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 • 11/09/23
Consumer Cellular recently launched an ad campaign that’s surprisingly centered around a new flip phone from the brand, the $69 IRIS Flip. The campaign, “Shot on Flip Phone,”...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/08/23
Prepaid competition at Walmart intensified at the end of October with the introduction of three new to the store brands: MobileX, Google Fi, and Red Pocket Mobile In September...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/03/23
Boost Mobile has a new offer online for the 64GB iPhone 12. New customers can pick it up for $149.99. Customers that head to their local Boost Mobile dealer can get it for as...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/25/23
Boost Infinite debuted a new TV ad over this past weekend. According to iSpot.tv the ad is entitled “Boost Infinite’s Wireless Utopia: Explorer.” I find this ad to be signific...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/24/23
Verizon released its 2023 third quarter earnings today. The company’s stock closed up 9.27% on the day (to $34.40) on the heels of raising its guidance for the year by $1 bill...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/24/23
Tello Mobile is offering a discount to new customers on a couple of its phone plans. Their 2GB plan is available for $10 marked down from $14. The company’s 5GB plan has been...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/23/23
Boost Mobile is updating its wireless plans. Currently, Boost has different plans in stores than it does online. For instance, $60/month will get you a plan with 50GB of high-...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/23/23
The Motorola Razr 2023 is being carried and heavily discounted by three carrier owned prepaid brands, Boost Mobile (DISH), Metro by T-Mobile, and AT&T’s Cricket Wireless....
By Joe Paonessa • 10/16/23
A report from the National Wireless Dealer Association, NWIDA, states that Lyca Mobile is in the process of looking for a new carrier partner to power its MVNO wireless servic...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/14/23
Boost Mobile is making a half baked attempt to load more customers onto its native network, the Boost 5G Network. Wave7 Research reported in its latest prepaid brief that Boos...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/13/23
Cricket Wireless has announced that it will carry the Motorola Razr 2023 in Sage green. This is significant as it will be the first ever foldable device sold by Cricket. Prici...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/13/23
Consumer Cellular has a new “free month” offer out as noted in the latest prepaid report issued by the firm Wave7 Research. The offer was announced by Consumer Cellular in a b...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/12/23
We’re in October now, and that means it’s time for the 3Q23 Wave7 Research multi-carrier prepaid dealer survey results. For the 35th time in a row, Simple Mobile has won the s...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/10/23
The makers of the minimalist Light Phone, Light, have launched mvno plans using AT&T’s network. Pricing is rather steep, with plans starting at $30/month for 1GB of data....
By Joe Paonessa • 10/07/23
In the latter half of September, BestMVNO reported an abundance of plan changes taking place at US Mobile. The company updated its phone plans with more data, hotspot, intern...