T-Mobile Cell Phone Family Plans
Until some time ago calling our sons and daughter wasn’t really cheap. A short cellphone call would cost over one dollar easily. But since we started using the T-Mobile cell phone family plans it isn’t a problem anymore. Now we can talk without thinking about costs. Talking now is as cheap as free!
We benefit from unlimited Night & Weekend Minutes, so when my son goes out with his friend I can call him to know if he arrived well and when hes coming home. The change in the phone bill is notable. Nearly half the expenses than before. I recommend this plan to every family who is interested in saving money in calls. But not only do I spend less money but also does my son and daughter. When they spoke hours on the phone with their friends it was a problem for us who paid the bills. But the family plan is not only for the family but also they can talk to their friends every night for free after 9pm.
Also T-Mobile offers a Nationwide Digital Roaming when we call another T-Mobile phone in the whole USA. The good thing of this is that you don’t have to pay expensive roaming costs for the call. These things made an important difference. But the biggest change was with the free Nationwide Long Distance for life calls that come included in the family plan. My wife has to travel around the country a lot because of her job and when the kids miss her they want to talk to her. This plan makes it possible to talk for a low price from your home to wherever the other family phone is in a 2000 miles radius. But now. what if my son was also away in some other place and we wanted to talk all together? T-Mobile offers a three-way-call. What does this mean? Well this means that three phones can talk together. So my wife, my son and I can share at the same time what were doing and how much we miss each other. Why miss this opportunity to do all this things for a low price? I really must say, this plan is great.
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Sprint Cell Phone Family Plans
I’m really happy with Sprint’s family plans. I had AT&T for years and finally, after my iPhone was unable to get 3G service for the hundredth time, I switched the entire family over to Sprint. I was sad to lose my iPhone (they’re such cool cell phones!), but happy to get a phone that actually worked. We all kept our numbers and the kids were happy to get new phones.
One thing that I really like about Sprint is that they have more than one family plan! It’s nice to be able to take into account everyone’s usage patterns when making a decision on which plan to get. I use a smart phone, my husband uses a blackberry, my daughter is a phone-a-holic (she’s 15) and my son never uses his cell phone (we got it for him for emergencies), putting all of this on one plan didn’t look to be an easy task.
But, I did my research on the various plans on the web and then went into a Sprint store. The salesman could not have been nicer. He asked about all four of our usage patterns and what we primarily use our phones for. He understood pretty quickly that my daughter, my husband and I are all pretty heavy phone users, but that my son is a minor user at best. The salesman recommended that for now we don’t include my son on the family plan, but rather get him a prepaid phone loaded with minutes — the minutes cost more to use, but we won’t be charged a monthly fee. When he starts to use the phone more, we can switch him over to the family plan.
We checked into different cell phone family plans my husband, daughter and myself and he recommended the “Everything Data Family – with Any Mobile, Anytime” plan. This plan has free unlimited data (perfect for me and my husband) and unlimited mobile to mobile calls, unlimited calls after 7 and unlimited texting (perfect for my daughter). I think that the unlimited mobile to mobile calls is wonderful (whoever thought of it must have a teenage) – because of this we were able to get a 1500 minute plan for the three of us.
With Sprint, we’re spending around $160 a month (plus $100 initial outlay for my son’s phone), so, not only does my phone work now, but I saved us a ton of money over AT&T! In addition, now that we have unlimited texting and unlimited mobile to mobile calls, it’s nice to know that I won’t be opening up any surprisingly exorbitant phone bills from my daughter! Sprint has made a former-AT&T customer very happy!
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Choosing Cell Phone Family Plans
With so many cell phone family plans out there, and each with a multitude of different service plans, there is undoubtedly a plan available for every need the general public might have.
A new trend in plans has been emerging in which consumers are allowed to pick a certain number of phone numbers which that person may then enjoy unlimited calling with, without using up airtime.
Two of those plans are T-Mobile’s MyFaves plan and the A-List plan from AT&T. T-Mobile’s MyFaves plan allows the customer to choose 5 phone numbers which then can be called for an unlimited amount of minutes. The 5 numbers can each be switched out for a different number once per billing cycle.
MyFaves comes with a variety of anytime minutes, ranging from 300 anytime minutes (for only $39.99 a month) and progressively more minutes for more money. MyFaves can either be bought as an individual or family plan, in which case each family member would be allowed 5 numbers to make unlimited calls to. The A-List plan from
AT&T allows a customer who purchases any plan with a monthly charge of $59.99 per month or higher, to choose 5 numbers which the customer can then enjoy unlimited calling to; with family plans, any plan with a monthly charge of $89.99 per month can choose 10 numbers for unlimited calling. AT&T’s plan also includes rollover minutes in which unused anytime minutes can be rolled over to the next month and therefore not lost. Both of these plans are available to new customers on a 2-year agreement.
While each has its pros and cons, it seems to be clear that T-Mobile’s plan might be more appropriate for individual phone lines (especially since the monthly charge required is lower in the first place), while AT&T’s plan might be more suitable for family phone lines, where more minutes are required and the minimum monthly charge is often higher in the first place.
Without a doubt, these two cell phones companies have given customers a unique opportunity in offering these plans. Since the average consumer often calls around 5 people much more often than others, this plan can be a huge savings for the customer while maximizing the customer’s ability to use his phone plan to the fullest extent.
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