MitchF150 wrote: I bought a Tracphone for our office when we wanted a quick cell phone number for the public to call in for a promotion we had going..
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I've thought about swapping my Verizon account for one, but coverage would be a concern.
Mitch
My Tracfone is activated on the Verizon network with full roaming coverage. To make sure you select a Tracfone CDMA phone that works on Verizon, use a ZIP code for an area that only has Verizon coverage like Billings, MT (59101) to buy your phone online. Once you have it, you can activate it with any ZIP code you want to get a local number. There are only a few CDMA phone models available though.
How do you order online using a Billings,MT zip code if they are shipping it to you in a different zip code?
Dutch_12078 wrote:
My Tracfone is activated on the Verizon network with full roaming coverage. To make sure you select a Tracfone CDMA phone that works on Verizon, use a ZIP code for an area that only has Verizon coverage like Billings, MT (59101) to buy your phone online. Once you have it, you can activate it with any ZIP code you want to get a local number. There are only a few CDMA phone models available though.
The phone I use was sold as a TrackPhone, (TrackPhone is (At least in part) T-Mobile) and all I did was pop the SIM from my broken T-Mobile in it. Fifteen bucks for the phone, new and on the card.
Now I made sure it was T-mobile compatible before I purchased.
(I am not sure ALL track phones are T-mobile).
I will also add this is a very simple phone, It can do SMS (Texting) but I have that disabled at the host (T-Mobile) it can not do WWW. No camera, plays music. But can not download it I forget what i had to do to put music in the beast.
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jcpainter wrote: How do you order online using a Billings,MT zip code if they are shipping it to you in a different zip code?
Dutch_12078 wrote:
My Tracfone is activated on the Verizon network with full roaming coverage. To make sure you select a Tracfone CDMA phone that works on Verizon, use a ZIP code for an area that only has Verizon coverage like Billings, MT (59101) to buy your phone online. Once you have it, you can activate it with any ZIP code you want to get a local number. There are only a few CDMA phone models available though.
They will ship anywhere.
When you order you are asked where you will use the phone...that is where you put the ZIP CODE to get the phone you want.
BTW before you press the go button to buy, you should review the many deals they usually have.
There is at lleast one now for TML, Triple Minutes for Life.
They will ship anywhere.
When you order you are asked where you will use the phone...that is where you put the ZIP CODE to get the phone you want.
BTW before you press the go button to buy, you should review the many deals they usually have.
There is at least one now for TML, Triple Minutes for Life.
With the Tracfone, you MUST purchase your own phone, but you must purchase it from them, because software in the phone does the usage accounting. It works the same way with other "pay as you go" plans, whether direct from the service provider or from one of the resellers like Cricket or StraightTalk.
From Tracfone, the phones are heavily discounted. My $20 phone might cost something like $100 purchased outright at a phone store in Asia, which is why we have people buying them up and shipping them to other countries. Most of the other pay as you go sellers discount the phones, but not as much.
From most actual service providers (the guys who run the towers), you can also purchase your fa phone at the full price, and buy service on an open-ended contract. That's when you find out a "free" phone actually costs $60-$200, and a $150 smart phone actually costs $300 to $400.
The business of buying a phone at a small fraction of cost, and having a two or three year obligation to buy service, hangs over from a period when even the simplest phones were so expensive the price would frighten people away, so the company would discount 60-90% and spread the cost over the contract period.
Many other countries separate phone ownership from service plans, you buy a phone at full price from a chain electronics store or independent retailer, and you buy the SIM and phone service from the national mobile telephone company.
We don't have much of a sticks and bricks mobile phone market, but there are a lot of people selling phones on the Internet. Look for a guarantee that the phone you buy can be activated on the service you plan to use.
wa8yxm wrote: The phone I use was sold as a TrackPhone, (TrackPhone is (At least in part) T-Mobile) and all I did was pop the SIM from my broken T-Mobile in it. Fifteen bucks for the phone, new and on the card.
Now I made sure it was T-mobile compatible before I purchased.
(I am not sure ALL track phones are T-mobile).
I will also add this is a very simple phone, It can do SMS (Texting) but I have that disabled at the host (T-Mobile) it can not do WWW. No camera, plays music. But can not download it I forget what i had to do to put music in the beast.
A friend visiting from China had her phone battery down, wanted to check her text messages. We put her China Mobile SIM in my GSM Tracfone and it became her phone, for the moment. She was able to get her messages, but couldn't read them, because the software in the phone did not have images for Chinese characters :0
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