<p>Does your student have their own plan? Are they on your plan and if so, do you pay their bill or does your child reimburse you for their charges?</p>
<p>Just curious.</p>
<p>Our D’s bill is 20.00 a month. 10.00 for her line, 5 for insurance and 5 for texting. We pay that but if she damages or loses her phone, she pays the copay. No internet on her phone. It’s too costly. She has a laptop. She can rough it.</p>
<p>Family plan, $10. He never uses all his time and he doesn’t text messages.</p>
<p>My D seldom talks but txt messages so she has 2000 text per month for $10.95 that she pays.</p>
<p>I’ve paid the kids’ cell phone bills for years; it’s an extra $10/month addon for basic service and they’re supposed to pay me for everything above that… which they mostly don’t, honestly. However, they ALWAYS answer the phone when I call, so how can I complain?</p>
<p>Our sons cost us $30/month for two more lines on our T-Mobile family plan ($10/line) plus unlimited text messages (the other $10) because neither one talks; they text.</p>
<p>Then S2 chose a college in an area where T-Mobile service is extremely iffy. We now have to pay $53/month for him to have his own separate account with Verizon. :(</p>
<p>All they have is basic service (voice, text), and we pay for that. They have to reimburse me for any extra charges (like downloading special ringtones).</p>
<p>We have verizon family plan. Both Ds are on it and younger D has $10 extra for texting which she uses a lot. In theory, we pay for the younger one, a sophomore and older one, grad student with a stipend pays me back. That has not happened usually but I also don’t remind her.
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<p>Really? That’s big news. Seriously.</p>
<p>My kids weren’t allowed to get a cell phone until they had enough money to pay the bill. Which was $10 per month on the family plan. Any 14 yr old should be able to make that much a month. Then we added unlimited texting which is $30 for the five phones so they pay $16/month. But they pay me once a year up front. Collecting that little once a month became a pain.</p>
<p>I’ve been paying their cell phone bill since we first got our family plan in 2000. Each kid costs me an extra $15.00/month. I view it as cheap guarantee that we’ll all stay in touch. I once tried to make them pay up for additional charges, but it wasn’t worth it to me to hound them for insignficant amounts. However, both recently got iPhones, so they do pay me for their monthly internet access.</p>
<p>We have an AT&T family plan. All of us have data access which significantly ups the bill ($30/mo each). Then we have a shared plan with something like 3000 minutes a month with rollover minutes. We pay about $10/mo for each extra phone. Both s’s now have iphones (younger s just got his this summer, at my h’s suggestion) and DH and I have blackberrys. Our phonebill is very expensive, even with a corporate discount 
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<p>*** crossposted with mansfield. I switched to a blackberry (and off my sprint plan that I had shared with older s) on order to text younger s. Thats about the easiest way to reach him if/when necessary, and though our phonebill is high, I am ok with it. In fact, we pay older s’s on our plan (we are all on the one plan now-- got rid of sprint) and he is already out of college. He has offered countless times to pay us for his phonebill. We haven’t yet taken him up on it. It is our pleasure. If/when we want/need him to kick in for his portion of this bill, we will do so. For now, we don’t mind paying it, even though it is a big bill. He has learned the value of a dollar and is very good with money.</p>
<p>ATT Family Plan. 2 kids $10 each. Unlimited texts $30 month for the family. I pay. We had 1400 minutes to share, but D2 boyfriend is now on ATT so we are down to 700 minutes shared :). The unlimited nights and weekends is what makes it work. (And unlimited between family members and other ATT members.) The iphones were presents, as part of that I pay the data plan (one is $20 for an original and one is $30 for the 3g). You can get ALOT of data for $30. I LOVE THE ROLLOVER MINUTES. And I love the rollover commercials. I AM THAT MOM.</p>
<p>We have the verizon family plan. Daughter’s line is only 10.00 and we have unlimiting texting. I figure it is the best and cheapest way to stay connected.
We, the parents pay for it.</p>
<p>She has enough on her plate to worry about, I wouldn’t ask her to pay unless she was not in college and working on her own. Then actually…she can get her own plan in that case.</p>
<p>My h uses his phone as a primary business line, so needs a lot of daytime minutes. While the family can call each other at no charge, its hard to know what plans their friends have, so if they call (what kids call?? They all text! LOL) we dont worry about minutes or cost. I used to have to moniter my minute usage. Now I don’t worry about it. Yeah, our cellphone bill is high, but when we think that it has 4 members on it, all with data plans and unlimited texting, it breaks out to a reasonable cost per person. It is too bad cellphone reception stinks in our house- otherwise I might consider getting rid of the landline.</p>
<p>ATT family plan. unlimted texts but no Data plan. I pay the bill – hmmm come to think of it you would think they would feel obligated to call me back when I call!
I told them they could have the data plan if they paid me for it - no takers.
we have the lowest minutes - 700 I think on 5 phones and roll over some every month.</p>
<p>I pay for my kids and my parents, anyone else wants to get on my plan? They get unlimited text, data service and a lot of minutes which they don’t use much.</p>
<p>our situation is similar to jym. DH is the only one without data because he emphatically doesn’t want it. We pay the bill for now. Son and I have blackberry and I love the ability to bbm him. Daughter has the iphone and texts. Kids paid for or received the phones as gifts…(some of both and I can’t remember). When DS graduates he will take over his cel bill. For now the family plan makes sense and all are on family business as both the kids have worked for us in the past and when not in school.
re: landline we were going to get rid of ours but changed cable service to add voice and internet. It came out cheaper to add the voice rather than get rid of it due to the bundling.</p>
<p>Verizon family plan. Used to pay $10 bucks more per month for years but then got son a refurbished BB for his 21st birthday (he’s a business major and I thought it might help ease him into what seems like a corporate requirement these days). With data plan and 5000 texts, it’s now almost $50 more per month. He and his GF text a lot! Went over his limit last month (1500) and I charged him for it…and upped his plan for an extra 5 bucks.<br>
We have told him that the phone is on him once he graduates and lands a job.
Excited to hear about the Iphone coming to Verizon!</p>
<p>If that’s true about the Iphone coming to Verizon then I’m so happy I’m going to go do the antler dance in the street!</p>
<p>We pay $100/year for our kids phones. They use a small fraction of that.</p>