tracfone

once I built up my tracfone minutes I switched to the service continuation plan, $5.95?? or so a month. no minutes included, just keeps account active. when and if I need minutes just get the double minutes feature to refresh. the only place I haven't gotten coverage has been my house in southern VA. :) one block away OK service.
bumpy

I have a triple minutes Tracfone and absolutely love it. I am not much of a talker so this works great for me. The coverage has been every bit as good as Verizon was for me but it costs me about $10 a month. I have a basic Tracfone I can send you no charge if you want to pay the shipping.

ROYBUCK wrote:
I have Verizon wireless for home and cell phone, I pay 39.75 for cell phone for 500 minutes family and friends nationwide that is tax and fees, I use about 30 minutes a month, the lowest minute plan Verizon has is 200 minutes at 31.25 I hate to leave Verizon I have had good service with them, they are all kinds of plans with tracfone pay as you go that is pretty cheap, has any of you had any experience with the tracfone while traveling out of your area of residence.

Thanks
Roy

$39.75 is $477 per year.

$31.25 is $375 per year

You can get a Tracfone with double minutes built in for $9 and buy a 400 minute one year card of $99.

400 minute card gets doubled to 800 minutes and you often can find bonus codes which will add 200 bonus minutes for a grand total of 1000 minutes for the year or 83 minute per month.

You could buy THREE $99 400 minutes cards per year for $297 and without any promo bonus time get 2400 minutes which will give you the 200 minutes per month you currently use..

If you purchase your minutes cards from Tracfone website you can often get optional add on time or length of service days for a small additional amount.

For instance I needed to add additional days of service to my phone. Bought a $9.99 30 minutes/ 3 month card and when I went to checkout it gave me the option to buy 365 days of extra service for $45. So for $55 I got 60 minutes plus 15 months of service added. This Cost me basically $3.67 per month..

As far as service goes, Tracfone uses Verizion AND pretty much any other compatible providers towers. Basically netting even better service than being locked into one single provider..

I had Verizion years ago, while it worked fairly well I can say that my Tracfone works in places that my old Verizon DIDN'T..

Now keep in mind with Tracfone you won't have that 500 minutes family plan so you won't be sharing plan minutes or discounted free time between family and such so if that is an important part of your life you will lose that..

We have the tracfone (normal cell, not smart) and the coverage areas (when traveling) are not as good as the big carriers. Mostly ok when anywhere near big metro areas, but sincerely lacking when in smaller towns and rural areas.

Wife and I have had tracfone for years. Never had any coverage problems, since they used AT&T network. Just bought 2 of their smartphones (ZTE) and we are now on Verizon network. If you look at their phones, models ending in G will be AT&T and ending in C will be Verizon. The smartphones are 3x minutes for life so $19.99 for 60 minutes actually gets you 180 minutes talk, 180 minutes text and 180mb data, with 90 days before you have to add minutes.


Didn't know you could get an iphone with tracfone, they don't list any.

I have my Iphone on tracfone and it works great
46.68 a month for unlimited talk,text,data