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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Limited Time Offer From T-Mobile Prepaid, Get 10 GB Data For $50/Month

By Joe Paonessa • 06/17/17

T-Mobile has just launched a new limited time offer for its prepaid wireless fans. The promotional offer is for unlimited talk, text and data with the first 10 GB at full LTE...

H2O Wireless Announces New Plans And Last Time To Get 50 Percent Off Current Promotional Plans

H2O Wireless Announces It’s New Cell Phone Plans, Featuring 6 GB Of High Speed Data For $36

By Joe Paonessa • 06/16/17

For the past 7 months H2O Wireless has been running a tremendous promotion with its wireless plans. Both new and current subscribers have been able to get 3 GB of monthly dat...

Republic Wireless Launching Motorola Moto E 4th Generation

Republic Wireless Launches New Moto E For $99, Selling Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge For $449

By Joe Paonessa • 06/16/17

Republic Wireless has announced that they will soon launch the Motorola Moto E 4th generation, as well as a few price drops on select devices. The new Motorola Moto E was just...

Lycamobile Updates Phone Plan To Include Unlimited LTE Data

Lycamobile Adds Unlimited LTE Data Plan For $55/Month, Makes It Easier To Sign Up For Family Plan

By Joe Paonessa • 06/15/17

It looks like some changes have been happening at T-Mobile MVNO Lycamobile. The Lycamobile website has recently been updated and it now appears to be much more streamlined co...

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Switch To Sprint And Get A Free Year Of Unlimited Data, Almost No Strings Attached

By Joe Paonessa • 06/14/17

Summer is just around the corner, and as things are just starting to heat up outside, they’re also just starting to heat up in the wireless world. Some MVNO’s have been makin...

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Once Again Market Force Study Reveals T-Mobile And Consumer Cellular To Be America’s Favorite Carrier And MVNO

By Joe Paonessa • 06/13/17

Market Force Information (Market Force), a customer experience management and research company conducted a large scale consumer study in May of 2017 polling over 8,200 consume...

Pure TalkUSA Doubles Data One Month Free Trial

Pure TalkUSA Doubles Data On Select Plans, Featuring 5 GB Data For $35

By Joe Paonessa • 06/12/17

A few months ago I wondered what the impact would be on MVNO’s with all the major carriers moving towards offering unlimited LTE data plans exclusively. I had hoped to see a...

Select Verizon Prepaid Plans Include Bonus Data From Walmart

Those Who Signup With Verizon Prepaid Through Walmart Continue To Get 2GB Of Free Data On Select Plans

By Joe Paonessa • 06/11/17

A week ago Verizon announced that it tweaked its prepaid wireless plans, adding more data to some cell phone plans while lowering the cost of another. The $40 plan got a data...

AT&T’s New $35 1 GB GoPhone Plan Dissappoints

By Joe Paonessa • 06/11/17

AT&T has launched a new GoPhone plan. The plan is priced at $35/month and it includes unlimited talk, text and data with the first 1GB at 4G LTE speeds before throttling to a...

New And Existing Sprint Customers Get A 6 Month Free Trial Of Streaming Music Service Tidal

By Joe Paonessa • 06/08/17

Starting tomorrow, June 9th, Sprint is offering a free all access pass 6 month trial of TIDAL’s music and video streaming services. The offer will be valid for both new and e...

Straight Talk Wireless 2GB Plan Disappears Again

Straight Talk Wireless Intros New Plan, Adds More Data To Select Plans Featuring 8 GB For $45

By Joe Paonessa • 06/06/17

It turns out that new cell phone plan that Straight Talk temporarily posted back in April was no fluke after all. It’s just that the company posted it to their website a litt...

Consumer Cellular Approaching One Billion In Annual Revenue

Consumer Cellular Closing In On $1 Billion In Annual Revenue, Adds Target As Customer Service Center

By Joe Paonessa • 06/06/17

Consumer Cellular has announced that it recently signed up its 2 millionth customer, which is more than double the amount it had signed up 3 years ago according to an article...

AT&T Wireless Customers Can Subscribe To DirecTV Now For As Little As $10/Month

By Joe Paonessa • 06/05/17

Since its launch, AT&T has been pushing its DirecTV Now service pretty hard on consumers. I even subscribed in their initial launch phase. At that time AT&T was giving away a...

Verizon Adds More Data To Prepaid Plans, Color Me Unimpressed

By Joe Paonessa • 06/02/17

Verizon has added more data to its prepaid plans, and I say big whoop. They’re simply unimpressive and noncompetitive, but’s lets have a look at the changes before we continu...

After A Little Over A Year In Business, Charge Decides To Shut Down

Data Only Provider “Charge” Is Shutting Down

By Joe Paonessa • 06/01/17

Charge launched itself into the MVNO stratosphere with good intentions in early 2016. The Sprint MVNO hoped to differentiate itself from other providers by offering data only...