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FREE $25 Aitrtime to activate TRACFONE (Reply to this comment)
by neeku
I am using Tracfone for around a year and Tracfone gives me excellent and cost effective service service and I think it is best amongst all prepaid service.
Currently they have promotion and you may get free airtime woth $25/- if you activate Tracfone. If you want that email me on sampann_nigam@yahoo.com.
If you want to see promotion details yourself see at http://www.tracfone.com/safc.jsp?task=promo&bid=20
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Jul 13 '03
12:33 pm PDT
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Re: Pretty good review (Reply to this comment)
by kfj001
With TracFone, you are pre charged for airtime use, NOT for connect time. Which means you are charged when your handset begins to use Verizon's network (by TracFone) NOT when the other party picks up their phone.
Verizon doens't do this, TracFone does. Funny, TracFone uses Verizon's Analog networks...
Verizon does have a nationwide analog network, as well as a nationwide digial one. Their towers are all dual-band (and tri-band for the poor saps with SprintPCS).
As for TracFone digital, the same policies apply to a different network. Granted, you get the technological advantages of a digital-network on your TracFone digital, but your still stuck with a TracFone.
TracFone's idiotic service policies and their absence of customer service are inexcusable compared with options like FreeUP from Verizon, SprintPCS's "pay as you go", or even Cingular's pre-pay soulition. But this isn't a TracFone review.
ONe thing I will say about TracFone, they certianly found their way into the poorest neibhorhoods of most inner cities pretty quickly, bringing their "policies" and "procedures" with them...
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Mar 10 '02
10:31 am PST
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Pretty good review (Reply to this comment)
by freegoo
This is a pretty good review. You were incorrect in some of your statements though. Tracfone IS a nationwide service, and offers digital service (digital service was added summer '01). Verizon's "national" coverage is limited to areas they provide digital service - leaving some people out in the cold (I fall in this category).
There are a couple other advantages Tracfone has over FreeUp:
* Minutes don't expire if your account de-activates. Buy a new phone card and you get them back.
* Re-activating is free though you lose your phone number. FreeUp charges $35 to reactivate.
* Tracfone is only prepay to my knowledge that offers yearly phone cards. Buying minutes this way is expensive (63 cents a min), but offer a big convenience for the light user.
* Tracfone offers free voice mail. No charge for incoming messages or checking them from a landline (this is true in my area - using a US Cellular tower).
* Tracfones $30+ cards are 90 days vs. Verizons 60 days.
* deals can be found online through Ebay for Tracfone. I got my last 300 minute card there for $58 which at the time was a savings of $42 and about 19 cents a minute. Not too shabby for prepay. I may have been lucky though.
Verizon still offers better overall rates, free weekend minutes, and text/web services along with many of the reasons you list in your article. But Tracfone isn't quite as crappy as you made it out to be. :)
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Mar 08 '02
9:07 am PST
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