fi wouldn't work.)