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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Boost Mobile Laser Focused On $hrink-It Plan, No Longer Offering Free Phones To Unlimited Family Plan Port-Ins

By Joe Paonessa • 07/28/20

The DISH Network officially took over the Boost Mobile brand on July 1, 2020. With that takeover, DISH made several immediate changes to Boost Mobile. A new logo was announced...

Cricket Wireless End Of Summer 2020 Savings Promos

Cricket Wireless Announces 5G Launch Date, Samsung Galaxy A11, And Updated Plans & Deals

By Joe Paonessa • 07/24/20

Cricket Wireless now has a launch date for 5G wireless. On August 21st, subscribers will be able to activate 5G service on the network. Cricket’s first 5G device to become ava...

Straight Talk Offers No Fees No Deposit Phone Payment Plan

Straight Talk Wireless’s New No Fees Phone Payment Plan Featured In New TV Commercial

By Joe Paonessa • 07/23/20

Straight Talk Wireless is the largest of the Tracfone owned brands and its subscriber count continues to grow. In quarter 2 of 2020, Straight Talk added 270,000 new subscriber...

Mike Sievert, President And CEO Of T-Mobile, Unveils New 4 Lines For $100 Offer

Fact Checking T-Mobile’s Claims That 4 Unlimited Lines For $100 Is Unheard Of In Postpaid

By Joe Paonessa • 07/23/20

On July 23, 2020, T-Mobile unveiled a couple of new offers that will officially go live on July 24, 2020. As usual with T-Mobile, the announcement came with a whole lot of pom...

Several New Phones Are Now Available At Boost Mobile

Boost Mobile Launches Several New Phones Including Samsung Galaxy A11

By Joe Paonessa • 07/21/20

Leading up to the DISH Network’s takeover of Boost Mobile, Boost Mobile dealers and Boost Mobile’s online store both faced a shortage of phones. Dealers had a hard time stocki...

AT&T Prepaid New 6 Month Discount Plan Offer

AT&T Prepaid Adds Another Multi-Month Discount Plan, Get 6 Months With 8GB Of Data For $180

By Joe Paonessa • 07/11/20

AT&T Prepaid has recently been making a hard push into the multi-month plan market. The market has been pioneered and dominated by MVNOs such as Mint Mobile and Tracfone....

Ultra Mobile's PayGO (Pictured) And Tourist Plans Have Been Updated

Ultra Mobile’s PayGO & Tourist Plans Have Updated, $3 PayGO Now Includes 100 Mins/Text/MB Data

By Joe Paonessa • 07/11/20

A year ago Ultra Mobile hit it big when it’s PayGO and Tourist plans landed in T-Mobile stores. The two plans served and continue to serve as replacement offerings for prepaid...

Simple Mobile Offers 4 Unlimited Lines For $100

By Joe Paonessa • 07/07/20

Simple Mobile has an offer running of 4 unlimited data lines for $100. The offer is only available at Total Wireless stores and through independent multi-carrier dealers. Tota...

Verizon Prepaid Moto E5 Go Is Free At Walmart (Photo Via Wave7 Research)

The Verizon Prepaid Moto E5 Go Is Now Free In-Store At Walmart

By Joe Paonessa • 07/03/20

The Verizon Prepaid Moto E5 Go is now available for free exclusively at Walmart. The offer is available in-store only and was jointly discovered by analysts at Wave7 Research...

NET10 Wireless Plans Have Been Updated To Include Significantly More Data

NET10 Wireless Updates Plans Featuring 30GB Data For $45/Month

By Joe Paonessa • 07/03/20

NET10 Wireless has updated its wireless plans. The plan updates are significant as they make NET10 the best value play among the TracFone brands that use the Verizon network....

Cricket Wireless Has A New Bill Credit Promotion At Target (Photo Via Wave7 Research)

Cricket Wireless Customers Can Save $60 Via Bill Credits By Purchasing A SIM At Target

By Joe Paonessa • 07/02/20

Cricket Wireless has been very busy over the last several weeks with new phone launches and promos. A recent report from Wave7 Research noted another new offer from Cricket, t...

Dish Now Owns Boost Mobile, And Wireless Plan Changes Are Being Made

By Joe Paonessa • 07/01/20

July 1, 2020, is the day that Boost Mobile was officially acquired by the DISH Network for $1.4 billion. T-Mobile was required to divest Boost Mobile in order to gain regulato...

Tello's 4th Of July SALE-A-Bration Offer Is 4 For Any Phone Plan

Tello’s 4th Of July Sale Is $4 For Any Phone Plan

By Joe Paonessa • 06/30/20

Another holiday is approaching and that means Tello Mobile has a new phone plan sale to celebrate it. Tello is marketing the promo as being a SALE-A-Bration. New subscribers c...

Venn Mobile May Be Forced To Permanently Close

Venn Mobile’s Service Has Shut Down & May Be Permanent, Teltik Could Be Next

By Joe Paonessa • 06/27/20

Venn Mobile launched wireless service in late January 2020 featuring one unlimited everything plan with 50GB of mobile hotspot for $30/month. Venn Mobile is run by the same pe...

Verizon Prepaid Introduces Customer Loyalty Discounts, The Longer You Stay The More You Save

By Joe Paonessa • 06/24/20

Verizon Prepaid has introduced customer loyalty discounts that are being marketed around the tagline “stay with us, save with us.” The longer a customer stays with Verizon Pre...