Articles by Joe Paonessa
Joe Paonessa
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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By Joe Paonessa • 12/05/15
Cricket Wireless announced earlier today that they will now be offering the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime, LG G Stylo and ZTE Sonata 2 smartphones at a discount both online and n...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/27/15
RingPlus is offering those who switch over from T-Mobile to a RingPlus paid plan a $201 account top up. The account top up cannot be transferred to a free plan, split, exchan...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/26/15
US Mobile is about to launch a few new cell phone plan options that should grab the attention of many T-Mobile fans, particularly those who favor data above all else. Customer...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/25/15
Beginning Black Friday, November 27, 2015 at 12PM PST and lasting until Tuesday December 1st at 12PM PST RingPlus has announced several new plans and deals. Some of the plans...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/24/15
US Mobile is offering the Nokia Lumia 530 for $9.99 in their phone shop. The phone features the following: 4″ 854×480 screen 246 ppi 512MB of RAM with 4GB of internal storage...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/22/15
Boom Mobile is a relatively new MVNO to the market having soft launched service earlier this year. The company is owned by Enhanced Communications Group L.L.C. (ECG), a provi...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/21/15
It looks like T-Mobile MVNO Solavei could not survive after its bankruptcy filing and restructuring. The company has announced that effective 12/4/15 it will no longer be offe...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/21/15
Sprint MVNO, RingPlus, currently has a new offer out that expires on Sunday November 22nd at 11:59PM PST or while supplies last. The new and free promotional plan is entitled...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/19/15
Cricket Wireless today announced the launch of a loyalty program it is calling Cricket Rewards. Cricket claims it is the only program of its kind in the no annual contract sp...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/18/15
Sprint MVNO, TextNow, announced that it plans to offer international calling to more than 150 countries. TextNow customers will also be able to earn credits to make free inte...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/16/15
More than 10 million MetroPCS customers had their personally identifiable information put at risk by a coding error on the companies website, although to obtain the informatio...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/13/15
Ecomobile formerly operated solely as a Sprint MVNO. It still operates on Sprint today but now the company has added service on Verizon and T-Mobile as well. To go with the...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/11/15
RingPlus is at it again, offering another free promotional plan entitled Leonardo 2. This promotion is open to new activations and select devices from other carriers are elig...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/11/15
At its 10th Un-carrier event today, T-Mobile announced what it has called Binge On. With Binge On, starting this Sunday November 15, T-Mobile subscribers can stream all the H...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/07/15
Ting Mobile, the Sprint MVNO owned by Tucows has announced that they have added fewer net customers in the third quarter than they did a year ago. Gross additions however wer...













