First, when I dialed the phone number on the info materials included with the phone, I got some sort of Verizon roaming message, and after pushing the only number option, found out I was in a section to purchase a pin, without which I could not proceed

TracFone activated this, in 30 minutes and I even got to keep my old phone number

I kept getting a Verizon message, asking me to enter my activation code, which was supposedly the last 4 digits of my phone number, which by the way, I had to get from Tracfone

It said it was active and the phone number was assigned but when I made calls it just told me I needed to purchase airtime

1 STAR = Went to transfer my phone number and minutes from my old phone TracFone to this new one when I found out that this TracFone runs on different cell towers then my old one so it won't work for me in South Central Alaska.

Very easy to activate and transfer the phone number from my much older LG Tracfone