Dutch_12078
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JJBIRISH wrote:This should not be confused with the tracphone plans, it is not… this is a walmart plan with tracphone as the carrier…
Not quite, Straight Talk is a Tracfone owned service plan that's market primarily through Walmart. You can purchase directly from the Straight Talk web site without going to Walmart. Note the "Straight Talk is a registered trademark of Tracfone Wireless" notice at the bottom of the page, along with the "Retailers" tab being the only place that Walmart is even mentioned.
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That was my take on it also Dutch 12078. I stopped at a wal-mart today to read up on the program. They have the boxes locked on the hangers so you cannot fully read the rear side. I ask an attendant for information, he was at a total loss. "Straight Talk's" web site is probably the most complete information, but I like to get information from more than one source.
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Dutch_12078 wrote:JJBIRISH wrote:This should not be confused with the tracphone plans, it is not… this is a walmart plan with tracphone as the carrier…
Not quite, Straight Talk is a Tracfone owned service plan that's market primarily through Walmart. You can purchase directly from the Straight Talk web site without going to Walmart. Note the "Straight Talk is a registered trademark of Tracfone Wireless" notice at the bottom of the page, along with the "Retailers" tab being the only place that Walmart is even mentioned.
While you are correct,my understanding is, straight talk is a partnering of wal-mart and tracfone wireless… marketed under the straight talk banner and available exclusively at wal-mart stores and of coarse straighttalk.com..
tracfone still has it own service plans under its own banner available at trackfone.com. and many outlets, and makes no mention of the straight talk plan…
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OK, You got my attention with the WalMart plan. Compare it to the prepaid plan with T Mobile. $100, one year, 1000 minutes. Check it out. It may not be as good for texting but not all of us text.
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JJBIRISH
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I like the way it is advertised and to me unlimited is a unambiguous term…
However under the terms and conditions it ambiguous in so much as they can at their sole discretion determine that your use is excessive and outside the norm, and allows remedies to them… of coarse if you read the terms and conditions on any of this stuff no one would agree to all of it, or buy any of it…
I am interested in the unlimited web browsing (data), using my laptop networked with the phone as the modem
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Probably Wal-Mart is basically a program marketing agent for TracFone. TracFone contracts for wholesale air time from Verizon Wireless which is a partnership of Verizon and Vodafone PLC.
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JJBIRISH wrote:Dutch_12078 wrote:JJBIRISH wrote:This should not be confused with the tracphone plans, it is not… this is a walmart plan with tracphone as the carrier…
Not quite, Straight Talk is a Tracfone owned service plan that's market primarily through Walmart. You can purchase directly from the Straight Talk web site without going to Walmart. Note the "Straight Talk is a registered trademark of Tracfone Wireless" notice at the bottom of the page, along with the "Retailers" tab being the only place that Walmart is even mentioned.
While you are correct,my understanding is, straight talk is a partnering of wal-mart and tracfone wireless… marketed under the straight talk banner and available exclusively at wal-mart stores and of coarse straighttalk.com..
tracfone still has it own service plans under its own banner available at trackfone.com. and many outlets, and makes no mention of the straight talk plan…
The point being that the "Straight Talk banner" is owned exclusively by Tracfone, as is the Straight Talk web site. I don't doubt that Walmart had considerable input into the development of the product, but the lack of Walmart branding in any manner seems to indicate that Straight Talk is not only a Tracfone product, but one that may at some point be marketed through other vendors as well. Even the site layout with its "Vendors" category appears to support that possibility.
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JJBIRISH wrote:I am interested in the unlimited web browsing (data), using my laptop networked with the phone as the modem
Tethering (phone as modem) is not allowed under their "Terms and Conditions":
"Straight Talk Unlimited talk, text and data plan Features cannot be used: (1) for access to the Internet, intranets, or other data networks except as the device’s native applications and capabilities permit, or (2) for any applications that tether your device to laptops or personal computers other than for the use of Wireless Synch."
I don't know if PAM use is disabled in the phone firmware or not.
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Dutch,
I am sure you know more about this than I do… I am just trying to learn before I buy and it may be to soon to know much about it… one thing is for sure the employees at wal-mart don’t know
I have read that and that does not disallow tethering only the addition of software or altering of the phones software to facilitate tethering… the ability to wireless synch is already in some of the phones with Bluetooth, and web browsing is listed as a permitted feature with the razor phone and I suspect some of the others… what I don’t know is if the phone has a utility to block wireless synch with a pc… so far I haven’t talked to anyone that can tell me that… since I am not a expert on this kind of stuff, I may not be explaining myself well, I apologize for that…
Many other things in the terms stink to… like length of calls, or over use to a single number…
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The answer may lie in how Verizon does data. It seems like if you have a plan w/ them for music, ringtones, and maybe a "special" version of the net to access news, sports, email...
Then there is the full-blown internet accessible on their system. I think they have a way to separate the weak and strong versions, but am not at all informed, as we do not use these services.
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