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 • 05/01/17
Originally Published: Jan 11, 2015 Updated: May 1, 2017 with New US Mobile Pricing A few months ago we reported on the inception of a new MVNO, US Mobile. US Mobile se...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/26/17
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 t...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/24/17
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 upg...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/23/17
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-Mob...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/19/17
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 Mobil...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/18/17
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/18/17
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 abili...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/14/17
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 promo...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/12/17
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/10/17
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/08/17
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/05/17
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 t...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/04/17
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...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/04/17
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 em...
By Joe Paonessa • 04/04/17
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...