A:Answer Technically, yes. Though you may experience the Hands-Free Activation loop where the phone appears to activate, reboots, but after the reboot Hands-Free Activation starts all over again. You can kill the Sprint OADM application(s), to stop the loop (you can also get an app from the Play Store to permanently remove these setup apps).
Interestingly, LTE will work at this point, but "Samsung" will show up as your carrier.
I and others have experienced this issue. In my case, this was using the older Sprint SIM part number: SIMOLW416C that I received from Ting.
I will go to the Sprint store soon to see if they have a fix for this. I know Sprint now has a new 3-in-1 SIM card that I want to try out: SIMOLW506C