How Tracfone Wireless Prepaid Works

Tracfone is a simple Cost Per Minute prepaid cell phone company.

You will start by buying a Tracfone and a Tracfone Minute Card. You can only use a Tracfone Phone for Tracfone service, you cannot use a Verizon, At&t, T-Mobile, Alltel, Net10 or any other phone with Tracfone Service.

Next you will have to Activate your tracfone phone. This can be done by going to the Tracfone website or by calling Tracfone on a different phone. This can take up to ten minutes.

To activate your phone you will key in a series of numbers. It is really simple and if you hit the wrong key you will be able to easily redo it..

Next you will add a Tracfone Minute Card. You will add the 15 digit PIN code into your phone.

You always want to check for a Bonus code when you are adding a Tracfone card. Bonus Codes are a five digit number that you enter while adding a card to your phone.. Check out the Tracfone Bonus Codes.

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How Tracfone Service Time Works

The $20, $30, $40, and $80 Tracfone Cards all give you ninety days of service along with the minutes. If you do not have service time left on your phone it will not work even if you have minutes left.. The End of Service Date normally flashes on the screen of your Tracfone all the time. You can also check your service end date and the number of minutes you have left in the Prepaid Menu on your Tracfone. hwtracwrks and How Tracfone Wireless Prepaid Works.

Buying Tracfone Minutes

Tracfone minute cards come in different sizes. The different options are $20, $30, $40, $80, $100 and $200. The larger the amount of the cards the cheaper the minutes. With the first four cards you get 90 days of service time with the card. The twenty dollar card gives you three minutes per dollar while the eighty dollar card gives you 5.8 minutes per dollar. These numbers double with DMFL. The $100 and $200 Tracfone Yearly cards give you a year of service time.

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Be sure to check out what Tracfone DMFL is before you order your Tracfone. Check out this article on Tracfone DMFL. I would only add minutes to a Tracfone phone with Double Minutes on it.

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Tracfone Service Time and Minutes Roll Over

Activation time and your Minute Balance will both be added to your current balance when you add a new card. Let’s say you have 60 days and 20 units left on your phone. Add a 120 minute card and you will end up with 150 days(60+90) and 140 minutes (20+120). With Double Minutes it would be 260 minutes (2+120+120) and 150 days of service.