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 • 08/01/17
Mint SIM announced today that it has partnered with Best Buy and the company’s cell phone plans will now be available for purchase directly through the retail giant. The new...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/31/17
Republic Wireless has just launched a special deal marketed towards those who are getting ready to go back to school. The bundle deal features a brand new Motorola E4 with a r...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/28/17
Current and potential Mint SIM customers can at least rejoice in the fact that Mint SIM has lowered the prices of most of its plans across the board. As long as subscribers a...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/26/17
US Mobile has announced today that they will be offering an unlimited global WiFi plan priced at just $10/month. Those who subscribe to the plan will gain access to 60+ milli...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/24/17
Consumer Cellular announced today the addition of two new phones to its lineup, the Samsung Galaxy J3 and Samsung Galaxy J7 priced at $100 and $150 respectively. Both phones...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/24/17
A few months ago T-Mobile announced that it would provide its customers with the ability to screen phone calls for scammers and spammers. Today the company announced that its...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/20/17
Kajeet has been notifying its subscribers that they will be ending cell phone service effective 8/23/2017. The company has stopped activating new lines, and has partnered wit...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/20/17
The following has been confirmed true, and the post has been updated with new information. Rumor has it that Cricket Wireless will launch a new promotion next Friday, July 21,...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/18/17
Over two years ago a BestMVNO site reader informed me that they were locked out of the part of their iPhone’s settings menu that would allow them to setup an APN. They notice...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/17/17
MetroPCS will be launching the Mototola Moto E4 on July 31st and it will be available for free from participating retail locations for those who port in their number. Port-in...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/17/17
Straight Talk Wireless is currently running a special on both the Samsung Galaxy S8 and S8+. Those that purchase either device with a phone plan will receive $100 off of the...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/17/17
It looks like US Mobile’s stellar offering of a whopping 10 GB of data for $32/month proved to be too costly to maintain as the T-Mobile and soon to be Verizon MVNO announced...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/17/17
It’s been about a month since Tello, last offered a promo. Today, July 17th, Tello has launched a new promo that will give those that port over free data for their first mont...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/15/17
Real Mobile, an MVNO that uses both the Sprint and AT&T networks to provide coverage to its customers has added some new AT&T based phone plans and updated a few other...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/13/17
MetroPCS updated its cell phone plan offerings a couple of days ago and at least one if not both of the updated plans are a bit of a disappointment to me. Before I dig into t...