Tracfone News
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By Joe Paonessa • 04/07/20
The FCC recently filed a 19-page complaint against Tracfone Wireless, INC. The complaint states that Tracfone sought Lifeline reimbursement from the government for ineligible...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/25/20
Last month Tracfone and several of its associated brands began offering $25 Amazon and eBay eGift cards with the purchase of SIM kits and activation on qualifying plans. Cust...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/09/20
Tracfone is running a promotion through its Amazon and eBay stores. Customers that pick up a SIM card kit from one of several Tracfone owned brands and activate service on a...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/10/20
Tracfone brands exclaim that they have a “sweet tax savings” sale going on right now. Customers can pick up a Samsung Galaxy A10e in stores for $49.99. QVC meanwhile, has a...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/16/20
Tracfone may be readying the launch of a new service titled “SmartSIM.” FierceWireless, recently detailed what is known about the new product in an article. In short, it wil...
By Gilbert Lopez • 12/15/19
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 subsidi...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/19/19
As competition in the MVNO market space continues to grow, Tracfone and its associated brands are seeking new revenue streams in niche markets. Both Tracfone and Simple Mobil...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/04/19
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/24/19
Several months ago Tracfone debuted a new eBay exclusive annual plan. The plan included 1200 minutes, 1200 text messages and 3GB of LTE data for $49.99/year. The allotments...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/24/19
Tracfone has released some new 30-day smartphone plans. The new plans include unlimited talk and text plus data with unlimited carryover. Plans start at $20/month for unlimi...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/27/19
Tracfone and its associated brands which include Simple Mobile, and Total Wireless among several others are all running a 4th of July sale. The brands are also offering up to...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/26/19
Tracfone continues to use eBay to push new plans and deals that are exclusive to that sales channel. We saw an example of this the other day when the company made several off...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/17/19
Tracfone has announced a new smartphone plan that is being sold exclusively through the company’s eBay store. It’s a 365-day annual plan that includes 1,200 minutes, 1,200 te...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/05/19
Amazon and Tracfone are currently running a promotion. Tracfone brand SIM cards which include those from Total Wireless, Simple Mobile, Tracfone, and Net10 Wireless are curre...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/27/18
A reader sent in a tip that TracFone discontinued its data only service add-on cards. After a little bit of investigating, this does seem to be at least partially true. A cus...