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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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Increased data on Ultra Mobile's $29 plan 1GB

Ultra Mobile Ups Data on Select Plans

Joe Paonessa - Jan 30, 2015

Ultra Mobile’s $29 plan now includes 1 GB of 4G LTE Data T-Mobile MVNO Ultra Mobile has increased the amount of data offered on its $29 and $39 plans. The $29 plan now includes 1 GB of 4G LTE data up from 500 mb, while the $39 plan now

Cricket Increases Data Amounts on Two Plans and Adds a New Offering

Joe Paonessa - Jan 30, 2015

Cricket’s New Data Plans Blow Away the Competition in a Lot of Ways I have to tip my hat off to AT&T and Cricket for coming up with these new cell phone plans. Cricket today announced some great new offerings and raised the bar in terms of the amount

Simple Mobile Adds More LTE Data to Some of its Plans

Joe Paonessa - Jan 23, 2015

Simple Mobile is a provider of no contract cell phone plans and it provides service through the T-Mobile network. Recently the MVNO certainly made some of its customers happy by doubling the amount of 4G LTE data offered on select plans. Those plans include the

Sprint Aggressively Pursues T-Mobile Customers Guaranteeing Minimum of $200 to Trade-in Phone and Also Offering up to $350 to Cover ETF and Installment Balance

Joe Paonessa - Jan 23, 2015

The war to wrestle away each others subscribers continued today between Sprint and T-Mobile as Sprint announced that it will guarantee all T-Mobile customers instantly a minimum of $200 for porting in their number AND trading in their current working T-Mobile phone at a participating Sprint store. The offer

MetroPCS Adds Unlimited LTE Data Promotion for $50 with Stipulations

Joe Paonessa - Jan 22, 2015

T-Mobile announced yesterday that its prepaid brand MetroPCS will offer for a limited time an unlimited everything plan including unlimited 4G LTE data for $50 or $45 for a two or more family plan. The new plan comes with a serious stipulation though in that you

Boost Mobile Boosts Data Again and Wrongly Claims to Offer the Most Data Among All Prepaid Carriers

Joe Paonessa - Jan 22, 2015

The Boost Mobile and the Sprint PR machine revved up today with the offering of a new and improved prepaid wireless plan as well as a little false advertising. Starting February 3rd, 2015, new and existing Boost Mobile customers who sign up for or are on the $35 prepaid

Freedompop Offers Unlimited Talk Text and Data over its Nationwide Wi-Fi Network

Joe Paonessa - Jan 22, 2015

Freedompop expects to surpass one million subscribers over the next few months and plans to do so with the help of a new offering, a no contract plan that offers unlimited talk, text and data for $5/month. The plan will operate using Freedompop and its partners 10

Google to Offer Mobile Phone Service as an MVNO

Joe Paonessa - Jan 22, 2015

Google reportedly is trying to shake up the MVNO and mobile phone world by soon becoming an MVNO itself. I would have to imagine how they accomplish this would be rather difficult, as Google typically likes to give away its products for free or on the

Verizon Prepaid Gets a Data Boost

Joe Paonessa - Jan 20, 2015

All you Verizon Prepaid users out there, or those of you thinking of making the switch will be pleased to know that the carrier is increasing the amount of 4G LTE data available on it’s Allset prepaid wireless plan. When first released the plans contained 500

Virgin Mobile in Conjunction with Walmart to Offer No Contract Data Sharing Plans

Joe Paonessa - Jan 18, 2015

Yesterday Virgin Mobile falsely claimed to have launched the industry’s first no contract data sharing plans. Apparently the company has never heard of Consumer Cellular or Ting for that matter who each have long had such plans (Ting since 2012!). In fact, if you take a quick look

Simply Prepaid is Simply Disappointing

Joe Paonessa - Jan 17, 2015

T-Mobile Introduces new Simply Prepaid Plans T-Mobile recently announced a new set of prepaid plans entitled “Simply Prepaid” that I find simply disappointing. T-Mobile claims their goal here was to try and make their plans as straight forward as they are “affordable,” with a focus on “simplicity, fairness,

H20 Wireless Adds 4G LTE Data to its Plans

Joe Paonessa - Jan 12, 2015

Summary of 4G LTE Prepaid Plans Offered on H20 Wireless H2O Wireless has just added 4G LTE data to all of its prepaid wireless phone plans. It also appears that their new plans may have some small pricing changes as I have previously considered their best value plan to be

Call Ring Talk Provides a Free Phone Number and Free Phone Calls

Joe Paonessa - Jan 12, 2015

Just the other day I wrote about RingTo as a provider of free SMS and voice calls to anywhere in America. Today I will present another company that you’ve likely never heard of that also offers free voice calls, although they do not provide sms integration as their

Mariposa Launching an MVNO Geared Towards U.S. Hispanic Population

Joe Paonessa - Jan 7, 2015

David Fondots, CEO of Mariposa has announced plans to launch an MVNO that targets the USA’s Hispanic population although no specific timetable has been set. The CEO though not entirely correct, states that Univision is currently the only MVNO to offer such a service, offering several criticisms

RingTo Free Calls and SMS For All

Joe Paonessa - Jan 4, 2015

We’ve mentioned many times before that signing up for a plan with unlimited calls and texts isn’t really necessary anymore these days, what’s most important is to go for plans that offer the most data for the least amount of money and RingTo presents another reason to buy into