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All you Tracfone haters

kecasey

Apr 3, 2007, 11:22 AM
All you Tracfone haters can go climb a tree. Tracfone is great!

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.
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tracfone4all

Apr 3, 2007, 11:33 AM
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renardlee

Apr 4, 2007, 4:23 AM
your post is misleading Tracphone's phones are not super phones that can pick up a cdma or gsm signal at helm, it depends if the tracphone you bought, if its gsm(phone comes w/ sim card) then it picks up only cingular, if its cdma then it can pick up verizon,sprint or another cdma carrier
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ajstrong

Apr 4, 2007, 12:41 PM
I thought they were super phones, capable of snatching a signal from the sky, like a bird, or a plane, or . . . a 2nd tier carrier with the leftovers of the phone market for pickings . . .
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jrfdsf

Apr 28, 2007, 3:47 PM
It's true that no single tracfone will work on both CDMA or GSM together, but tracfones are inexpensive enough to own two, one of each, and have coverage in about 99% of the U.S.

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.
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jrfdsf

Apr 28, 2007, 3:49 PM
Hmm... A dual mode tracfone with CDMA and GSM! I feel a "suggestion box entry" coming on to the TF folks.
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chainmail311

Jul 5, 2007, 9:15 PM
sure, if you wanna pay out your trash for minutes. Frankly, I enjoy NOT being able to get a call every now and then. And the 911, or 112 call works just about anywhere.
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MidnightDT

Apr 8, 2007, 2:03 AM
Verizon Wireless has the best customer service in the industry so I dont know where you got your lacking info. JD power and consumer reports disagree with you.
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wombough

Apr 9, 2007, 10:17 AM
he didn't pay his bill and they got mad at him. I can't believe verizon would do that 🤣 pay your damn bill on time and you won't have this problem!! And I have had sprint for 7 years and pick up just about everywhere. Maybe roaming but if I can place a call I don't care!
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sheeley14

Apr 17, 2007, 1:57 PM
TRACFONE SUCKS TRACFONE SUCKS TRACFONE Sucks
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jrfdsf

Apr 28, 2007, 12:12 PM
That's soooo funny, I forgot to laugh! 😛
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renardlee

May 29, 2007, 12:23 AM
who cares
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Sprintel

Jun 3, 2007, 10:37 AM
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.
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Sprintel

Jun 3, 2007, 10:40 AM
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.
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robtheman

Apr 19, 2007, 2:04 PM
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...
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jrfdsf

Apr 19, 2007, 6:01 PM
If I wanted to hate something, I would pick ham salad sandwiches! 🤣
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robtheman

Apr 28, 2007, 10:42 AM
I don't hate Tracfone. I love it.

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jrfdsf

Apr 28, 2007, 12:09 PM
I was responding to the top message. I like my tracfone too. I've been with them since 2000. I've kept my tracfone while canceling other services with other wireless carriers.

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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Explorerfl

Aug 25, 2007, 3:04 PM
Well, I thought that GSM does have worldwide capability. At least, the Europeans use it as well as T-Mobil. CDMA seems to be a Verizon thing.

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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ShackViperElite

Jun 5, 2007, 2:02 PM
Tracphone is great if...

* 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. 🙂
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betty_bermuda

Jun 7, 2007, 1:36 PM
my g-ma bought me a tracfone for x-mas 2 yrs ago...omg...
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. 👿
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chainmail311

Jul 5, 2007, 9:05 PM
they can't possibly use both AT&T AND Sprint towers, retard. Tracfones aren't GSM and CDMA. Try again.
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gletob

Jul 14, 2007, 12:31 AM
Actually tracfone doesn't use all networks on the cingular & now the at&t networks and all tracfones are gsm not cdma and also net 10 uses the same network as tracfone
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