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TracFone Launches Simplified Prepaid Service

Jul 5, 2005, 4:17 PM by (staff)

TracFone has officially launched a new prepaid wireless service called Net 10. They have been advertising the Net 10 service for about a month now but officially publicized the launch today. TracFone is an MVNO which already has usage agreements with a number of major US carriers. Net 10 will operate under these same agreements, but has simplified billing even further than TracFone's plans. Net 10 calls are a flat 10 cents per minute with no connection or usage charges. Text message cost 5 cents each to send or receive. Cingular offers a fixed rate prepaid with no fees for 25 cents a minute, and T-Mobile offers one with rates remain higher than Net 10's unless a subscriber purchases $100 worth of minutes at a time.

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BetterThanJake

Jul 6, 2005, 3:25 PM

And Here's the Catch...

While Net10's 10 cents per minute, no fees pricing is admirable, there IS a catch.

Namely, with the way your minutes expire, you have to use at least $30 a month of service for it to really work out to 10 cents a month.

For example, if you get the $30 card, the minutes expire in 30 days. Better use 'em before they're GONE.

The one exception is if you get the $300 card, whose minutes last 1 year. So that works out to $25/month. However, I don't know of many prepay users who want to put down $300 at one time.

BetterThanJake

Namely, with the way your minutes expire, you have to use at least $30 a month of service for it to really work out to 10 cents a month.

Sorry, that last part should obviously read "10 cents per minute". 🙂

muchdrama

Jul 5, 2005, 5:57 PM

Since when is Net 10 new?

I saw the service for sale at a Target in Orlando two months ago. Isn't that "public"?

Rich Brome

Like it says, "They have been advertising the Net 10 service for about a month now but officially publicized the launch today."

It seems they soft-launched it first, but now they're simply making it official.

maokh

Jul 5, 2005, 8:19 PM

Captain Obvious

"A wireless phone has no wires!"

This character just cracks me up. Great pre-paid marketing campaign.

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