How Tracfone Wireless Prepaid Works

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

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

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

You will have to key in some numbers into your phone and then it is active. It is really easy.

Adding a Tracfone Card is even easier. You can add Tracfone minutes directly from the phone or from the Tracfone website. You will key in the 15 digit PIN code into your phone.

When adding a minute card if you use a five digit Bonus Code you might get more minutes. Check out the Tracfone Bonus Codes.

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Tracfone Service Time

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 How Tracfone Wireless Prepaid Works.

Buying Tracfone Minutes

You can purchase Tracfone cards in different sizes. The different options are $20, $30, $40, $80, $100 and $200. The larger denomintation cards give you more minutes per dollar. With the first four cards you will add 90 days of service time with the card. The twenty dollar card costs you three minutes per dollar while the eighty dollar card gives you 5.8 minutes per dollar. These numbers double with Dmfl installed. The $100 and $200 Tracfone cards give you a year of service time.

Tracfone DMFL Card

Be sure to check out what Tracfone DMFL is before you pay for your Tracfone. Check out this article on Tracfone DMFL. It is an expensive mistake to add a phone card to a Tracfone without DMFL.

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Tracfone Service Time and Minutes Roll Over

If you add minutes or service time before your phone has completely run out the remaining minutes and service time will carry forward. 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 units (2+120+120) and 150 days of service.

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