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 • 06/25/17
A few weeks ago, Straight Talk Wireless updated its cell phone plans to include more data. With those changes, many wondered if NET10 Wireless would follow suite. Both compan...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/23/17
(Updated 06/23/2017: Offers now available through 7/17/2017). T-Mobile has launched a few new deals on select devices just in time for Father’s day. The deals are for buy o...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/23/17
Sprint Prepaid has been re-branded as “Sprint Forward” as noted by Prepaid Phone News. With the re-branding Sprint has consolidated its 3 prepaid wireless plans in favor of of...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/21/17
Sprint announced today that it has re-re-launched Virgin Mobile. That’s not a typo there, the brand was somewhat re-launched a few months ago with the announcement of Data Lo...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/20/17
About a month ago Walmart Family Mobile increased the amount of data that it included with several of its cell phone plans. Today, while doing some work updating the family p...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/20/17
Tello, the Sprint MVNO whose tagline is “no fees whatsoever” is launching a new promotion just in time for the summer. Those who switch to the MVNO between June 23rd- 30th an...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/19/17
PCMag has just completed its 8th annual study which set out to determine which is the fastest mobile network in the USA. They tested the network data speeds of AT&T, Spri...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/19/17
US Mobile has been very busy lately working to improve its business on all fronts. Just a couple of months ago US Mobile updated its cell phone plans. Shortly thereafter an a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...