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Joe Paonessa - Jan 31, 2015

            Has your Twitter timeline been hit with an advertisement for Freewheel?  Mine has.  Freewheel is Cablevision’s attempt to branch out as a mobile phone service provider, all for the not so low price of $29.99 a month.  The service will include unlimited talk, text and data

Joe Paonessa - Jan 20, 2015

         All you Verizon Prepaid users out there, or those of you thinking of making the switch will be pleased to know that the carrier is increasing the amount of 4G LTE data available on it’s Allset prepaid wireless plan.  When first released the plans contained 500

Joe Paonessa - Jan 12, 2015

                 Just the other day I wrote about RingTo as a provider of free SMS and voice calls to anywhere in America.  Today I will present another company that you’ve likely never heard of that also offers free voice calls, although they do not provide sms integration as their

Joe Paonessa - Jan 4, 2015

         We’ve mentioned many times before that signing up for a plan with unlimited calls and texts isn’t really necessary anymore these days, what’s most important is to go for plans that offer the most data for the least amount of money and RingTo presents another reason to buy into

Joe Paonessa - Dec 31, 2014

      We here at BestMVNO from time to time get contacted by various companies and persons informing us either that they are a new MVNO that is launching or that they are a small one that has been humming along for a brief period of time.  These companies

Joe Paonessa - Dec 21, 2014

       Today only, and with just 14h or less remaining on the deal, Amazon is offering the Nokia Lumia 520 for $19.99.  The model is a GSM AT&T based phone, which means any AT&T MVNO can be used with it.  Although the phone is on the low end in terms

Joe Paonessa - Dec 10, 2014

             Since they could not offer it on Cyber Monday, Republic Wireless promised they’d have a sale of their own at a later date. Well, that later date is today, and for a price of $349 with free shipping.  The promotion ends at 11am EST on

Joe Paonessa - Oct 6, 2014

Welcome to the new BestMVNO.com website!  It’s taken quite some time to migrate over to a new server, but now I’m ready to get back to business providing you with all the latest prepaid phone plan news and more.  This process isn’t 100% complete yet as I’m sure there are

Joe Paonessa - Jul 17, 2014

Changing cell phone service providers should continue to get easier as the Senate recently passed the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act which legalizes unlocking your phone. Of course, this only applies to phones on expired contracts.  For some reason tablets were not included as part of this act, though their

Joe Paonessa - Jul 3, 2014

     Well, there really hasn’t been a whole lot of news to report recently, but I do anticipate a few more stories going live in the coming days. I don’t like to report on things that haven’t quite happened yet and or with incomplete information except under certain circumstances. Using

Joe Paonessa - Jun 1, 2014

More work ahead for BestMVNO and that can only benefit you!  Another thing I’d like to add to the carrier MVNO pages is more of a comparison of the limitations of each MVNO, more of the fine print that each one has. I’ve been mentioning these limitations or the fine

Joe Paonessa - May 18, 2014

Cell Phone Subsidies Being Phased Out? Thanks to T-mobile there is a new trend in the industry as carriers are beginning to move away from the age old sign up for a 2 year contract and get your phone subsidized model.  The idea of no more contracts sounds great on

Joe Paonessa - May 6, 2014

Starting May 15th, all of the four major carriers in the USA and emergency services will enter the 21st century by allowing texting to 911.  Although the carriers will go live with the service on that date not all towns will.  In the event that you try to text 911

Joe Paonessa - Feb 27, 2014

     Earlier I suggested that NET10 was the best ATT MVNO and one of the best MVNO’s period in terms of pricing and features provided.  I had used the service myself for 6 months and can say, not surprisingly, LTE and H+ coverage were excellent.     One thing not

Joe Paonessa - Jan 3, 2014

In case you missed it, Next G Mobile, a former Verizon MVNO, went offline and out of business as of 12/31/2013.  This is one of the problems of smaller less known MVNO’s, they don’t always last.  So if you are thinking of switching to an MVNO, it’s always best to