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Jul 7, 2005, 4:59 PM
So I get a customer canceling her daughter's line of service, told me she is going to switch to another company to monitor her daughters usage for her. Good luck with that, seriously we don't babysit you people, we don't hold your hand and do everything for you. Show some maturity and do things for yourself.
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do other companies even monitor usage? if you dont trust your kid, get them a PRE PAID. really though, a logical service for kids would be a service that when you reach the minutes for the month (ie, 400) the phone doesn't make/recieve calls until the next bill cycle. that'd show those kids. BUT there'd be someone to bitch and complain about that if it happened.
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The other companys have spending limits so if you have 125 for a spending limit and a plan/bill of about 90 you dont have much room for error
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Funny but go to planetfeedback and read all the people that complain about the spending limit at sprint this shows the other side of it so we just cannot win.
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Its called a go/phone. AT&T had go/phone plans that would shut off until a new payment was made. Prepaid is really the only solution for a kid that cannot be trusted. Or NO PHONE... The best option for a kid.
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I'm down with the no phone idea. Kids don't need 'em. I mean who are they gonna call really? Yes some do call parents...but when I was in school if you needed to call your parents there was either an available phone, or there were payphones in several places in the school building. And hell even though payphones cost more now than they did then, which is worse $2.50 a week (.50 a day for five school days) or a $300 cell bill?
If you cut off the phones when they reached their minute levels then we'd be dealing with parents whose kids used the last of the minutes and now "my job can't reach me....I'm losing money because of you" and then we'd have even more of the "pay me for my trouble" idiots.
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pay phones are still .25 here. .35 in Alberta because they are backwards 🙂
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Jul 7, 2005, 6:48 PM
I saw on TV they are coming out with special child phones that only have like 4 buttons, Call Mom, Call Dad, etc... The service for these phones will only allow them to call the set numbers and I do believe the parents can only call the phone. I think we need to get kids and pre-teens these types of phones.
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I think that's a wonderful idea!
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So another company can monitor her kid's cell phone usage?
I have an idea: put your daughter up for adoption if you don't want to be a parent.
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Jul 7, 2005, 8:35 PM
I kid you not (pun intended... I think thats a pun?) she literally stated she wants to switch to another company because they will monitor her kids minutes. The only comment I made was, "so you are switching to another company to stop your daughter from going over in minutes?"
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I swear some people should not be allowed to reproduce. EVER.
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"It's not the right time to be sober.
Now the idiots are taking over
Spreading like a social cancer
Is there an answer?
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Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding.
Watson it's really elementary
The Industrial revolution
Has slipped a bitch on evolution.
The benevolent and wise are being quartered up and sized.
What a bummer.
The world keeps getting dumber..."
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