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 • 05/07/14
Word on the street is that Sprint MVNO FreedomPop is looking to expand its service coverage by partnering with AT&T or T-mobile. I cannot vouch for T-mobile as an MVNO pa...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/07/14
Verizon’s First Quarter 2014 Earnings It looks like T-mobile was telling the truth when they mentioned the other day that they had virtually all of the industries subscriber g...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/06/14
Today no contract Sprint MVNO Boost Mobile announced “unlimited” plans starting at $40 a month. As we often know, unlimited rarely means unlimited, but we’ll dig into this an...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/06/14
Starting May 15th, all of the four major carriers in the USA and emergency services will enter the 21st century by allowing texting to 911. Although the carriers will go live...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/04/14
Another fiscal quarter has passed, and if you’ve been following us along, you’ll know it means more subscriber additions for T-mobile. Surprisingly though, the 2.4 million ne...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/01/14
Every now and then it seems Motorola likes to put it’s X on sale. When it happened around Christmastime it crashed their servers. Well, today and today only is another oppo...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/01/14
FreedomPop, a unique Sprint based MVNO in that they actually offer a free service plan, now allows you to bring your own iPhone (4) to their network or you can buy a refurbish...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/25/14
Straight Talk’s new data limit What’s better than 2.5GB of LTE data for $45? How about 3 GB for $45? Straight Talk Wireless is now offering just that. As always, data is un...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/24/14
Starting tomorrow, April 25th, AT&T is adding more data to it’s no contract prepaid GoPhone plans. The $60 a month plan will see a bump from 2 to 2.5 GB of 4G LTE data....
By Joe Paonessa • 04/16/14
Republic Wireless has reinstated their refer a friend program with even higher rewards than before. By partnering with FriendBuy they hope to make everything easier for you w...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/14/14
Tired of overages? So was T-mobile, so starting in May, they won’t have them anymore! In a move to simplify things and to stop trying to scare the customer into paying for a...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/14/14
The price war that T-Mobile seems to have ignited is heating up some more. Verizon has announced that those who bring their own devices to the Verizon network will receive th...
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...
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...
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...