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Originally Posted by conan50
Wouldn't need wifi for just Tracfone coverage.
I hadn't used one in years, but I just set up a Tracfone for my wife. Kind of surprised they were still around. The LG Fuel phone I bought her increases the Tracfone minutes times 3. So a 60 minute card is actually 180 minutes. You need to buy at least a 60 minute card every 3 months to keep your phone number active, of course you can buy more minutes for 6 months or even a year at a time coverage. So $20 for a 60 minute (180 minute if you buy the right phone) comes out to about $7 a month cost.
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Okay. You could come out a little better with BYO -- for $5 a month, (or $15 for the three months, or $20 with a 250 top-up), you would get 300 minutes, 300 texts and either 30 or 60 MBs of data -- depending on whether you used Auto-Renew or not. I would not use Auto-Renew but, instead, make sure I topped-up before the plan expired each month. Than you could add 250 MB data top-up (for a total of 280 MBs), and it would be available until you stopped topping up.
(I'm looking at this and realized what difference does it make? The TracFone deal gives you 540 "units" (minutes, texts and MBs) and that comes out to 3.7 cents each. The BYO deal comes out to 2.2 cents each unit (880 units) -- but it's a lot more hassle. Besides, in either case, there's a good chance your wife doesn't use all the units anyhow. Oh, and I should mention, BYO charges tax -- about 10% where I live. I'm not sure if TracFone does or not.)