If I buy this phone, the activate, can I then begin by adding airtime from a prepaid tracfone mins. card without signing up for any tracfone plan?
1284205
Sure! You do Not have to be on a monthly plan. That is the beauty of pay as you go!:-)
1284206
Yes you sure can! You can also have minutes from another tracfone transferred to your new phone by calling their customer service center.
1284207
when I transferred my old phone to this new one, tracfone updated my service adding 10 minutes plus 60 service days. it was very easy. I truly suggest you use their "customer service" as they are terrific and can help you. I'm sure after activating your new phone, you can then add minutes from a purchased prepaid card. I'm sure along with the minutes there should have been a service days amount that came along with the prepaid card. Their customer service over the phone is impeccable and very easy to follow instructions.
1284208
You buy airtime (30 or 90 days, one year) and minutes and you're good to go. They have plans if you want them. Check out their website tracfone.com for details.
1284209
Yes, you can. No need to sign up for any plan as long as you add more airtime before the last expired. The best deal is the one year card for $ 108.
1284210
yes all you have to do is buy the card and then go to on your phone to prepaid and then go to add airtime. on the card there should be a spot to scratch off some numbers. put those in and that it.
940135
Everytime you buy airtime you get 90 days more service. It doesn't matter how much time you buy, you will get 90 more days of service. I think tracfone now sells data minutes; and they may not some with days of service.
1973820
When you receive the phone you will also receive instructions inside the packaging (from Tracfone) that will tell you how to activate your new phone. You can do this online by going to the Tracfone website and signing up with a new account, or you can do it over the phone (an active phone or land line, of course) by calling the number they give you in the package insert. You will also have to purchase some airtime before your phone will work. I think the minimum amount is $10 or $20. After you have gone through the activation process, Tracfone will allocate a new number for you phone. By the way, I suggest signing up with a website account regardless of what method you choose to activate your phone as it makes it easier to keep track of your account.
2209952
The $25 prepaid card gives you 250 minutes of airtime. And, although the card, itself, has a 90 day expiration time-frame, it's really only good for 1 month... once it's been activated. The carrier that I went with is at&t... the phone and the card were purchased separately. UPDATE: I was informed by at&t that an option for infrequent phone users is the .10 cent per minute plan. That would make the $25 prepaid card usable for 250 airtime minutes within a (90 day) or 3 month period. This plan offers no texting; no data; just nationwide calling. As with all Gophone plans, to remain on any given plan rate, you must upload prepaid minutes into your account within 2 days prior to the expiration date from when the perpaid card was activated.
2123550
Yes you should be able to do that. I bought ot for tmobile and needed an at&t; sim to activate the phone
1356873
I purchased this phone to go with an already existing plan because I didn't want to renew a contract. I believe if you take a phone you already have in to the cell carrier that they will activate it without a contract. You will probably pay an activation fee but not 2 year contract because the phone is already paid for and then I believe you can by minutes.
1137894
I could not get it to activate. YOu would be better to purchase a 29.00 phone from the company and use the card that way. You can also buy a phone at the airport but I would go ahead and prepurchase the phone that way you will know it works. good luck.
1323413
No trouble for me. I went to the tracfone website to activate the new phone, and one of the choices was to transfer service from an existing tracfone. I had over 1400 minutes on the old phone, but they capped the transfer at 1100 minutes. All airtime days transferred. In addition, they stacked an extra 20 minutes and 60 days onto the transferred minutes, as a new activation. I had to enter a lot of numbers, felt like six 21-digit numbers, from the website onto the new phone, but did it slowly and checked my work before hitting OK, and it transferred fine.
2182465
All activation instructions are included in the box. You can select your 10cent plan when you activate the phone. Be sure to purchase $25 or more worth of minutes if you want the unused minutes to rollover every 90 days. AT&T does indeed have a 10cent per minute plan but you will be charged addistional fees for texting, etc. which can use up your airtime very fast. If you text alot you can add on additional feature by dialing 611 from your wireless phone. This is also the easiest way to add airtime if you have a credit/debit card or checking account.
1116924
My inspire came with an AT&T; contract but I believe you can activate it as a prepaid.
940136
Look at the days on your phone and the 90 will be added to it which gives you more time, to my knowledge, to use the phone under the guidelines of Tracfone. The minutes give you air time. However, I would go to ask.com or contact tracfone directly to be sure.
1859838
yes that is how I am using it. Just add it onlinetoyour account. follow the online instructions. Then once added do a *228 onphoneto activate it and update it to the plan.
1652754
I've used tracfone for 12 years now, and have tried every airtime buying option. Buying online is a roll of the dice. I've heard too many bad stories. And it seams ridiculous to pay $4.95 for shipping a little card that will fit in an envelope for .45 cents. I always buy my airtime on the tracfone website. When you open an account, your serial # is attached. So you just pick out a card, and the airtime appears on your phone in less than a minute. Couldn't be easier.
1726235
I set up an account on the Tracfone web site and add minutes there. It is easy to do. I think you can do it from the phone also.
484695
Just take the sim card to your preferred carrier and ask them to activate it for you. These sim cards are for pre-paid plans anyways...If you're going to AT&T; they have a site to activate the card. Follow the instructions carefully and you should be fine.
957498
the phone does not come pre activated. Yes the code comes with the phone no matter where you buy it, 20 minutes and 30 days. You need to activate it at tracfone web site, easy to do. You can switch your old number or get new from their web site.
1726234
You can purchase minutes "in the form of a card" on-line (including Amazon.com) or if there is one nearby you can stop in at a BestBuy and pick it up. The card comes with instructions and a code that will apply them to your phone. You can also purchase minutes using your phone to access them with "Buy Airtime."