Cell Phone iat OOS School

ophiolite
Wed, 31 May 2006 13:14:36 +0000

When I moved to NC for grad school, I ran into a problem with my cell number (which was local to my undergrad school) when trying to order pizza. For some reason, the local Dominos won’t deliver to people without a local number. This may be increasingly common in college areas with lots of students trying to rip off pizza places. If you do want to keep your cell number, make sure you have a land line for instances like ordering food if necessary. As long as you live on campus, it shouldn’t be a problem though, as you normally get a free phone line in the dorms.

On a side note, you may also want to see how your provider works with changing numbers. For example, I was on a Verizon family share plan and they require each number to be in the same ‘region’ as the rest of the numbers on the plan. When I decided to change my number to a local number rather than a Pennsylvania number, I had to break off onto my own plan in order to change the number. There are likely similar policies at most cell phone carriers.