The search for service

Scott may have stumbled upon a plan that may work for us. With the Sprint network, we apparently have the option of adding the internet service into our phone service/bill (Scott, please correct me if I am explaining this incorrectly) for more each month. The issue, however, becomes a higher phone bill while we are on the road--and a $200/month bill for that will begin to be taxing on the accounts. Unfortunately, we can't simply use the phone minutes to make the internet go; it has its own separate plan but is bundled in with the phone bill. After talking with Sprint, Scott has discovered that we can substitute the internet service for one of our phones, thus making the bill almost equal to what we pay now. This we can swing with relative ease. With Skype and other services I think that we should be able to transition to a single phone between us. We will be together on the road so we don't really need that extra phone. If it comes to it, I can always get a pay-as-you-go phone so students can reach me and it won't be eating through our regular minutes.

I will still need to figure out if we will have service once we get out west. Looking at the maps it seems that much of the west, and the northwest in particular, is still a wide open frontier. There are pockets of people but not always enough in some areas outside the major metropolitan areas to warrant putting in cell towers (how antiquated is the idea of on-ground towers transmitting signals...)

Thanks, Naomi, for that vote of tax deductible on the service, too!