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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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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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Verizon Reports 1st Quarter Earnings
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 gains in the most recent quarter as Verizon Wireless recently announced a net of just 549,000 new subscribers. Still Verizon has a pension
Read MoreBoost Mobile Lowers Rates
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 and see what they really mean. $40 is going to get you unlimited talk, text and data. By unlimited Boost really means
Read MoreText to 911 About to Go Live
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 with the service on that date not all towns will. In the event that you try to text 911
Read MoreT-mobile adds 2.4 Million Customers
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 new subscribers hasn’t been all that profitable for the nations 4th largest carrier. In fact the mobile carrier experienced a drop in earnings of
Read MoreMotorola X on sale starting at $299
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 opportunity for you to get this deal. Calling it a Mother’s day sale, the X is on sale starting at
Read MoreSprint MVNO FreedomPop now offers the iPhone
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 refurbished iPhone 5 directly from them for $349. With the FreedomPop free voice and text plan, any iOS
Read MoreSolavei Sale
Switch to T-Mobile based Mvno Solavei and get 50% off your first two months of service featuring unlimited voice, text and data with 4g LTE. See the deal here . If interested, you’ve got to hurry because today is the last day for this promotion.
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Straight Talk Wireless increases data allotment to 3 GB
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 unlimited on Straight Talk as long as you don’t mind being throttled at 3 GB. Straight Talk also
Read MoreAT&T GoPhone to add more data for smartphones without a price change
AT&T GoPhone Data 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. The plan also includes wi-fi hotspot capability and unlimited talk. The $40
Read MoreRepublic Wireless Refer a Friend and Get Paid (Even More)
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 with a clean interface that’s entirely managed from within your “my account.” For a limited time they will run a $20/$20 program, meaning
Read MoreT-mobile Eliminates Overages
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 more costly plan than they need, T-mobile has opted to say adieu to those nasty overages. Overages
Read MoreVerizon Now Offering BYOD Subscribers a Discount on “More Everything” Plans
Verizon Wireless More Everything Rates 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 the same discount it’s post paid subscribers get on the more everything plan. The more
Read MoreSprint Offers it’s Own New Prepaid Service
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 Mobile and Boost Mobile this move seems a bit puzzling. I would hope that under the actual prepaid name Sprint, roaming would
Read MoreATT and T-mobile Offering More For Less
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 no additional costs. Anybody on a simple choice plan will have their accounts updated automatically to the new service plans. Highlights include
Read MoreBest MVNO’s and Prepaid Wireless Providers Revisted
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 months and can say, not surprisingly, LTE and H+ coverage were excellent. One thing not
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