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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / February 2004$9.99 Family Line Going Away
Just an FYI for anybody considering Family Talk w/Cingular. I saw something on PhoneScoop the other day, and Cingular's ad in my morning paper seems to confirm it, that the $9.99 price for a second phone on a Family Plan is going away January 31. It did not say what the new rate would be. Now is the week to jump if you were considering a Cinglar Family Plan. -- Michael J. MacMahon Captain (ret.) KCPD Golf is not a matter of Life or Death; it is MUCH more important than that. Yes It is going away, in place will be the old style $19 with mobile 2 mobile included > Just an FYI for anybody considering Family Talk w/Cingular. I saw >something on PhoneScoop the other day, and Cingular's ad in my morning paper >seems to confirm it, that the $9.99 price for a second phone on a Family >Plan is going away January 31. It did not say what the new rate would be. > > Now is the week to jump if you were considering a Cinglar Family Plan. > Yes It is going away, in place will be the old style $19 with mobile 2 > mobile included Then the $9.99 is a much better deal, as the mobile to mobile minutes can only be used if both phones are in the same calling area. (if you're both home, why are you calling each other?) -Dave It:'s going to be nation wide mobile to mobile on the new plans > It:'s going to be nation wide mobile to mobile on the new plans Well in that case the $19.99 isn't too bad. The mobile to mobile minutes SHOULD HAVE BEEN nation wide all along! -Dave > > Yes It is going away, in place will be the old style $19 with mobile 2 > > mobile included > > Then the $9.99 is a much better deal, as the mobile to mobile minutes can > only be used if both phones are in the same calling area. (if you're both > home, why are you calling each other?) -Dave "Same calling area" doesn't mean the same building! My wife and I use our phones for coordinating restaurant/grocery plans on the way home from work, kid pickups from school, etc. We use a lot more airtime talking to each other when we're both "home" than if one of us is away (we've been married 10 years. How long does a nightly "I miss you, how're the kids, see you soon" take?) > "Same calling area" doesn't mean the same building! My wife and I use > our phones for coordinating restaurant/grocery plans on the way home > from work, kid pickups from school, etc. We use a lot more airtime > talking to each other when we're both "home" than if one of us is away > (we've been married 10 years. How long does a nightly "I miss you, > how're the kids, see you soon" take?) I guess it depends on where the calling area ends. We happen to live a few minutes from a state border. My wife spends most of her time on the OTHER side of the border. Thus, we spend most of our time in different calling areas, according to Cingular. We ALMOST bought the mobile to mobile minutes, until we learned that they only applied (so we were told) to our "home" calling area. My wife is almost never in our "home" calling area, and my work takes me out of it at least 3 days per week. If we had mobile to mobile minutes, most of our mobile to mobile calls would eat up "anytime" minutes anyway. -Dave | I guess it depends on where the calling area ends. We happen to live a few | minutes from a state border. My wife spends most of her time on the OTHER [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] | to mobile minutes, most of our mobile to mobile calls would eat up "anytime" | minutes anyway. -Dave That should be resolved Feb. 1 if you want to switch plans. From what I understand, all 39.99 and higher plans starting Feb. 1 will include 1000 m2m minutes that will work NATIONALLY on Cingular's network. I cannot confirm this, but it did come from a very strong source. | Yes It is going away, in place will be the old style $19 with mobile 2 | mobile included Wow, skipping over the old 16.99 plan straight to an even more expensive one. >Wow, skipping over the old 16.99 plan straight to an even more expensive >one. guess I am glad that we have a family plan with a (relativly) new contract. -- John S. e-mail responses to - john at kiana dot net > >Wow, skipping over the old 16.99 plan straight to an even more expensive > >one. > > guess I am glad that we have a family plan with a (relativly) new contract. Ack. I am currently stuck in a 2-year contract with Verizon, and was hoping they might match Cingular's $9.99 price for family plan lines ... > Ack. I am currently stuck in a 2-year contract with Verizon, and was > hoping they might match Cingular's $9.99 price for family plan lines Nope. Cingular matched Verizon's and Sprint's $19.99/$20 rate. |
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