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 • 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 • 11/13/15
Cricket Wireless announced some new cell phone deals today that are available immediately. The AT&T owned MVNO is offering the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime for $29.99 and t...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/13/15
Walmart is currently running a promotion where new data plans purchased through the store for Verizon’s $45 Prepaid plan can get double data for life as along as the smartphon...
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/04/15
After several months of having a website that said website under construction and new plans coming soon, the day has finally arrived for Harbor Mobile to release its ne...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/03/15
UPDATED:11/4/2015. The plan is now live and available on the RingPlus website. It is called Sugar. 11/3/2015 On Wednesday November 4th, time to be announced, RingPlus w...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/29/15
A BestMVNO reader sent in a tip today by passing along an email that they received from Scratch Wireless. It seems that the company is no longer able to support its freemium...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/29/15
Republic Wireless has added some new wireless plans and I have a hard time seeing how they’ll appeal to anyone but we’ll get more into that in a moment. Republic has also eli...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/28/15
AT&T’s new program called Data Perks gives customers a chance to earn extra data by completing various offers and activities such as taking surveys or by shopping among ot...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/28/15
UPDATED: This promotion will be available for upgrades and new registrations on the following additional 2 dates: 10/30/2015 12PM – 9PM PDT 10/31/2015 12PM – 9PM PDT RingPlus...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/26/15
Sprint has updated its prepaid plans to all include unlimited data instead of being hard capped. There are currently three Sprint prepaid plans and all include unlimited tal...