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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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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Updated: Virgin Mobile Now Offering Unlimited LTE Data Plan
It was just a few hours ago that I wrote about how unlimited lte data has become the latest buzz word in mobile. Well, it seems that yet another provider has decided that it needs to offer such a plan as well. This time it’s Virgin Mobile, one of the prepaid brands
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Simple Mobile Promo Offers A Free Month Of Service With Purchase Of A Phone, And Yes There’s Unlimited LTE Data
Now through March 24, Simple Mobile is running a special promotion for those that switch to the wireless provider which runs on T-Mobile’s network. Simply purchase a new phone with a plan and you’ll get your second month of service free of charge. Even if you don’t need a new phone,
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Total Wireless Expands Retail Presence Into More Locations
Prepaid Phone News has reported that Total Wireless has expanded its retail presence into stores such as Target and the Dollar General. Since its inception, the brand had exclusively been sold through Walmart. I was able to confirm the presence of the brand at my local Target although not to
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Cricket Wireless Lowers Price Of Unlimited Data Plan, Offers $50 Bill Credit For Port Ins
Cricket Wireless just lowered the price of its unlimited data plan from $70/month to $60/month with taxes and fees included. If you enable autopay on your account you can get the plan for $55/month, which is pretty much the best deal around for unlimited data on AT&T’s network. The plan
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Updated: Sprint MVNO Tello Continues To Offer Former RingPlus Subscribers That Port In 50% Off
Tello, a company that offers subscribers the ability to custom build their own phone plan with no fees whatsoever, has come out with a special offer for Ringplus subscribers who are in need of a new provider. Tello is offering 30% 50% off of your first month of service if you
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Mint SIM Continues To Offer Promo Featuring Unlimited Talk, Text And 10 GB Data For $20
Mint SIM is a sub MVNO of Ultra Mobile. The companies business model is aimed at getting subscribers to pay in advance for several months of service. Subscribers can choose to pay in advance for either 3 months, 6 months or 12 months. A BestMVNO.com site reader tipped me off
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TPO Mobile Intros New Low Cost Plan Geared Towards Light Users
TPO Mobile, the wireless provider that offers subscribers low cost service on their choice of either the Sprint or T-Mobile network, has introduced a new phone plan that should help to strengthen its market share in the light user niche. The new plan is called the Gentle Plan, and it
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Verizon’s Latest Prepaid Offering Features 2 GB Of Data For $40
Verizon went live today with a brand new prepaid plan, or lowered the price of a previous offering depending on how you want to look at it. The new plan features unlimited talk, text and data with the first 2 GB at full 4G LTE speeds before they get reduced
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H2O Wireless Review, My Personal Experience
Overview H2O Wireless is what’s otherwise known as Mobile Virtual Network Operator, or MVNO for short, and it operates on the AT&T network. MVNO’s are typically small companies that don’t have their own wireless network, but rather they buy minutes, texts and data at wholesale prices from major networks that they
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Verizon Wireless Does A 180, Brings Back Unlimited Data Plan
Just a few months ago Verizon’s CFO Fram Shammo shouted: “You cannot make money on an unlimited video world…………At the end of the day, people don’t need unlimited plans.” ((Cnet)) It seems Fram Shammo is eating his words, as Verizon has decided to indeed go ahead and launch an unlimited
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