Net10 vs. Tracfone

Key Differences

Tracfone offers the bottommost monthly rate possible for your phone whereas Net 10 offers the best per minute rate possible.

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The greatest benefit of Net10 is its inexpensive, $.10-per-minute rate and easy-to-understand calling card system (all cards cost $.10 per minute). Whereas, Tracfone has a different benefit: its card gives you double minutes for the life of your phone.

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You cannot use TracFone airtime cards with a Net10 phone, and you a cannot use Net10 airtime cards with a Tracfone phone.

Janet White

Oct 26, 2015

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Tracfone calling cards are presented in the following denominations: $9.99 for 30 minutes, $20 for 60 minutes, $30 for 120 minutes, $40 for 200 minutes, and $99.99 for 400 minutes. Whereas Net10 calling cards come in only three quantities: $30 for 300 minutes, $60 for 600 minutes, and $100 for 1,000 minutes.

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Tracfone phones have a text message rate of 0.3 minutes (some are 0.5). Net10 is 0.5 minutes on all phones.

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With most TracFone airtime cards your service time gets extended 90 days, but with Net10 airtime cards your service time gets long as little as 30 days and as long as 180 days. You typically get more service days per dollar spent with TracFone than with Net10.

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Aimie Carlson

Oct 26, 2015

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The cost in tracfone depends on the usage, whereas in net 10 the cost is fixed.

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What is Net 10?

NET10 Wireless, a prepaid mobile phone brand of TracFone Wireless, the U.S. MVNO subsidiary of América Móvil.

What is Tracfone?

TracFone Wireless, Inc. is a prepaid wireless service benefactor in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. TracFone Wireless is a subsidiary of Mexico’s largest telecommunications company América Móvil and offers products and services under multiple brands which include TracFone, NET10 Wireless, Total Wireless, Straight Talk, SafeLink Wireless, Telcel América, Simple Mobile, and Page Plus Cellular. TracFone Wireless runs as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), holding agreements with the United States’ largest wireless network operators to provide service using their networks, including Verizon Wireless, AT&T Mobility, T-Mobile US, Sprint Corporation, and U.S. Cellular.

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