Straight Talk Wireless News & Deals

This holiday shopping season has seen an increase in the number of prepaid wireless brands investing in the marketing of their services. Consumer Cellular, Cricket Wireless, Metro by T-Mobile, Mint Mobile, Straight Talk Wireless, TextNow, and Visible have all launched new video advertising campaigns. While most have focused on traditional

Straight Talk Wireless has added a new phone plan to its lineup. It is a $65 “unlimited” data plan called “Platinum Unlimited.” It offers premium features over Straight Talk’s standard unlimited data plan, the “Ultimate Unlimited” plan. Thanks to @KingOfTechDeals for pointing the new plan out to me. @yeswap @wave7jeff

Straight Talk Wireless is the largest of the Tracfone owned brands and its subscriber count continues to grow. In quarter 2 of 2020, Straight Talk added 270,000 new subscribers bringing the MVNO’s total subscriber count to 9.743 million, up from 9.473 million in quarter 1. Year over year Straight Talk

Straight Talk Wireless continues to be a bright spot for its parent company América Móvil. In quarter 1 of 2020, the brand added 91k new subscribers, bringing its total subscriber count to 9.473 million. This is in contrast to major carrier prepaid brands all of which saw a loss in

Straight Talk Wireless has made a change to one of its wireless plans. The $35 plan now includes 5GB of high-speed data. This is up from its previous allotment of 3GB. Gilbert Lopez first noted the change at a local Walmart a week ago. The plan is finally live on

For the first time ever, Straight Talk Wireless now has more subscribers than all other Tracfone brands combined, excluding SafeLink.  SafeLink is a notable exclusion because it is part of the government-funded Lifeline program that helps low-income consumers get discounted phone service. Straight Talk Wireless’s subscriber count currently sits at

Tracfone brands including Straight Talk Wireless, Net10, Simple Mobile, Total Wireless and Tracfone itself have all issued new promos for February.  All providers are now offering various bundle discounts when a phone and plan are purchased together. Straight Talk Wireless is offering 10% off when the promo code REWARDS10 is

TracFone Inc’s subsidiary Straight Talk has quietly started promoting a 2020 kickoff sale with several devices getting price reductions. Also available is a selection of free (with plan purchase) reconditioned devices. While we are 20 days into the new year, these promotions seemed to have started on 1/19/2020. With the

A few days removed from the holidays and only weeks away from the beginning of Tax Season, Walmart has started to slash prices on several devices on Tracfone Inc’s subsidiaries Straight Talk, Total Wireless, Family Mobile, and Simple Mobile. The price changes took effect on 1/5/2020.  Some more device changes

TracFone brands have several offers available just in time for the holidays. The carrier brought back Black Friday pricing for the iPhone 6s & 6S+ on most of their subsidiaries, as well as knocking $40 off the popular A10e bringing the price down to $99 from $139.  The A10e was

Total Wireless subscribers will soon officially be able to use their phones as a mobile hotspot.  Mobile hotspot has technically not been allowed on the provider, however, some users in the past had been able to get it working.  I had working mobile hotspot when I first reviewed Total Wireless

The Tracfone family of brands have released their Black Friday holiday offers.  Phone deals are now available from NET10, Straight Talk Wireless, Simple Mobile, Total Wireless and Tracfone.  There’s a lot of overlap between the brands with what devices they have on sale.  Each brand limits phone orders to 2

Some of the major Tracfone family of brands, which include Straight Talk Wireless, Total Wireless, Tracfone, Simple Mobile and Walmart Family Mobile have refreshed their phone lineups.  A total of nearly a dozen new phones have been released and availability varies based on the wireless brand.  The phone plan lineup

According to Tracfone brand authority and vlogger Mil Hustles, Straight Talk Wireless and Walmart Family Mobile are set to launch several new devices.  Hustles says that the brands typically launch new devices from June onward until the end of the year. The new devices coming to Straight Talk Wireless include

Straight Talk Wireless has launched a new advertising campaign.  Wave7 Research is reporting that the MVNO began to air two new television ads on 4/29/19.  One ad, shown below, urges wireless shoppers to “cut their bill in half with Straight Talk Wireless.”  The ad features Straight Talk Wireless’s $45/month plan