Phones

Few of the cell phone service providers are as follows:
AT&T
Verizon
Sprint
T Mobile
and many others...

Normally students prefer AT&T service as it has free call services to any AT&T number throughout USA. There is also an AT&T store very close to University's campus.

Most of the time students buy a prepaid card for AT&T and then after few months, they convert that prepaid to post paid card. Newly arrived students can't get any post paid card as it require some decent credit history which student won't have when they are new in USA.

Here is the link which gives more information on various cell phone service providers and the cell phone model they offer: http://www.phonedog.com/cell-phone-research/companies/default.aspx