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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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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Those Who Signup With Verizon Prepaid Through Walmart Continue To Get 2GB Of Free Data On Select Plans
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 bump to 3 GB up from 2 GB, the $50 plan got a bump to 7 GB up
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AT&T’s New $35 1 GB GoPhone Plan Dissappoints
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 maximum speed of 128 kbps. Unlimited international texting to over 100 countries is also included. Those that
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New And Existing Sprint Customers Get A 6 Month Free Trial Of Streaming Music Service Tidal
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 existing Sprint customers. Unlike many of its competitors which include Spotify and Amazon Prime Music, TIDAL offers lossless audio
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Straight Talk Wireless Intros New Plan, Adds More Data To Select Plans Featuring 8 GB For $45
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 little bit before it was ready to officially be announced. Today, the $35 plan with 2 GB of data
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Consumer Cellular Closing In On $1 Billion In Annual Revenue, Adds Target As Customer Service Center
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 in The Bulletin. The company has not stated if that is how many active subscribers it currently has, or
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AT&T Wireless Customers Can Subscribe To DirecTV Now For As Little As $10/Month
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 an Amazon Fire TV Stick with each subscription, as well as offering a discount on the service for as long
Read MoreVerizon Adds More Data To Prepaid Plans, Color Me Unimpressed
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 continue to shake our heads at them. Verizon’s Updated Prepaid Plans All plans include unlimited talk and text. The plan changes
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Data Only Provider “Charge” Is Shutting Down
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 plans for smartphones and tablets. There are only a handful of providers who cater to this particular niche and Charge saw it as an
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Cricket Wireless Announces $50 Bill Credit For Making The Switch
Cricket Wireless has announced another promotion for those that are willing to make the switch to the AT&T owned MVNO. To be eligible, potential subscribers must port in from a provider other than AT&T, and activate a new line of service on a qualifying plan all in one transaction. Eligible
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netTALK Wireless Now Offering Unlimited LTE Data For $40/Month
netTALK Wireless has announced an update to the only cell phone plan that it sells. For just $40/month with autopay billing enabled, subscribers can get unlimited talk, text and 4G LTE data. Without autopay enabled, the plan is priced at $45/month. Previously netTALK included 10 GB of 4G LTE data
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Did T-Mobile Release A Google Voice Competitor With The Launch Of DIGITS?
Starting Wednesday, May 31st, T-Mobile is transferring all of its customer phone lines over to its DIGITS system. DIGITS technology is made possible by what T-Mobile calls IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), its service management layer and Identity Management solution. This in a bit of an oversimplification means that your phone
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T-Mobile Ups Unlimited Data To 32GB, Offers To Pay Off Select Phones If You Make The Switch
T-Mobile announced today what it is calling the #GetOutoftheRed promotion. Those of you that have one of several phones on an installment plan from Verizon, will get it paid off by T-Mobile if you switch to their network. The promotion will officially start on May 31st and the following devices
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Multiple Prize Giveaway From Ting Featuring $100 And Moto G5 Plus, You Don’t Need To Be A Customer To Win!
Updated: 5/24/2017 Sprint and T-Mobile MVNO Ting is currently running a promotional giveaway and it’s pretty easy to enter. To enter, simply take a screenshot of your home screen and send it over to Ting describing it in Haiku. For those of you who don’t know what Haiku is, it
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Sprint And AT&T Temporarily Waive Fees To Call The UK
In the aftermath of yesterdays terrorist attack in Manchester, both AT&T and Sprint are temporarily waiving fees for calls and text messages to the UK. Sprint, Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile Waived Fees Sprint put out the following press release to announce that they would temporarily waive fees: Effective yesterday
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Deal! Save $146 On A New 32 GB Unlocked Sony Xperia XZ With Full USA Warranty
Amazon is currently selling the 32 GB unlocked Sony Xperia XZ at quite the discount. For a limited time Amazon is offering the mineral black version at a price of $353.17, which is $146.82 off the regular price. This is nearly $50 cheaper than can be found anywhere else online.
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