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Security Cell Phone for your school child.

If you are looking to buy a Security cell phone for your school child or a grandparent or someone here are the best ideas I have for you. Security Phone definition**

#1 Basic Net10 phones are also a great value if you are looking for a Security Phone. The Samsung T201g with the $20 phone card is the very best deal available. For $20 you will get 500 minutes or 1000 texts and 3 months of service. If the T201g is not available in your zip code the LG 220c is a very nice phone for $30.

Be sure to buy the Net10 phone that comes with a Phone card. They will have a picture of the phone and phone card together. These are a much better deal with the extra phone card included.

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#2 Basic Tracfone with Double Minutes for Life***(DMFL).

You can purchase a Trafone with
DMFL for $19.99 right now. Do not purchase a Tracfone that does not have Double Minutes for life already included. I like the folding phones better because they are more durable if you carry them in a pocket.

Good choices right now would be the LG 220c flip phone for $19.99 with DMFL, Motorola W376g with 60 minute card and DMFL for $19.99 and the LG 420G with DMFL. The Samsung T301g slider phone is a good durable phone also, your kids may feel it is a cooler phone. The 401G slider is available with a phone card and DMFL for $19.99.

NET10 VS Tracfone

With both Net10 and Tracfone you must add phone cards to your phone to keep it active. You must have minutes left and service time left for your phone to work. With most Tracfone cards you get 90 days of service per card. With Net10 you normally get 60 days of service and 300 minutes with the $30 card and only 30 days of service and 200 minutes with the $20 card.

Minutes and Service time will roll over with Net10 and Tracfone if you do not let your service expire for more than 30 days.

All Tracfone and Net10 phones have caller ID.

The inexpensive Tracfones and Net10 phones usually will only need to be charged once a week unless you are using them a lot.

The more expensive Tracfone cards give you more minutes per dollar. As I stated earlier do not buy a Tracfone that does not have DMFL.

Tracfone Rates with Different Size Phone Cards

  • With DMFL you will pay 16.6 cents per minute if you buy the $10 / 30 day card. $10 per month.
  • With DMFL you will pay 16.6 cents per minute if you buy the $20 / 90 day card. $6.66 per month
  • With DMFL you will pay 12.5 cents per minute if you buy the $30 / 90 day card. $10 per month
  • With DMFL you will pay 10 cents per minute if you buy the $40 / 90 day card. $13.33 per month
  • With DMFL you will pay 12.5 cents per minute if you buy the $100 / 365 day card

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  • With DMFL you will pay 6.6 cents per minute if you buy the $199.99 / 365 day card and $16.66 per month.
  • With DMFL you will pay 7.5 cents per minute if you buy the $149.99 / 30 day card and $150 per month.

If your phone does not have DMFL you will pay twice as much per minute when you add any of these cards. You can purchase DMFL for your phone for $19.99 but I would just buy a new phone with DMFL included for $19.99.

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Net10 Rates

  • For $30 you get a phone card with 300 minutes and 60 days of service. 10 cents per minute.
  • For $0 you get a phone card with 200 minutes and 30 days of service. 10 cents per minute.

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  • For $45 you get a phone card with 600 minutes and 60 days of service. 7.5 cents per minute and $22.50 per month
  • For $60 you get a phone card with 300 minutes and 90 days of service. 6.66 cents per minute and $20 per month.
  • For $100 you get a phone card with 1500 minutes and 180 days of service. 6.66 cents per minute and $16.66 per month.

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**Security Phone Definition**

This would be a phone that will mainly be used to call to check in. It will not be used for a lot of conversations. If you talk a lot on them they get pretty expensive. The cheapest way to message someone with either the Net10 phone or the Tracfone phone is with a text message which will cost .5 minutes to send or recieve. Even very short phone calls will usually take 3 to 5 minutes. As soon as you hit send on your Tracfone or Net10 phone you will be charged a minute for the call. This will occur even if the person you are calling does not answer the phone.

***What is Tracfone DMFL***

Tracfone has two pricing plans. Some phones come with Double Minutes for Life which means that whenever you add a Tracfone phone card you will get twice as many minutes as are stated on the card. DMFL is normally not transferable to another non-DMFL phone. You can add DMFL to any Tracfone for $19.99 at Tracfone.com.

Verizon Prepaid vs Tracfone are examples of two different types of prepaid phone plans. Verizon Prepaid uses the “Unlimited in network minutes with a daily charge” type of plan and Tracfone uses the Cost per minute plan.


How Verizon Prepaid Works

Verizon Prepaid has several options

Prepaid Basic which offers 25 cent minutes.

99 cents per day which allows you unlimited calling to other Verizon Wireless phone users and then you will pay 10 cents a minute on all other calls. Every day that you use your phone you will pay the 99 cent fee. Texts are 10 cents to send and receive.

199 cents per day which allows you unlimited calling to other Verizon Wireless phones and then you will pay 5 cents a minute on all other calls. You also get Unlimited Nights and Weekend calling with the $1.99 plan. Every day that you use your phone you will pay the $1.99 fee. Texts are 5 cents to send and receive.

399 cents per day which allows you unlimited calling to other Verizon Wireless phone users and then you will get Unlimited calling every day. Every day that you use your phone you will pay the $3.99 fee. Texts are 1 cent to send and receive. This is basically their Prepaid Unlimited Plan. $3.99 per day for Unlimited Calling to any phone in the United States.

Text Message Bundles

If you are on any of the Verizon Prepaid Plans you can get the Message Bundle Plans. For $20 per month you get Unlimited Messaging. For $10 per month you get unlimited texting to Verizon Wireless phones and 250 additional messages. If you go over the 250 you will pay 20 cents per message with the Basic plan, 10 cents with the 99 cent plan, 5 cents with the 199 plan, and 1 cent with the 399 Unlimited plan.

How Tracfone Works

Tracfone is a simple Cost Per Minute prepaid cell phone company.

You purchase the Tracfone phone and a Minute card.

Then you activate the phone by calling Tracfone on a land line or by going online.

You will have to type in some numbers into your phone and then it is active. It is really easy.

Next you will add a Tracfone Minute Card.

When adding a minute card if you use a five digit Bonus Code you might get more minutes. Check out the Tracfone Bonus Codes.

Basically you buy Tracfone minutes on a card and add them to your phone. You will get 90 days of service time on most Tracfone cards. You must keep minutes and service time on your phone to use it. The remaining number of minutes and the service end date will usually show on your display. vzprepaidvstrac

Be sure to check out what Tracfone DMFL is before you purchase your Tracfone. Here is a great article on Tracfone DMFL. I would only add minutes to a Tracfone that had DMFL on it.

Tracfone Service Time and Minutes Roll Over

If you add minutes or service time before your phone has completely run out the remaining minutes or service time will roll over.

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How do I check my Tracfone Service Time?

If your “Due Date” does not show on your screen you can go to your menu and click on prepaid. Then scroll down to “Airtime info.” Both your airtime balance and Due date will show. You must add another Tracfone card to your phone before the Due Date to keep your service active. Even if you have minutes left you will need to add another card to keep your service active.

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How Verizon Prepaid Service Time Operates

If you have 20 days left on your activation time and you put $15 you will end up with 30 days of service after the addition. When you have 40 days of service left and you add a$15 payment you will still only have 40 days of service left. Verizon does not add your remaining service to what you purchase, you receive the larger of either your remaining balance or the newly added service time.

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How do I find my Tracfone Serial Number?

I want to transfer some of my Tracfone minutes to another phone . Do I have to transfer my Tracfione phone number too?