Prepaid Wireless News

By Joe Paonessa • 03/13/15

        Several months back, Solavei, a T-Mobile based MVNO filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy.  This past week the company announced that it has filed i...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/13/15

UPDATED: 3/20/2015       Ever since its introduction last month, Sprint’s Financial Eligibility Check (FEC) has been a nightmare for its MVNO business...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/12/15

      Just the other day, Cricket Wireless announced that they would offer the Motorola Moto E LTE starting March 13th, for $129.99 which at the time...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/10/15

      Using code “SMARTY” Sprint MVNO Kajeet is currently offering 25% off select phones.  Phone selection is rather limited however with a majority o...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/10/15

After contacting Consumer Cellular, Prepaid Phone News  is reporting that the company is now selling sim cards and service that operate on T-Mobile’s...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/08/15

         Recently I’ve been making changes to the site in hopes of better serving you the readers, as well as those of you in need of a new cell phone...

By Joe Paonessa • 03/02/15

        Consumer Cellular has announced that for the “10th time in 8 years” they are improving on the value of their no contact wireless plans by offe...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/28/15

         ROK Mobile has silently been running a promotion.  It’s the same promotion they had for the December holiday season.  I do not know how...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/27/15

       Attention data hogs, regional carrier  iWireless might have the plan for you.  A peak at iWireless’s website shows that it has been updated to...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/24/15

         Today Ting Mobile announced that anyone who has or presumably purchases one of their GSM based SIM cards can now participate in their op...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/21/15

UPDATE: 03/16/2015          Tracfone Wireless has quietly launched a new MVNO that operates on the Verizon network.  That MVNO is Total Wireless and t...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/21/15

        Boost Mobile is now offering unlimited calling to Mexico and Canada as well as unlimited international text messaging for an additional $5/mon...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/21/15

         Come March 1st Verizon is said to be releasing a new prepaid wireless plan for $60.  The new plan will include unlimited talk and text,...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/20/15

Today Sprint announced a new deal involving its family share plans.  For $90/month customers can now get unlimited talk, text, and 12 GB of shared dat...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/20/15

Cellular Data Network Settings Disabled on iOS with ATT MVNO SIM Cards        I was recently contacted by a reader who is having a problem with gettin...