How Tracfone Wireless Prepaid Works

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

You will start by buying a Tracfone prepaid phone and a Tracfone Minute Card. You can only use a Tracfone Cellular phone for Tracfone service, you cannot use a Verizon, At&t, T-Mobile, Alltel, Net10 or any other phone with Tracfone Service. The Tracfone SIM card will not work in any other phone either.

Then you activate the phone by calling Tracfone on a land line or by using the internet.

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

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

Often you can get extra minutes if you 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

You will get 90 days of service time on most Tracfone cards. In order for your Tracfone to work you need to have both Minutes and Service time on your phone. The remaining Tracfone minutes always show on the display of your phone. The Service end date will also scroll onto your screen. It normally says “Add Airtime by 12/21/10 or service ends.” hwtracwrks

Buying Tracfone Minutes

You can purchase Tracfone cards in different sizes. The different options are $20, $30, $40, $80, $100 and $200. You get more minutes for your money with the larger Tracfone cards With the first four cards you get 90 days of service time with the card. The twenty dollar card costs you three minutes per dollar and the eighty dollar card gives you 5.8 minutes per dollar. These numbers double with Dmfl installed. The $100 and $200 Tracfone Yearly cards extend your service by twelve months.

Tracfone DMFL Card

Be sure to check out what Tracfone DMFL is before you purchase your Tracfone. Here is a great article on Tracfone DMFL. I would never add minutes to a phone without DMFL 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. For instance if you have 20 minutes and 60 days left on your Tracfone and you add a 120 minute phone card you will end up with 140 minutes and 150 days left. If you have DMFL you would end up with 260 minutes (2+120+120) and 150 days of service.