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 • 03/09/20
Tracfone is running a promotion through its Amazon and eBay stores. Customers that pick up a SIM card kit from one of several Tracfone owned brands and activate service on a...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/03/20
Last month, Black Wireless came out with a terrific offer giving new subscribers an unlimited everything plan with 50GB of high-speed data for $16.67/month. That deal has now...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/03/20
Xfinity Mobile’s currently has several deals running, and most seem to be either complete rehashes of older offerings or slight updates to them. Deals being featured include...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/29/20
FreeUP Mobile is now under the ownership of Ztar Mobile. The move was noticed by Wave7 Research and confirmed to BestMVNO by Rod Nakjavani who founded FreeUP in early 2018. ...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/28/20
Just days after announcing a new free trial plan, Boom! Mobile is back with another new plan. This time it’s an annual plan. Boom! Mobile’s new annual plan is an unlimited e...
Total Wireless And Simple Mobile Offer Up To $100 eGift MasterCard With Samsung And iPhone Purchases
By Joe Paonessa • 02/25/20
Total Wireless and Simple Mobile are both offering MasterCard eGift cards with the purchase and activation of select Samsung and iPhone devices. Total Wireless is only offeri...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/25/20
Walmart Family Mobile, one of the many brands that is powered by T-Mobile has updated its wireless plans. The MVNO’s $39.88 and $49.88 plans now include unlimited calling to C...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/25/20
Last summer, Ting announced that it was dropping T-Mobile as a network partner in favor of adding Verizon later in the year. The reason for the change was due to the uncertai...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/24/20
After a reader inquiry, BestMVNO has learned that Unreal Mobile is now offering premium voice service with its wireless plans. The move was confirmed to BestMVNO by represent...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/24/20
Boom! Mobile has been providing wireless service to subscribers in the USA for approximately 5 years. The brand operates on the AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon networks with se...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/24/20
For the first time ever, Straight Talk Wireless now has more subscribers than all other Tracfone brands combined, excluding SafeLink. SafeLink is a notable exclusion because...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/23/20
Simple Mobile has a new switcher promotion running. Customers who switch over to the Tracfone owned brand will receive their third month of service for free. Simple Mobile’s...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/23/20
Metro By-T-Mobile has recently launched a new in-store promo. Customers can now add another line to their account for free. Of course, the offer does come with a tiny bit of...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/22/20
H2O Wireless is the latest AT&T powered MVNO to gain full support for MMS and group messaging on iPhones. Two very basic features that everyone would expect to get with t...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/21/20
Last August, Consumer Cellular announced that it had amassed 3.5 million subscribers. And based on previous subscriber count announcements it was deduced that the MVNO was gr...