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On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 05:23:30 -0700, "Peter Pan"
<Marcs1102NOSPAM@Hotmail.com> in their infinite wisdom wrote:
>"Slick Willy" <slick_willy_@EATSPAM.hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:229fc.2751$XP2.1815@lakeread06
>> I live on the East Coast and am getting my daughter on an Americas
>> Choice family plan. She will be moving to the west coast and will
>> keep the number and stay on my plan. When will her Nights & Weekends
>> begin - 9pm East Coast Time, or 9pm the time zone she is in?
>>
>> Tnx
>
>It starts at the local time (usually what's on the phone, not what the local
>non phone clock shows, especially if you are near a time zone line and get a
>cell tower on the other side of the line). IE Her N&W will start at 9 her
>time (Pacific Time), but midnight your time (Eastern Time).
>
>In case you are curious, I am from Baltimore MD/Have a Balt number, and am
>currently in las Vegas (pacific time zone). I Have a local Balt number, and
>my sister and friends can call a local number and reach me, but if they call
>at 9 their time, it is only 6 my time, and I get charged for the call.
>
>Most of the rest of my family is also on the east coast (old folks, they are
>in FL). What we do, that seems to work out very well for us, is to call each
>other on weekends (still free time, but easier to handle the time
>difference).
>
>Consider her getting a number local to where she will be. What I have found
>in my being out here (I'm going to UNLV here), is that most of my friends
>here are rather cheap, and there is no way they want to call me long
>distance back in Baltimore when I am next door to them in Vegas. (same for a
>simple thing like ordering my favorite food... pizza.. leave a local number,
>what no local? We don't call LD, No order for you).
>
>Consider doing what a bunch of my friends with verizon phones do, they have
>that unlimited in network to other verizon phones option, as long as both
>parties are on verizon phones and in-network, calls are free 24/7, no matter
>what time zone they are in.
>
>Just a caveat, the problem is not so much you and your daughter talking
>(obviously you'll both have verizon and in-network will work), but her and
>her other friends back east (that don't have verizon cell phones), and
>anyone local out west.
>
>From personal experience, having a number back east and rarely using the
>phone, I don't carry it with me.
>
>One other minor problem, the verizon stores back east have some different
>phones and accessories than the stores out here. I got a phone at a store on
>the east coast, but it's not sold/and no accessories for it, at the stores
>out here. Make sure whatever you get is also available out here.
>
>
>
Good points and I have somthing to add. I live in Reno and have AC
Family East Coast phone numbers that I haven't changed yet. The reason
is that Verizon won't change the number for me unless I sign a new
contract in the NV-CA area. My contact expired a few months ago.
Apparently, the East Coast has a different billing system than here and
the stores here can't access my records and change my number. I have to
do it via CS phone which isn't the bad part. The bad part is that the
prices for AC are now higher than when I signed on 2+ years ago. I want
to keep my plan and my price, so I can't change the number. They're
holding me hostage. One other important thing -> you can't split the AC
Family plans phone numbers to different area codes. They have to be in
the same one, or at least that's what I was told by CS. Since my callers
mostly all have free LD, it isn't a problem with the East Coast area
code...yet. I'll back down eventually when they have a phone that I like
with a plan price that I like, too. On the AC Family plan, only one
phone gets a new every two. The other is rack price. I found that out,
too. Read the fine print at the bottom!!!
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