My oldest son has the iPhone and loves it. That phone can do everything!

If he hears a song and doesn't know the name of it all he has to do is hold his phone up to the radio and it finds the song...name and artist!

I asked him if I could use it when I can't recall the name of something or the word I want to use!!

I have a tracphone as does my DH. We use it for emergencies and so our DD can get in touch with us. We've never had any problems with reception or anything. Now they have the camera phones so I am hoping mine will break soon (no such luck have had it for years) so I can get one!

Verizon here.

Kitty, I was so excited b/c my friend would have qualified for that service you listed. But it doesn't cover every state, including Utah. Darnit!

Oops. I voted for Other, because we use Alltel, but then I noticed that you included that under Verizon.

We share a 5-phone plan with my DH's brother/SIL, and parents.

• We have one phone
• We pay for a phone for our 19 y.o. daughter, who is currently volunteering full-time with an agency doing hurricane repair work
• His B/SIL have 2 phones
• And his parents have one.

We pay only approximately $26 per month per phone, and have 1000 anytime minutes between our 5 phones, as well, of course, as free nights and weekends. (DD sometimes uses half of them by herself! The rest of us do a lot of Alltel to Alltel free calls, and the evenings, nights and weekends. We've only gone over the 1000 minutes once or twice, and DD pays the extra, when we do.)

Between the 3 households, we also have 4 Alltel pre-paid phones, which only cost $10 each, every other month. There is only one person, in our 3 HH's, who does not have a cell phone.

Seems to meet our needs and our budget well. We use them alot. Don't know how we ever managed without them. We no longer carry long distance service on our AT&T home phone. If we need to use our home phone, occasionally, for LD calls, we have an inexpensive calling card. We do use our calling card for calls to my family, in Canada.

~ Faith

Both my personal phone and my government phone say at&t so I guess that's what I got. All I know is I write a check each month to both at&t and verizon. My wife the expert shopper picks out the phones and phone plan and the government picks out the other one.

Tom

Alltel here. We just got switched as Verizon bought them out. I do get to keep my plan, thank goodness, as my plan with Alltel is much better and cheaper than any Verizon plan. I have the cheapest plan available.

Although I rarely ever use my cellphone, I just recently started using it for long distance calling as I never reach my monthly minutes. It saves me on long distance on my home phone. Most of my family is in the Verizon club so that saves me money as well.

I keep my home phone as if there were ever an emergency and we had to call 911 they would immediately know the address. With a cellphone the dispatchers can't do that.

Bummer. Safelink Wireless is available in Virginia, but not to people who are only on SS Disability.

They don't offer it in my area either. Here is where they offer it . . .

"We are currently offering service in parts of Florida, Tennessee, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia with plans to begin offering service soon in the States listed below.
SafeLink Wireless Service is coming soon to... Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, D. of Columbia, New Hampshire, and North Carolina"

Well that's strange 'cos that's all I'm on (SSDI). I wonder why VA is different?

I'm on my DD Sprint plan. I have a land line. so, I just use mine for emergencies and some long distance calls. I think DD is changing to another carrier when her contract is up.

I think she pays 75.oo per month for 3 diff phones with 3 diff. numbers.....mine, hers and her DH(used to be my DH's cell)