Tracfone phone insurance and cellular insurance options are a key focus of the Ensquared mobile phone insurance comparison feature. This is an important entry for the cell insurance overview for many Ensquared visitors simply because TracFone is a specialty provider of cell phone services in the arena of prepaid only. Most people do not realize it is owned by America Movil and its primary areas of activity are indeed Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands (aside from US suburbia). It numbers close to eleven million subscribers ranking it number 5 in the USA. Launched in 1996 under the name Topp Telecom in Miami it received huge backing from Telmex who later restructured it and started America Movil. Today it is safe to say that TracFone leads prepaid business in its selected regions

When subscribing to Tracfone there are various brands accessible, namely: TracFone, Net10, Straight Talk and Safelink Wireless. The first three are really the same aside from different logos while the last mentioned is in fact US Government supported program giving free monthly cell phone and airtime to eligible customers (low income) – and is similar to other entries in this arena.

TracFone prepaid links into well known brands being Samsung, Motorola, LG, Nokia and Kyocera and can function as both GSM or CDMA depending on the area of operation. However, it should be noted that TracFone service only works on their branded handsets – and that goes for the GSM models as well. Simply, TracFone SIM cards are incompatible with other GSM handsets

As TracFone is very immigrant and Hispanic oriented it has long distance calling capability for all subscribers through a toll-free US number. It is also worthy of note that TracFone have arranged regional services with AT&T and T Mobile