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 • 10/19/22
Ultra Mobile is now offering double data on select plans for new and existing customers. The T-Mobile powered MVNO has also increased the throttled data speeds on its $49 unli...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/17/22
Consumer Cellular has added more data to its wireless plans. Some plans have almost doubled their data allotments like the $25 3GB plan which got a data bump up to 5GB. Wave7...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/17/22
Straight Talk Wireless is the first carrier-owned prepaid brand to introduce a home internet plan. Straight Talk, owned by Verizon Wireless, formally announced the plan today....
By Joe Paonessa • 10/13/22
Last month, Lycamobile released some pretty aggressive promos offering new lines significant multi-month discounts on a few plans. This month, the T-Mobile MVNO has fine-tuned...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/13/22
Boost Mobile has launched another $5 phone plan offer. This latest one gets new customers 10GB of high-speed data with unlimited talk and text for $5 flat, for one month. The...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/10/22
Tello Mobile has launched three phone and plan bundle deals for the month of October. Tello is referring to the offers as “Sweet October Deals.” The T-Mobile powered MVNO is o...
By Joe Paonessa • 10/10/22
Charter Communication’s Spectrum Mobile has been rapidly accumulating subscribers. In July of 2022, Charter announced Spectrum Mobile had amassed 4.3m subscribers up a whoppin...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/26/22
AT&T Prepaid’s first fall season phone deals are out. There are in-store only offers and online deals. Many deals remain largely the same as AT&T Prepaid’s spring deal...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/26/22
Cricket Wireless recently launched its first set of fall deals. Cricket’s first featured fall Android deal is for a free Samsung Galaxy A03s for those who port to Cricket’s $6...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/22/22
Total by Verizon is set to launch its first free phone offers beginning on 10/1/22. That’s less than two weeks after the brand’s official launch on 9/21/22. There will be seve...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/20/22
Lycamobile is running several 50% off plan promotions. As part of the offers, Lycamobile’s $59 “Absolutely Unlimited” plan is $29.50. The $49 60GB unlimited plan is $24.50 and...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/20/22
Google Fi has a new promo out to try and win back its former customers. The promo will give former customers up to 6-lines for free for the remainder of the year on an unlimit...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/16/22
Tracfone Wireless has quietly updated a handful of wireless plans. A HowardForums user noted Tracfone’s $20, $25, and $30 plans all got updated to have an extra 1GB of high-sp...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/13/22
On April 4, Verizon filed a trademark for “Total by Verizon.” And since early June, Jeff Moore, Principal of Wave7 Research has been reporting that Total by Verizon would like...
By Joe Paonessa • 09/06/22
Optimum Mobile has quietly raised the prices of its budget wireless plans. It’s has also raised the price of all of its plans for customers that aren’t also Optimum internet c...