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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 5624155" data-attributes="member: 7533">So, my wife is the main driving force behind this...  she works at a retail outlet (one of those big warehouse stores), where it is customary (for reasons of speed and efficiency) for the employees to communicate with each other via text messaging.  She's the only one working there without a cell phone.  So, she needs a lot of texts.Our two kids will both be in middle school this fall, and will be riding the bus there and back for the first time.  She wants them both to be able to contact us directly (and vice versa) in case of an emergency or scheduling change.  Also, my daughter is getting to the age where she likes to talk with her friends on the phone -- a lot.  I don't necessarily have a problem with that, except that it ties up our home phone line.  She'll want a lot of minutes and messages, likely, whereas my son is a little autistic and so won't use the phone unless it's an emergency or we call him.I work at a big (25 sq. mi.) lab.  Much of the time I'm not near my workbench, and without a cell phone, It's hard to get a hold of me away from my bench.  Plus, I'd like to replace our home's long distance with the cell phones.After a first look, it's seems much cheaper for us to get a single four-phone family plan, rather than to cherry pick individual plans for each of us.  And for how we're likely to use the phones, unlimited talk and text seems the way to go.  Data plans would be nifty, but are unnecessary.I'll have to check if there's any Radio Shacks around here anymore.Yup...  Already did...  General consensus seems to be Verizon = Good, AT&T = Teh Suxxorz, Everyone Else = Okay.Yup...  As I said above, we're thinking that unlimited talk and text would be ideal, but data is unnecessary.This is pretty much what precipitated the decision for us...  My kids and I were traveling from Chicago to Minnesota to visit grandma.  Halfway through Wisconsin, the car threw a rod.  There we were, stuck on the side of the interstate, practically in the middle of nowhere, and three's hours' drive away from anyone we knew.  For two hours cars drove right by us.  Despite my frantic waving and signalling, none would stop, and seemingly no one called for help (evidently presuming that I'd already called for help on a cell phone I didn't own).  It was a bad day.</blockquote>

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