How to determine the Technology Tracfone will Assign for Your Zip

I have noticed that one of the biggest questions is how to determine the technology for your area before ordering a Tracfone. Well, the hard way is to go to the Tracfone website and simulate a phone purchase without purchasing the phone. The problem is, Tracfone will not tell you 'Your technology is XXX and your carrier is XXX'. All you will get is a list of the phones for your area. Unless you do a little research you won't know what technology you are in. Fortuately there is a much easier way. I found a page where they bypassed all the annoying Tracfone prompts to get to the answer quicly and easily. What is my Tracfone Technology will tell you the technology your zip code is in. It will also tell you if your area is dual technology, that is if there is both GSM and CDMA. It will also narrow down the possible carrier choices. Unfortunately, there is no way to know the EXACT carrier for a given area (unless there is only one carrier obiously). You see, Tracfone ha preferred carriers for a given area. That is, they rather activate the phone with that carrier because they get the best rate. I know Bellsouth/Cingular now ATT used to be one so if you are in an ATT area you will probably get ATT. Another factor is that their line inventory also changes day to day, especially during high volume times like XMas . In other cases, it also depends on what retailer you buy the phone from. That is phones from Walmart will be activated with XX carrier while phones from Radio Shack will be activated with XX carrier whenever possible. So determining exactly which carrier you will get is not really possible. You can try calling customer service but last I checked, they couldn't even tell..... If you are determined to find out, another good resource is Howard Forum and I also found this page with lots of info, http://thejmart.com/tracfone.htm