Paladin Roaming

Cingular

So I walk into work and some guy from Cingular had stopped by and dropped off some flyers. We are under the same corpoarate umbrella so we get a 20% discount on the basic plan. #1 daughter hogs one of the phones, #2 daughter is getting to where she needs a cell phone too often to share the existing three (mine and the wife's), so I send the guy an e-mail and ask for a fourth family plan wireless phone/number. Also change the existing two family plan phones from the old $16.99/mo plan to the new $9.99/mo plan. (2 phones for $34 a month switched to 3 phones for $30 a month. Not a difficult decision.)

#1 daughter uses her phone in class at college -- text messaging her friend across the room. At 10 cents a pop! One month she had done 170+ messages, $17+. Guy suggested the prepay $5/month for 250 text messages.