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 • 03/16/18
One of the complaints MVNO customers often have is that their customer support experience is not as good compared to the experience offered by a major wireless carrier. Unfort...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/14/18
Twigby has announced a small change to its cell phone plans today. All plans include free international text messaging to over 180 countries. Multimedia MMS messages are not s...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/13/18
Simple Mobile has released a limited time promotion for its $25/month plan. Those that subscribe to it will get 3GB of high speed data through 9/30/18 instead of the usual am...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/12/18
AT&T has started running a new promotion to help attract prepaid wireless customers to its network. The carrier is giving away one month of free service to new subscribers...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/09/18
Cricket Wireless will turn 19 on March 17th. To celebrate, the ATT owned prepaid provider will be offering select smartphones for only $19 to new customers who port in to Cri...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/09/18
If you are 55 or older and on the fence about switching to T-Mobile’s age restricted unlimited 55+ plan, you had better make up your mind fast. Starting on March 15th, the co...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/09/18
Over a year ago FreedomPop announced that it would be licensing its platform to a then unnamed carrier. Fast forward a year and a partner still goes unnamed. Now, in lieu of n...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/06/18
For the third time in 5 months Tello is lowering its prices. One featured plan now costs just $19/month for unlimited talk, text and data with the first 2GB at 4G LTE data spe...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/05/18
Samsung offers a pretty generous device trade in program. The company also has financing options available that can be used to purchase a new unlocked device. Because of these...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/03/18
Some folks never learn. More than three years after settling a $40 million lawsuit over the improper use of the phrase “unlimited data,” Straight Talk Wireless is at it again....
By Joe Paonessa • 03/03/18
Prepaid Mobile Phone Reviews recently uncovered a change at Lycamobile. The MVNO that uses T-Mobile’s network to provide service to its customers has increased the amount of d...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/02/18
In August of 2017, FreedomPop launched a promotional annual plan that included monthly allotments of 1,000 minutes, 1,000 text messages and 1GB of data priced annually at $49....
By Joe Paonessa • 03/02/18
Target is in the midst of running another one of its prepaid refill card sales. This time cards from select select providers including AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, TracFone,...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/02/18
MetroPCS is offering the iPhone SE for free to new customers who switch from another carrier and subscribe to an unlimited LTE data plan. Switchers can alternatively elect to...
By Joe Paonessa • 02/28/18
FreedomPop has launched a new mobile hotspot plan using the Sprint network. Customers can now get 10GB of 4G LTE data for just $39.99/month. It’s basically the same plan that...