Tracfone does have a 365 day card, but it costs almost $100 and only gives you 400 minutes. T-mobile's deal is vastly superior, not just because they give you 1000 minutes on the $100 card, but because after you have done this, all refills last a year. So you can put in $10 *a year*, not $10 a month, after that. I have not seen anything like that anywhere in the world. It's so much better than other deals I wonder if it will last forever.

Sadly, you can't get data service with it. I'm actually a light cell phone user. If we're going to have a long chat, I prefer to be on a landline for better quality (as well as lower cost.) However, since I want a PDA phone with data, I can only use T-mobile to-go for my 2nd phone.

However, if you have old GSM phones, get a T-mobile SIM and set it up this way, then get a VOIP number to ring both your main phone and that one (you must disable voice mail on both, which takes work) and you can almost get what I describe, but you still will send the caller-id of the phone you use, not the master number.