All you Tracfone haters
I have had a Sprint phone and contract for 20 months, which has dead spots all over the place. I carry a tracfone in my glove box for the times I have to make a call and Sprint has no signal, which if often. In 4 months, I'll ditch Sprint and just rely on tracfone.
Tracfone has no network or towers. They use the towers owned by Sprint, Verizon, Cingular and just about everyone else, so if there is a tower nearby, Tracfone can use it.
Verizon has the best signal of all the big boys, but Verizon's customer service is severely lacking.
I use mine whenever I expect to be out of my Nextel coverage area on vacations. I check cellular coverage maps to see which carrier (GSM or CDMA) will have a signal in the places I plan on being.
Let's face it, tracfone offers an inexpensive solution for infrequent cellphone users as well as those of us who own all-digital phones that have coverage gaps. $100 per year ($8 per month) is a cheap way to ensure that we can stay in touch with family and work wherever we go.
Sprintel said:
Sorry normally I just read not not post but this idiots comment needs to be corrected. I work for Tier 3 verizon wireless and I read our news everyday and the J.D power just came out again and Tmobile rated number one in customer service in all 6 major markets in the U.S Tieing for number one in two of the markets for number one. Go read some facts somewhere before you blurt something stupid next time.
Correction from me They tie for number one in two Major markets with verizon. They rank number one in all six.
kecasey said:
Verizon has the best signal of all the big boys, but Verizon's customer service is severely lacking.
This is true when you compare Verizon's customer service to Tracfone's customer service. You can't beat Tracfone.
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I hope Tracfone doesn't strike me down...
I use Nextel because of my job, but if I didn't need one for work, I probably would just have my tracfone because I don't use my phone much outside of work. $100 per year translates into about $8.00 per month for cellular service. That's hard to beat if you don't use a cellphone very much!
I STILL recommend having TWO tracfones for folks who travel a lot. Since CDMA based tracs use Verizon as their main carrier with roaming agreements and Cingular as their carrier for GSM phones with roaming, the odds are that one or the other phone will have service wherever you...
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Question to all Tracfone mavens: How can you tell if the phone you're buying off the shelf is a GSM or CDMA phone? Are they marked?
My wife talks about 50 minutes/month(definitely less than 100min) and AT&T)aka Cingular) is discontinuing analog transmissions soon(she has a dinosaur phone).
ATT wants a 2yr contract and I won't do it. Especially since it costs at least $40/mon. for minimum minutes(about 250min)that she never uses. Never. I did a spread sheet on her bills.
I'm thinking I will get her a pay-as-you-go phone as it should be cheaper with the one yr/800min promotion card they're ...
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* you have no idea what a cellphone is
* you want your calls to drop fast
* you like to pay a lot for your minutes
* you like to hold an hour for customer service
* you like to act superior by having a piece of junk
There are about a billion better options than a Tracphone... and one of them is two paper cups and a piece of string. 🙂
she thought it might be a nice gift so I didnt tell her about the numerous times when I had to yell at a cust service rep. I lost like $50 in min because i had a defective phone AND...i didnt get it back. 👿