What is an Emergency Cell Phone?

I would consider a cell phone that is carried around mainly to make emergency phone calls an emergency phone.  A phone that is used less than 20 minutes a month could be considered an Emergency Phone.


What do I want in an Emergency Phone?

  1. Low priced monthly service
  2. The Best Coverage
  3. Inexpensive Phones
  4. Phones that hold a charge

Contract phones are out because normally you will pay at least $35 per month to keep your service active.

Most prepaid phones will not roam onto other networks.  With T-Mobile Prepaid, Verizon Prepaid, Straight Talk, Go Phones, Virgin Mobile, and Boost Mobile your phone will not roam onto another network.  Only Net10 and Tracfone Prepaid phones will roam onto different cell phone networks.

Very Basic phones without cameras and Bluetooth or MP3 players will normally hold a charge longer than fancy phones.

What is the Best Emergency Cell Phone Deal?

Without a doubt Tracfone has a phone deal that will be the best emergency phone deal.

Tracfone and Free Phone Card Deals

The best Tracfone Emergency phone deal will be a phone that comes with a free phone card.  They always have one of these at the top of the Tracfone.com phone page.


When you activate a Tracfone phone it will have 20 minutes and two months of service.    Tracfone cards come with three months of service and the minutes stated on the card.  This top of the page phone and phone card deal will cost $20 or $30 and give you Five months of service after activating the phone and adding the phone card.  This is really cheap to have emergency phone service.

Phone numbers to put on your Emergency Cell Phone

I set up and Emergency phone for my Mother.  I added all the phone numbers of her neighbors and my brothers and sisters.  I put their names in so she could hit the menu button and call easily.

Put the person who will be carrying the phones name on the phone also.  It might help if the phone gets lost.

Buy Two of the Phones and get Free Freight

Set them both up with the emergency numbers.  An extra $20 or $30 and you will get the second Tracfone for the same price as buying just a phone card.  If one gets lost the number two phone can get activated and used right away.  As soon as the Tracfone phone gets activated it will have two months and 20 minutes on it.

Also if you lose one of your phones you will not have to reteach the phone user how to use a new phone.

The extra charger can also be handy.

Cell phone chargers seem to get left in Motel rooms a lot.

Give the phone user a lesson on how to use the phone.  Many older people have only talked on a cell phone and do not know how to dial out with it.  Test them on this a couple of days later.

This is the back of one of my Cell phones, I have trouble reading off the little screen on the phone and this is my backup cell phone, I don’t use the number much.

I write the phone’s number down and tape it on the back of the phone.  Be sure to print large enough for an older person to easily read the number.

You can put the ESN of the phone on the back also in case it is needed when adding minutes.  I cannot see numbers in the phone easily and this way I do not have to remember the phone number or find my glasses.

I like Flip Phones for an Emergency Phone
The emergency phone will probably get bounced around a lot and having the keys covered so they don’t accidentally get punched is nice.

Buy an Emergency Cell Phone Deal at Tracfone.com and get 5 months of service for less than $30!

Purchase Discount Code

Get $3 off on any phone or accessory with coupon code 23444 at Tracfone.