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 • 05/08/18
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/03/18
Tello is celebrating its 2 year anniversary by offering new customers 50% off of their first two months of service. Existing subscribers will also get 50% off through an offer...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/27/18
A poster on HowardForums has stated that MetroPCS will be offering new data add-on options for select plans starting on May 1. The “bolt-ons” as they may be called will be ava...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/27/18
Cricket Wireless, the prepaid brand owned by AT&T has announced that it now has over 9 million subscribers. Since being formally acquired by AT&T in 2014 the company has doub...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/27/18
A reader sent in a tip that TracFone discontinued its data only service add-on cards. After a little bit of investigating, this does seem to be at least partially true. A cus...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/24/18
FreeUP Mobile has been beta testing service the past few weeks on what it calls the nation’s largest 4G LTE GSM network. The use of that slogan coupled with the coverage map s...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/21/18
FreedomPop has launched some Best Buy exclusive plans. The MVNO says that the plans are compatible with GSM devices from networks such as AT&T, T-Mobile and Cricket. Given th...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/20/18
Republic Wireless just launched a new promotion offering prospective buyers one month of free service that includes unlimited talk and text with 1GB of data. Additionally shi...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/20/18
ATT has just updated its prepaid plans. A $45 unlimited plan ($40 with autopay) that contained 6GB of data has been removed. In its place is a new plan priced at $50/month t...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/16/18
Karma Mobility is a provider of wireless hotspot plans. Wireless hotspot plans are the only type of plan that this Sprint powered MVNO sells. Service with Karma requires the p...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/13/18
Simple Mobile, a prepaid provider on the T-Mobile network, has begun to sell data add-on cards. Currently there are two 4G LTE data add-on cards available, and they are priced...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/13/18
T-Mobile has announced a new limited time promotional offer for its prepaid brand MetroPCS. New customers who port their number over can now get two months of unlimited servi...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/11/18
TextNow has announced a new phone plan called the TextNow Starter Plan. The new plan is a talk and text only plan and it is priced at $9.99/month. Taxes and fees are included...