I kept my number when I went to Tracfone. "wow-beer"

Though it was a challenge to actually get Tracfone to make the transfer. Their customer service seems to be setup to frustrate doing this.

Though I've never called internationally, I can say that local, roaming and long distance is all, truly one rate.

Where did you see this $7/mo plan? AFAIK they have a $5 plan that just keeps the service active with no additional mins. And a $10/mo plan that adds 50min/mo w/rollover. Those are for people that are worried about the possibility of loosing the active phone #.

I don't like paying that monthly bill, so the $100 for a full years service is a nice fit. I wind up paying the equiv. of $8.33/mo. I've not seen any thing less expensive.