Prepaid Cell phones in the United States are catching on. Prepaid phones are the fastest growing segment in the US cell phone arena.
Tracfone is the Big Dog
Tracfone with over 17 million customers is the biggest player in prepaid. To compare Alltel before being swallowed by Verizon had around 12 million subscribers.
Tracfone for 6.6 Cents a Minute
The recent addition of a new Annual Tracfone plan with 6.6 cents a minute makes Tracfone even more competitive. Check out the latest Tracfone Yearly Plans.
Net10 is Growing Rapidly
Net 10 is owned by Tracfone. They use some of the same phones and work on the same networks. Net 10 is very simple, the phone you buy will come with 300 minutes and two months of service time. You will have to buy another phone card and add it before you run out of minutes or the two months. The $30 card gives you two months and 300 minutes. Check out how to get NET10 minutes for 5 cents.
Prepaid Motorola W370, W375, W376 from Tracfone and Net10
Net10 goes Unlimited
Net 10 has released an unlimited prepaid phone plan. You can pay $80 a month for unlimited talk and unlimited text on your Net10.com phone. You will not have a cancellation fee and there is no activation fee. Any Net10 phone will work with the service.
Contract Vs Prepaid
There are a couple of reasons the contract companies are not pushing prepaid.
Lower Revenue per Customer with Prepaid
Most prepaid customers do not spend as much per month as contract phone users do. This is not always true though. A friend of mine worked in a convenience store that had some customers that were spending over $100 a month on prepaid cell phone cards.
Prepaid customers will jump to a better plan if they can get it.
How to get 8.8 cents per Minute with TracFone and a free phone
Tracfone has a 450 minute card that comes with a free Motorola W370 for $80. When you activate the W370 you get 2 months of service. This phone is already “Double Minutes for Life” so when you add the 450 phone card you get 900 minutes. If you use a bonus code you can get an extra 50 to 200 minutes. An advantage to buying the Phone and the card together is you get two extra months of service time. This is a better deal than you will get from Walmart or Target on your Tracfone.
Tracfone Bonus codes allow you to get more minutes when you add a card to your phone. Bonus codes are a five digit number that give you between 20 and 300 free minutes.
I always go here to get Tracfone Minutes and get Bonus Codes when addding a phone card.
Buy the Tracfone W370 with the 450 minute card at TracFone.com.
