found katana sanyo cell,no one has claimed it. Is it useable?

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this is a rather tricky one as there is more then one factor at play here that makes this tricky.
first off if the cell carrier the orignal owner and the one you use are differnt it might not be possible to use it. usally cell phone companys will lock the phones they sell to their network. so even if the company your with sells the same make and model you still might not be able to use the phone. this came as great annoyance to several of my friends who where the orignal owners of their phones. though if your not in a cell contract you could allways sign up with the cell carrier the phone is attached to and that would slove this problem. but you still might get bushwacked with the others.
Next problem up to bat: the orginal owner may still be looking for it just hasn't seen your "I found this" signs so when you go to have it activated the phone company might take it from you and give it back to the oringal owner leaving you empty handed. or it could be marked as stolen and you showing up with the stolen goods would probly cause you more trobble then you'd care for.

personaly if it's a verizon phone I'd say don't bother even if you where able to keep the phone and have it stwiched over to you with out to much greif, the phone bill they give you latter will.
I've had verry poor network performace and high bills from them. and I live in a verry well populated area where you'd think they'd want to make shure they got good signal. (major tourist hotspot)