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- 05-26-2005, 07:43 PM #1CharlesGuest
What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student who
will be starting school in the fall out of state? Any advice would be
appreciated.
Also advice on the best carrier for Bloomington, Indiana.
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Charles
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- 05-26-2005, 08:03 PM #2Larry W4CSCGuest
Re: Phone for college student
Charles <[email protected]> wrote in news:260520052143160813%[email protected]:
> What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student
Nextel has walkie talkie phones that will ONLY let employees talk on the
walkie talkie channel of the locked-on company's system.....so they can't
make dialout calls except 911...running up your cellphone bill talking to
Girlfriend ver 2.4 into the stratosphere during primetime....You could just
click the PTT and it would call him any ol' time you want.
Sounds like a great solution for keeping Junior in touch without giving him
a communications system for his drug or "Hoes" businesses...(c;
Just kidding....get him a PREPAID phone that will stop working when he
reaches the prepaid limit, then tell him you're not going to buy him
another prepaid minute package until NEXT month. He'll be more
conservative with Girlfriend ver 2.4....
- 05-26-2005, 10:07 PM #3RichieGuest
Re: Phone for college student
How about adding him to your family plan at $9.99 per month?
You'll need to add lots of minutes because college students tend to talk a
lot. But then you won't have to pay long distance for him to call home or
for local phone service in his college room.
This might sound like the Gestapo, but you can always monitor his usage
online and suspend service on his phone if he's costing you too much money.
You'll also get a monthly listing of his phone calls on your Cingular bill.
"Charles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:260520052143160813%[email protected]...
> What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student who
> will be starting school in the fall out of state? Any advice would be
> appreciated.
>
> Also advice on the best carrier for Bloomington, Indiana.
>
> --
> Charles
- 05-27-2005, 08:56 AM #4GeorgeGuest
Re: Phone for college student
Larry W4CSC wrote:
> Charles <[email protected]> wrote in news:260520052143160813%[email protected]:
>
>
>>What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student
>
>
> Nextel has walkie talkie phones that will ONLY let employees talk on the
> walkie talkie channel of the locked-on company's system.....so they can't
> make dialout calls except 911...running up your cellphone bill talking to
> Girlfriend ver 2.4 into the stratosphere during primetime....You could just
> click the PTT and it would call him any ol' time you want.
>
> Sounds like a great solution for keeping Junior in touch without giving him
> a communications system for his drug or "Hoes" businesses...(c;
>
> Just kidding....get him a PREPAID phone that will stop working when he
> reaches the prepaid limit, then tell him you're not going to buy him
> another prepaid minute package until NEXT month. He'll be more
> conservative with Girlfriend ver 2.4....
>
Why not teach the kid how to manage his affairs? Put him on a family
plan which will be off the clock and tell him what the limits are for
the on the clock minutes and how to check. Also let him know what the
penalty is.
- 05-27-2005, 11:47 AM #5Bob SmithGuest
Re: Phone for college student
"George" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Larry W4CSC wrote:
> > Charles <[email protected]> wrote in
news:260520052143160813%[email protected]:
> >
> >
> >>What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student
> >
> >
> > Nextel has walkie talkie phones that will ONLY let employees talk on the
> > walkie talkie channel of the locked-on company's system.....so they
can't
> > make dialout calls except 911...running up your cellphone bill talking
to
> > Girlfriend ver 2.4 into the stratosphere during primetime....You could
just
> > click the PTT and it would call him any ol' time you want.
>
> >
> > Sounds like a great solution for keeping Junior in touch without giving
him
> > a communications system for his drug or "Hoes" businesses...(c;
> >
> > Just kidding....get him a PREPAID phone that will stop working when he
> > reaches the prepaid limit, then tell him you're not going to buy him
> > another prepaid minute package until NEXT month. He'll be more
> > conservative with Girlfriend ver 2.4....
> >
>
> Why not teach the kid how to manage his affairs? Put him on a family
> plan which will be off the clock and tell him what the limits are for
> the on the clock minutes and how to check. Also let him know what the
> penalty is.
Yea, that's what I did with my daughter on our SPCS plan and she's in
college. Fortunately, her boyfriend is also on SPCS, so the bulk of her
minutes are on PCS2PCS and no minutes are charged on our AT minutes.
Bob
- 05-27-2005, 12:29 PM #6Remove ThisGuest
Re: Phone for college student
> Why not teach the kid how to manage his affairs? Put him on a family
> plan which will be off the clock and tell him what the limits are for
> the on the clock minutes and how to check. Also let him know what the
> penalty is.
Precisely how we handled it, and all worked out for the better.
If there's an option for free nites + weekends, go for it, They'll
tend to "od" on call length during the free periods.
--
I work for the ILEC ...." stuff happens! "
- 05-27-2005, 01:18 PM #7Bill RGuest
Re: Phone for college student
You've already received some good advice -- add your student to your Family
Plan with a defined limit on the billable minutes allowed. We told our
daughter she'd have to pay for any minutes we were charged for if the whole
plan went over, if she exceeded the number of minutes we'd allowed for her.
It worked out well. And calls she made to us were all mobile-to-mobile and
didn't cost any billable minutes.
I presume your student will be attending Indiana University. Our daughter
just graduated from there 2 weeks ago. Cincular service was very spotty in
Bloomington; Verizon was very reliable. We had direct experience with those
two, and I can't speak to any other providers. It all depends on exactly
where she will be living; Cingular worked well in some places and there was
no service at all in others. Verizon seemed to work everywhere.
Hope this helps. Enjoy your last few minutes with your student at home!
Bill R
"Charles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:260520052143160813%[email protected]...
> What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student who
> will be starting school in the fall out of state? Any advice would be
> appreciated.
>
> Also advice on the best carrier for Bloomington, Indiana.
>
> --
> Charles
- 05-27-2005, 02:43 PM #8Larry W4CSCGuest
Re: Phone for college student
"Richie" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> This might sound like the Gestapo, but you can always monitor his
> usage online and suspend service on his phone if he's costing you too
> much money. You'll also get a monthly listing of his phone calls on
> your Cingular bill.
>
>
It also might be fun, after the first few months, to casually mention in
some mundane conversation he can hear that you just got detailed billing
and wonder who made all the calls to the Sex Shop Hotline and Miss Sarah's
Sexline late at night....hee hee....
- 05-27-2005, 04:41 PM #9Guest
Re: Phone for college student
After all is said and done, I would advise buying a hands free headset
so driving can be safer and the brain is protected from radiation of
the phone. They are really cheap now - The cheapest one I've seen is
$1.99 at
http://www.cell-phone-accessories.co...e-headset.html.
We are still only a decade into wireless phones and no one knows for
sure what the long term effects are - especially for growing minds
starting out in college. Just my two penny worth
- 05-27-2005, 06:04 PM #10CharlesGuest
Re: Phone for college student
In article <[email protected]>, Bill R
<[email protected]> wrote:
> You've already received some good advice -- add your student to your
> Family Plan with a defined limit on the billable minutes allowed. We
> told our daughter she'd have to pay for any minutes we were charged
> for if the whole plan went over, if she exceeded the number of
> minutes we'd allowed for her. It worked out well. And calls she made
> to us were all mobile-to-mobile and didn't cost any billable minutes.
Thanks everyone for the family plan advise. It is hard to figure out
the minutes to get since unlike most of her high school friends she
does not now have her own cell phone.
> I presume your student will be attending Indiana University. Our daughter
> just graduated from there 2 weeks ago. Cincular service was very spotty in
> Bloomington; Verizon was very reliable. We had direct experience with those
> two, and I can't speak to any other providers. It all depends on exactly
> where she will be living; Cingular worked well in some places and there was
> no service at all in others. Verizon seemed to work everywhere.
Yes, she will be attending Indiana University. Thanks for the remarks
about Cingular service there. They have a deal with Cingular where
students get an 8% discount but our experience at home is that Verizon
has better coverage. Not being in Bloomington except a checking out the
campus trip we had no info on Verizon and Cingular coverage there
except that the Verizon phone worked fine.
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Charles
- 05-27-2005, 06:07 PM #11Bruce D. BrownGuest
Re: Phone for college student
We have had much more than a decade of wireless phones. I had a cellular
since 1973 or 1974 and the units were so big that they took up over 1/2 of
my car trunk (and back then the cars were really big and the trunks were
huge.) It was only 3 or 4 years later when Motorola came out with the first
hand-held devices. That means we have over 25 years of experience with
hand-helds and I have been a heavy user since the beginning. I think my
brain is in pretty good shape but you would probably want to ask my wife if
I have brain damage.
Bruce D. Brown
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> After all is said and done, I would advise buying a hands free headset
> so driving can be safer and the brain is protected from radiation of
> the phone. They are really cheap now - The cheapest one I've seen is
> $1.99 at
> http://www.cell-phone-accessories.co...e-headset.html.
> We are still only a decade into wireless phones and no one knows for
> sure what the long term effects are - especially for growing minds
> starting out in college. Just my two penny worth
>
- 05-28-2005, 11:58 AM #12Bill RGuest
Re: Phone for college student
If you can take one Cingular phone and one Verizon phone with you during
your freshman orientation visit this summer (borrow from a friend?) you can
run your own coverage test. If she has already been assigned to a dorm you
should go into that dorm (most are open during the summer) and see what the
reception is like from there. Our daughter lived in Foster during her
freshman year and reception in her room was awful, so she had to go into the
lobby to be able to hear us. But when she moved to her sorority she got good
reception in her room there. It all depends on exactly where you are.
"Charles" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:270520052004103165%[email protected]...
> In article <[email protected]>, Bill R
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You've already received some good advice -- add your student to your
>> Family Plan with a defined limit on the billable minutes allowed. We
>> told our daughter she'd have to pay for any minutes we were charged
>> for if the whole plan went over, if she exceeded the number of
>> minutes we'd allowed for her. It worked out well. And calls she made
>> to us were all mobile-to-mobile and didn't cost any billable minutes.
>
> Thanks everyone for the family plan advise. It is hard to figure out
> the minutes to get since unlike most of her high school friends she
> does not now have her own cell phone.
>
>> I presume your student will be attending Indiana University. Our daughter
>> just graduated from there 2 weeks ago. Cincular service was very spotty
>> in
>> Bloomington; Verizon was very reliable. We had direct experience with
>> those
>> two, and I can't speak to any other providers. It all depends on exactly
>> where she will be living; Cingular worked well in some places and there
>> was
>> no service at all in others. Verizon seemed to work everywhere.
>
> Yes, she will be attending Indiana University. Thanks for the remarks
> about Cingular service there. They have a deal with Cingular where
> students get an 8% discount but our experience at home is that Verizon
> has better coverage. Not being in Bloomington except a checking out the
> campus trip we had no info on Verizon and Cingular coverage there
> except that the Verizon phone worked fine.
>
> --
> Charles
- 05-28-2005, 01:00 PM #13CharlesGuest
Re: Phone for college student
In article <[email protected]>, Bill R
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If you can take one Cingular phone and one Verizon phone with you during
> your freshman orientation visit this summer (borrow from a friend?) you can
> run your own coverage test. If she has already been assigned to a dorm you
> should go into that dorm (most are open during the summer) and see what the
> reception is like from there. Our daughter lived in Foster during her
> freshman year and reception in her room was awful, so she had to go into the
> lobby to be able to hear us. But when she moved to her sorority she got good
> reception in her room there. It all depends on exactly where you are.
Good idea. Although I can't think of anyone I know offhand who has a
Cingular phone. We don't know the dorm yet but possibly will know
before orientation. It will be near the music school.
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Charles
- 05-28-2005, 03:54 PM #14Bruce D. BrownGuest
Re: Phone for college student
Joseph,
You are totally mistaken. Go to the following link and you will see the
history of the cell phone.
http://www.cell-phone-plans-guide.co...e-history.html . As
shown on this link, the very first cellular service was in Chicago, Il and
started in 1973. I got my first phone in approximately 1977. The cost of
the phone was approximately $3,400 and service was only offered by CellOne
and Ameritech. If I remember correctly, I was paying about $1.20 per minute
or more. The first service contracts were on a per minute basis with long
distance and roaming (there was really no roaming) extra. Monthly bills of
about $1,500 were not uncommon.
Bruce D. Brown
"Joseph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Sat, 28 May 2005 00:07:52 GMT, "Bruce D. Brown"
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>We have had much more than a decade of wireless phones. I had a cellular
>>since 1973 or 1974 and the units were so big that they took up over 1/2 of
>>my car trunk (and back then the cars were really big and the trunks were
>>huge.) It was only 3 or 4 years later when Motorola came out with the
>>first
>>hand-held devices. That means we have over 25 years of experience with
>>hand-helds and I have been a heavy user since the beginning. I think my
>>brain is in pretty good shape but you would probably want to ask my wife
>>if
>>I have brain damage.
>
> You may have had *mobile* since 1973 or 1974 but cellular (at least in
> North America) has been around since 1983.
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
- 05-28-2005, 04:54 PM #15IMHO IIRCGuest
Re: Phone for college student
In news:[email protected],
Bruce D. Brown <[email protected]> typed:
> Joseph,
>
> You are totally mistaken. Go to the following link and you will see
> the history of the cell phone.
> http://www.cell-phone-plans-guide.co...e-history.html . As
> shown on this link, the very first cellular service was in
> Chicago, Il and started in 1973. I got my first phone in
> approximately 1977. The cost of the phone was approximately $3,400
> and service was only offered by CellOne and Ameritech. If I remember
> correctly, I was paying about $1.20 per minute or more. The first
> service contracts were on a per minute basis with long distance and
> roaming (there was really no roaming) extra. Monthly bills of about
> $1,500 were not uncommon.
> Bruce D. Brown
> "Joseph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Sat, 28 May 2005 00:07:52 GMT, "Bruce D. Brown"
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> We have had much more than a decade of wireless phones. I had a
>>> cellular since 1973 or 1974 and the units were so big that they
>>> took up over 1/2 of my car trunk (and back then the cars were
>>> really big and the trunks were huge.) It was only 3 or 4 years
>>> later when Motorola came out with the first
>>> hand-held devices. That means we have over 25 years of experience
>>> with hand-helds and I have been a heavy user since the beginning. I
>>> think my brain is in pretty good shape but you would probably want
>>> to ask my wife if
>>> I have brain damage.
>>
>> You may have had *mobile* since 1973 or 1974 but cellular (at least
>> in North America) has been around since 1983.
>> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
On the site you gave the link for there is a link and there is says:
"By 1977, AT&T and Bell Labs had constructed a prototype cellular system. A
year later, public trials of the new system were started in Chicago with
over 2000 trial customers. In 1979, in a separate venture, the first
commercial cellular telephone system began operation in Tokyo. In 1981,
Motorola and American Radio telephone started a second U.S. cellular
radio-telephone system test in the Washington/Baltimore area. By 1982, the
slow-moving FCC finally authorized commercial cellular service for the USA.
A year later, the first American commercial analog cellular service or AMPS
(Advanced Mobile Phone Service) was made available in Chicago by Ameritech."
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