Tracfone News

By Joe Paonessa • 08/28/25

Verizon Value brand Tracfone has launched its first ever truly unlimited data plan. The new offering includes unlimited talk, text, and data, plus 15GB of hotspot use, interna...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/04/24

Verizon announced that it has doubled the data allotments on all Tracfone monthly unlimited talk and text plans. Verizon is using Tracfone to target Consumer Cellular’s primar...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/22/23

Tracfone, via the Home Shopping Network, has a good deal on a bundle for the holiday shopping season. Customers can now pick up a brand new Google Pixel 6a bundled with an ann...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/16/22

Tracfone Wireless has quietly updated a handful of wireless plans. A HowardForums user noted Tracfone’s $20, $25, and $30 plans all got updated to have an extra 1GB of high-sp...

By Joe Paonessa • 05/25/22

In November of 2021, Verizon Wireless closed on its acquisition of Tracfone and all of its associated brands including Straight Talk Wireless, Simple Mobile, and Walmart Famil...

By Stephen Vicinanza • 04/03/22

Target is offering $20 off select AT&T Prepaid phones. Also, they are offering a different deal to get a $20 Target gift card with the purchase of select prepaid phones fr...

By Stephen Vicinanza • 03/31/22

Target is running a deal where you buy a SIM card from select providers and in-store activate the service and receive a gift card of $50 or $75. The deal is for bring your own...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/28/22

Tracfone brands Straight Talk Wireless and Tracfone have both launched new TV commercials targeting different market segments. Straight Talk’s ad is focused on getting consume...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/28/22

In late November of 2021, Verizon announced that it had closed on its acquisition of Tracfone and all of its associated brands. Some Tracfone brands, like Straight Talk Wirele...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/26/22

Tracfone Wireless is running a promotion for bring your own device customers. New customers that bring their phones over to Tracfone and enable auto-refill for two months will...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/11/21

Tracfone has launched some new eBay exclusive annual plans. There’s also a pretty good deal going on involving a plan bundle that includes a Moto E. Dennis Bournique of prepai...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/01/21

Tracfone recently launched a new wireless plan. The plan likely launched a few weeks ago. It is a monthly plan priced at $40 and includes 8GB of hard-capped high-speed data wi...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/03/21

There are over 170 Total Wireless branded stores located across 20 states. The stores carry all the different Tracfone brands except for Straight Talk Wireless. This is becaus...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/04/21

In September of 2020, Verizon announced that it reached an agreement to acquire Tracfone. The price tag for the purchase tops out at $6.9 billion. It isn’t expected to close u...

By Joe Paonessa • 04/10/20

Last year Tracfone debuted an eBay exclusive annual plan with 1200 minutes, 1200 text messages and 3GB of data for $49.99/year. The plan has been discounted numerous times sin...