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 • 02/05/21
US Mobile has announced some really great phone plan updates. One eye-popping new offer is an unlimited talk and text plan with a whopping 12GB of data for just $20/month. The...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/03/21
There are over 170 Total Wireless branded stores located across 20 states. The stores carry all the different Tracfone brands except for Straight Talk Wireless. This is becaus...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/02/21
Cricket Wireless currently has some very interesting offers running. Unfortunately, they aren’t widely available. But if you are in one of the test markets where the offers ar...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/02/21
Tax season will be here soon and with that wireless providers will come out with new sets of promotional offers. The first set of offers have begun to trickle out from both AT...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/01/21
AT&T has updated its prepaid data-only plans. Some new plans were added and others got updated. One plan has been discontinued. Let’s take a look.Discontinued Plan Replace...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/01/21
Good2Go Mobile had long run a double data offer that it first started in December of 2019. All new customers from that time frame onward were granted double data with their pl...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/01/21
Wireless service providers Total Wireless and TextNow have launched their first new TV ads of 2021. For Total Wireless, it’s the Tracfone brand’s first new TV ad launch since...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/26/21
ZTE announced in a blog post that the ZTE Blade X1 5G is now available through two of Verizon’s prepaid brands, Visible and Yahoo Mobile. Customers can get the phone through e...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/21/21
Lady Red’s Tech Reviews, a Cricket Wireless vlogger recently detailed some of Cricket’s best and worst-performing phones. What’s particularly interesting is that Lady Red’s Te...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/21/21
Verizon Prepaid has released a new unlimited data plan priced at $75/month plus taxes and fees. It is 5G ultra-wideband enabled and the only Verizon Prepaid plan to have that...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/19/21
Back in November, Tello announced that it would start activating new customers exclusively on its GSM partner network, T-Mobile, by the end of that month. Unfortunately, that...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/13/21
Telcel America is no more. The brand has announced that it is folding into Simple Mobile. Telcel America was first established in 2012 and it is one of over half a dozen Tracf...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/08/21
Like Cricket Wireless, Boost Mobile also launched its first deals of 2021 today. Boost’s featured offer is a deal for a $40 unlimited plan bundled with a free Samsung Galaxy A...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/07/21
A few weeks back, Tracfone brand Simple Mobile launched a new dealer only promotion. Customers who shop at a Simple Mobile authorized dealer are able to pick up an unlimited p...
By Joe Paonessa • 01/04/21
In September of 2020, Verizon announced that it reached an agreement to acquire Tracfone. The price tag for the purchase tops out at $6.9 billion. It isn’t expected to close u...