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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...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/02/17

It’s been a long time since I last put together a list of the most popular phone plans at BestMVNO. In fact it’s been over 2 years! A lot has changed since then. Some MVNO’s...

JD Power Ranks T-Mobile Tops In Customer Satisfaction Among Business Users

JD Power Survey Finds T-Mobile To Rank Tops In Wireless Satisfaction Among Business Users

By Joe Paonessa • 10/28/17

A few months ago, a survey conducted by Market Force revealed T-Mobile to be the nation’s favorite carrier. Now a survey conducted by JD Power Associates has named T-Mobile t...

BestMVNO Has Been Updated

By Joe Paonessa • 10/26/17

You may or may not have noticed, but over the past few weeks quite a few changes have been made around here. Two of the biggest changes are to the data only plans list and the...

Ting Now Offers Global Calling At No Extra Charge

By Joe Paonessa • 10/13/17

Thanks to a reader tip, I have learned that Ting recently added international calling free of charge to its cell phone plans. Ting minutes are now global minutes the company h...