Using a Verizon Family Share Plan to Get All Your Phones on One Bill

There are many benefits to having a family share plan for your cell phones. You can save money, as most cell phone family plans have a base price for the first 2 phones and a small add-on price ( typically around $10/mo) for each additional phone. This can really work out well, especially if you don't use your phones for calling a lot during peak times.

For example, the Verizon Wireless Family Plan offers plans starting at 1400 shared minutes with an option of unlimited texting. If you have 4 or 5 phones, you can save a lot per line. If you didn't know, at 1400 or more minutes you also get to choose up to 10 phone numbers to count as your "Friends and Family." When you call these numbers, the minutes do not count against your allowance. In fact, minutes are completely "free" if you call each other or anyone else with Verizon Wireless. Nights and Weekends are also free. So the only minutes that count against your allowance are for calling numbers that are: Not on Verizon, Not on your Friends and Family, and Not at night or on the weekend.

I read an interesting blog post about a family of 4 who used their Verizon Wireless Family Plan for keeping a home phone number. What they did was, instead of dropping their home phone number completely, they just made it the 5th line on their family plan. They saved money by not paying their local phone company anymore, but they kept the number they had for 10 years as the house phone.

Finding a Family Plan on the new T-Mobile G1

Like the ATT iPhone before it, the new Android "Google phone" is getting a lot of buzz. I used to work in a cell phone store, and as we know Family Share Plans are popular. When the Apple iPhone came out, naturally a lot of people were looking to get 2 or more on a family plan through AT&T Wireless.

Now Google has come out wit it's first phone for Android, called the G1. People are going to want to know how to get a family plan on G1. So how does someone do that?

First you need to know what carrier you are looking at. The iPhone was launched and Apple had an exclusive deal with At&t. Well, Google has a similar arrangement with T-Mobile.

If you are looking to get 2 or more of the new G1 phones, you will need to see a T-mobile dealer or authorized representative. They should be able to help you out.

Nationwide Family Share Plan works for our family

A family share plan allows a whole family or friends to share a wireless phone plan. Our family has 3 phones on the same plan through Verizon Wireless. We each have our own cell phone and we get to share minutes. We have the Nationwide 900. We also get to call and text each other for free so it is a pretty good deal.

Before we all shared a family cell phone plan, I had my own individual verizon wireless phone and plan. My wife had a Virgin Mobile prepaid phone. Our son was not old enough and didn't need a cell phone, though I'm sure he'd disagree.

Overall the plan features and service is high quality. If we didn't have a family wireless plan we would probably pay 50 or 60 bucks more on our monthly cell phone bill.