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 • 10/06/14
Welcome to the new BestMVNO.com website! It’s taken quite some time to migrate over to a new server, but now I’m ready to get back to business providing you with all the late...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/20/14
The other day I wrote about RingPlus’s Magic Matching Plan. It now seems this is going to be much more than previously described. RingPlus, a prepaid operator on the Sp...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/18/14
Head on over to the Republic Wireless home page and you’ll be greeted by a new announcement. The Motorola Moto E is headed to their network. As you can surmise, this is a lo...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/18/14
RingPlus seems to be experimenting with new and creative ideas for prepaid plans. They have just announced a new “matching” plan. How useful, or who ends up taking adva...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/18/14
Verizon will soon be getting a new MVNO prepaid partner, Envie Wireless. Envie Wireless will be run by H2O wireless, which currently operates as an ATT MVNO. Rumor is...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/18/14
Ting, an MVNO operating on the Sprint network, recently announced that they are now allowed to activate and provide service to the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c. I say allowed beca...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/16/14
RingPlus, an MVNO offering prepaid wireless plans through the Sprint network announced several big changes today. Every plan will now include roaming capabilities, which...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/15/14
Sprint today revamped it’s prepaid lineup with a pricing structure on par with it’s Boost Mobile brand. For those of you don’t know, Sprint owns the Virgin Mobile and Boost M...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/14/14
TextNow an MVNO operating on the Sprint Network with plans starting at $18.99, has launched a new prepaid wireless brand under the name “Touch Mobile.” This new service...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/13/14
Cricket Wireless recently increased the amount of LTE data offered in all of of their prepaid wireless plans. Facing stiff competition from providers that actually offer real...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/10/14
Google Hangouts Dialer FreedomPop’s Free Voice and Text App If you’ve been reading this website for a while, you may have noticed that I value data as being more importan...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/08/14
Sprint and T-Mobile today both announced aggressive plans to go after trade-ins of your used mobile phone and to hopefully gain a new customer. One of these two is a bit more...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/04/14
MetroPCS, announced today that there’s 500 MB of more data headed your way for the $40 and $50 single line plans, as well as to the economy $100 Family of Four plan. To get t...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/02/14
That didn’t take long for the trickle down effect to occur. To go along with Sprint’s recent announcement that they were “doubling the data,” Sprint MVNO Boost Mobile is runn...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/30/14
UPDATE:08/30/2014 Bloomberg has reported that two companies are in talks to purchase FreedomPop in a deal potentially valued at over $100 million! That would be a huge hall f...