Tracfone is a cell phone provider which is prepaid but offers users the service of pay as you go devoid of any contracts, activation fee and other payments. Consumers can buy these gadgets and the talk-time cards  from retail stores or online. These phones have services like voicemail, caller identity, text messaging and other features of cell phones. Here, are some features and options of the tracfone, look at them and make sure they fit your needs.

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Phones

Tracfones can be purchased at many retail stores as well as online on the tracfone website. LG, Motorola, Nokia and Samsung are some of the companies that manufacture phone which are Tracfone service compatible. The price ranges from $10 to $60

Airtime

For maintaining  tracfone  active account, you will have to buy airtime additionally before the end date of the service that will be displayed on the phone.  The talk-time cards will be available in many ranges. If you pay $19.99 you can avail the double minute cards, through which you can get twice the number of minutes in the cards that you buy in the future. You can even buy minutes directly through phone with Tracfone’s Airtime on demand program.

Long Distance

50 international places and more can be called using your Tracfone that too without any additional charges. For availing, the long distance calling internationally your phone needs to be active for at least 2 days. The access number of international long distance is 800-706-3839.

Texting and Downloads

Tracfone palns include SMS.  Users can send a text message of 160 characters and after that, the messages are billed according to the rules of the company based on the number of characters sent additionally. When you receive, a message there will appear a envelope icon on the right hand top corner indicating the message needs to be retrieved.  Users can download multimedia files and based on the content size and time taken for the download you will be charged additionally. You can get more info on the price on the Tracfone website.

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