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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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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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Boom Mobile Takes Shot At Mint Mobile, Holiday Offer 10GB Plan For $15/Month
Boom Mobile has launched its Black Friday offer. It’s a new customer offer on a 3-month plan. The plan comes with unlimited talk, text, and data with the first 10GB of data every 30 days available at up to 5G data speeds. After 10GB, data speeds are reduced to 2G
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Visible by Verizon’s Holiday Deals; Visible+ Plan $35 For Life, $240 Off iPhones
Visible by Verizon’s Black Friday 2023 deals are set to launch on 11/22/23 and there will be a special offer available exclusively on Cyber Monday, 11/27/23. The Cyber Monday featured offer will be that Visible by Verizon will offer you their flagship unlimited plan, Visible+ for $35/month for life. The
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Mint Mobile’s Annual Black Friday Deal Is Back, Buy 3 Months Get 3 Free
Mint Mobile’s buy three months get three months free offer is once again back for Black Friday. This is the fourth consecutive year that Mint Mobile has run this offer. However, last year the offer first became available in stores including Target and Best Buy in early October before later
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Xfinity Black Friday Deals: Free Year of Unlimited Data & Free Samsung Galaxy A54 5G
Xfinity Mobile has launched its Black Friday deals, highlighted by an offer for a free Samsung Galaxy A54 5G, and buy one $30 unlimited line get one free for a year. There are other deals as well including get $800 off select 5G phones with trade-in or $500 off without
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Tello Mobile Black Friday 2023 Deals, One Month Discounts On Two Plans
Tello Mobile has launched its Black Friday 2023 offers. The T-Mobile powered MVNO has discounted its 1GB and 2GB plans. The 1GB plan is available for $6 and the 2GB plan for $8 for new customers and new lines only. The discount is for the first month of service, then
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Consumer Cellular Debuted ‘Shot On Flip Phone’ Outdoor Ad Campaign
Consumer Cellular recently launched an ad campaign that’s surprisingly centered around a new flip phone from the brand, the $69 IRIS Flip. The campaign, “Shot on Flip Phone,” is an extension of Consumer Cellular’s Freedom Calls marketing campaign which launched earlier this year. According to the latest prepaid report from
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Prepaid Wireless Competition Heats Up, 3 Low Cost Brands Arrive At Walmart
Prepaid competition at Walmart intensified at the end of October with the introduction of three new to the store brands: MobileX, Google Fi, and Red Pocket Mobile In September, MobileX announced it signed a multi-year exclusivity agreement with Walmart with availability in select stores planned for October. Towards the end
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Boost Mobile Offering iPhone 12 Online For $149.99, $99.99 In Stores
Boost Mobile has a new offer online for the 64GB iPhone 12. New customers can pick it up for $149.99. Customers that head to their local Boost Mobile dealer can get it for as low as $99.99 with a number port in. Of course, each deal has its own requirements
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Boost Infinite’s Latest TV Ad Mentions It Uses 3 Of The Nation’s Top Networks
Boost Infinite debuted a new TV ad over this past weekend. According to iSpot.tv the ad is entitled “Boost Infinite’s Wireless Utopia: Explorer.” I find this ad to be significant as its the first TV ad from Boost Infinite that explicitly states that subscribers get coverage from “three of the
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Verizon Continues To Bleed Prepaid Customers, In 3Q23 207K Leave
Verizon released its 2023 third quarter earnings today. The company’s stock closed up 9.27% on the day (to $34.40) on the heels of raising its guidance for the year by $1 billion, with total wireless revenue up 2.9% year over year, and 100k postpaid phone net additions for the quarter.
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Tello Flash Sale Offers Discounts To New Customers On 2GB & 5GB Plans
Tello Mobile is offering a discount to new customers on a couple of its phone plans. Their 2GB plan is available for $10 marked down from $14. The company’s 5GB plan has been discounted down to $15. It’s regularly priced at $19. The discounts are only available for the customer’s
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Boost Mobile Will Refresh Plans And Device Subsidy Policy In November
Boost Mobile is updating its wireless plans. Currently, Boost has different plans in stores than it does online. For instance, $60/month will get you a plan with 50GB of high-speed data in stores, but for the same price online, you only get a plan with 30GB. In November, Boost Mobile
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Competition Alive And Well In Prepaid With Motorola Razr 2023 Pricing
The Motorola Razr 2023 is being carried and heavily discounted by three carrier owned prepaid brands, Boost Mobile (DISH), Metro by T-Mobile, and AT&T’s Cricket Wireless. Verizon Wireless is the only major carrier to not offer the device at a deep discount through one of its prepaid brands. Verizon typically
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Lyca Mobile Denies Report MVNO Deal With T-Mobile Terminated, May Still Be Seeking New Carrier Partner
A report from the National Wireless Dealer Association, NWIDA, states that Lyca Mobile is in the process of looking for a new carrier partner to power its MVNO wireless service in the USA. Lyca Mobile has been a long time T-Mobile MVNO. Three separate sources confirmed to NWIDA that a
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Boost Mobile Pushing More Customers Onto Native Network With 50% Off For 3 Months
Boost Mobile is making a half baked attempt to load more customers onto its native network, the Boost 5G Network. Wave7 Research reported in its latest prepaid brief that Boost Mobile is offering 50% off months two, three, and four to customers that activate on the network built by DISH.
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