Family Plan- different area codes?

I have 3 phones and 3 plans on 2 carriers and want to combine
everything on one plan with 4 phone where minutes are shared. The
problem is this- I have one son who is away at school and he is in a
different state than me and my wife are. Will Cingular allow this or
not? What about T-Mobile (all our phones are unlocked)?

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I have the same situation. Wife is 650 and I am 801. Had a family
plan with ATT with no problem and am now porting over to Cingular. So
far, no problems. I went to an ATT retail location initially (not a
reseller but a corp store). I think the corp stores have more strings
they can pull....

Doug

"Kev" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I have 3 phones and 3 plans on 2 carriers and want to combine
> everything on one plan with 4 phone where minutes are shared. The
> problem is this- I have one son who is away at school and he is in a
> different state than me and my wife are. Will Cingular allow this or
> not? What about T-Mobile (all our phones are unlocked)?

Did something similar on Cingular a month ago - had no problems (including
keeping the existing phone numbers). Your mileage may vary, primarily
depending on the competence of the staff at your local store - the ones I've
had in downtown Philly were completely incompetent for even simpler issues -
and the ones in suburbia were gods of the ether in comparison.

"Kev" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> I have 3 phones and 3 plans on 2 carriers and want to combine
> everything on one plan with 4 phone where minutes are shared. The
> problem is this- I have one son who is away at school and he is in a
> different state than me and my wife are. Will Cingular allow this or
> not? What about T-Mobile (all our phones are unlocked)?
>
For Family Talk to be valid, all numbers must be from the same billing
region. You can't do FT with 3 phones from Chicago and one from LasVegas.
Area code isn't the main factor. Here we have 9 area codes in the same
billing system. My son is in school in Florida and he has a phone with 815
(N IL) area code. (Cuts down on calls from friends in Gatorland).

Mark