Net10 Minutes

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 directly from Net10's website. 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 Unlimited plan.

Either way the cost of Net10 minutes more or less remains the same with a couple of options for more minutes if you buy a long term - a 1-year or 2-year refill card. But let's start at the other end.

Note: Don't have a Net10 phone? Then your starting rate can be even cheaper because you can buy a Net10 minutes card and get a free phone that come with an additional 300 minutes that can save you up to 50% for the first few months. If you buy the 300 minute card at right, then you get a free phone and another 300 minutes free with the new phone. That works out to 600 minutes and 4 months of service for just $30 (plus tax). So your overall monthly cost is just $7.50 per month for those first four months.

Net10 Refill Cards

If you click here to purchase Net10 airtime: always 10 cents a minute, you can add Net10 minutes with refill cards in denominations of $30, $45, $60, $100, $200, and $400.

300 Minute Refill Card $30

The $30 refill card gets you 300 minutes and is valid for 60 days, or approximately two months.

450 Minute Refill Card $45

The $45 refill card gets you 300 minutes and is valid for 90 days or approximately 3 months.

600 Minute Refill Card $60

The $60 refill card gets your 600 minutes and is valid for 120 days or approximately 4 months.

With these above cards, whichever amount of Net10 minutes you buy, if you keep your service active for the duration, your overall cost is about $15 per month.

1000 minute refill card $100

The $100 card gets you 1000 minutes and is good for 180 days or about 6 months.

2000 minute refill card $200

The $200 card gets you 2000 minutes and is good for a whole year or 12 months.

Thus for the $100 and $200 cards, since they're good for about six months and 1 year respectively, your overall cost is about $16.67 per month as opposed to $15 per month. For the slightly higher monthly cost, you save having to refill your airtime at odd intervals.

Net10 Minutes Discount

And finally there is one card that actually gives you a lower per minute rate. This is the . . .

5000 minute refill card $400

The $400 card gets you 5000 Net10 minutes and is good for a full two years!

For the $400 card, your overall cost is still $16.67 per month, but because you get a 1000 extra minutes your per minute cost drops to only 8 cents per minute.

If you know you're going to spend about 200 minutes a month on the phone rather than 150 minutes, and you know you're going to be using the same phone service during that time, it may make sense to get the 2-year refill to get the extra 1000 minutes. Otherwise, there's no reason to not to buy the cheapest airtime cards, since your per minute cost is about same.

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 . . .

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 minutes to your account and charge you accordingly.

Your options are:

150 minutes for $15 each month

250 minutes for $25 each month

400 minutes for $40 each month

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.

Net10 Unlimited Plan

Unlimited 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 described below. You talk all you can and send all the text messages you need if you get Unlimited calling and texting from Net10 for just $79.98/month.

This may be useful if you use your cell phone all day as you might for, say, business purposes. You should also check out other providers as well to make sure you get all the services you need such as email, even though answering emails on the phone may not be the most satisfying way to spend your time.

Summary

Generally speaking, it's a lot smoother experience with a provider like Net10, because there aren't a confusing number of special offers each time you go to buy Net10 minutes for your prepaid cell phone, and as long as you're comfortable with spending about $15 per month, it's worth it.

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