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Net10 Prepaid Cell Phone Service
Editor Rating
Overview
Net10 is a very simple prepaid cellular offering that utilizes TracFone's prepaid wireless service to provide service to consumers.
Based in Miami, Florida, Net10 prepaid wireless has been gaining traction with users who feel the service mimics TracFone, but with better customer service and support.
Pros: There's no confusion about rates, since all minutes are 10 cents.
Cons: Coverage is not available in all areas. There is no discount for night and weekend minutes.
Detailed Provider Information
Plans: Net10 rate is always 10 cents per minute. Refills can be purchased for 30, 45, 60, or 100 dollars.
Customer Service: Customer service is available from Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. EST and on Sunday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. EST via a toll free number or via an email contact form on the official Net10 website.
Contract: None
Payment Options: You can pay for your Net10 airtime by phone, online or via any authorized retailer.
Text and Picture Messaging: Text messaging is available for 5 cents per message sent or received, which is deducted from your minutes account. Picture messaging (MMS) is available on compatible phones for 2.5 minutes per message (25 cents).
Data Plans: Net10 does not offer mobile web access at this time.
Downloadables: Net10 does offer a variety of downloadables such as ringtones, graphics, news, weather and sports. However, note that your phone must be capable of utilizing these features. If downloadables are a feature you'd like, make sure the phone you choose to buy can support them.
International Calling: International calling is available, but requires a special International service to be activated by calling customer service. See their website or call customer service for rates to specific countries.
Roaming Charges: There is no additional charge for roaming with Net10.
Calling Features: All plans include voicemail, call waiting and caller ID at no extra charge.
Activation Fee: There is no fee to activate your Net10 phone.
Nationwide Long Distance: Net10 prepaid wireless includes nationwide long distance in all of their calling plans. Calls made within the United States are charged regular airtime rates.
411 Calls: Directory assistance is available and you are only charged normal airtime to make 411 calls.
Earliest Minute Expiration: The earliest minute expiration is 60 days, but it depends on the denomination of the airtime card you buy (it can go up to one year). However, each time you add minutes to your phone, all minutes currently on the phone are extended and roll over to fall under the new expiration date.
911 Calls: Yes
Phones: All phones offered by Net10 have color screens and starts as low as $19.99 (this also includes some minutes). Flip phones, phones that play games and camera phones are available. The phones offered by Net10 lean very heavily towards the Motorola brands, and generally are not very expensive (none of the models on the website exceed $89.99)
Some Available Cell Models:
LG 1500
Motorola W370
Kyocera K126C
Motorola C139
Motorola V171
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See the rest of the 197 Net10 customer reviews
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bob |
Poor service. All service seems to be located in South America. Very hard to understand and are extremely limited in knowledge of the system. Very difficult to download ringtones and photos unless you buy them from NET10.
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dewcansam |
I have the LG 1500 and the phone is great!!! It picks up signal good enough and the voice quality is great. But, the customer service is next to nothing. Net10.com sent me an email with a special offer of 100 free extra minutes with the purchase of my next card. So, i rushed out to the store bought the minutes card added it to the phone and guess what. NO 100 FREE BONUS MINUTES. So i called customer service and they tried to tell me, at first, that i had gotten the minutes when i bought the phone. I told them that this email WAS SENT OUT AFTER i bought the phone and that there was NO WAY that the minutes were added when i bought the phone. Then it was "Well we just don't have that offer any more". So i spoke to a supervisor whose statement was "We did not send out that email". Which my answer is BS because i am very skilled in computers and i can trace the email headers back to a net10 server. Decide for yourself view the email at this link http://email.net10.com/cgi-bin12/DM/z/hp8h0GwmYu0CvF0wop0EP
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mike |
twice when purchasing minutes online the process was interrupted after the credit card page.so i was charged but didn't get theminutes.the problem phone number on the page is the one with the "can't get to a real person" menu.simple enough to dispute the charge, but now i don't have the minutes, i've wasted time x 3, and net 10 service is no better than anybody else.
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NETMAN |
The Service Is Absiloutley Wonderful They Jump Off Of AT&T U.S. Cellulair And T-Mobiles Towers and I Have Only Had One Bar One Time And That Was In A Tunnel or a Vally Or In The Middle Of No Where So Yeah I Absiloutley LOOOOOVVVVVEEEE Net 10 I Have The Motorola W375 But I Wish They Had A Razr Because That Would Be The Ultimate Thing. In All Time History Because Ya Know A Cool Phone With An Awsome Service Who Could Beat That I Mean Look Out GoPhone There Is A Better Plan In Town OOOOHHHH YEEEAAAHHH!!!
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Calvin |
Customer Service is ok not great. Great bargain. Great coverage. Web site not great. My complaint is is collection agencies looking for previous owners of the phone number. After 6 months they are still calling me. I now only answer calls from numbers I recognize.
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SHIRLEY |
ACTUALLY IT IS zero STARS....WOULD YOU BELEIVE THEY ARE STILL DEDUCTING FROM MY CREDIT CARD AND not ADDING THE TIME TO MY PHONE AND stillM REFUSE TOM REPLY TO ANY OF MY E MAILS EXCEPT FOR THE STANDARD .."CALL US"....SHICH i CAN'T BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT ANSWERED FOR OVER 40 MINS AND IT COSTS 10 CENTS A MIN TO TRY TO TALK TO THEM...I HAVE NO OTHER PHONE AVAILABLE TO ME TO CALL THEM...IN MY OPINION, THEY ARE INCOMPETANT AT CUSTOMER SEVICE , BUT EXCELLENT AT HAT I CONSIDER STEALING!
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stan |
I am very pleased with my net 10 phone. I have had net 10 service for almost one year, and I have never had a dropped call. If you top-up every 30 days, you minutes roll over. My reception is as good or even better than when I had a post pay plan. I also think that the customer service is great. They Repeat your question and then they actually take the time to give you an answer. The only negative is that if you are a heavy minute user, you can get more minutes cheaper from the post paid plans. That said "happy talking"
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Vladimir Tess |
I carefully researched all possible prepaid cell phone companies and ended up deciding for Net10. Look, it's 10 cents per minute without any other charges - there is no money for good costumer service. I travel a lot around the US and true, the service is adverse at times, therfore Net10 is best only for those who don't live in rural areas where not many Sprint antenas a built (Net10 rents Sprint antenas for reception). If you live in a city, you are pretty much covered. I would also encourage you to buy the mintues from ebay, rather than from the Net10 side, since very little is invested into Net10 website or their billing system, so it's risky. It's ain't the best, but if your concern is $, then Net10 is the best.
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Amy Gibbons |
hard to navigate and I have a wrong area code. I do not know who to reach since the number I have won't go.
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NikTheCat |
The Nokia 1600 is a competent basic phone. It was obtained at Wal-Mart for $30 with 300 minutes of air-time using the Net-10 cell phone system, which at 10 cents a minute, made the phone free. I had no other phone to easily access during the trip to the U.S. The quality of the sound was surprisingly good. The sound was a little on the base end of the spectrum but much better than expected for a free phone. The 1 - 4, 2 - 5, 3 - 6 .... buttons are on rockers so you must be carefully to press them nearer to the edges rather than in the middle or you may dial incorrectly. The buttons are not recessed, or covered in any way, and I did not lock the phone, so the buttons continuously got pressed in my pants pocket any time I bent over, or leaned against anything. I nearly ran the 300 minutes out in a week and purchased a recharge card at Wal-Mart. I loaded the card, and it immediately came up with the added minutes, and added 6 months to my current expiration date, which was still 7 weeks in the future. I like how it adds to the existing service end date instead of making a new one based on when the minutes were added. Adding contact names and phone numbers was easy, and I found the menus fairly straight forward without having to open the instruction book. I did open the instruction book to find the overseas dialing number, that I also added as a contact name. I traveled from Rockville Maryland to Charlottesville Virginia, and had a good signal and the same sound quality over the entire area. I selected the Net-10 network because they claimed it was 10 cents a minute with “NO EVIL” and because there were a lot of countries you could call for 15 cents a minute. To activate the capability to call overseas, I had to locate a computer and go on the internet. The website said to wait for a text message (up to 3 days) that informed me that the service had been turned on for my phone. I waited and never received the message. I called their help number and with difficulty understanding the operators English with a heavy accent, was told that the service had been turned on for my phone, and that I should call from a land line in the future incase they need to diagnose my phone. Great if you have a land line, but the purpose of this phone was to give me a phone to start with. After this I tried dialing overseas. You have to dial their special overseas number, then select English or Spanish, then the message tells you to dial 011 country code, and phone number. Probably 80% of the attempts to call overseas succeeded, and the sound quality was just as good as local calls. Another problem I experienced is I tried to order a different phone from Net-10 from overseas, and have it delivered to an address in the states. The website would not accept credit cards that do not have a billing address in the states, even if they are a U.S. Credit card company. This is unfriendly to your military or families living overseas. I then tried my dads credit card, with his permission twice, and it would not accept it either. It did however go to both his and my credit cards and block out the value of two phones for over a week. Fortunately they did not ship the 4 phones. Overall, the phone and system work pretty well, and in the two weeks I used the phone, it did a pretty good job. I was not looking for anything fancy such as picture or web capability, I simply needed to contact business people and my wife overseas, and for that it worked fine. I like knowing that it would cost me 10 cents or 15 cents a minute without haveing to check the time of day before dialing. In Hong Kong I have a cell phone that allows me to call the states for 3 cents a minute with no calling plans or additinal fees. Net 10 is the closest thing to my overseas phone. The U.S. is starting to get a clue on how to run good cheep cell phone systems, but they still need to drop the price, and improve the tech support. Give them another 10 years and they might get it right.
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Deb |
The price is hard to beat, especially if a full-blown monthly plan is more than you need. But I have to question if the savings is worth the trouble of dropped calls, poor coverage area and deplorable customer service. But most of all I am completely disgusted that Net10 disabled the "connect to PC" feature on the Motorola W375 before they sent it to me, disabling the ability to download photos to my PC or upload my own ringtones. What good is a camera phone without the ability to download the photos? I carefully read everything before purchasing this phone with Net10 and nowhere did it state this. It is obviously a ploy to force you to use your minutes to purchase their ringtones, and believe me, you will go through minutes to get these things -- you get charged minutes to access to web browser, then have to slowly surf through a poorly indexed list of options and menus (using still more minutes). Then when you find what you want, you need to purchase it using still more minutes. It is not unusual to burn up 50 or more minutes trying to download one wallpaper or ringtone. Just as disappointing is the customer service. Every time I called (3-4 times) I ended up with a rep that I could barely understand because their English was so poor. Not to mention, they knew less about the phone and my problem than I did. They offered little in the way of actual assistance, just kept repeating the things I was saying. In no case did my calls to customer service yield a solution, rather I muddled through them on my own and found solutions via Google. Would NOT recommend -- in this case, you get what you pay for!
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brenda burk |
phones are good great reception only one thing though the customer service really is TERRIBLE trac phone and net 10 same people 1st they sent me wrong phone then new phone had no sim card then i neede another sim card because they put wrong phone number on it then they did it again i was unable to get my same no.on my new phone they were willing to send another sim card but i said forget it every call to them took about40 mins!! terrible service!!! but good phone and its cheap
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Chris |
Terrible Customer Service!!! Have not been able to activate my new phone for weeks. No one at Net 10 can help, they only repeat what you say and tell you they are making a note of it in your file and then tell you to wait and then nothing is fixed. When you call back, they seem to have no record of your previous problems and it all starts over! Very frustrated with them at this point...
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Bob |
They lie on their website. Their comparison chart claims that one must spend $250 before being able to get 10cent/minute airtime with T-Mobile. That is a lie. Any T-Mobile prepaid customer can get 10cent/minute with any $100 card purchased. Net10 also has inaccurate information about AT&T and Verizon on their comparison chart. Since we know that they are not above lying, we know that Net10 cannot be trusted.
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ken |
be polite, follow the instructions and be calm,Ive had most of the cell phones companies over the years and this is the simple and easiest inexpenive phone i have had thank you net10
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Kolton |
I haven't really gotten my Net10 phone yet. I was just wondering if I should get Virgin Mobile prepaid (powered by Sprint), or Net10 prepaid (powered by itself). I truly think the best coverage and deal would be with Virgin Mobile. I was thinking apon Virgin's new Marbl prepaid flip phone for only $15.00
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flaco6969 |
i think that it is the best phones the u.s.a i still think that if they would have unlimited night&weekens that would be the best in the world
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DJ in PA |
I am an old bird, techno-impaired and just bought my first cell phone. The Nokia 1600 was fairly easy to register/set-up, although the instructions seemed to assume I already knew how to operate a cell phone. This phone is easy to use and allowed even me to figure out how to text message in a few minutes. So far I am most happy with Net10.
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spookemook |
Had Net 10 for a few years before having to switch becuase of business. Overall could not have been happier. Took the phone across country and had decent reception, better than Sprint when I had them. The phone was easy to set up and customer service was pretty prompt. The best part was 10 cents a minute and no additional daily fees. No answer and you are not charged, you cannot beat that for a prepaid plan. I no longer use but I still recomend quite often. Also if you keep your old phone you can get Net 10 back anytime by just buying new minutes, yes you will get a new number but you have cell phone service in a pinch.
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sue |
i had a 1600 phone upgraded to a lg flip phone. took 15 minutes they said i could be without phone service for 48 hours in 1 hour had the new phone up and working. i am having trouble with the 411 feature but we are working on it. this is my primary phone no home phone needed. my net10 is always with me clear and ready to use. good job
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davepeters |
I've had net10 for over a year and have been very satisfied. Although I wish they had a unlimited min plan, I picked them and continue to use them for various reasons.When I first purchased the phone, it came with free minutes and I basically got the Nokia phone for free. My phone has very good reception and I've never had a call dropped. It holds a charge for up to 3-5 days. My service end date is now the end of 2010 and it's only 2008 now. Customer service has been above average and I never have trouble adding minutes. It's easy to use and there's no hidden charges or daily access rates and I'm only charged if the call is connected. Also, I like the 1/2 minute denominations-i.e.,299.5 min. Long distance calls sound exactly the same and costs the same as local calls. Adding minutes are easy you just go to the pre-paid menu and punch in your pin # on your receipt and by the time you return back to the home screen the additional minutes are there. It's great and you don't have all the headaches like the other companies. The only drawback is if you talk alot-lot, then it can start costing. I get 600 min per month which costs me $60+tax. It would be nice if they had free minutes when you call other net 10 customers or free weekends.... All in all, I'm very satisfied and there's no bad suprises. I get exactly what I paid for.
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Aryan |
I've been using mine for a year. I tried other pre paid cells, and i didnt't like them, so i switched to net10 again. It's great i never had any problem. I activated mine in 2 or 3 mins. We got 2 of them in our house. CHEAP, EASY-TO-USE, GREAT
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Tom |
I have purchased 3, first a NOKIA cheap refurbished online for me, with gray screen, BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY CELL PHONE I HAVE SEEN THAT YOU CAN READ IN THE BRIGHT SUNLIGHT! Because I need that capability, I went with Net 10. All of the negative and positive reviews are true. Say whut? How can that be? Poor Quality Assurance over customer service. I also bought a flip phone model for my wife, and a simple Wal-Mart cheap candy bar model for church. Why? Simple economical plan that is easy to budget and no hidden BS fees. BUT I have learned the hard way about customer service, and now do this: I STRONGLY suggest that you do it this way: Buy your phone at Wal-Mart or Radio Shack and have them set it up and activate it before you leave the store. NEVER try to add minutes via the internet, NEVER NEVER NEVER. Buy a new phone card at Wal-Mart, follow the simple instructions, and within 2-3 minutes your months and minutes are added to your screen. No hassle. At least not on the last two phones I bought that way. I played the simm card roulette game for a while when I tried to port my old cell phone number (FORGET ABOUT IT). I also played the stupid games when trying to buy time on the internet. But coverage is the best I've had compared to three previous contract providers, and much, much less costly.
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Jeff |
Great service the coverage in Florida is great! No drop calls phone(Nokia 1600) has great reception and call clarity. Simple .10 cent a minute calling .05 cent texting it doesn't get any easier. I got tired of spending $70 dollars a month and using on 325-355 minutes and use use the rest sending text at .05 cent each now I spend $40 (400 min.)and have better cover with no roaming. Here in Florida they use ATT & T-mobile networks great deal solid prepaid with no surprises! Try it and get 300 minutes free for 60 days and if you don't like it take it back what a deal!
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Terri |
I currently own my second net10 phone. I love it! The phone support to get my old phone number to my new phone was so easy. They were very helpful and pleasant on the phone. I would tell anyone about net10. I even bought a net10 phone for a friend. He seems pleased with it. I think that net10 is the only way to go. I like the fact that there are no monthly fees attached to it. No monthly payments. Just buy a phone card when you need one and you're all set.
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Derek |
I bought my phone from K-mart, and got 300 minutes with the phone. I only paid $30. This is great for me, because I will only be back in the USA visiting family for 3 weeks. At first, the phone activated (I used the internet) but still wouldn't would to call local numbers. I was losing minutes trying, too. I called their service, which was open, and the voicemail said to call back during business hours (Grrr). I tried the next morning, and went through the menus OK, and was on the phone with a tech person from Cebu, Phillipines within a minute. She was very helpful, spoke near-native English, and had my problem fixed in about 8 minutes. She had me enter several long codes and read the results back to her. She also had me make a test call to a local number, which then worked, and she then called my phone to make sure it received calls. She credited me for the lost minutes after I asked, and I received verification in my phone within minutes. I am satisfied with the service (wish they had longer business hours -- seeing as the tech support is in the Phils. anyway) but a little miffed that getting this phone to work wasn't so easy that I could do it myself. So I took away 1 star. We'll see how the rest goes! I had a trackphone last year, and it was good, but I lost it. Net10 seems to be cheaper for me.
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Tory |
Seems like any other company--if everything works the way it is supposed to, it is great. BUT, if you have any type of problem WATCH OUT. My phone stopped working after only having it for 2 months. After 1 hour on the phone they decided to ship me a new battery (which took a week to get here). The new battery didn't work either. After another hour on the phone they decided to send me a replacement phone (which only took 3 days because I threw a fit). Then, it took me 2 phonecalls and 1 1/2 hours to get the phone number transferred from the old phone to the new phone and another 75 minutes to get the minutes transferred over (tell me, how hard is it to add minutes to an account?). The customer service is SLOW and seems completely incompetent if you have any REAL issues. And, the process the Customer Service agents use to get to any account information is ARDUOUS (which I believe is the company's fault)! The agents were polite but hard to understand--probably the nicest hard to understand incompetent people I have ever talked to. I haven't had any problems with making and receiving calls when my phone is actually working. Hopefully all my technical problems are solved and I can have a 5 star experience from here on out.
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Janie |
Net10 is good if you don't have to deal with customer service. They barely speak english and they run you around and around. They tell you to call back then you have to repeat the whole story again. They delivered me the wrong phone and had to deal witrh them for a month before they reissuded the phone. They even wanted ME to pay to ship it back!! URGGGG They are brainless. Then I couldn't download ringtones they kept telling me I can get them in 10 min..in 20 min..in 30 min..in 1 hour...every call was a different time. I never did get a ringtone.
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Jeff |
the service and reliability is ok but the fact that the phone turns itself off every evening at 6 P.M. is no picnic. I know it is a power saving feature but there is no way to change that setting on the phone and when I let family members borrow the phone, they think that I havent paid the bill and the phone is disconnected. The thing that I am really angry about is that every time that I add 60 days of service with a three hundred minute card the company takes away two or three service days from the end of my end service date. I have had the same phone & number for three years and they still keep doing this to me. I purposly bought the phone on the fifth day of the month because I do not get my social security check until the third of the month and I wanted to be sure that my money is in the bank each month before the due date. I also wanted the due date to be the same each time, i.e --- 5th of every other month and just buy the 60 day service cards.Customer service has been less than helpful. The last time I talked to them about this they just kept on telling me how some months have 30 days and some months have less days and that is why they keep taking away days from my service. I was getting nowhere in my mission to get my due date re-established to the 5th day of every other month so I just asked the service rep to please make sure that they do not take away more days and make my due date the last week of the month. Well, here we go again. My due date was 07/01/08 so I added another 60 day 300 minute card that day. They have now stolen more days from my service, as my new due date is 08/28/08 rather than 09/01/08 as it should be or 09/05/08, in order to be in accordance with the actual date that I bought & activated the phone. I think someone within the company is skimming service days from me and other customers in order to add them to their and their friends cell phone services so that they get free service on our dime, no pun intended. If I am not able to resolve the problem when I call the non-english speakers this time, then I will call the Federal Communications Commision and report the illegal activity. Perhaps a call to them, from this regulatory agency, will help them adjust my service due date to coincide with the first week of the month when I get my tiny social security check, just the way I had planned it all along.
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Jade |
In my opinion I find Net10 better than MOST companies, sure customer service is a drag..but all in all they aren't very bad..its going to vary from person to person.. For people who complained about not recieving minutes; they have support links on there site for this, stop complaining and keep calling, remain nice and calm on the phone and if you have to ask for free minutes for your inconvience, I once got 20 free minutes just for asking. as far as coverage goes, you can only get good coverage where ever AT&T can. If AT&T doesn't work for you out where you live; neither will Net10.
Net10's Easy Minutes plans are simple and if you don't recieve your minutes, you CAN get them by READING THE DIRECTIONS ON THE PAGE and taking action. It says if you don't recieve your minutes to manually input them through your "My Account" page or to contact customer service. I've owned my phone for 1 year now, and the only problem I've ever had was one time when I tried to lock my keypad and I was deducted 0.5 units, I sent an e-mail later and within the next 24 hours I had gotten my units back plus 20 more.
I would highly suggest to anyone who doesn't talk a lot to try out Net10. If you didn't like Tracfone, I know you'll like Net10 at least. Let's face it; 1000 minutes for $100? that's a great deal as opposed to Tracfone's 400 minutes for $100.
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londa |
I have tried many prepaid phones for my kids in the pass and I just ended up spending lots of money. net 10 10cent a min have saved me a lots. $25.oo a month for 250mins is cheap!!!!! It's all about control you have to know how to control your phone like any thing else. I love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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mike |
I think net10 is great. I have had most of the big name post-paid plans, and I have found net10 to be the best. I currently spend about $18.00 a month (that's cheap). I have traveled from Orlando to Boston, and I have had excellent coverage. This coverage includes the back woods and not just the highways as with sprint based pre-paid plans. If you are a motor mouth, I would not recomend net10. Ten minutes tends to add up if you are not careful. In response to customer service complaints, I have not had any problems. I have called customer service a few times and I have found them to be quite helpful. They do have issues with an accent, but so do alot of major companies in the USA. Have you tried calling Delta Airlines lately?
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tim |
Terrible customer service and poor coverage.
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Mike.S. |
I like my Net10 phone. It's all very straight forward, 10 cents a minute with 5 cent text messaging. There is a limited selection of phones available, and Net10 doesn't offer wireless internet. The phone is very standard, but I pay considerably less (about 60 percent less) than I did on my AT&T bill. So if you are willing to compromise on your phone's capabilities, in order to save money, then I would definately reccommend Net10.
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captainron |
Great coverage and decent customer service! Hey folks, you are getting a low cost phone with low cost .10 per minute service and yes sub standard customer service. If you want a billion dollar company and premium customer service then pay for att or nextel. I need an easy to use, easy to recharge, low cost phone and I found it with NET10. Customer service has always helped me and solved my issues within minutes. I called them prior to buying the phone and asked them which phone worked best and had the least problems.... they actually told me which ones to stay away from. I am completely satisfied with my low cost high coverage service. Those of you that are complaining about net10, I wonder why you are trying net10 if your other carriers were so great.
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Nick |
Stay away from Net10 if you need a mobile phone. Tech support eventually ends up handing you off to TracFone so without even trying Trac I would have to say stay away from them as well. Easily to most frustrating experience I have had with any phone service. Ported a phone number to Net10. Phone started ringing 4 days later. Could not activate the phone to use it. Tech support said wait until this afternoon, then wait until tomorrow, then wait until the 24th...3 more days. Meanwhile everyone who calls gets "The wireless subscriber cannot be reached". Porting numbers and activating mobile phones isn't this hard, I owned a Cellular One store. We now build and install IP PBX's and phone systems. Net10 is less than par with the worst ILEC. Try Virgin or Go.
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Cato |
Good price but the coverage is bad.I have recently moved and can't even get a signal.. In my case I was buying more minutes than needed just to keep the air time going before cut off. And air time kept getting shorter and shorter with each purchase. This is not a good deal, not really.
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John |
I recently bought a net 10 phone & tried it out for a while in the SW PA region. I do alot of driving on my job, so I was able to "test" a large area in a very short time. The signal was very comparable to that of my Verizon phone, and even better in many locations. I liked it enough that we my wife and I are getting rid of our Verizon phones. The only disadvantage with Net 10 is that the phones are older without many of the features which I have gotten used to, but this is quickly overlooked when I think about the fact that we will be saving over $50 per month! Plus, many of the phones pay for themselves (thirty dollar phones which come with 300 minutes, as much as a 300 minute card costs)! As for all of the negative comments below, I don't understand why so many people needed to call customer service in the first place. The directions provided with the phone for activation and troubleshooting are extremely simple. I strongly recommend Net 10.
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Don Gray |
I bought a NET10 Motorola W375 phone with 300 minutes built-in. The W375 has camera phone, MP3 ringtones, FM Radio and is a good looking flip phone. Part of the review is because of what NET10 does with their better phones and part is their actual service. 1st the battery life is no where near the 7.5 hours talk time they rate it at. Good luck if you make it to 2 hours of talk time. Even if you don't use it, you'll need to recharge it every day. 2nd NET10 disables most all of the advanced features on all their phones. The camera phone and multimedia features are not usable because the USB port is disabled. Also they modify the iMelody maker from Motorola (in the phone) to wherre it's virtuslly unusable. The Motorola people can't help you much as NET10 has changed the functionality of this app considerably. You'll even have to get special drivers just to charge the phone from your USB port! Also the internet capability and downlownloadable ringtones and graphics are a complete joke! The only internet is what NET10 gives and that's almost nothing. Each MP3 you get will cost you 29 minutes of airtime plus the time it takes them to download. A real rip off! You can't get them elsewhere because NET10 locks you out of other sites and methods. I downloaded 4 of them from NET10 and when I got them, 3 of the 4 were not even the ones ordered. So I wasted 120minutes plus airtime. You also can't even participate in the sites that use MMS to text voting or such as NET10 restricts that too! They even warn you in their agreement that they will terminate your service if you try to use these sites. Again NET10 wants to keep you buying everything only from them then doesn't provide those services. My W375 Motorola phone might as well have been one of their cheapy brick phones since all the advanced phone features are disabled. It's only good for use as a voice phone. I notice this is something recent with NET10 as 1yr old reviews state they are using the features. At least the W375 does have good volume and feels good to hold and looks good. So if you are going to get NET10, don't waste your money on their feature-rich phones. They won't be able to use those features. Just get the simpler phones. If you want features, stay away from NET10! The service itself seems to be good in most of the Mesa Arizona areas I've been in. I don't go into roaming ever so am not really qualified to discuss how well that works. The pricing plan is certainly the simplest and cheapest of any of the pre-paids I looked at. There's no surprises there at all. Also you won't find many real promo codes online like with Tracfone. Net10's prices are good but not many choices to get them better except by adding very large minute packages. The pricing is the only reason it got 2 stars in my rating. Ordering from the web site is a bit clunky and prone to errors. They really need to revamp the site as it's not very good for ordering from and since customer service is not very good, getting these problems fixed can be a nightmare. Next, the email customer service is polite but useless. They will say "Thankyou for choosing us" a lot but rarely actually answer your questions. I've only called the phone service once and found that so totally frustrating that I bailed out before getting the problem resolved. If you are looking for VERY basic service at a good price, NET10 is for you. If you want any extras, don't bother with NET10.
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emilio |
great idea but extremely poor execution. First let me warn you that the "customer service" consists of foreign country operators which most of the time you can not understand (but extremely polite) I tried to move my current cell number to their phone, after 2 weeks the service to my cell phone was disconnected and when i call net10 was told that would take up to 30 days for my net10 phone to start working with my old number, which was of course unacceptable, i cancel the whole thing and went back to my ENGLISH SPEAKING ATT&T provider. If you buy the phone at wal-malt for $30 with 300 free minutes and are able to activate it without any problems, use the minutes and be happy.
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Lynette Tevis |
There was no "zero stars" on the rating. My daughter's phone broke the 1st week of July. She was told by net10 they'd send her a new battery in 3-5 days. 2 weeks. Nothing. I started calling the 11th of July. They said they'd send a new phone on 7/29. She finally got a phone this week. STILL DOESN"T WORK! Now, they are supposed to send her a SIM card. WE HAVE BEEN WAITING A FULL MONTH. Half the time the people we speak to don't speak English well. I am thoroughly disgusted. She has used net10 for 2 yrs with no problems. But now we're both fed up. Phone was under warranty! Now, we just want her money back. She's 14, and spent her own hard earned money ($80. + tax) for a phone that hasn't worked in a month. I wouldn't recommend these jerks to anyone!! BUYER BEWARE!
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Tammy B |
Very misleading product description. Deceptive business practices. CANNOT DOWNLOAD RINGTONES, They say use your browser, right costs you about 10-18 minutes to download a single ringtone. Third party ringtone providers are blocked. Net10 disabled alot of very good attributes of this phone. Motorola should be ashamed for allowing NET10 to tarnish their good name. Worth a lawsuit for false advertising due to deceptive business practices.
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Rhonda |
I agree with other--Zero Star!! Terrible customer service. All they do is repeat what you say and you never seem to get anywhere until you get so frustrated you want to curse!! I had enrolled in the auto-pay and they deducted money but didn't add the minutes. I had to call "customer service" and went round and round with them for probably an hour. They didn't deduct money last month so now I'm looking elsewhere. I wouldn't consider using them again!
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TOM |
5 stars SO FAR; bought at Dollar General in central Texas for $25 w/300 minutes, in other words free Nokia plus $5 instant rebate! Went home to put it on charger long enough to activate before sending Wife to northern N.H. for birth of 17th grandchild (not mine, both of us widowed and just married 5 years). (We normally drive up but gas made it impossible this year.) Followed online instructions, but wouldn't activate. Called customer service and GUESS WHAT! Got accented rep who spoke VERY GOOD English, walked me through endless list of codes to enter and PHONE WORKS. Bought because our Go-Phone coverage map looked very marginal at best where she was going, but Net10, using any available system looked good. GUESS WHAT! PHONE WORKS! And just as expected, ATT Go Phone doesn't. So far, so good. But here at home will be about 50-50 usage depending on who we call.
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JIM |
The worst possible customer service anyone could ever imagine. Don't ever try to port a number from a different provider, it has been two weeks with many phone calls and still nothing. The website is useless.
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Greg |
IF you can get your phone working correctly with their service, then all is good. They have NO CLUE what customer service is. Honestly, you'll only be more confused after talking to one of the clueless idiots they have working there. Virgin Mobile offers MUCH better service.
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Manohar |
Net10 is an excellent phone service. I was a verizon wireless customer for 7 years before I switched to Net10 about 3 months back. I wish I had known about Net10 prepaid service earlier, I would'nt have wasted $50 every month on Verizon for the 400 anytime minutes plan and the 2 yr contracts. With Net10 I save lot of money (it cost me only $15 per month for 150 anytime mins). I make my lengthy calls from the Comcast landline IP phone which is free 24/7 within US/Canada. Net10 call quality is excellent, its better than Verizon. Its coverage is also better. Customer service is top rate. They are very polite as opposed to some snooty customer reps I dealt with in Verizon wirless. Best of all I am not locked in a 2 yr service agreement. After I switched to Net10, about 5-6 friends of mine also dumped their Verizon/Sprint wireless and switched to Net10. I love Net100 service quality, pricing, reliability and customer service. I would give them 7 stars if it were possible.
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Teresa |
My son gave me his Net 10 phone when he decided to get a different phone. I live in an different part of the country from him. I bought minutes to reactivate the phone; customer serive said I needed a new SIM card. It came 4 days later. I replaced the card, went online and set up an account to reactivate. I entered my zip code, but it gave me a number in the neighboring state, which means a different area code and a long distance call from a landline phone. I call CS to request they redo the number, and it still came from the same area code. They tell me they have no control over this. So now if anyone calls me from their landline phone they incur long distance charges. What a crock. I will use up the minutes I have and toss the phone in the garbage.
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angie |
I have had Net 10 service for about a year. Although the service is ok I dislike not having good monthly plans that include nights and weekends. Also Net 10 does not have very good phones to choose from.
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gnuarm |
Net10 advertises 10 cents per minute ALWAYS, no extra fees EVER... until they decide to start charging extra fees. I found that they add 1.5% for E911 fee. When I called about this EXTRA FEE I was told several different things. First I was told it was a tax that my state charges. That's not true, the state just mandates that Net10 pay them, but they don't say that Net10 has to collect it from us. That's like saying we have to pay their income tax! Then they told me it was only $0.10, which is a lie. The cheapest card I can buy has a fee of $0.45. Then they told me that it was only collected in states where it is mandated. I found a web page that says that Virginia does not have this tax on prepaid wireless phones, and yet Net10 is still collecting the fee from me. I admit that this is not a big charge. But they made a deal with me when I bought the phone that there would be NO FEES! READ MY LIPS...
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