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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / Cingular / June 2005Phone for college student
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.  SignatureCharles > 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.... >>What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 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; [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 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. > >>What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student > > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > 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 > 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. SignatureI work for the ILEC ...." stuff happens! " 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. > 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. > 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.... 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.com/cell-phone-hands-free-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:) 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 > 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 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > sure what the long term effects are - especially for growing minds > starting out in college. Just my two penny worth:) >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 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >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. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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.com/cellular-phone-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 >>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 [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > North America) has been around since 1983. > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Joseph, > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] >> 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." And I was in the first 2000 trial group! The company I worked for did work for Motorola and the executives were given the first phones in the trial. I apologize to the newsgroup for saying I had service in 1973 or 1974 but rather it was in 1977. Wow, I was 3 years off. I must be getting old to make that kind of mistake. Either way, you were way off when you said cellular service is only a decade old. Even with my poor math it has been almost 30 years or 3 decades. Enough of this crap. There has to be something more important to discuss Bruce D. Brown . >> Joseph, >> [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] > or AMPS (Advanced Mobile Phone Service) was made available in Chicago by > Ameritech." If you have a Verizon family plan, $9.99 for the 3rd line. If you do not have a family plan, then that Verizon 2nd line is actually $19.99. Misleading? Only to some. Signaturedr.news Better Price? (not better than you deserve, just more than you are used to) If I can help: dr.news@better-price.biz.nospam or thru this notes forum. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >> Also advice on the best carrier for Bloomington, Indiana. 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 > 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. > 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. SignatureCharles 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. >> You've already received some good advice -- add your student to your >> Family Plan with a defined limit on the billable minutes allowed. We [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > campus trip we had no info on Verizon and Cingular coverage there > except that the Verizon phone worked fine. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > 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. SignatureCharles Had three kids go thru IU, and they had V service. If you were worried that they would abuse the phone, consider Nextel as they have some plans with a "limit", so you'd never get a $300 bill, but could get a $250. My kids were all happy with V, and if you set them up as a share, this would be pretty inexpensive. 1) If you have an existing carrier, add a share line, this would be your best price point. 2) All the majors work in Bloomington, IN 3) If you are worried about this person abusing the phone, don't! They are your precious child, and it will be a learning experience for both of you. College is $40K a year? How much can they hurt you with the cell phone. And being reachable, or hearing from them at night (and often) outstanding. Signaturedr.news Better Price? (not better than you deserve, just more than you are used to) If I can help: dr.news@better-price.biz.nospam or thru this notes forum. > 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. > 1) If you have an existing carrier, add a share line, this would be your > best price point. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > College is $40K a year? How much can they hurt you with the cell phone. > And being reachable, or hearing from them at night (and often) outstanding. Thank you for the advise about share line and information about coverage. I don't think there is any worry about her abusing the phone. She is a dream. Honor student and very responsible. Just want to try and get the right carrier and plan from the start if possible. SignatureCharles excuse while i laugh.... Had three kids go thru IU, and they had V service. If you were worried that they would abuse the phone, consider Nextel as they have some plans with a "limit", so you'd never get a $300 bill, but could get a $250. My kids were all happy with V, and if you set them up as a share, this would be pretty inexpensive. 1) If you have an existing carrier, add a share line, this would be your best price point. 2) All the majors work in Bloomington, IN 3) If you are worried about this person abusing the phone, don't! They are your precious child, and it will be a learning experience for both of you. College is $40K a year? How much can they hurt you with the cell phone. And being reachable, or hearing from them at night (and often) outstanding. Signaturedr.news Better Price? (not better than you deserve, just more than you are used to) If I can help: dr.news@better-price.biz.nospam or thru this notes forum. > 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. >What kind of phone and phone plan do you get for a college student Wouldn't a Treo 650 be best for a college student who must manage time, contacts, and to do lists? |
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