TracFone Rates Change <AGAIN> May'07

Now TracFone is (nearly) competitive with PagePlus
Cellular and T-Mobile with their new year service
(no minutes) card for $49.99. Averages out to
$4.16 / month (minimum).

TracFone changed their website just this week
(I think) to reflect the new rate changes. Taken
from the www.tracfone.com website:

Date: May 5, 2007

1. 30 Minutes & 45 Days of Service $9.99

2. 60 Minutes & 90 Days of Service $19.99

3. 120 Minutes & 90 Days of Service $29.99

4. 200 Minutes & 90 Days of Service $39.99

5. Double Minutes for Life Card
0 Minutes & 0 Days of Service
NEW - Buy and add our new
$49.99 Double Minute for Life
card to your TracFone and get
Double Minutes on all future
airtime cards you add for the
LIFE of your phone. $49.99

6. 400 Minutes & 365 Days of Service $99.99

7. 400 Minutes & 365 Days of Service
Double Minutes for the Life
of your TracFone $129.99

8. Entire year of service (no minutes)
-when you buy any airtime card online
-including 30min, 60min, 120min, and
200min cards $49.99

Procedure:
1. select airtime card, the click continue.
2. Select the "365 more days" option
from the SPECIAL OFFER menu, then
click continue.
3. Enjoy your 365 days of service.

___________________________________

- Enjoy our Improved Carry Over Benefit! Only with
TracFone, the minutes and service days you add to your
phone are added to the minutes and service days you
already have.

- Continue to add more airtime before your
Service End Date displayed on your TracFone screen
to keep your service active and maintain your current
phone number.

______________________________________


JoshIII
[email protected]
josh3i at hotmail . com

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"JoshIII" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Now TracFone is (nearly) competitive with PagePlus
> Cellular and T-Mobile with their new year service
> (no minutes) card for $49.99. Averages out to
> $4.16 / month (minimum).

That has been up for over a month.

"JoshIII" <[email protected]> wrote in news:463c176b$0$97268
[email protected]:

> 7. 400 Minutes & 365 Days of Service
> Double Minutes for the Life
> of your TracFone $129.99
>

$130 divided by 400 minutes = 32.5c/min.....quite a bargain!

$40 divided by 800 min/month = 5c/min on Alltel's regional (2 states)
plan.

I think sending Tracphone $120 is...well...just.....STUPID?!

Larry
--
This spammer called my cellphone:
First American Payment
10101 E Arapaho Rd
Richardson, TX 75081
972-301-3766
They were nasty when I politely said I wasn't interested....(c;

At 06 May 2007 20:47:59 +0000 Larry wrote:

> $130 divided by 400 minutes = 32.5c/min.....quite a bargain!
>
> $40 divided by 800 min/month = 5c/min on Alltel's regional (2 states)
> plan.

If you use all 800 minutes. I regularly only use half of the 1000 minutes
on my $40 T-Mo plan, so it'd be pretty misleading of me to claim my
phone costs me "only 4-cents a minute." It generally costs me $0.08-0.10.

Besides, there's another way to look at this:

Tracfone's $129/12 months= $11/month.

Your Alltel plan: $40/month.

I thought you were the advocate of using Skype to keep your cellphone
bill lower?

> I think sending Tracphone $120 is...well...just.....STUPID?!

Certainly if your using 800 minutes/month, but for an emergency/casual
use glovebox phone with Tracfone's level of coverage for $11/month isn't
bad (personally I'd do PagePlus for $2.50/month, but $11 isn't bad and
includes a phone in that promo, IIRC.)

Todd Allcock <[email protected]> wrote in news:f1lvea$lel$4
@aioe.org:

> Your Alltel plan: $40/month.

Yes. 800 mins/$40 plus taxes. I even got them to throw in the Alltel
Circle in the deal, 10 numbers on ANY system, landline or cellular is
free, no limits. Plan includes N&W, free LD, free M2M 24/7, all the
usual toys. Covers SC/NC and a lot of miles inside their border states,
like all the way up the coast of VA to MD and down the GA coast to
Brunswick. I don't normally travel, but if I go to FL, I buy 100 mins of
Nationwide for $10 by just dialing 611 and asking for it....a much better
deal than being forced to buy half as many nationwide minutes I hardly
ever use, like VZW does.

>
> I thought you were the advocate of using Skype to keep your cellphone
> bill lower?

Skype is my homephone. Alltel is my business phone. I use Alltel
because it works best on 800 Mhz in the country (boonies) churches
anywhere in the SC Low Country. Alltel has the B license all over SC,
smoother coverage than VZW, which I just found out is almost half on
(yecch) PCS!

>
>> I think sending Tracphone $120 is...well...just.....STUPID?!
>
> Certainly if your using 800 minutes/month, but for an emergency/casual
> use glovebox phone with Tracfone's level of coverage for $11/month
isn't
> bad (personally I'd do PagePlus for $2.50/month, but $11 isn't bad and
> includes a phone in that promo, IIRC.)
>
All my gloveboxes (trunks, actually) have 3W Motorola TX200 bagphones on
AMPS with cigarette lighter plugs, not batteries which will ALWAYS be
dead in time of "emergencies" that happen so infrequently. Even a dead
car battery, once you unload it by closing the doors and turning off the
engine switch, will have more than enough power to make all-day cellphone
calls unless it's shorted or has exploded. You can also plug the
bagphone into a passing car's cigarette lighter for power. They all have
them, you know. That tracphone will surely be DEAD, it's charge long
depleted, unless you install Lithium, not Lithium-Ion, primary batteries
in it. The bagphone will still work past the cutoff date, my local
Alltel techs tell me. Alltel will support bagphones and AMPS for many
years to come because of rural cellphone demand that's more than willing
to pay for it. 150mw CDMA sucks in the country.

Bagphones in perfect condition are 99 cents at thrift shops because noone
will put one on the air. When I find them, I check them out and give
them to elderly friends for their trunks. They're very reliable pieces
of 911 safety gear. We had some trouble getting 611 on both Alltel and
VZW's A system in Charleston to answer AMPS calls. But, after a little
inquiry from the FCC Enforcement Bureau as to why, it magically repaired
itself on both systems. You can also dial 611 if someone is trying to
rob or kill you for more help. I asked the FCC lawyers if they thought
refusing to answer an operator 611 call was good grounds for a big class
action suit. They didn't say yes...to cover their asses...but they
didn't say no, either, during my inquiry.

WE, the people, still have some minor control of FCC licenses..(c;

Larry
--
This spammer called my cellphone:
First American Payment
10101 E Arapaho Rd
Richardson, TX 75081
972-301-3766
They were nasty when I politely said I wasn't interested....(c;