Articles by Joe Paonessa
Joe Paonessa
Joe Paonessa is the founder of BestMVNO.com. He started BestMVNO in 2013, because like many of you, he was unhappy with the high price he was paying his wireless provider for cell phone service. After researching how to cut costs on his phone bill, he came across the terms MVNO and prepaid wireless, and learned there was a way he could keep using his favorite network without having to pay a premium price for it.
Through BestMVNO.com, Joe shares his research and experiences with MVNOs and prepaid wireless providers, helping others learn how to save money on their phone bills. Joe's current providers are Total Wireless and MobileX. When he's not working on BestMVNO, you may find Joe playing pickleball or going out for a run. For inquiries use the contact button.
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Through BestMVNO.com, Joe shares his research and experiences with MVNOs and prepaid wireless providers, helping others learn how to save money on their phone bills. Joe's current providers are Total Wireless and MobileX. When he's not working on BestMVNO, you may find Joe playing pickleball or going out for a run. For inquiries use the contact button.
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Jim Gaffigan In New TV Ad Wants You To Buy A Straight Talk Multi-Line Plan
Last Friday, Verizon Wireless announced that it had hired a new celebrity spokesperson for its prepaid brand Straight Talk Wireless. That spokesperson is actor and comedian Jim Gaffigan. In the years prior, actor Ed O’Neil fulfilled that role in a less pronounced way as served as the voiceover in Straight
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Total By Verizon 4 Unlimited Lines For $100 No Longer A Store Exclusive, Free Phone Offers Now Online Too
Total by Verizon has brought what had been exclusively in-store-only offers online. Customers who shop totalbyverizon.com can now get 4-unlimited high-speed data lines for $100, a $40 BYOD unlimited plan, and several free phone deals. Here are all the new online offers. Unlimited Plan Deals Four lines with unlimited talk,
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US Mobile Updates Plans With All-In Pricing, Adds New Unlimited Plan And Shareable Data Plans
For a couple of months, US Mobile had been teasing on Reddit about coming out with new plans and features. And those plans are finally here. To start, data allotments are now the same no matter which network you use US Mobile with, its GSM network (T-Mobile) or Warp 5G
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Red Pocket Revives FreedomPop & Unreal Mobile Brands, Adds More Data To Its Own Plans
Red Pocket Mobile has started a revival of some of its neglected brands. Wave7 Research noted in its most recent prepaid report that Red Pocket Mobile brand FreedomPop has launched its first new YouTube video in three years. The video, available here, launched about a month ago and introduces viewers
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PureTalk Updates Plans With More Data & Dedicated Hotspot, Continues Free Phone Offer
PureTalk has increased the amount of high-speed data included with several plans and appears to have added dedicated hotspot allotments. A couple of weeks ago BestMVNO reported that H2O Wireless increased the amount of data added to its plans and added dedicated hotspot to each of them. H2O Wireless and
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Unreal Mobile Has A New Website And Plans Starting At $20/Month For 10GB
Unreal Mobile is back from the dead and now has new branding, a new website, and new plans. The brand stopped posting to its social media accounts around a year ago. But exactly when they stopped can no longer be tracked. Unreal Mobile deleted all of its old Facebook and
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Simple Mobile Maintains Prepaid Market Dominance in Wave7 Research 2Q23 Dealer Survey, Verizon Prepaid Falls
Simple Mobile once again emerged as the top-selling prepaid carrier in the latest Wave7 Research multi-carrier prepaid dealer survey conducted in the second quarter of 2023. This is the 34th straight time that Simple Mobile has won the quarterly survey and it has won every survey conducted by the firm.
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H2O Wireless Updating Plans With More Data And Faster Throttled Data Speeds
H2O Wireless is updating all of its plans with quite a few changes. Select plans now have more data, dedicated hotspot, faster data speeds after a given plan’s high-speed allotment gets used, international talk credits, and international roaming credits. Here’s a list outlining what’s changing with each individual plan. $20/month
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Red Pocket Mobile Ramped Up Its Advertising Spend With TV And Radio Ads
Red Pocket Mobile has ramped up its advertising spend. The firm Wave7 Research detailed in its latest prepaid report that the MVNO launched three new TV ads in June. BestMVNO has since learned a fourth TV ad was also launched. But that’s not all, in May, Red Pocket Mobile launched
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Walmart Family Mobile Adds More Data To $29.88/Month Plan
Verizon has made a small change to its Walmart Family Mobile brand plans. The firm Wave7 Research noted in its latest prepaid report that the provider increased the amount of high-speed data included with its $29.88/month wireless plan. Wave7 Research reported seeing signage for the new plan allotment in some
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Consumer Cellular Has New TV Ad Campaign With Ted Danson, Opening 13 More Stores
In March 2022, Consumer Cellular signed Ted Danson to be their company spokesperson. Soon after that, Danson appeared in a plethora of TV ads touting the brand. His face was also plastered onto the Consumer Cellular website. But no new TV ads featuring Ted Danson had launched since September 2022.
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Metro by T-Mobile Formally Brings Back Its $25/Month Unlimited Data For Single Lines Offer
For months on end, Metro by T-Mobile has had an under-the-table, unadvertised offer running. Subscribers could get an unlimited talk, text, and high-speed data line from Metro by T-Mobile for $25/month simply by calling up the company and asking for it. There was even a variation of the offer that
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Boost Infinite Launches iPhone On US, Makes Several Significant Plan Changes
Boost Infinite launched a new wireless plan today “Infinite Unlimited+” for $50/month. With the new plan, there’s a new promotional offer. Customers who signup for Infinite Unlimited+ and trade-in an old phone will get an iPhone 14 for free. Alternatively, customers can get a more premium iPhone such as the
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Verizon Prepaid’s Family Plans Are A Match For Metro by T-Mobile
Three years ago Verizon Prepaid discontinued multi-line family plan discounts in favor of offering plans with loyalty discounts. Today, Verizon Prepaid has opted to bring back multi-line family plan discounts while keeping its loyalty and autopay discounts in place. But there is a catch. The multi-line discounts are only available
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Xfinity Mobile Offers Include Free Pixel 7 Pro, $100 BYOD Prepaid Gift Card
Xfinity Mobile has launched new and updated deals. Highlighted offers include free Google Pixel 6a, 7, and 7 Pro “on us” deals, up to $500 off select Samsung Galaxy phones, $300 off select iPhones, and an offer of a $100 prepaid gift card for BYOD customers. Xfinity Mobile has also
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