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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TPO Revamps Phone Plans And Offers Another 50% Off First Month Of Service Promo
TPO Mobile has altered its phone plans and not all for the better. The Sprint and T-Mobile MVNO has been in business about a year now and has revamped its plans a few times since inception. On the plus side, the MVNO has added a new plan featuring 1 GB
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RingPlus Announces Two New Promotional Plans With Up To 6 GB Of Free Monthly Data
RingPlus has come out with 2 new promotional cell phone plans. Start time for plan registration is today, August 28th, 2016 at 4 PM PST and lasts until 7 PM PST. Upgrade options for current subscribers will begin at 7 PM PST today and last until sold out. The plans
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H2O Wireless Offering 50% Off One Month Of Service
H2O Wireless is currently running a promotion on their Monthly Unlimited Plans. Through December 31st 2016, new customers can get 50% off their first month of service by using the promotional code 50off during checkout. Discounted Monthly Unlimited Plans H2O Wireless’s Monthly Unlimited Plans all include unlimited talk, text, and international
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Boost Mobile’s Growing Data Plans To Be Replaced September 30th
Prepaid Phone News is reporting that Boost Mobile will be completely replacing it’s growing data and $60 unlimited plans with its newly released unlimited plans. The changeover will happen on September 30th, with customers of the old plans getting to retain those plans if they choose. I have already updated
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RingPlus Reopens BLT Free Plan: Features 4750 Talk, Text And MB Of Data
Today, Tuesday August 23, 2016 between 6:30-9:00 PM Pacific RingPlus is reopening the BLT Free Plan. The plan will be available for new subscribers, and based on how many new subscribers there are, an equal number of openings will become available tomorrow as a paid upgrade for current subscribers. Upgrades for
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How T-Mobile’s Un-Carrier 12 Will Impact Unlimited 4G LTE And Simple Choice Customers
T-Mobile’s latest Un-Carrier move has generated a lot of controversy. CIO says it is rife with gotchas. PCMag says “it’s pockmarked with caveats and asterisk, but it’s still a pretty good deal.” Jan Dawson, chief analyst at Jackdaw Research says “T-Mobile’s unlimited data plan isn’t all that attractive when you
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Credo Mobile Said To Have Dropped Sprint As Its Main MVNO Partner In Favor Of Verizon
According to a report from Fierce Wireless, long time Sprint MVNO Credo Mobile is said to have converted to Verizon as its main network partner. With the move, all new customers will be activated with service that utilizes Verizon’s network except for those who bring their own devices. Those who
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RingPlus Promotion: Mad Fert Plan Price Cut In Half, Featuring 500 MB Of 4G LTE Data For $2.50/Month
RingPlus’s latest promotion is a discount on one of its “Mad Plans.” Mad Plans differ from other RingPlus plans in that calls are directly routed over Sprint’s network as opposed to being first routed over RingPlus’s servers. The latest promotion will run today, August 17th, between the hours of 5
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RingPlus Announces Latest Promotion, Curie Free Plan, Features 2.75 GB Of Free Data Each Month
RingPlus has announced it’s latest promotional free cell phone plan, dubbed the Curie Free Plan. The plan opens today, August 7th, at 10 am PST and lasts until 9 pm PST, and it will be available as an upgrade option for current members for a $15 fee ($5 for Member+)
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A La Carte Pricing MVNO Ting Lowers Price Of Data Allotments
Ting, has updated its a la carte data pricing allotments with cheaper data. New Rates Tings new rates are summarized in the chart below with the old pricing model highlighted and crossed out in red. Allotment Size Device Access Charge* Minutes Text Messages Data XS $6 (1 device) 0 0
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Ultra Mobile Backed Sub MVNO “Mint SIM” Launches, Features 10 GB Of Monthly Data At Average Monthly Cost Of $33.25
A new MVNO launched today or sub MVNO if you will, called Mint SIM. Mint SIM is being powered by T-Mobile MVNO Ultra Mobile and as such it runs on the same network as Ultra Mobile. This isn’t the first sub MVNO to hit the market, as just a short while
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Pure TalkUSA Updates Select Plans With More High Speed Data
Pure TalkUSA has updated two of its Unlimited Plans to include more data, holding one plan at the same price with an increase to the other. The $35 plan got a data hike of 500 MB going from 1.5 GB to 2 GB of 4G LTE. The $45 plan got increased
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RingPlus Announces Bring It Over 2 Free Plan, Features 2.5 GB LTE Data, 2500 Minutes And Texts
On August 1st and August 2nd between the hours of 7 PM PST and 10 PM PST the latest RingPlus promotion launches. The promotion is for new lines of activation only, with upgrades for Member+ subscribers allowed. Bring It Over 2 Free Plan The Bring It Over 2 Free Plan features
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TextNow Updates Plans With Up To 50% More Data, Improves Call Quality
TextNow announced a new technology that it calls Elastic Calling which improves on its ability to route calls between WiFi and Cellular networks. TextNow touts itself as the worlds first all IP cloud based mobile phone carrier and the first to offer WiFi to cellular VoIP (data network) hand offs. Traditionally
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ATT MVNO easyGO Adds New Phone Plan With Unlimited International Talk To 80 Countries
AT&T MVNO easyGO has launched a new cell phone plan aimed at those who require copious amounts of international calling and texting. The new plan is priced at $30/month and it includes unlimited talk, text, MMS, international text, and international talk to 80 countries ((International Calling Countries- American Samoa, Andorra,
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