Tracfone Intros Straight Talk: 1000 minutes, texts and more for $30
June 9, 2009 · 6 Comments
Tracfone is known for its airtime balance displays, contract-class coverage and nononsense phones and features. Now they’re tryng something different, and that “something different” looks very, very good for the prepaid market.
The plan: 1000 minutes, 1000 messages, 30 MB of web and no-extra-charge directory assistance. The network: Verizon Wireless, for the same coverage as Page Plus Cellular and Verizon’s own (rather lackluster, compared to this anyway) prepaid service. The phones: the Motorola Razr v3a, the Motorola w385 or the LG 200c. The price: a mere $30 per month.
Tracfone’s choice of Verizon as the only network for this new service is a departure from their other plans, which heavily favor AT&T and include free roaming just like a modern contract plan. Then again, this allows Tracfone to pass cheap per-minute rates on to Straight Talk customers and, with Verizon’s purchase of Alltel, their network is huge anyway.
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