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burntees
Posts: 3 |
 
Mon Jul 24, 2006 10:20 pm |
I'm looking into family plans and need some help. I have verizon and my girlfriend has tmobile. Does anyone have advice? is there another service who has a better family plan and better service? We're in NYC.
Thanks
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elmo01
Posts: 2198
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:37 am |
| burntees wrote: | I'm looking into family plans and need some help. I have verizon and my girlfriend has tmobile. Does anyone have advice? is there another service who has a better family plan and better service? We're in NYC.
Thanks |
a couple of things you should consider....
are one or both of you under contract? (termination fees are expensive)
how many daytime (peak) minutes do you need as a group
the family plans for all 3 major providers (Tmob cingular and VZW) all start at 69.99 700 min ..all 3 have national roaming and long distance and mobile to mobile... cingular has rollover... the others dont (yet)
if you both are month to month (no contract) the world is your oyster... get the best phone you can (you're in NYC coverage for all 3 is about the same... that statement should raise a few responses in itself)
I would tend to stay away from a smaller carrier as you may get a zillion minutes fior next to nothing but your home area generally speaking is very small...
hope this helps
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burntees
Posts: 3 |
Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:43 am |
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thanks for the response. yes, we both are month to month (which is why we're shopping around). we're basically looking at cingular, verizon, and t mobile, but i've heard bad things about cingular (true?). tmobile actually gives you more minutes (1000 for $70 vs verizon at 700 for $70), but it looks as though verizon has the better phones. any other advice?
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elmo01
Posts: 2198
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Tue Jul 25, 2006 7:48 am |
how many minutes do you and your gf use? (add your peak minutes used together)...
its not the minutes you have that is the key its how many you use....
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burntees
Posts: 3 |
Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:30 am |
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i think we could do 700 minutes or 100. we probably use more than that now but that's because our minutes to each other currently count against our minutes. if our minutes to each other didn't count, we could probably get away with 700. obviously i'd rather do the 1000 minutes and it's cheaper with with tmobile but if verizon's service, customer service, and phones are better, i would pay the extra few bucks to get the 1000 minutes with verizon. thoughts?
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elmo01
Posts: 2198
Phone Model:
Samsung SPH-M510
Service Provider:
Bell Canada |
Tue Jul 25, 2006 12:00 pm |
see now your thinkin... mtm useage wont count against your peak useage...
Id go with the best phone you can get for the least money
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McGirk
Posts: 2425
Phone Model:
AX380 Wave
Service Provider:
Alltel |
Sat Jan 13, 2007 8:40 pm |
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I'm piping in awfully late on this topic, but AllTel has a Nationwide plan that is 59.99 for the first 10.00 for the second (technically the same price as the other three) shares 900 minutes, and has unlimited mobile to mobile and also has My Circle which is 10 numbers per account (not per phone) that are totally free (I assume those do not include international).
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