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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I got my kid a Tracfone.  It cost $5 on Amazon, then I buy the time which I think is $20 for 90 days of service.  It winds up costing me about $7/month.   I got the phone with triple minutes, and they carry over, so we never run out of minutes.

I love that it is so cheap that I don't worry about him losing it.  And it has been adequate for our needs - he can call me or text me if he needs to.   While I think the phone has the ability to connect to the internet, it is so cumbersome to use and my kid just understands that he is not to try to connect to the internet that way.  He only uses for calling me when necessary - he does not use it to text with his friends.
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Not OP - but got a question on tracphones and prepaid cards. Don't you still have to sign up with some wireless cell service, like Sprint, to be able to make a call?  There's a service fee for this, right?[/quote]

I've been with tracfone since 2002!  I just bought my rising 7th grader her first cell phone with tracfone.  Go to HSN.com or QVC.com.  I bought her a Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime (8gb) for $139.  It has one year of service/access, the phone and charger, and 1350 minutes of talk, 1350 texts, and 1350 mb data.  You'd be surprised how long that lasts if you set it up to use wifi when available or even turn off the mobile data until the times you want to use it.  My DD is under instructions not to download things without permission.  Also, if you are going to do a lot of Pokemon Go, that may take up a bunch of data -- not sure about that.

If you need more texts eventually, you buy them for $5 for another 1000 texts.

There is no way that this is as expensive as a sprint plan ($100/mo for two lines???).

Now my DD's phone is nicer than mine, so I will probably get the same one when I get around to ordering it.  When the one year period is up, you can either buy another phone on hsn.com or qvc.com for a simiar price (you can transfer any unused amount to the next phone or carry it over if you keep the same phone).  OR you can buy a one year service plan for about $99 (that give you 450 talk/text/mb data.  But for $20 more, you get triple for life.  (That may be included in the initial phone purchase, I don't recall).  So, that $120 will get you 1350 of talk/text/data and a year of access.  It runs on Verizon's network.

Hope that helps.[/quote]

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