TracFone Bring Your Own Phone SIM Activation Kit – Retail Packaging

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TracFone Bring Your Own Phone SIM Activation Kit - Retail Packaging - Tracfone has really stepped up its customer service and resolution services. A much different company from a couple of years ago when my wife decided it was time to leave Virgin Mobile behind after its USA operations were purchased by Sprint. Tracfone's change may be from its relationship with WalMart also providing in-store assistance with activations. The kit was complete with three different cards to fit probably any smartphone. It is probably best to call if you are new to Tracfone. Be sure to have your Phone Number, Password and Account Number. Companies like Virgin MobileUSA don't let the customer know there is a separate account number so they can route to customer retention. As it is, Virgin MobileUSA has asked if switching is the reason on the four phones we have transferred. (BTW - Tracfone and Straight Talk are same company.) The price is resonable and may be less on Tracfone site. However, it may be less but also have a requirement that lower price is only with purchase of card that may not fit your needs. I have bought two for two Nokia Lumia 920 Windows Phones February 2015. Service was changed to new phones in under three hours on both, with 4G LTE data service. Our daughter finally decided to leave Virgin also and her phone was transferred in under 30 minutes Sunday afternoon 07/31/2016.Card blocks Internet Sharing function. (Tracfone will direct you to Straight Talk Wi-Fi hotspot device and need to purchace data only.) It does allow you to use a mobile device with VPN application. (Using Bluetooth with an encryted VPN [Vitual Private Network] to connect Internet with laptop, tablet, etc.) Many apps to choose from.Tracfone also has great specials that are not in stores or displayed on site. You do have to call to get these. Did you know you can buy a pack of 1000 messages for $5 +tax, or data for Windows Phones (only Android Phones in stores) for $10 +tax per 1 GB or less? Did not ask about larger GB or message packages because of low demand. These do not multiply as with cards but are an alternative based on personal usage. Tracfone bring your phone is a great value for us, even when compared to discounts from AARP perferred Consumer Cellular (only a 5% discount for AARP members).So far I have not found anything this SIM card does not allow, except aforementioned Internet sharing. I run accounts for Hotmail, Oultlook, Outlook Exchange (Business Account - May require use of Workplace function verification before adding in on email function), OneDrive, OneDrive Business, Drop Box, Personal Cloud File Server, Office Remote, Wells Fargo app, and others.

These are great to activate a compatible phone on Tracfone. The kit comes with everything you need to activate either an AT&T, Verizon, or unlocked phone on Tracfone. The kit comes with all three sizes of SIM for both GSM (AT&T) or CDMA (Verizon). You can get these for three bucks at Sam's giant department store, but you have to order them from there too, and they take longer to arrive. Since it would just be crazy for Tracfone to sell their own product online, they don't sell these. That was sarcasm, by the way.If you want to see if your phone is compatible, google Tracfone and BYOP. If you have a T-Mobile phone, ignore the button in the middle for T-Mobile. If you click it, it will say that your phone is compatible. Tracfone insists that you can buy a T-Mobile SIM from this link, and they insist that this very kit comes with a T-Mobile SIM, but it isn't true. If you have a T-Mobile phone, it won't work unless it's unlocked, then you use the AT&T SIM. As of this writing, Tracfone's website and their support both claim that you can use a locked T-Mobile phone, and that a T-Mobile SIM exists. But you can't. A Tracfone SIM for T-Mobile phones does not exist. Don't believe Tracfone. This kit does not include a SIM for T-Mobile phones. I've bought three kits, and none of them had this SIM.Anyway, changing from a Tracfone to your own phone under BYOP is pretty painless. I've done it twice without issues. On a third phone, my minutes, texts, and data didn't transfer, but I called and they had it corrected in just a few minutes. It works great. If you order an unlocked phone from Amazon, half the time, there's a link under the phone to tack one of these kits on, so you get it with your phone.9/9/2016 Update:TF now does have a T-Mobile SIM on their website. Of course, right now, it's out of stock. I have no idea if the T-Mobile SIM is included in this kit or not.

OK, so I ordered one of these and was able to activate my daughter's iPhone 6 with it. Seemed great. My other daughter also acquired an iPhone 6 (same model, just more memory), and I couldn't get the data to work. Voice & text worked fine, but data would not activate. After much haggling with Tracfone, they recommended I take the phone to Apple and see what was wrong with it. I did, and Apple assured me there was nothing wrong with it.I bought a third one, thinking maybe the SIM card was bad. Tried to get that one programmed and got the same results. Voice & SMS worked, but not data. I then took the first SIM card, the one that worked in my first daughter's iPhone, and put it into the second iPhone. Worked like a champ. Put the third card in the first iPhone, and bam, voice & sms, but no data. So, looked to be either a programming issue on the tracfone side or another bad SIM card.Went to a big box retailer today and bought a SIM card there. Activated it on that second daughter's iPhone without issue. Only had to delete the tracfone profile and install it again, and it worked. Had tried that many times under tracfone's direction with the second and third SIM cards, but just frustrating failure after failure. It's good to note that the packaging I see here in Amazon reflects what I received from Amazon. The package in the big box retailer was different. I suspect outdated SIMs are being sold here in this listing, but have no way to verify that.So, save yourself the headache and low odds of success (1 out of 3 in my experience) and go get one somewhere else. Trying to save a buck cost way to many hours and blood pressure points.