Comments on: Using TracFone Prepaid Cell Phones To Reduce Your Monthly Bill

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:32:49 +0000

It will be interesting to see what happens over the next several years. Will prepaid cell phones completely take over? This is a good thing for the market.

By: Kyles

Kyles — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:37:39 +0000

My tracfone is great and it saves me a lot of money each month. With it i only have to pay for the minutes i use. And also since i have family in Italy, it is great for international calls. International calls cost the same as local calls. Ands really where i save a lot money with tracfone.

By: Danny

Danny — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:26:53 +0000

I have a Tracfone plan and I absolutely love it. I pay about $30/month, and I have a feature called double minutes, where for evey minute I bought I get one for free. It’s awesome! An most importantly, I could use those toward international calls. I have a lot of relatives in Brazil, so I could call them for the same price as a domestic call here in the US. I am saving a lot of money by using Tracfone, instead of using AT&T, which is what I used to have.

By: Chris Chan

Chris Chan — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:02:27 +0000

The best bang for your buck is Straight Talk. $45 a month for unlimited nationwide anytime minutes and texts. Pretty awesome!

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By: P.R.

P.R. — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:17:01 +0000

I use TracFone and I am for the most part happy. The phones are not top of the line, but the service is very cheap. With my lifetime double minutes applied, I pay about $15/month for voice + text.

TracFone only makes sense if you don’t talk a lot. I talk about 100-150 minutes/month, so TracFone makes much more sense than a $40+ voice plan for hundreds of minutes I’ll never use.

By: Vik

Vik — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:57:20 +0000

Hi all – this is Vik – the guest writer for this article. As I understand it, you will most likely need to switch phones if you use Tracfone. Most phones are built with a specific service provider in mind, and Tracfone is no exception.

Hope this helps!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:35:53 +0000

All great suggestions, but having worked for Boost Mobile I can tell you Virgin Mobile is probably the best bang for your buck if your going to use text messaging and a lot of voice calling. It’s also a good bet for a backup/weekend phone as the top up requirements are not outrageous.

By: J.D.

J.D. — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:21:00 +0000

I made the switch from a traditional cell phone to Tracfone a couple years ago. It’s saved me a lot of money. I was paying $40/month before, now I’m averaging about $100/year. Granted I was only use about 80 minutes/month, but that’s a huge difference. I look at it this way, at 0.10/minute with Tracfone, I’d have to use 400 minutes each month to break even. I’m nowhere close to that.

A couple other things to consider is texting and roaming. With tracfone it costs 0.5 units (approx $0.05) to send or receive a text message and 2 units (approx $0.20) per minute when roaming.

Net10 is another company to look at. If I didn’t already have a double-minutes for life tracfone, that’s probably who I would use.

By: Pinyo

Pinyo — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:11:28 +0000

TJ, I haven’t used TracFone myself (this is a guest article in case you didn’t notice). However, my relative who visited the U.S. recently did use TracFone. From what I understand, you do have to buy a phone from them. She saved a bunch of money by not having to sign up for a 1-2 year contract.