Sprinted

[Hina Muqadas]

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 cant [use the phone] for at least 30 days, even if theres no outstanding balances.

[Britney]

The act of a business [terminating] service to a customer, unlike traditional service terminations for non-payment, being Sprinted usually is more due to a customer being high [maintenance] and/or [expectation].

[Becky]

past simple and past participle of sprint