A:AnswerUsed to work everywhere now depends on where you live. My h Vusband and I have had Tracfones many years and still work (right now anyway) but my brother and sister in law live 1 mile away and their Tracfones and some of their friends were shut down with no notification and when they called they were told that Verizon no longer covered that area. If I were you I would call Verizon.
A:AnswerYes. If someone is calling your grandma on this phone, it will be answered when she opens the phone up. She might want to check the screen on the front of the phone to see if it's a number she recognizes first, though.
A:AnswerYou can not intermittently activate and deactivate phone. But it does have rollover minutes so if you buy a 90 day 60 minute card which is under $20) and setup an automatic renewal plan for it you can turn it off when you dont need it so you are not using up the battery (although you will have to periodically recharge it). Then when you do need it you can turn it on. The time period of 90 days will still happen whether you use it or not. At least you have rollover minutes so if you only use it for 5 minutes in a 90 day period when it renews you will have 115 minutes. To me the under $20 every 90 days is one of the least expensive cell phones out there and I have been glad to have it as a backup. I use my original tracfone of over 10 years as an alarm clock! so I leave it on and have to recharge it every couple of weeks. I gave my sister a new one just a few weeks ago because her backup/travel phone cost almost double this and did not have rollover minutes so when she did travel she only had something like 30 minutes max! To me the cost and the rollover minutes make this phone a winner for a 'backup' phone.
A:Answertracfone needs to have a plan in order for it to be used. I have had an older model tracfone myself for many years as an emergency or travel phone long before I had a cell phone for everyday use. The tracfone plan I started with and still renew every 3 months is a 90 day, 60 minute plan. The minutes roll over and since I use it rarely I now have over 1000 minutes to use in an emergency...or however I need to use them. You have to keep the program active so I signed up for automatic renewal so I don't lose the minutes. This is cost of under $8 per month. It does not give you a lot of minutes if you or whoever is going to use phone wants to talk a lot. Tracfone does have other plans and you can just add minutes as long as you have a plan like my 90 day plan. They have an annual plan - I don't recall the cost or the number of minutes. A plan with roll over minutes is best so if one month or 90 days you don't use all the minutes you don't loose them. My sister had another phone which she got for emergencies and never used it or rarely but after years of having and renewing the minimum charge on that phone (I believe $10 per month) she still had only 60 minutes or maybe it was only 30 minutes. I finally bought this new tracfone for her so her minutes will accumulate. I have loaded it with the initial 90 day plan and hope to set up the renewals maybe as an on going gift to her so she doe not have to worry about this one and has minutes when she needs it.
