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 • 05/18/18
Que up Freddy Mercury and Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust. It looks like U.K. stationed TPO Mobile is about to exit the USA market. A few days ago TPO Mobile sent out a pr...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/17/18
In an attempt to further disrupt the MVNO and wireless industries, Mint Mobile has announced some changes to its service. Mint Mobile has announced that it will be tripling th...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/17/18
Target is again selling prepaid wireless refill cards for 10% off. Plans are being discounted for every carrier that Target sells online except for H2O Wireless, Boost Mobile...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/17/18
FreedomPop is now giving away the 2nd generation Motorola E for $9.99. With the purchase of the phone comes a 2 week trial of FreedomPop’s service on its CDMA network partner...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/16/18
The list of MVNO and prepaid wireless providers has been expanding over the past couple of months. DataPass is another new comer that soft launched just a few months ago. It...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/16/18
Red Pocket Mobile notified me today of some new and exciting plans that they now have to offer. Data only plans have launched on their GSMA network priced as low as $5/GB. T...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/15/18
Net10 Wireless looks like it is now bundling an unlimited LTE data plan with the purchase of a Samsung Galaxy On5. Last time I saw a TracFone owned brand do this was with Str...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/15/18
Last week was Teacher Appreciate week. To celebrate Republic Wireless launched its new Educator Appreciation Program (EAP). Through the program, teachers are eligible for a...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/14/18
Red Pocket Mobile has dropped the price of its annual eBay plan that includes unlimited talk, text and data with the first 5GB at 4G LTE data speeds to just $220/year. Normal...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/14/18
Republic Wireless has just formally released a new device aimed at children aged 6 – 11. The new device is called “Relay” and it is being likened to a walkie talkie. Relay De...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/11/18
It looks like Verizon Wireless may finally have a low cost brand to compete with the likes of AT&T’s Cricket Wireless, T-Mobile’s MetroPCS and Sprint’s Boost Mobile and Vi...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/10/18
Tello Mobile is an MVNO that previously used the Sprint network to provide service to its customers. However, in 2021, Tello began activating all new customers on the T-Mobil...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/08/18
In less than a year’s time, ROK Mobile has under gone numerous iterations. We’ve seen the company discontinue its Sprint based plans only to bring them back at a later date....
By Joe Paonessa • 05/03/18
Last year Verizon began testing sales of its prepaid service through exclusive dealers. Today, some of those dealers are now offering double the data for life on all Verizon P...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/03/18
Mint SIM has just relaunched itself as Mint Mobile. The change was officially made Tuesday afternoon on May 1st. The MVNO that runs on T-Mobile’s network said that the rebran...