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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Boost Mobile Customers, Dealers, Still Suffering Effects Of Cyber Attack
It’s coming up on two weeks since DISH Network was hit by a cyber attack knocking many of its systems and websites down including its Boost brands. At the time of this writing, Boost Infinite’s homepage reads: “Thank you for your patience. We are experiencing a systems issue that our
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Verizon Prepaid Samsung Galaxy A03s Is Free At Walmart
The Verizon Prepaid Samsung Galaxy A03s is now free at Walmart with in-store activation. The firm Wave7 Research noted in its latest prepaid report that the offer is highlighted on store displays. Online, the phone has a list price of $119 but is marked down to $89.88. The online Walmart
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Visible Unlimited Plans Up To $10/Month Off, Get One For $25/Month
Visible by Verizon has launched a new promotion valid for the entire month of March. Customers can get up to $10/month off a Visible unlimited plan indefinitely, more on this in a bit. Through the promo offer, Visible’s cheapest unlimited plan is now $25/month. This offer comes with just a
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MobileX Launches Out Of Beta With Several Big Plan Updates
MobileX launched in beta to a limited number of testers in November of 2022. Today, MobileX has officially exited beta and is welcoming new subscribers to its platform. If you were one of those early beta testers that didn’t stick around, or just want to know more about the brand,
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DISH & Boost Mobile Outage Continue On, Smells Like Ransomware Attack
The DISH Network has been experiencing an outage that began last Thursday, February 23, 2023. It’s now Monday, the 27th. The outage coincided with the release of DISH’s 4Q22 earnings call and took both the old and new Boost Mobile websites (boostmobile.com and my.boostmobile.com) as well as boostinfinite.com offline. The
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Mint Mobile Deals Include 1Yr Service With Phone Purchase, Pixel 7 Is $389
Mint Mobile continues to run phone and plan bundle deals. Perhaps the hottest offer right now is the bundling of 6 months of free service with the purchase of a Google Pixel 7 and an annual plan. That means you can get a 128GB Google Pixel 7 and an unlimited
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Metro by T-Mobile’s 2023 Tax Season Deals Are Out, Include Free iPhone 11
The firm Wave7 Research reported to its subscribers that Metro by T-Mobile launched its tax season deals on 2/10/23. The headline deal is that the iPhone 11 is again free for switchers. Metro by T-Mobile has yet to advertise this offer through TV/video ads, however, BestMVNO has noticed audio ads
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Cricket Wireless Has Launched Its 2023 Tax Season Deals
Cricket Wireless soft-launched its tax season deals on 2/10/23 noted Wave7 Research in a report the firm just sent out to its subscribers. Headline offers include the Samsung Galaxy A14 5G and Moto G 5G both free online and in stores. The two Android phone deals are featured in stores
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Xfinity Mimics Spectrum With Internet + Unlimited Mobile For $50/Month
It seems Charter’s Spectrum One plan bundle has caught the eye of Comcast. Last October, Spectrum launched its Spectrum One bundle priced at $49.99/month for an unlimited mobile line with home internet. Now Comcast has done the same thing with its Xfinity Internet and Mobile brands. New Xfinity customers can
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Consumer Cellular Brings Back Add-A-Line Deal This Time Get A Free Month
Consumer Cellular has launched a new promo. Customers that add-a-line will get a free month of service. The free line is valued at $15. Previous Consumer Cellular promos over the years have offered account credits with new lines (1, 2, 3). The best such offer came in September of 2021
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Lycamobile Brings Back Black Friday ’22 Deals Including 60GB For $20/Month
Lycamobile has brought back a majority of its Black Friday 2022 deals. The T-Mobile powered MVNO exclaims on its promo page that they are “the best deals in wireless.” Customers can get a plan with 12GB of data for $5/month for their first three months of service. Lycamobile has also
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Slow Your Roll With ChatGPT, It Failed Miserably At Writing About Visible by Verizon
Over the last several months, tech websites, the general media, and others have become hot and bothered over OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence platform. Some have even said and suggested that Google search and search results pages will quickly become obsolete as we know them today. I had started to think
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Mint Mobile Offering 1-Month Free Trial & 1-Month Free On Any 3-Month Plan
Mint Mobile has launched a couple of limited-time deals for new customers. Prospective subscribers can either try Mint Mobile for free for one month or get one month free with the purchase of any 3-month plan. Actor and Mint Mobile co-owner Ryan Reynolds even put together a video ad to
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iPhone SE 5G Free At Xfinity Mobile, Samsung Galaxy S23 $500 Off
Xfinity Mobile has a few new deals out. The newly launched Samsung Galaxy S23 is up to $500 off with no trade-in required. Customers can also get up to $800 off Samsung Galaxy phones with a device trade-in. Xfinity Mobiel has also launched a “Get the iPhone SE with 5G
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T-Mobile’s Data Breach Impacted Google Fi & Metro by T-Mobile
T-Mobile has repeatedly experienced data breaches over the years. The carrier announced its latest data breach about two weeks ago. This one resulted in data from 37 million customers being stolen. T-Mobile says that customer information was obtained between November 25, 2022, through January 5, 2023. The data was obtained
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