A:Answer My mother uses this phone and TRACFONE for minutes.
She buys a plan that costs $99 per year (they have a lot of other plans) and it comes *officially* with 400 minutes but they actually give you 1200 minutes talk time. If you don't use them in the year, they ROLL OVER as long as you renew your service plan before it expires.
If you use the minutes before the year is over, and buy more, it adds BOTH more minutes and more time.
THE THING TO WATCH OUT FOR is that when you RENEW the one year service - if you have remaining minutes - TRACFONE now loses all your old minutes (ever since VERIZON bought Tracfone). They give them back but you have to call to ask for them.
It's tedious but they do give the minutes back.