How Tracfone Works

How Tracfone Works

The Prepaid model that Tracfone uses is the Cost per Minute structure. You purchase minutes and at the same time you will get a service period to use those minutes.

You will start by buying a Phone and a Tracfone Minute 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 using the web.

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

Next you will add a Tracfone Minute Card. You will add 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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How Tracfone Service Time Works

You will get 90 days of service time on most Tracfone cards. You must have both minutes and service time on your phone to use it. 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

Buying Tracfone Cards

Tracfone minute cards come in different sizes. You can spend $20, $30, $40, $80, $100 and $200. The larger the amount of the cards the cheaper the minutes. With the first four cards you get 90 days of service time with the card. The twenty dollar card costs you three minutes per dollar and the eighty dollar card gives you 5.8 minutes per dollar. These numbers double with DMFL. The $100 and $200 Tracfone Yearly cards give you a year of service time.

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Be sure to check out what Tracfone DMFL is before you purchase your Tracfone. Here is a great 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

Activation time and your Minute Balance will both be added to your current balance when you add a new card. 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). If you have DMFL it would be 260 units (2+120+120) and 150 days of service.

Tracfone Mistakes

Check out my article on The Most Expensive Tracfone Mistakes.

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Tracfone is the largest Prepaid Cell phone company in the US. Verizon is one of the largest Cell phone companies and has entered the prepaid arena. How does Verizon Prepaid compare to Tracfone?