How to Add Talk Minutes to your Tracfone - Talk Add-On Card
Tracfone Offers Talk Add on Card - Is it a Good Deal?
Analysis of the new talk add-on card by TracfoneReviewer. |
| Tracfone talk add-on card |
The new card adds extra talk minutes but no additional text/data or service days. With Tracfone smartphones, airtime is split into talk, text and data buckets and consumers have long asked for a talk add-on card to add just additional talk minutes.
Tracfone already offers both a Text Only Card and the Data Only Card and you can follow the links to see more details and a cost breakdown.
How Many Talk Minutes do you get from the Add-on Card?
Here is where things get a little interesting. With the Text and Data add-on cards, they are only available for smartphones. But Tracfone offers a talk add-on card for both basic phones and smartphones. However, the basic phone talk add on is just 100 minutes while the smartphone add-on is 500 talk minutes.Basic Phones - 100 Additional Minutes - $10
Smartphones - 500 Additional Talk Minutes - $10
We haven't tested if the basic phone card will triple, but it seems likely that it will, so that would be 300 talk minutes for $10 which is still not as much as the smartphone add-on amount.
Is the Talk Add-on Card a Good Deal?
Let's look at the cost breakdown of the smartphone talk add-on:- Smartphone talk add-on is 2 Cents per Minute. (500 Min/$10)
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| Tracfone Smartphone Card Cost Breakdown |
What the table above shows is that certain smartphone cards are a better 'value' than others, specifically the $20 smartphone card. We also see that certain cards are not as good of a value, such as the $45 smartphone card and $125 smartphone card. However, it all really depends on how much talk, text and data you use.
To determine which cards are the best value, we broke up the value of talk, text, data and service days from each of the cards based on the cost of the add-on cards ($10 for 500 talk, $10 for 1000 MB data, $5 for 1000 texts and $5 for 30 service days) and then added the those numbers together to get the 'actual value' of the cards.
Note: Tracfone seems to have removed their service day add-on card which gave 365 service days for $50. We're not sure if they have removed this for good, or if they will be releasing it again, with perhaps an adjusted price.
With the $20 smartphone card, you are essentially getting $26 worth of airtime for $20.
Overall we consider the talk add-on toe be a good deal, especially for those who just need additional calling minutes. We also hope to see Tracfone promo codes for it in the near future like we already have for the text and data cards which make those an even better deal.
Where to Buy the Talk Add-on Card
Currently the talk add-on card is only available on the Tracfone website in the add-on section. You will need to select if you are using a basic phone or smartphone, or enter your phone number before seeing the card selections. |
| Get the Talk add-on from the Tracfone website |
That concludes our guide to the new Talk add-on from Tracfone. If you have any additional thoughts or questions, leave a comment below.
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