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By Jon Horovitz • 06/03/22

Although still struggling with gas pricing, food costs skyrocketing, rents going up and everything else tied into our current inflation issues as well as the pundits talking a...

By Jon Horovitz • 05/20/22

If you’re reading this on your mobile phone, please stop and ask yourself, “why did I buy this particular model?”  Is it an Apple, Samsung, Motorola, Google, TCL, OnePlus, or...

By Jon Horovitz • 05/06/22

For most of us in the wireless business, it is common knowledge that “the first handheld cellular phone call was made on April 3, 1973, by Motorola engineer Martin Cooper from...

By Jon Horovitz • 04/22/22

What value can you assign to “Free?”  This debate has been going on for years and has now found its way into the wireless connectivity world.  The old adage that “if something...

By Joe Paonessa • 04/11/22

C Spire has launched a new prepaid wireless brand named “Solo.” Wave7 Research noted the new brand launch in a prepaid report the firm recently published. Taking a page from V...

By Stephen Vicinanza • 04/11/22

Verizon’s Simple Mobile is once again at the top of the Wave7 Research prepaid wireless dealer survey.  This is the 29th time in a row Simple Mobile has come in first place in...

By Stephen Vicinanza • 04/05/22

Walmart is running a rollback on select prepaid phones in-store and online. The offers are for a variety of carrier networks, most do not require the purchase of a service pla...

By Jon Horovitz • 04/01/22

It’s that time of year again.  Looking at the calendar, it’s almost Trade Show season.  Trade Shows come along at this time every year like taxes and the Academy Awards (but w...

By Stephen Vicinanza • 03/18/22

The Samsung Galaxy A53 5G was announced on Thursday 3/17. The Samsung Galaxy A53 5G is sporting advanced features, like a 2.4GHz 5nm Exynos octa-core processor, and a 64MP mai...

By Jon Horovitz • 03/18/22

A lot of us like to harken back to the good old days when life was simpler, things were clearly defined and it was easy to figure out who did what and where to go for your eve...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/04/22

Recently, BestMVNO was contacted by a reader experiencing problems with their AT&T MVNO, Red Pocket Mobile. The problems the reader is having started when AT&T began i...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/03/22

TextNow has updated its wireless plans with more options and improved pricing. There’s now a 1GB plan for $8.99. It is unknown exactly when the changes occurred. The Wayback M...

By Jon Horovitz • 02/25/22

This past January I wrote of all the predictions about what was going to be in store for MVNOs in 2022 and beyond. So far we have seen incredible continued growth from both Ch...

By Jon Horovitz • 02/04/22

This week’s subject is security for mobile devices.  Not a day goes by when you don’t read of another hack on a major corporation by bad actors who now have access to your mos...

By Jon Horovitz • 01/21/22

I always enjoy the end of the year when too many publications start listing their “Best” or “Top” categories of the year.  Best Movies, Best Television Shows, Best Books, Best...