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It will get you 250 bonus minutes on a 1-Year card purchase.  If you have Double Minutes for Life, you will walk away with 1050 minutes on your phone and 1 year of service!

I paid $199 for 1500 minutes and 1 year service from tracfone website (web special)… I got 3000 minutes because my phone has double minutes. Thats just less than 7 cents per minute….more than twice as good as any other deal or promo I’ve [...]]]> Reader Adam reports the following:

I paid $199 for 1500 minutes and 1 year service from tracfone website (web special)… I got 3000 minutes because my phone has double minutes. Thats just less than 7 cents per minute….more than twice as good as any other deal or promo I’ve found. I also keep my calls short!

Way to go!  This is why I advocate Tracfone.  If you can stand to live without a fancy phone with unnecessary features, you can’t get a better deal than Tracfone.

Here’s one of the latest Tracfone promo codes.

This one will get you an additional 60 minutes when you purchase a 120-minute card.  That’s not bad at all!  That’s 50% more minutes for free.

This code should be good at least through 2/16/2010.

Here’s the code: 71172

Have fun!

Here’s a really great deal from Tracfone and Wal-Mart right now. For $70 you can get a Samsung T301G cell phone with the following features:

This is an awesome deal if you are a new Tracfone customer… or if you just want a new [...]]]>

Samsung T201G Deal

Here’s a really great deal from Tracfone and Wal-Mart right now. For $70 you can get a Samsung T301G cell phone with the following features:

• Double Minutes for Life
• 1 Year of Service
• 200 minutes
• Accessory kit

This is an awesome deal if you are a new Tracfone customer… or if you just want a new phone… or even if you just want the minutes, service, and DMFL!

Here is the link! Wal-Mart Samsung T301G deal

Have fun!

[Associated Press] LAS VEGAS – The company [...]]]> Magic Jack plans to use a legal technicality as the basis for its next product.  Your home becomes a mini cell tower.  How does that make you feel?  Here’s the scoop:

By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer Peter Svensson, Ap Technology Writer – Fri Jan 8, 2:29 pm ET

[Associated Press] LAS VEGAS – The company behind the magicJack, the cheap Internet phone gadget that’s been heavily promoted on TV, has made a new version of the device that allows free calls from cell phones in the home, in a fashion that’s sure to draw protest from cellular carriers.

The new magicJack uses, without permission, radio frequencies for which cellular carriers have paid billions of dollars for exclusive licenses.

YMax Corp., which is based in Palm Beach, Fla., said this week at the International Consumers Electronics Show that it plans to start selling the device in about four months for $40, the same price as the original magicJack. As before, it will provide free calls to the U.S. and Canada for one year.

The device is, in essence, a very small cellular tower for the home.

The size of a deck of cards, it plugs into a PC, which needs a broadband Internet connection. The device then detects when a compatible cell phone comes within 8 feet, and places a call to it. The user enters a short code on the phone. The phone is then linked to the magicJack, and as long as it’s within range (YMax said it will cover a 3,000-square-foot home) magicJack routes the call itself, over the Internet, rather than going through the carrier’s cellular tower. No minutes are subtracted from the user’s account with the carrier. Any extra fees for international calls are subtracted from the user’s account with magicJack, not the carrier.

According to YMax CEO Dan Borislow, the device will connect to any phone that uses the GSM standard, which in the U.S. includes phones from AT&T Inc. and T-Mobile USA. At a demonstration at CES, a visitor’s phone with a T-Mobile account successfully placed and received calls through the magicJack. Most phones from Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. won’t connect to the device.

Borislow said the device is legal because wireless spectrum licenses don’t extend into the home.

AT&T, T-Mobile and the Federal Communications Commission had no immediate comment on whether they believe the device is legal, but said they were looking into the issue. CTIA — The Wireless Association, a trade group, said it was declining comment for now. None of them had heard of YMax’s plans.

Borislow said YMax has sold 5 million magicJacks for landline phones in the last two years, and that roughly 3 million are in active use. That would give YMax a bigger customer base than Internet phone pioneer Vonage Holdings Corp., which has been selling service for $25 per month for the better part of a decade. Privately held YMax had revenue of $110 million last year, it says.

U.S. carriers have been selling and experimenting with devices that act similarly to the wireless magicJack. They’re called “femtocells.” Like the magicJack, they use the carrier’s licensed spectrum to connect to a phone, then route the calls over a home broadband connection. They improve coverage inside the home and offload capacity from the carrier’s towers.

But femtocells are complex products, because they’re designed to mesh with the carrier’s external network. They cost the carriers more than $200, though some sell them cheaper, recouping the cost through added service fees. YMax’s magicJack is a much smaller, simpler design.

I just paid $100 to Tracfone for a full year of service and 1050 minutes of talk time.

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Up until today, I used [...]]]> Why do some people pay upwards of $150 per month for cell phone service?  I doesn’t make sense, especially for those of us who use their phone less than once per day.

I just paid $100 to Tracfone for a full year of service and 1050 minutes of talk time.

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Up until today, I used to load up my Tracfone every 3 months, spending a total of $80 per year with about 600 minutes of talk time.  A few weeks ago I “woke up” and realized that it would be a better deal to simply by 1 year of service!

Here’s how the 1050 minutes breaks down:

1. 1-year card provides 400 minutes
2. Double Minutes for Life (DMFL) provides another 400
3. 250 bonus minutes using code 22118

Now I’m good to go until January of 2011!

Here is the code: 53322

It’s possible that this could be an old code.

Recently we’ve been seeing reports of a fairly good Tracfone Promo code to be used with a 120-minute card.  If you’ve got Double Minutes for Life on your phone, then you are set to receive a whopping 280 minutes for a 120-minute card!

Just use code: 43916

Double Minutes for Life will snag you:

120 * 2 [...]]]> Hi gang,

Recently we’ve been seeing reports of a fairly good Tracfone Promo code to be used with a 120-minute card.  If you’ve got Double Minutes for Life on your phone, then you are set to receive a whopping 280 minutes for a 120-minute card!

Just use code: 43916

Double Minutes for Life will snag you:

120 * 2 + 40 bonus = 280 minutes

Regular users will still get:

120 + 40 = 160 minutes, which is not bad!

Have fun, peeps!

Tracfone is offering a web exclusive of 1500 minutes, plus 365 days added, for $199.  That works to a pretty good deal if you are a heavy Tracfone user.  I’m not, and I currently pay $80 per year for a total of 600 minutes by purchasing 60-minute cards every [...]]]> A reader brought this to our attention…

Tracfone is offering a web exclusive of 1500 minutes, plus 365 days added, for $199.  That works to a pretty good deal if you are a heavy Tracfone user.  I’m not, and I currently pay $80 per year for a total of 600 minutes by purchasing 60-minute cards every 3 months with bonus codes applied.

Check it out if you think you could derive some savings.