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How to Buy and Add Airtime to your Net10 phone.

What's the easiest and cheapest way to buy and add Net10 minutes? You can buy Net10 refill cards at many stores or click here to purchase Net10 airtime. You can also sign up for a monthly no contract plan called Easy Minutes. And finally if you're a heavy user you can sign up for their $50 Unlimited plan or their $25 750-minute plan.

There are now two kinds of cards. You can buy the regular pay as you go cards that cost about 10 cents a minute or the monthly plans cards. The minutes from the pay as you go cards do rollover, but the minutes from the $25 750-minute cards do not rollover. In addition, you do lose your minutes when you switch from the 10 cents a minute cards to the 30 days cards and vice versa. So you should decide based on your usage, which makes the most sense for you.

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Note: Don't have a Net10 phone? Then your starting rate can be even cheaper because you can buy a Net10 phone and minutes card bundle.

Pay As You Go

Pay as you Go Cards refill your Net10 airtime balance at the rate of about 10 cents a minute. When you activate these cards, you airtime is added and your service date is extended by a certain number of days. Any airtime you already had is rolled over.

Net10 Refill Cards

Note the screenshot below is from when Net10 was offering a 100 bonus minutes on your first three refills after buying a Net10 phone. This is no longer offered.

If you click here to purchase Net10 airtime, you can add Net10 minutes in denominations of $20, $30, $45, $60, and $100.

200 Minute Refill Card $20

The $20 refill card gets you 200 minutes and extends your service for 30 days, or approximately one month. This card is included as a bonus on some Net10 phone packages. It's really not worth it as a separate purchase, because you can get 750 minutes with the $25 card which is also extends your service for 30 days.

300 Minute Refill Card $30

The $30 refill card gets you 300 minutes and extends your service for 60 days, or approximately two months.

600 Minute Refill Card $45

The $45 refill card gets you 600 minutes but only extends your service for 60 days or approximately two months. This brings your monthly cost to about $22.50. Again, this is not really worth it compared to the $25 750-minute 30-day card.

900 Minute Refill Card $60

The $60 refill card gets your 900 minutes and is valid for 90 days or approximately three months. This brings your monthly cost to about $20 per month.

1500 minute Refill Card $100

The 1500 minute card costs $100 and extend your service for $180 or about six months. This brings your monthly cost to about $16.67 per month with the minutes costing about 6.7 cents.

If you think having to keep buying these airtime cards either in the store or online will take up too much of your time, you can sign up for one of the . . .

30 Day Plans

There are two 30 day cards or plans, the $25 card and the $50 card.

$25 750 Minute 30 Day Card

The $25 30 day card gives you 750 Net10 minutes. This works out to about 3.3 cents per minute, which is pretty good, and 3.3 cents per text, which is OK.

The best comparison to this is the related Straight Talk $30 30-day plan which gives you 1000 minutes (and messages) every 30 days. Your choice pretty much boils down to how many minutes do you think you'll use in a month.

$50 Unlimited 30 Day Card

The $50 30-day card gives you unlimited usage for 30 days at which point you have to add another card (or sign up for auto-refill).

Net10 Easy Minutes plan

If you don't like contracts but hate wasting your time buying the same airtime card every few months, you can sign up for Net10's Easy Minutes monthly plan.

You register and give them your credit card, and every month they'll add Net10 minutes to your account and charge you accordingly.

Your options are:

200 minutes for $15 each month

500 minutes for $30 each month (you can 750 minutes instead with the $25 30 day card).

Note that even though these say they are "monthly" plans, they are actually 30-day plans.

Once you're enrolled in an Easy Minutes plan, you can add bundles of minutes if you start to run low.

Net10 airtime bundles

You can add additional bundles in quantities of $5.00 for 50 minutes, $10 for 100 minutes and $15 for 150 minutes. These minute bundles are one-time purchases and do not change your monthly plan.

Net10 Airtime on Demand

Of course if you're willing to just give up your credit card info and just press a few measly buttons every couple of months then you could instead sign up for Net10 Airtime on Demand. Then when you're either running low on minutes or your service is about to expire, you can buy airtime straight from your phone. Sign up here to buy Net10 minutes directly from your phone.

Cancel If You Lose Your Phone

Just make sure to cancel this if your phone gets lost or stolen. You don't want to buy minutes for someone you don't know.

Net10 Unlimited Plan

Unlimited Net10 Minutes

Finally if you have to spend all your time on the phone, maybe for your business, then you can sign up for Net10's unlimited minutes plan. You talk all you can and send all the text messages you need if you get unlimited calling and texting from Net10 for just $50/month.

This may be useful if you use your cell phone all day as you might for, say, business purposes.

Summary

Generally speaking, it's a lot smoother experience with a provider like Net10. Customer satisfaction with Net10 has been great with Net10, and though they've introduced some new plans that will hopefully still be true.

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