Tracfone Reviews

Tracfone PrePaid Wireless Reviews

Established: 1996

América Móvil

Tracfone is probably the most famous known entity in prepaid phones as the costs of the phones and plans/minutes are hard to beat. Tracfone is a Virtual provider, meaning they do not have any of their own network towers. Instead, they utilize some of the best networks in North America including AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon. As time has gone on Tracfone introduced many other brands that offer different deals. These are have been welcomed with open arms for thrifty shoppers in this great nation. (Net10, Straight Talk, Safelink, etc.)

Networks used:VerizonCDMA NetorkAT&T & T-MobileGSM Network

Reviews of Tracfone phones:

Key:CurrentComing soon(rumored)Discontinued
Tracfone Motorola EX124G ReviewTracfone LG 800G ReviewTracfone LG500G ReviewTracfone LG 505CReview 
Tracfone Motorola EX124GTracfone LG800G ReviewTracfone LG500G ReviewTracfone LG 505C ReviewTracfone LG 235C Review
Tracfone T101G ReviewSamsung T301G ReviewMotorola C261 ReviewMotorola V176 ReviewLG3280 Review
 Samsung T101G ReviewSamsung T301G ReviewMotorola C261 ReviewMotorola V176 ReviewLG3280 Review
LG200C ReviewLG225 ReviewLG100C ReviewLG290C ReviewMotorola W376G
LG200C ReviewLG225 ReviewLG100C ReviewLG290C ReviewMotorola W376G
Motorola W260G Review  LG220C Review Motorola C139 Review   LG600G Review LG410G Review
Motorola W260G Review LG220C ReviewMotorola C139 Review LG600G ReviewLG410G Review
LG420G Review Samsung T155G Review Motorola V170 Review LG231C Review Samsung T105G Review
LG420G ReviewSamsung T155G Review Motorola V170 Review LG231C ReviewSamsung T105G Review
 Kyocera K 126C   
 Kyocera K 126C   

 The plans:

Data is being updated

The Network service:

 TracFone buys bulk airtime from major cell providers thoughout the US, these are some that are know to be used:

GSM Models:

  • AT&T Wireless
  • T-Mobile
  • Claro (Puerto Rico only)
CDMA models:
  • Verizon Wireless

Facebook: You can use a basic version of facebook on all these phones, use http://m.facebook.com in the phones browser

History:

The TracFone was established in 1996 as Topp Telecom Inc., a prepaid cell phone company, in Miami, Florida. In February 1999, Topp received a major infusion of capital from Teléfonos de México or Telmex , Mexico's largest telephone company. TelMex paid $57.5 million for a 55 percent controlling interest in the company.

In 2000, Telmex spun off their mobile unit, creating América Móvil, of which Topp Telecom became a subsidiary. In November 2000, Topp Telecom Inc. changed its name to TracFone Wireless Inc.
 

Coverage map:

Tracfone coverage

Tracfone coverage map

More information at Tracfone's Website


Comments

Submitted by Lala (not verified) on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 20:35
Im interested in knowing,Has anyone heard anymore, about Trac getting the Lg 505c?

Submitted by Sue Hyde (not verified) on Tue, 10/11/2011 - 14:04
Worst customer service EVER!! I never could get my phone to work more than a day before it would stop working and every time I had to call for support it took my entire evening!! They finally said I could return it for a refund but after I UPSd it to them they returned it back to me and said it was over 30 days. It was less than 30 days!

Submitted by Florida Girl on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 14:49

I have used tracfone for for 12 years and I am very satisfied with them. If you dont't need handholding, if you are willing to enter programming codes into your new phone to activate it for the first time and if you don't need a lot of customer support, tracfone can save you a lot of money on cell service.

I am not a heavy cell phone user so I have been getting the 1 year 400 minutes (often with 100-200 bonus) for $89.00-$99.00 and my annual cell phone costs have been less than $100 for many years. My last phone was free due to a network upgrade to GSM. It was just a basic Nokia 1110 on the 850 GSM ATT network. It is a good little phone and I never had any problems with it. It still works just fine, but I decided I needed an upgrade, so last week I bought the Tracfone Samsung T404G with triple minutes for life. Here, the phone is on the T-Mobile network. At the link below are my comments on the phone originally posted in reply to Eric's review of the Straight Talk Samsung T404G.

http://wontek.com/comment/1317#comment-1317

Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/09/2011 - 16:59

Very insightful, you rock.

Submitted by DWagner (not verified) on Fri, 01/20/2012 - 10:18
I don't understand why tracfone offers service to obscure Asian and European countries while not offering coverage to Nicaragua in our own hemisphere. They have contracts with Claro in Costa Rica already and Claro is a major provider in Nicaragua.