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 • 05/23/22
Cricket Wireless has quietly followed the lead of many other wireless providers by adding a multi-month discount plan to its lineup. Cricket has opted to discount its $40/mont...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/23/22
Tello Mobile has updated its wireless plans. Tello’s flagship wireless plan now costs just $29 and that gets you a whopping 25GB of high-speed 5G/4G LTE data before data speed...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/18/22
At the end of April, US Mobile’s CEO Ahmed Khattak stated in a podcast that two new updated unlimited plans would be released in the coming days. The updates are now here. US...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/16/22
Simple Mobile has brought back an old offer. Customers with new lines can once again get 4 unlimited lines for $100. A similar offer from Simple Mobile was last reported by Be...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/05/22
Red Pocket Mobile is now running a Mother’s Day or “Mother’s Year” sale as they are effectively calling it. New lines of service can get $50 off any annual plan on the GSMA ne...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/04/22
Since about April 30th, Boom Mobile customers have been reporting in online forums such as Reddit and HowardForums that they’ve been unable to login to their accounts. This ha...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/04/22
Metro by T-Mobile has doubled the amount of data included with its $50 hotspot plan. It now includes 100GB of data at up to 5G data speeds. The previous allotment was 50GB. Me...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/03/22
Mint Mobile has updated how it handles its family plans. The provider’s homepage now has a banner that reads “Introducing the modern family plan. Families start at 15/mo per l...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/02/22
In early April, BestMVNO reported that Lycamobile updated its wireless plans. The $33/month plan got a data bump from 15GB up to 18GB. However, it wasn’t quite a linear update...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/29/22
US Mobile is the latest wireless provider to test the multi-month plan waters. The company’s founder and CEO Ahmed Khattak disclosed yesterday in the BestPhonePlans podcast th...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/20/22
Visible has added eSIM support for select Android devices. Unfortunately, the list of supported devices is extremely limited. If you have one of the Google Pixel phones listed...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/16/22
According to a Reddit post, T-Mobile is readying the launch of a new postpaid Essentials plan. The poster, who has a disdain for the plan, says it will launch on April 21st. I...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/15/22
Just a few days ago, BestMVNO reported that Metro by T-Mobile brought back its $40 switcher unlimited plan in dealer stores. There’s also been a $40 unlimited plan offer avail...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/12/22
Metro by T-Mobile has brought back its $40 switcher unlimited data plan. As observed by Wave7 Research and @tracfoneguy, the plan has been quietly hiding in Walmart stores for...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/11/22
C Spire has launched a new prepaid wireless brand named “Solo.” Wave7 Research noted the new brand launch in a prepaid report the firm recently published. Taking a page from V...