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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Sprint Offers it’s Own New Prepaid Service

By Joe Paonessa • 03/15/14

In an attempt to cannibalize itself, Sprint has decided to launch it’s own prepaid service. Since Sprint already offers it’s own prepaid services under the brand names Virgin...

ATT and T-mobile Offering More For Less

By Joe Paonessa • 03/12/14

It seems the pricing wars continue to heat up among the carriers. First T-mobile announced it was offering more 4G LTE data, tethering, and unlimited international texting at...

Best MVNO’s and Prepaid Wireless Providers Revisted

By Joe Paonessa • 02/27/14

Earlier I suggested that NET10 was the best ATT MVNO and one of the best MVNO’s period in terms of pricing and features provided. I had used the service myself for 6 mon...

ATT owned AIO Wireless Lowers Rates

By Joe Paonessa • 02/08/14

Recently, to go along with price cuts by ATT to their family share plans, prepaid MVNO provider AIO decided to also get in on the fun. Their basic plan now includes 2x the da...

Ting Wireless Price Cuts

By Joe Paonessa • 02/08/14

Sprint MVNO Ting, has celebrated two years in the business by lowering rates on a variety of plans. Some have changed by as much as $13, for instance the 2GB data bucket has...

Tracfone Acquires Page Plus Cellular

By Joe Paonessa • 01/14/14

In case you missed it, popular Verizon MVNO “Page Plus Cellular” has now finally been taken over by TracFone. What will become of their service remains to be seen. TracFone...

AT&T Wants You to Have Data For Free (Sort of)

By Joe Paonessa • 01/07/14

AT&T unveiled a plan today offering businesses the chance to “sponsor your data”. When a business has an ad or app, or a new movie coming out, they’ll allow you to consu...

Next G Mobile Says Goodbye!

By Joe Paonessa • 01/03/14

In case you missed it, Next G Mobile, a former Verizon MVNO, went offline and out of business as of 12/31/2013. This is one of the problems of smaller less known MVNO’s, they...

Red Pocket Announces 4g Service Plans

By Joe Paonessa • 12/18/13

Red Pocket mobile announced today they will now offer 4G service (via T-mobile) for data only devices. By 4G we assume they mean HSPA+ which is very fast itself, but does not...

FreedomPop Offering More Phones

By Joe Paonessa • 11/25/13

Update: FreedomPop is now allowing a small portion of BYOD to it’s network although some users are currently experiencing activation trouble. Some of the phones you can now a...

Sprint Blocking BYOSD on MVNO’s

By Joe Paonessa • 11/19/13

Sprint has decided to become even more crappy by not allowing customer’s of it’s various MVNO’s to use certain BYOSD (Bring your own Sprint Device) phones on it’s network. Di...

Sprint MVNO Karma set to Launch on Sprint’s LTE network

By Joe Paonessa • 11/06/13

Sprint MVNO Karma is getting ready to launch on Sprint’s LTE network. Karma is a unique MVNO in that it’s a data only network and they allow you to share your data with frien...

Straight Talk Gets The Verizon Version Of Galaxy S3

By Joe Paonessa • 11/04/13

Straight Talk Wireless, one of the only MVNOs to offer service on all 4 of the BIG 4 is now offering the Samsung Galaxy S3 in select markets as one of it’s Verizon based offer...