Well I have a family of 8. My DH and I each have a cell phone...then we added a third line to our plan for a kid cell phone..I refuse to get a cell phone for my kids..but when they stay somewhere they take it with them so it is like the community phone...they all share. Then one of our daughters started using quite a bit of our minutes so we got the magic jack phone line...for 20$ a year..great investment for a teenager...if you ask me.