Plan Highlights:

• Eligible participants include TSS staff, faculty, students, families of students, and Board of Directors members.
• Low-use plans starting at $9.99/month and 7¢/minute (local) or 9¢/minute (western states).
• Special TSS Family Plan that provides a $5.00/month discount on each additional phone (see here for plan details).
• Minimum of 5% discount on all other published Edge Wireless plans. If the total of all TSS organizational and TSS family phones exceed 100, the discount goes to 10%! For more information on Edge Wireless plans, click here.
• Free or reduced-rate telephones (based on the plan selected).
• Local Edge Wireless Customer Service Representative.

Special Note for the Jackson Campus:

Due to the geographic nature of where the new Jackson Campus resides cellular coverage for the area is variable -- some places give a usable signal while a few feet away the signal could drop. Edge Wireless is installing a cellular system that will cover almost the entire campus area. This system requires the use of telephones that use the GSM transmission method, which is currently the standard in much of the world outside the USA, and which will become the standard in the States in the future. Most phones now in use by Edge Wireless customers use TDMA transmission, with Verizon using yet another method, CDMA. To use cellular service on the Jackson Campus you must have a GSM phone. If use on the Jackson Campus is not needed then existing TDMA phones will continue to be viable for many years.

GSM phones will work outside of the Jackson Campus area, and Edge Wireless estimates that GSM phone coverage in our area is about 80% of what is covered by the older TDMA phones, and are working to get 100% coverage in the near future. Outside the valley, GSM phone coverage is expanding, with the largest national GSM cellular provider, Cingular, covering much of the country.

Edge Wireless' shared-minutes plans, which are popular among families needing multiple phones, consist of phones that are of the same transmission type. If a TSS "family" member (staff, faculty, or student) is based at the Jackson Campus it would be most advantageous to switch to GSM phones for the plan, or consider getting a low-usage plan GSM phone for use at the Jackson Campus. Edge Wireless will swap existing TDMA phones and GSM phones for a free or a small fee (based on plans and the feature set of the new phone).

TSS Family Plan:

LocalSharedEdge+ $44.99/mo. includes 1,100 Anytime Minutes
       EachShared Line Adds $ 9.99/mo. ($14.99 - $5.00 TSS Discount)

• Includes Unlimited Mobile-to-Mobile (applies to voice calls between Edge Wireless phones that are placed, received and completed entirely on your local Edge Wireless Network).
• Includes Unlimited Nights / Weekends (7:00 P.M. - 6:59 A.M. Monday – Friday + all day Saturday and Sunday) on Edge Wireless Network.
• Includes Nationwide Long Distance feature (nationwide long distance feature applies when calling from your Rate Plan Area to anywhere in the US.
• 2-Way SMS includes 50 incoming or outgoing messages per month /
  $.10 per additional message.
• Additional Anytime / Roaming minutes @ $.30. (Roaming fee applies to all calls made from outside your Rate Plan Area).
• Additional LocalSharedEdge+ Plans available that offer a range of Anytime Minutes.

*** Requires 2 lines for activation. 3 additional lines (5 phones maximum) may be added for $9.99 / phone / month.
*** Family plans available for users residing within the Edge Wireless service area
*** Requires GSM telephones.
*** 5%-10% discount does not apply to this TSS Family Plan

Call the Jackson Edge Wireless Store (at Smith's Plaza) and be sure to mention the Teton Science Schools. The phone number is: 733-3468.