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Those Living In Bay Or Gulf Counties In Florida Will Get 3 Months Of Free Wireless Service

Verizon Wireless Offering 3 Months Of Free Service To Some Customers Impacted By Hurricane Michael

By Joe Paonessa • 10/17/18

Verizon Wireless customers residing in Bay and Gulf counties Florida will automatically be credited with 3 months of mobile phone service for each line they have. The free se...

T-Mobile Begins To Test Out 36 Month Equipment Installment Plans

T-Mobile Testing Out 36 Month Phone Payment Plans

By Joe Paonessa • 10/14/18

According to one study, the average smartphone owner holds onto their phone for 32 months before upgrading. The same study says that over 20% of mobile phone owners hold onto...

Major Wireless Carriers Offering Free Service And Ways To Help Those Impacted By Hurricane Michael

All Major Wireless Carriers Waiving Charges For Those Impacted By Hurricane Michael

By Joe Paonessa • 10/10/18

All major wireless carriers are waiving overages potentially offering free service to those impacted by Hurricane Michael. T-Mobile and AT&T are allowing their customers...

GreatCall Acquired By Best Buy In $800 Million Deal

By Joe Paonessa • 08/16/18

Best Buy announced that it has acquired GreatCall Inc for $800 million. The move was made to help expand Best Buy’s reach into the growing health space. The deal comes hot o...

Tello Offering 50% Off To ROK Mobile Subscribers

Tello Mobile Offering ROK Mobile Customers 50% Off Their First Month

By Joe Paonessa • 08/03/18

Several days ago ROK Mobile abruptly ended service on the Verizon network. Consequently subscribers were left scrambling for a new service provider. ROK Mobile publicly stat...

ROK Mobile Legacy Verizon Customers Have Their Service Abruptly Terminated

ROK Mobile’s Verizon Based Service Abruptly Ends, Here Is What To Do

By Joe Paonessa • 07/31/18

ROK Mobile has had a rocky year. The MVNO repeatedly changed its phone plan lineup around. It had Sprint based plans that got discontinued and brought back at a later date. ...

Market Force Study Names Consumer Cellular And T-Mobile Top Providers In 2018

Consumer Cellular And T-Mobile Named Top MVNO And Carrier In Latest Market Force Study

By Joe Paonessa • 07/30/18

Market Force Information (Market Force), just completed a research study that named Consumer Cellular America’s favorite MVNO and overall wireless provider. T-Mobile was name...

RingPlus Founder Karl Seeling Talking About Blockchain And ChainBLX

RingPlus Founder Karl Seelig Now Runs Blockchain Company ChainBLX

By Joe Paonessa • 05/29/18

RingPlus was an MVNO founded by Karl Seelig. It was not your everyday standard MVNO. Through RingPlus, Karl brought some new, experimental and innovative technology to the w...

Charlie Ergen Co-Founder Of Dish Network Says His Company May Spend Big On 5G

Dish Chairmen Charlie Ergen Claims Company Will Spend $10 Billion To Build Out 5G Network

By Joe Paonessa • 05/24/18

Dish Network Corp. Chairmen Charlie Ergen gave a talk the other day at the Wireless Infrastructure Association’s Connect X conference. During his presentation he laid out a v...

Straight Talk Wireless Website As Of 3-3-2018 Does Not Show A Clear Data Limit On Unlimited Data Plan

Straight Talk Wireless Thinks Unlimited Data Means 60 GB

By Joe Paonessa • 03/03/18

Some folks never learn. More than three years after settling a $40 million lawsuit over the improper use of the phrase “unlimited data,” Straight Talk Wireless is at it again....

Carrier Prepaid Unlimited Data Plans Compared

Prepaid Unlimited Data Plans From AT&T, Sprint, Verizon And T-Mobile Compared

By Joe Paonessa • 02/20/18

A few days ago AT&T added a new prepaid unlimited data plan to its lineup and priced it at $85/month. It is the most expensive carrier prepaid unlimited data plan on the...

Red Pocket Mobile Now Offering Uncapped Data Speeds On Verizon's Network

Red Pocket Mobile Appears To Now Offer Unthrottled Data Speeds On The Verizon Network

By Joe Paonessa • 01/18/18

I recently began testing service on Red Pocket Mobile for an upcoming review that I will be doing. I ordered a SIM kit and plan through Amazon. Red Pocket Mobile allows you t...

BestMVNO Awards: Best Of 2017, Year In Review

By Joe Paonessa • 01/12/18

With 2017 now in the past it’s time to reflect back on the year as it pertained to the world of MVNO’s and no contract cellphone plan providers. This is the third annual BestM...

Google Pixel 2 Owners Are Having Trouble With Verizon MVNO’s, Here’s A Potential Workaround

By Joe Paonessa • 11/09/17

I have received several emails lately from Total Wireless customers with Google Pixel 2’s that are trying to get their data and MMS to work properly with the Verizon MVNO. I’...

Some Page Plus Airtime Cards Purchased From CallingMart Have Been Disabled

Some CallingMart Pins Are Causing Page Plus Customers To Get Their Accounts Suspended

By Joe Paonessa • 11/09/17

(Updated) The issue with CallingMart and Page Plus Cellular appears to now be resolved. CallingMart has sent out an email to its customers stating the following: Thank...