I use a Tracfone. I've got the really simple model - it's an LG flip phone, stripped down, no camera, no customizable ringtones, none of that.
I'm reasonably happy with the service at Tracfone. The biggest issues I've come up with were a lack of service in Canada as of '08 (they didn't have a reciprocity agreement with a Canadian provider, so I couldn't even roam), and the voice mail is sometimes squinky. If I miss a call, sometimes it's a few weeks before I get the notification that there's a voice mail waiting for me, so I do periodically just call into my voice mailbox just to see if something came in while my phone was turned off.
If you get a chance, the double minutes for life deal is nice, but the only way to redeem minutes once you set that up involves going through the Tracfone web site - you can't just pick up an airtime card and punch a few numbers in.
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Date: 2011-02-06 11:06 pm (UTC)I'm reasonably happy with the service at Tracfone. The biggest issues I've come up with were a lack of service in Canada as of '08 (they didn't have a reciprocity agreement with a Canadian provider, so I couldn't even roam), and the voice mail is sometimes squinky. If I miss a call, sometimes it's a few weeks before I get the notification that there's a voice mail waiting for me, so I do periodically just call into my voice mailbox just to see if something came in while my phone was turned off.
If you get a chance, the double minutes for life deal is nice, but the only way to redeem minutes once you set that up involves going through the Tracfone web site - you can't just pick up an airtime card and punch a few numbers in.