Tracfone vs Verizon Wireless Pay as you Go Prepaid Plans

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The Tracfone VS Verizon Prepaid plans are significantly different.

The Verizon Inpulse Prepaid Wireless Cell Plans

The Verizon Inpulse Core plan will charge you $1 a day to use your phone (only on the days you use your phone) and 10 cents a minute for calls and for text messages. But you can make all the calls to other Verizon phones for free for the day.

The Verizon Inpulse Plus has a $2 a day plan that gives you unlimited night minutes along with unlimited in network calling. The call to other phones on this plan will cost 5 cents a minute and for text messages.

The Verizon Inpulse Power has a $3 a day plan that gives you Unlimited nights and weekends and will charge you 2 cents a minute for other calls and for text messages.

You must spend at least $15 a month to keep your Verizon phone active.

Verizon Samsung SCH-U430 Prepaid Phone and Charger

The Tracfone Wireless Prepaid Plan

Tracfone is a regular prepaid phone service where you buy units and use them. You must spend at least $20 every 3 months to keep your Tracfone active. The larger denomination Tracfone card you purchase the cheaper the minutes.

Also Tracfone has a DMFL card you can purchase for $50 that doubles all the minute cards you put in. It is better to buy a Tracfone phone or phone package that comes with a phone with DMFL already included.

If you buy the Tracfone 450 minute card (DMFL 900) for $80 you will get minutes for 8.8 cents each. If you use your cell phone to only talk to other Verizon users the Verizon plan works very well. It would be like paying for 11 minutes a day with Tracfone.
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One dollar a day you use it or $30 a month for unlimited calls to other Verizon users. Ten cents a minute after the one dollar for any non Verizon Wireless calls.

The Tracfone 8.8 cents a minute is a very good prepaid cell phone rate.

Buying a Verizon Prepaid Phone

Verizon Prepaid phones are generally more expensive than Tracfone phones. You do have the option of getting top of the line phones to work with Verizon Prepaid. You normally have to pay $35 to activate your Verizon phone on top of the purchase price.

Most old Verizon phones can be activated and used as Verizon Prepaid phones, None of the Blackberrys or Smartphones can be used on Verizon prepaid.

Verizon customer service is much better, you can go to your local Verizon store if you have questions or problems.

Buying a Tracfone

You can only use a Tracfone for Tracfone service. You will not pay to activate your phone or set up voice mail ( you will use a couple of minutes to setup voice mail). You can check your voice mail from a land line or you will be charged minutes to check from your Tracfone.

Tracfone Customer service is all done by phone and is notoriously bad. The phones are simple enough you can cure a lot of problems by checking the website. Also some problems are not worth following through with if it takes you an hour to get the missing twenty minutes from your account.

How to Buy Tracfone Minutes and use Bonus Coupons

Buy an LG 225 Phone with One year card at TracFone and get 800+ minutes, free shipping, and 14 months of service!

The Best Tracfone Deals

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Tracfone has a couple of good Prepaid Phone deals. The Best Tracfone Deals are now hiding in the "phone for sale" section.

Best Tracfone Deal #1

Tracfone LG 225 with One year card. $100

I bought one of these for a friend and activated it for her. When I activated the phone online, I got 60 days and 20 minutes. I added the One year card and used bonus code 55118 for 300 units and 12 months.

My friend ended up with a Brand New Tracfone LG 225, DMFL, 1120 minutes and 14 months of service for $100. Be sure to purchase the LG 225 with the One Year card. If you buy them separate they will cost you $140.

TracFone W370 on the left and LG 225 Camera Phone on the right

Best Tracfone Deal #2

TracFone Motorola W370 refurbished with 450 minute card $80.

This is a good phone with DMFL. When you activate the phone you will get 60 days and 20 minutes. When you add the Tracfone Minute Card you will get 900 minutes (the phone comes with DMFL) and there are bonus codes available to get 50-60 units.

Buy the TracFone W370 and 450 minute card deal and get 980 minutes and 5 months service for $80.

The best Tracfone deals always will be when buying a phone-Minute card package deal at Tracfone.com.

Never buy or add minutes to a Tracfone without DMFL.

DMFL on a Tracfone means that every Minute Card you add to your phone will be doubled. This brings Tracfone minutes down to between Eight cents and Twenty cents each depending on the size of the Tracfone Minute Card you purchase.

Where to Purchase Tracfone Minutes

I like to buy my minutes online and add the bonus codes from the same page. I Buy Tracfone Minutes and check for Bonus Coupons here.

Get free shipping at TracFone.com on orders of $35 or more.

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Tracfone vs Verizon Wireless Pay as you Go Prepaid Plans

The Best Tracfone Deals