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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Tracfone Will Soon Offer New Monthly Unlimited Talk And Text Plans

Tracfone Releases New Unlimited Talk & Text 30 Day Plans, Pricing Starts At $20 With 1GB Data

By Joe Paonessa • 07/24/19

Tracfone has released some new 30-day smartphone plans. The new plans include unlimited talk and text plus data with unlimited carryover. Plans start at $20/month for unlimi...

Metro By T-Mobile Offering Samsung Galaxy A20 Free To Switchers

Metro By T-Mobile Offering Free Samsung Galaxy A20 To Switchers

By Joe Paonessa • 07/23/19

Metro By T-Mobile has unveiled what it is calling the “Best Deal in Wireless.” Customers who switch over to Metro can get two unlimited LTE data lines for $80/month and two S...

Mint Mobile Offering Free Year Of Service With iPhone Purchase

Mint Mobile Is Offering A Free Year Of Service With The Purchase Of An iPhone XR, XS Or XS Max

By Joe Paonessa • 07/22/19

Mint Mobile has recently launched several offers. Customers who order a new iPhone XR, XS or XS Max can choose to pair it with either a free year of service, free airpods wit...

Ting Will Have A New MVNO Partner In Verizon

Ting Drops T-Mobile As MVNO Partner, Adds Verizon

By Joe Paonessa • 07/10/19

Tucows, the company behind Ting, says that it is revising its 2019 cash EDITDA guidance downward from $62 million to $52 million. The company blames underperformance in the m...

US Mobile Is The First MVNO To Offer CDMALess Calling And Texting On America’s Most Reliable 4G LTE Network

By Joe Paonessa • 07/04/19

US Mobile is the first MVNO in the USA to offer CDMALess calling and texting on the network its Super LTE Network plans operate on. US Mobile does not disclose what network i...

Cricket Wireless Launches LG Stylo 5 For $229.99

By Joe Paonessa • 06/28/19

The next iteration of the LG Stylo is here. Cricket Wireless launched the LG Stylo 5 today for $229.99 for new lines and upgrades. Those that want to upgrade to the device w...

Tracfone Brands Including Simple Mobile (Pictured) Are Having 4th Of July Holiday Sale

Simple Mobile Has iPhone 8 Plus Open Box For $399.99, Other Trac Brands Offering 25% Off Phones With Promo Code

By Joe Paonessa • 06/27/19

Tracfone and its associated brands which include Simple Mobile, and Total Wireless among several others are all running a 4th of July sale. The brands are also offering up to...

eBay Exclusive Annual Plan From Tracfone Now Formally Available For Existing Subscribers

Existing Tracfone Customers Can Now Order Annual Plan With 1200 Minutes, Texts And 3GB Data For $49.99

By Joe Paonessa • 06/26/19

Tracfone continues to use eBay to push new plans and deals that are exclusive to that sales channel. We saw an example of this the other day when the company made several off...

Visible Announced It Has Temporarily Removed LTE Data Speed Limits

Verizon’s Visible Prepaid Brand Removes Speed Cap, Get Unlimited LTE Data For $40/Month

By Joe Paonessa • 06/26/19

A couple of months ago, someone started a thread on Reddit wondering why Visible doesn’t offer higher data speeds for a small fee. A Visible employee responded to the thread...

Boost Mobile Updated $50 Hotspot Plan To Include 50GB Of Data

By Joe Paonessa • 06/25/19

Boost Mobile has updated its data only plans. The Sprint-owned prepaid brand updated its $50 hotspot plan to include 50GB of hard-capped data. The previous offering was for...

PIX Wireless Launches PIX Emerald Plans On The AT&T Network

PIX Wireless Adds AT&T As A Network Partner, Pricing Starts At $15/Month For 1GB LTE Data

By Joe Paonessa • 06/24/19

PIX Wireless may already be selling what is the best value monthly plan on the Verizon network. The company launched plans on the Verizon network under the plan name “PIX Sil...

Grocery Store Chain Kroger Launches Kroger Wireless (Photo Via Wave7 Research Taken June 7th At A Dillons In Kansas)

Grocery Chain Kroger Rebrands i-wireless To Kroger Wireless, Pricing Starts At $25/Month

By Joe Paonessa • 06/24/19

Grocery Chain Kroger has rebranded its MVNO service “i-wireless” to “Kroger Wireless.” The i-wireless brand had been operating since 2006. Kroger will continue to offer wire...

FreedomPop Will Operate On All 4 Major Networks

Red Pocket Mobile Announces FreedomPop To Offer Free Plans On All 4 Major Networks

By Joe Paonessa • 06/21/19

Red Pocket Mobile announced today that the FreedomPop and UNREAL Mobile brands that it recently acquired from STS Media will soon operate on all 4 major networks in the USA. ...

Gen Mobile Promo Codes Offer Discounts On All Wireless Plans

Gen Mobile Offering 5% Off Multi-Month Plans, $5 Off All Other Orders

By Joe Paonessa • 06/19/19

Gen Mobile is now offering a small discount on its prepaid wireless plans. Customers can save 5% on the cost of a multi-month plan with use of the coupon code 5OFF3MONTH. Al...

Samsung Galaxy A50 Is Now Available At Selectel Wireless

Selectel Wireless Is Now Selling The Samsung Galaxy A50 For $399.99

By Joe Paonessa • 06/18/19

Selectel Wireless announced in a Facebook post that it is now carrying the Samsung Galaxy A50. The Verizon powered MVNO has even set up a big splash page on its website adver...