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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For The First Time In Years All Major Carriers Experienced Growth In Prepaid During The Same Quarter

All Major Carriers Experienced Growth In Prepaid During The Same Quarter For The First Time In Years

By Joe Paonessa • 08/17/20

Quarter 2 of 2020 led to growth in the prepaid divisions of AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. According to a recent report by the firm Wave7 Research, it was the first time in...

FreeUP Mobile's New Multi-Month Plans Are Similar To Mint Mobile's

FreeUP Mobile Begins To Shift Focus Towards Multi-Month Plans, Get $15/Month Plan With 3GB High-Speed Data

By Joe Paonessa • 08/15/20

FreeUP Mobile’s first venture into multi-month plans began last November. Just one multi-month plan was launched by the AT&T powered provider. Priced at $40 for 3-months o...

Spectrum Mobile Launches New Unlimited Plus Plan

Spectrum Mobile Quietly Launches $55 “Unlimited Plus” Plan With 30GB Of High-Speed Data

By Joe Paonessa • 08/06/20

Spectrum Mobile quietly updated its phone plan lineup today with a new offering. There’s a new “unlimited” plan now available called “Unlimited Plus” and it’s billed at a rate...

DISH Acquires Ting Mobile Assets From Tucows

DISH Has Acquired Ting Mobile Assets From Tucows, Consumers May See Price Improvements

By Joe Paonessa • 08/03/20

The DISH Network and Tucows Inc. jointly announced today that DISH has acquired some Ting Mobile assets from Tucows. A representative speaking on behalf of Tucows told BestMVN...

Boost Mobile May Have Its Eyes On T-Mobile With New Plans Starting At $10 Due In Early August

By Joe Paonessa • 07/28/20

Boost Mobile was officially purchased from T-Mobile by the DISH Network on July 1st, 2020. T-Mobile was required to offload the brand in order to gain regulatory approval to m...

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....