When a cell carrier holds your phone hostage because of a "Financial Eligibility Check" under the guise of "protecting" you, in case your
phone was stolen. This makes it impossible to bring your
phone to a new carrier until you pay off any outstanding charges. This brings you into a cycle of owing them into perpetuity if you wish to port your phone number AND device. If you buy a new
phone, you lose the number. If you port the number, you can't use the phone for at least 30 days, even if there'
s no outstanding balances.
Yo, I ported my cell number, but the new carrier says I can't use my
phone because of a Financial Eligibility
Check. WTF?
Sucks.
What'll I do now?
Buy a new
phone. You got sprinted, brah.