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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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...

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...

Simple Mobile And Total Wireless Launch At Sam's Club (Photo Via Wave7 Research)

Simple Mobile & Total Wireless Expand Into Sam’s Club, Special Offers Available

By Joe Paonessa • 06/20/20

Tracfone brands Simple Mobile and Total Wireless have expanded retail availability by launching in Sam’s Club. The move was first observed by industry analysts at Wave7 Resear...

TextNow Is One Of Several Prepaid Brands That Have Recently Launched TV Advertising Campaigns

Pure TalkUSA, TextNow And Visible Have All Launched National TV Advertising Campaigns

By Joe Paonessa • 06/19/20

There’s been a big shift in the brands that are spending on national TV advertising Wave7 Research recently reported to its subscribers. Lesser known brands such as TextNow an...

AT&T Store Located In Roosevelt Field Mall, Garden City, NJ

AT&T Takes A Turn At Eliminating Thousands Of Jobs

By Joe Paonessa • 06/17/20

T-Mobile has received a lot of negative attention over the last several months for reducing its workforce. Now it’s AT&T’s turn. According to a report from Reuters, over t...

Hundreds More T-Mobile Employees Will Soon No Longer Be With T-Mobile

T-Mobile Sprint Post Merger Blues Continue With Even More Job Layoffs

By Joe Paonessa • 06/16/20

April 4, 2019, was the date that T-Mobile’s then CEO, John Legere, made big and bold promises about the proposed T-Mobile/Sprint merger. A great emphasis was placed on the cla...

Republic Wireless Summer Of Savings 2020 Deals

Republic Wireless Offering 3-Months Of Service For $30

By Joe Paonessa • 06/10/20

Republic Wireless has launched a new promo featuring the tagline “Summer Of Savings!” Republic’s Summer Of Savings offer will give subscribers a wireless plan featuring unlimi...

AT&T Prepaid Has New 3-Month Discount Plan Offer

AT&T Prepaid Has A New 8GB 3-Month Discount Plan For $33/Month

By Joe Paonessa • 06/10/20

AT&T Prepaid continues to push into the multi-month plan market. Last summer the brand launched an annual plan for $25/month plus tax that included 8GB of monthly high-spe...