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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MetroPCS Doubles Data To 2GB On $30 Plan
T-Mobile owned MVNO MetroPCS has just increased the amount of data included with its $30 phone plan. Previously customers on the plan got unlimited talk, text and data with the first 1 GB at 4G LTE speeds. The updated plan now contains 2 GB of high speed data. MetroPCS is
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FreedomPop Launches 100% Free Business Mobile Plan Featuring 2GB Of Data
FreedomPop has just announced a new phone plan geared towards small business owners and like all of FreedomPop’s cell phone plans, service starts at completely “free” with upgrades available for a fee. The basic free business plan depending on your definition of “free,” may be the best free plan that
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Now That Major Wireless Carriers Are Starting To Go All In On Unlimited Data, How Will MVNO’s Be Impacted?
In the last several months, we’ve witnessed a shift in the structure of wireless phone plan offerings from major wireless carriers, namely, A&T, Verizon, Sprint, and T-Mobile. That shift began with T-Mobile in August of last year, with their Big Un-Carrier 12 announcement. At that time, the company said it
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TPO Mobile Joins SpeedTalk In Offering Limited Time Promotional Offers Through RingPlus
It looks like TPO Mobile wants to promote their plans the same way that RingPlus used to, and like how SpeedTalk Mobile most recently did. Both TPO Mobile and SpeedTalk Mobile are now offering limited time promotional plans that will only be available for a few days. The plan that
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FreedomPop Promotional Offer Includes Unlimited Talk, And Text With 7GB Of Data For $29.99
FreedomPop just launched a limited time promotion. The offer is for a plan that includes unlimited talk, text and 7GB of data for one month at a price of $29.99. What I have to call a throwaway phone, the LG Tribute LS660 is also included in that price. The LG Tribute
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US Mobile Updates Plans, Featuring A Whopping 6 GB Of LTE Data For Just $25/Month
US Mobile is an MVNO that began offering service in 2014. The company operates in a fashion that is similar to both Tello, and Ting, in that it offers its customers the ability to custom build their own phone plans. Today, the company wrote in to BestMVNO to give notice that
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RingPlus Resurrected As Or Involved With SpeedTalk Mobile?
SpeedTalk Mobile is a T-Mobile and Verizon MVNO that has only been in existence for a very short while as far as I know. Today I received an email from RingPlus about a promotion that SpeedTalk is about to launch. The promotion looks eerily similar to what a lot of
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FreedomPop Global SIM Review, Tried And Tested In The USA And Europe
Overview FreedomPop is one of the dozens of Mobile Virtual Networks Operators that operate in the USA (otherwise known as an MVNO for short). As an MVNO, the company does not have its own wireless network infrastructure, but rather it buys minutes, text and data at wholesale prices from major wireless
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Ultra Mobile And Univision Mobile Add 3GB More Data To Their $45 Plan
Ultra Mobile is a T-Mobile MVNO that offers low cost phone plans that feature global calling and texting. The company also powers Univision Mobile, whose plans are identical to Ultra Mobile’s although Unvision Mobile is marketed towards individuals who need to frequently contact persons in Latin America. Ultra Mobile started 2017
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Have Cricket Wireless’s Phone Plans Fallen Behind The Competition?
Cricket Wireless has long been one of the best values around for those looking for no contract phone service on AT&T’s network. In fact, the MVNO ended 2016 with a value award from BestMVNO for its $35 prepaid plan that at the time came with 2.5 GB of data. It
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Boom! Mobile Announces VoLTE HD Voice Calling
Boom! Mobile has announced that it can now offer VoLTE, aka HD-Voice calling to subscribers of its RED network plans. MVNO’s often use the color red to describe the network that is Verizon. VoLTE allows for improved sound quality of voice calls as the calls get placed over the LTE
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Verizon MVNO Tracfone, Offering 300 Minutes, 1000 Texts And 1GB Of Data For $20/Month
A recent trip over to Tracfone’s website had me get hit with an advert for a relatively new plan that the company offers. The plan is a smartphone only plan that includes 300 minutes of talk, 1,000 texts and 1 GB of 4G LTE data. This is a really good
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Consumer Cellular Offering One Month Free Trial
Consumer Cellular is a long standing provider in the wireless space having been founded in 1995. The company boasts of having over 2 million subscribers with roughly 1,000 employees ((source: Wikipedia)). Most recently the MVNO was named number 1 overall in customer satisfaction by both a Consumer Reports survey, and by J.D
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BestMVNO.com has been updated
Over the past few weeks, some behind the scenes changes have been made to Bestmvno.com. Namely a better database of MVNO’s has been built out with some new features added to the site here and there. You can find that modified database containing a list of MVNO’s here. The page itself
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Another One Bites The Dust: enVie Mobile Abruptly Stops Providing Service
Prepaid Phone News picked up a bit of information stating that enVie Mobile was shutting down and rather abruptly. EnVie Mobile has since confirmed this on their own website. EnVie Mobile has issued the following vague statement in regards to the closing: Due to circumstances beyond our control with our
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