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  1. #1
    Charles
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    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



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  2. #2
    Larry W4CSC
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    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....




  3. #3
    Richie
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    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






  4. #4
    George
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    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.



  5. #5
    Bob Smith
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    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





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    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! "



  7. #7
    Bill R
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    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






  8. #8
    Larry W4CSC
    Guest

    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....




  9. #9

    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




  10. #10
    Charles
    Guest

    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.

    --
    Charles



  11. #11
    Bruce D. Brown
    Guest

    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
    >






  12. #12
    Bill R
    Guest

    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






  13. #13
    Charles
    Guest

    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.

    --
    Charles



  14. #14
    Bruce D. Brown
    Guest

    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.
    > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
    >






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    IMHO IIRC
    Guest

    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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