I use a TracFone. I pay only for the minutes I use. sm
Posted By: MT and worn out on 2009-02-25
In Reply to: Can anyone recommend a cell phone - sm - Cellular impaired in VA
I have a landline and DSL that costs me $70 a month. I need the landline for my computer. I am not too trusting of the Skype, Vonage, etc. You lose your power, you lose your phone.
That said, I use TracFone. It is probably one of the first ones made as I can't take pics, or 2-way, or do any of the fancy stuff. However, I have never had it let me down by not having any coverage and the calls are always clear as a bell. I would get another cell plan with more bells and whistles, but I just can't see being tied to a 2 year contract with hefty penalties for early termination.
TracFone also has some awesome deals on minutes, phones with lots of features, etc. The nice thing about a TracFone is that if you run out of minutes, you don't lose your phone number. And they also have coupon codes you can use to get extra minutes, or an extra phone, etc.
www.tracfone.com
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I have a Tracfone and don't like wasting my minutes....
I have one of the original TracFones and my fingers are too fat to text. The keys are too close together, so I don't bother with texting. LOL.
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I had a Tracfone too, but I never use it..sm
barely even use the house land line phone, but it is nice to have one, just in case. However, aside from having to buy extra minutes every two months just to keep your phone number, which I never did and had a gazillion phone numbers, you DO lose your minutes when you lose your phone number. I need a plan where you don't HAVE to buy minutes every two months and you can keep what minutes you do have, and you don't lose your phone number. I don't think that there is a plan like that out there, but there should be. jmo
just got a tracfone -
We just got a tracfone right before Thanksgiving after looking at online reviews for it. We ordered it from the tracfone website and they were running a promotion and we got a free reconditioned very nice Motorola phone when we purchased a year plan and got extra minutes with it.It came in 3 business days. I don't want to think about minutes for an emergency phone more than once a year. So far, so good.
I also use a Tracfone, but...
my daughter got a Go Phone from Singulair, which is similar to Tracfone, and my son got a plan with Immex, I think, which is $60.00 a month. He is away at school, so he uses more minutes than I do on my my Tracfone. I always have units left at the end of the 2 or 3 months or whatever it is. If we lived somewhere we got service, I think we would have some kind of plan, but at this point we live in a giant black hole. If I stand in the right spot in my yard, I can get enough signal to send a text message,  other than that, forget it.
tracfone
in my research, fits the needs of an infrequent user the best. Costs me about $8 a month for service (w/1-year card), minutes always carry over with active service, they have a 99% footprint of service in the country... my only complaint is talking to what seems like an ESL every time i call company, oh, and the initial coding-in of endless numbers when getting service initiated. But well worth the cost. (even in a dead service area where i live, i can still text message).
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That's why I have a Tracfone
I have heard of cell phone bills that high and higher. I can't imagine paying that much for a phone. My daughter's friend wracked up a $625 phone bill one month from texting and her parents just paid the bill no questions asked.
I have a tracfone - sm
the minutes do not expire per se. Your service plan does though. I buy mine one year at a time, $99 for a year of service, then you buy minutes. Granted I buy a service plan and minutes together, and have the double minutes for life plan too. You can rollover minutes when your renew your service. You can get service either every two months or yearly I believe. I can text with my phone which is one of the Motorola flip phones. I used to have an old dinosaur Nokia but upgaded to a new phone for $10 or so at the Dollar store, phones are a lot cheaper there. If he is a yakker then it will get expensive fast, texting is a bit cheaper but he gets into the habit of doing that all the time his "units" will disappear fast. It is a good phone to have for the occasional call, etc. I would not use it as an everyday general use phone though. My old model phone actually worked better and got a signal just about everywhere, my new one is good but does not work everywhere my old one did, but I like it much better as it is smaller and lighter.
I personally like TracFone
I just bought a new one at Dollar General a few weeks ago after not having a cell for a few years. It was only $20 for this cute little Nokia with a built-in flashlight, and when I activated it online and registered with an email, I got 80 minutes free. I had a phone number in 10 minutes. You never lose your minutes but you do need to buy new minutes at least every 2 months to keep your phone number, which works out to $10/month. I've had TracFones on and off throughout the years and I've always had a good experience.
Yep, LOVE my Tracfone!
I have a Tracfone too, that's why I asked. :)
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i buy time once a year/tracfone
and it averages out to $8/month. I wanted a phone for emergency mainly too. Initial phone cost was about $20. The big plus to me besides cost is that they feed off ALL cell phone towers, not just their own as other companies do. works good enough for me, and being pretty rural, its really my only option of value.
I also use Tracfone as an emergency cell. sm
I use about 120 minutes every 3 months, average $10 a month. Occasionally out of my area I have to use double minutes, but I find it to be a great and uncomplicated service for my use. Have had it for a year. My DH also has one. He uses 400 minutes a month ($100), but he talks to everyone constantly. His choice.
My tracfone does have texting capabilities
my daughter figured that one out all by herself. LOL. We've been thinking about getting her one for a long time, but our problem is she'll have the minutes gone within weeks and then she'll have no phone. I guess she'll have to learn the hard way if that happens.
I use Tracfone but have heard of cell phone - sm
bills being quite high due to texting. If your plan does not cover that, and your kid or whoever has the third phone on your plan is texting up a storm, you are being charged for each and ever text he/she sends, who knows maybe on the received texts too, call your provider and ask why it is so high, then either find out if you can cancel the texting ability or take the phone away from the guilty party. ---make them pay for the overage too.
I have a TracFone. And I LOVE it. It is the original Nokia, but..sm
I can text on it. Texting uses up your minutes. However, when you run out of minutes, you don't lose your number anymore. I think there have been many changes to TracFone plans in recent years. As long as you refill your minutes before they expire, you should be good to go. If you buy more minutes before your old ones are up, they accummulate. I usually buy a 120+ minute card and sometimes, depending on the "codes" that you have, you sometimes can get bonus minutes etc. So if I have 10 minutes left on my phone and I buy another 120 minute card, when I am done activating it I will have 130 minutes on my phone. And if I have a "code" then I will have the minutes from that also.
I would not hesitate to get another TracFone. They have some really cheap, reconditioned ones too.
Agree. My TracFone has worked ever time, very
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On 60 minutes I think it was
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3 minutes? LOL!! (nm)
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I saw that a few minutes ago...
isn't that just awful.
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On Fox news just a few minutes ago sm
Man upset with his supervisor and shooted him. LOL--poor grammer for the whole world to see right on national TV. What is this world coming to? 
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Did you watch 60 minutes
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I caught about the last 15 or 20 minutes. Can't hardly
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I have an elliptical machine, 30+ minutes a day...
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The last 15 minutes of Grey's Anatomy??
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Lysine--works within minutes (nm)
I just saw a few minutes of her. It was such a struggle just to talk.
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350 degrees - 25 minutes per pound SM
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About 10 minutes away for me....I was a block away last night.
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Greta is covering it on fox in 8 minutes
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running out of minutes with a week to go sm
in your monthly plan. I have 1,000 minutes for $55, just got rid of land line 2 months ago and am very close to going over at a charge of 40 cents a minute. Geez. Guess I need to upgrade my plan.
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In Miami, her concert sold out in 2 minutes, due to
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Trac Phone. Cheapest. $100 for 1 yr, 140 minutes.
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And this is also possible - even just 15 minutes of focused time playing a game when he first gets u
anything like that. I really believe he is either sick or he just wants a little one-on-one time with you.
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