johnnyrv wrote:
I purchased a ZTE Valet Tracfone. Phone was ok but Tracfone service was lousy. Activated the phone via computer using a tracfone card, but phone would not connect to internet. Returned phone to Walmart and bought another ZTE Valet and another activation card. Same problem. Called tracfone customer service and was ping ponged from one poorly trained person to another. Very difficult to understand with heavy accents. Gave up and went with Consumer Cellular and samsung galaxy exhilerate phone and $24 month plan talk/text/data. Very satisfied. Also i think tracfone is only 3G network.
Learned a lot doing two ZTE's. Do not activate minute card before calling to activate phone. They gave me my service time but no minutes. Played hell getting em back.
Your Verizon password/pin for My Verizon is not the same as when you open you account. After three tries finally called Verizon and got the proper PIN number. Tracfone took just a few minutes to activate after that.
Second phone I activated on the internet, by the rules, and it did not take more than 15 minutes from start to finish.