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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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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Early Verizon Edge Upgrades Become More Expensive?
Verizon Modifies Edge Program Starting tomorrow, October 16th, Verizon’s Edge program will have new terms and conditions making it more difficult to upgrade early, or at least more expensive. Payments for those of you joining the Edge program will now be spread out over 24 months instead of the current 20
Read MoreSolavei Offers $10 Off It’s Prepaid Wireless Plans
Solave offers $10 off it’s prepaid wireless plans With prepaid wireless plans starting at $39 a month, T-Mobile MVNO Solavei is currently running a promotion where you can receive $10 a month off your bill for each of your first three months of service. Solavei offers unlimited talk, text and
Read MoreWelcome To the New BestMVNO
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 latest prepaid phone plan news and more. This process isn’t 100% complete yet as I’m sure there are
Read MoreATT Doubles Data on Mobile Share Plans
Facing pressure from mainly T-mobile and Sprint, for a limited time ATT is doubling data on family share plans. Data is truly shareable among everyone on the plan which differs a bit from T-Mobile’s $100 family plan deal. More to come, but for now check out the source source
Read MoreRingPlus Matching Magic Plan
RingPlus Announces Matching Magic Plan Full Program Details 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 Sprint network, continues to think outside of the box as it
Read MoreRepublic Wireless to Launch Motorola Moto E
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 low cost phone and now provides Republic Wireless with three phones and entry points for their service. They also
Read MoreRingPlus to Release Matching Magic Plan
RingPlus Announces the Magic Plan 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 advantage of this plan remains to be seen. The way it will work is a
Read MoreH2O Wireless To Launch Envie Wireless a New Verizon MVNO
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 this new MVNO will launch sometime in October 2014. Pricing is said to range from $25 a month
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Bring Your iPhone 5S to Ting
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 because Sprint often blocks phones that are less than a year old from being activated on MVNO’s. With the iPhone
Read MoreRingPlus Adds WiFi Calling
RingPlus Adds WiFi Calling to Majority of Plans RingPlus, an MVNO offering prepaid wireless plans through the Sprint network announced several big changes today. Every plan will now include roaming capabilities, which is a big deal as not every prepaid provider does. Roaming will cost extra though at
Read MoreSprint Revamps Prepaid Plans
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 Mobile brands, so they seem to be creating a bit of a redundancy here. The Virgin and Boost Mobile
Read MoreTextNow Launches Touch Mobile Brand With Prepaid Wireless Plans
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 looks to borrow somewhat from Republic Wireless as they will be offering wi-fi first plans that will be used for unlimited texting and calling. When
Read MoreCricket is Offering More Data to Subscribers
Cricket Wireless New Improved Plans 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 LTE data speeds this looks to be a very good move on their part. I criticize Cricket here
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Free Phone Calls with Google Hangouts and FreedomPop
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 important than the number of minutes or texts included in a plan. Today, more than ever this is true as you
Read MoreSprint and T-Mobile Fight Each Other For Your Mobile Phone Trade In
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 aggressive than the other. Let’s start the discussion by dissecting Sprint’s offering first. Sprint’s Trade in Program Sprint
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