As a Technician, you DO have phone privileges on 10 meters right now. You are restricted to 28.300-28.500 mHz, USB, CW and data only. Remember to stay a little above and below the edges to avoid transmitting out of band, 3 kHz is a general rule. Your output power is restricted to 200 watts pep until you get your general, then you can go 1500 watts pep.
Go ahead and get on 10 now.
http://www.arrl.org/frequency-allocations