Your college student's cell phone bill

somemom
Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:51:05 +0000

I put two of my kids on their own plan when they left for university to teach them responsibility. They learned it and to be on our family plan is cheaper, so we put them back on the family plan and I pay their portion of the bill with their credit card number each month.

In college we gave the kids a monthly allotment and they paid their own cell bill out of that and their earnings because I felt they needed to feel the pain and make their own phone decisions not just have free service with mom & dad. I had one who would make calls to 411 for $1-2 so I kicked her off the plan because it annoyed me so much that she was always taking our bill over the base amount

ATT, 1400 minutes, unlimited texting, MTM & NW minutes are helpful.