<p>I pay $150/month for my hubby, me and my nephew through AT&T family plan. Nephew phone service alone cost a $60 alone (part of 150) including data/unlimited text/phone.</p>
<p>However I am happy with the arrangements as he need it for buying/selling stocks all day long. His contribution to generate income for my 401(k) though his stock buying selling profits after all the fess and expanses in expenses towards his books/travel/phone/healthinsurance stiil is much higher and has added a hefty return on my investment per annum in last five years. He generates enough income from stock profits as others family members/freinds/his friends parents have invested in his profitable hedge fund. Through these profits he generates enough income to pay some his tution at Harvard.</p>
<p>I was the first investor in his plan. So I receive the best deal I am not complainaing.</p>
<p>OP here. H and I were talking about it because almost all of S’ friends have their own plans or pay for their portion of the bill. We have been paying for S’ phone as long as he’s had one. We also were discussing that by his age (college sophomore), we had some small regular bills that we paid and got used to budgeting money that way.</p>
<p>We almost see it as a way to help him start realizing that one day he will have bills (he has no credit cards or anything else) and he can’t use all of his money from his work study job to buy books and music like he tends to do. </p>
<p>He is on our plan for $10+$5 unlim texting+$5 nationwide long distance +taxes=about $25/month.</p>
<p>AT&T Family plan and I pay the bill for both DS, even though one just got married last June. It’s only $10 month and he calls so I’m happy. S2 is text happy. We had the 200 texts per month and 2 months in a row he was way over the 200. We changed his coverage to 1000 and all is well again.
We share minutes and I lose rollover minutes every month…argh. but DH has a bad habit of calling my office phone during the day - I keep telling him call my cell!! cell to cell…no minutes used. He just can’t seem to grasp that concept.</p>
<p>AT&T Family plan. 5 phones. Not sure how many minutes we have now. Unlimited texting. Husband has an IPhone which is the only phone we have data on. We all text. That is the main way we communicate. I can text my H to remind him to pick up my D. Or text my D if I am going to be late. Plus my kids all text their friends.Most months we have minutes to rollover but not enough to go down a plan. We will keep our kids on indefinitely. It is much cheaper for them to stay on our plan versus having their own.
We would not pay for a data plan for the kids. We also discourage downloading anything that cost extra. So if they want to buy a ringtone they have to pay for that.</p>
<p>^^^^
Much the same: 4 phones on the family plan . . . we pay basic plus unlimited text (we like the texting way of staying in communication with each other, including between wifely and me) . . D pays extra to us for her data and any downloads . . . we allocate the minutes amongst the 4 of us . . if we go over the minutes for the month whoever exceeds their allocation pays the difference . . system works for us</p>
<p>The iPhone will not come to Verizon in January as the current hardware is not compatible with the Verizon network. The earliest possibility is next summer when a new iPhone generation is announced. That would also require Apple to end the AT&T exclusivity agreement. </p>
<p>Son on our family plan- $10 per month and none of us use that many minutes (unlimited Time Warner at home and hard to get bars in our “valley” cul de sac). I know several young adults still on the family plan after they leave college- they can reimburse parents and save money. Never know where they are living by their area code.</p>
<p>My D is on my plan. She pays me monthly for her service. It costs her $12 a month. I feel it makes her a “vested” user and she doesn’t seem to mind. It’s been like this for the 3 years she’s been in college, and for the last 2 of HS.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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</p>
<p>DD is on the family plan. We pay the $10 a month for the phone part. SHE pays the $20 extra for unlimited texting.</p>
<p>DS was never on our family plan. He always had his own phone plan…with an area code local to his college. He went when the professors wanted kids to have a local number so we got him a phone local to his school. In retrospect, that was stupid, but whatever…his plan is aout $80 a month as he has an IPhone with a data plan. He pays it all (he is a college graduate).</p>
<p>for #10 I had also thought I would not get my D her own cell till either she could pay for it or went to college. That was until one evening in grade 8 she borrowed mine and her and 2 friends got chased and threatened by a drunk driver while walking home from the video store. He actually drove up on the sidewalk and tried to hit them. She made 2 calls, one was to me and the second was to 911. I got to her within minutes and at the same time as the police. The police did catch the person and charges were laid. After that I swore I would pay her bill until she is out working.</p>
<p>We pay/paid basic cell usage through college, overages were on them including text fees in the beginning.
Once I became a text convert, we added unlimited texting to the family package so we paid. Ringtones and 411 were on their dime (and yes we collected!).
After graduation for the first two, we started out getting reimbursed for their portions (I have a work related 22% discount). But now those two have their own dataplans and the fancy phones only their provider offers.</p>
<p>searched for “tennis fines”.
Didn’t find much.
Hewitt: During the 2001 French Open he was fined US$1000 for calling Egli (see above), a “spastic”. Hewitt denied this.
Oh boy…don’t think this is comparable.
Read that Federer also got a fine for saying “sh *t” . Umm …who cares.
Oh great tennis watcher, tell me a story about a player who raised a racket and threatened violence. And tell me that’s OK in your book. Not in mine.</p>
<p>Toneranger-
I think you are posting in the wrong thread, though many times I have felt like threatening the cellphone customer-no-service idiots with tennis rackets and performing tennis ball tracheotomies ;)</p>
<p>D is too young for a cell phone, but I tack my younger brother and sister onto my plan (both in college). It only cost 9.99$ more per line, so they just pay me. I don’t really chase after them for it though. Maybe I’m too nice.</p>