Question about adding a line
Hey reps,
I've been talking to my cousin about becoming a 3rd line on his phone plan. He's cool with the idea but we're both wondering how Cingular handles it. He's had his plan, with two lines, since Nov 2003 and no changes to anything since taking it out.
Can you just add an extra line, no harm/no foul, to an otherwise eligible plan or are you forced to make changes to your contract or contract length? We've both asked reps at local stores this week and compared notes today and found we were told "yes, no problem" & "yes, but...".
He has a home plan with a base of $40 and extra line of $10 - what he took out last Nov. He said the technical title from his bill is FT9 Home 500 R 5 KNW.
Thanks if you can help.
I've been talking to my cousin about becoming a 3rd line on his phone plan. He's cool with the idea but we're both wondering how Cingular handles it. He's had his plan, with two lines, since Nov 2003 and no changes to anything since taking it out.
Can you just add an extra line, no harm/no foul, to an otherwise eligible plan or are you forced to make changes to your contract or contract length? We've both asked reps at local stores this week and compared notes today and found we were told "yes, no problem" & "yes, but...".
He has a home plan with a base of $40 and extra line of $10 - what he took out last Nov. He said the technical title from his bill is FT9 Home 500 R 5 KNW.
Thanks if you can help.
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John,
The yes, but answer is correct. You can add an extra line to that older plan. The only problem that I see is that the 3rd line will be $19.99. The $10 extra line was a promo last year, and no, they can't give you the same deal now.
I do see a few problem with your plan. One, is the availability of roaming. Two daytime minutes......500 is not a lot for 3 people to share, so you could have overage. Since most markets do not have access to digital plans anymore, only customer service could keep the same plan, but add more minutes. Right now they are running unlimited M2M for $9.99 per line, instead of $19.99. This would be an option for you to cut down on some of the anytime minutes used.
Chances are the 2 primary lines would NOT...
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The yes, but answer is correct. You can add an extra line to that older plan. The only problem that I see is that the 3rd line will be $19.99. The $10 extra line was a promo last year, and no, they can't give you the same deal now.
I do see a few problem with your plan. One, is the availability of roaming. Two daytime minutes......500 is not a lot for 3 people to share, so you could have overage. Since most markets do not have access to digital plans anymore, only customer service could keep the same plan, but add more minutes. Right now they are running unlimited M2M for $9.99 per line, instead of $19.99. This would be an option for you to cut down on some of the anytime minutes used.
Chances are the 2 primary lines would NOT...
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Couple of things to add. you had said something about him being on a home 500... sounds like a TDMA plan. Some reps will allow you to add a GSM to a TDMA and some reps won't. It can be done though. If he does have TDMA and the reps will not allow GSM on it then you will have to find a used TDMA phone since cingular does not sell those anymore... Maybe from Ebay. If they let the GSM on the TDMA then he can keep the same price plan and even get you added for the 9.99 like he has now... Cingular will grandfather it in. If he has GSM phones already then I would suggest getting one of the new plans that has unlimted mobile to mobile and NW.. still only 9.99 for the 2nd line and up. First thing is first what out what tech his phones are and what t...
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You hit on something I didn't get there when he explained his plan to me. He does have a plan where his phone/plan is a gsm and his father's is a tdma. I didn't know what was up with that and thought all phones had to be of the same stripe if on a joint plan. He said that gsm wouldn't work where his dad lived and they had to do something and I guess a blended plan is what "something" ended up being.
My cousin got his phone but seemed not to use it much for like 6 months and has built up a ton of rollover minutes. His dad's use is more just for 'every great once in a while purposes', so he's not much of a drain on the package minutes. Otherwise, rewording what the first guy to reply back said, having 3 people hump 500 minutes doesn't ...
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My cousin got his phone but seemed not to use it much for like 6 months and has built up a ton of rollover minutes. His dad's use is more just for 'every great once in a while purposes', so he's not much of a drain on the package minutes. Otherwise, rewording what the first guy to reply back said, having 3 people hump 500 minutes doesn't ...
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