TracFone Wireless Inc. is offering its customers “the least expensive way to own a cell phone in America” with its “low cost to get, low cost to keep” cell phone service.

 

TracFone Wireless offers brand name phones at under $10. Phone service is offered for as little as $20 for every three months, with additional airtime minutes starting at 10 cents per minute. TracFone Wireless is a prepaid mobile phone service provider in the U.S.

 

TracFone is a subsidiary of America Movil which has been named the top technology company by Business Week for the past two years.

 

Additional features provided by TracFone that make it “the least expensive way to own a cell phone in America” are: no contracts ever; unlimited carry-over benefit; international calling to more than 60 destinations for the same cost as a local call; nationwide long-distance calling for the same cost as a local call, no roaming charges; only phones to display remaining minutes and days on the phone, which lets the user stay in control; and text messaging at the rate three per airtime minute.

 

Customers will be able to purchase airtime in the following four ways: at stores nationwide, online on the web, via automatic monthly renewal with a registered checking account or credit card, and via instant purchase from the user’s own phone.

 

Full-featured Motorola (News - Alert) W175 and Kiocera K126 are the phones that are available through TracFone Wireless for less than $10. Color flip phones that start at $15 are also offered by TracFone Wireless. The prepaid cellular phones are available at about 70,000 retails stores nationwide. These include WalMart, Target, K-Mart, Family Dollar, Dollar General, Circuit City, Sears, CVS and Walgreens retailers.

 

The low-priced entry phones from TracFone Wireless are ideal for: parents who require an inexpensive but reliable phone for their child, college students on a budget, college graduates just starting in the workforce, senior citizens who want a phone for security reasons, first-time cell phone users, and anybody who wants to benefit from a cell phone without the high expense.

 
Calvin Azuri is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Calvin's articles, please visit his columnist page.