Are you curious if a certain phone will work on Bell Mobility? In this short article, you will learn why it is important to know if a phone will work on Bell before you purchase it. You will also learn how to identify a Bell phone.
Unlike other Canadian cellular carriers like Rogers and Fido, Bell Mobility will not allow any phone to be activated on their network. Bell Mobility only activates phones that are originally purchased by Bell from the manufacturer. How does Bell accomplish this? I’m glad you asked… Every CDMA cell phone comes with an ESN (electronic serial number), this number uniquely identifies every phone produced by the manufacturer. When Bell purchases new phones they store each individual ESN to a database called the ESN Database, and whenever someone takes a phone to Bell to be activated, Bell checks their ESN Database to make sure the ESN is in there. If your phone’s ESN does not have a matching ESN in Bell’s database, your phone will not be activated.
