Prepaid Wireless News

By Joe Paonessa • 02/27/14

     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 mon...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/08/14

Recently, to go along with price cuts by ATT to their family share plans, prepaid MVNO provider AIO decided to also get in on the fun.  Their basic plan now includes 2x the da...

By Joe Paonessa • 02/08/14

Sprint MVNO Ting, has celebrated two years in the business by lowering rates on a variety of plans.  Some have changed by as much as $13, for instance the 2GB data bucket has...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/14/14

In case you missed it, popular Verizon MVNO “Page Plus Cellular” has now finally been taken over by TracFone.  What will become of their service remains to be seen.  TracFone...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/07/14

AT&T unveiled a plan today offering businesses the chance to “sponsor your data”.   When a business has an ad or app, or a new movie coming out, they’ll allow you to consu...

By Joe Paonessa • 01/03/14

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...

By Joe Paonessa • 12/18/13

Red Pocket mobile announced today they will now offer 4G service (via T-mobile) for data only devices.  By 4G we assume they mean HSPA+ which is very fast itself, but does not...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/25/13

Update: FreedomPop is now allowing a small portion of BYOD to it’s network although some users are currently experiencing activation trouble.  Some of the phones you can now a...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/19/13

Sprint has decided to become even more crappy by not allowing customer’s of it’s various MVNO’s to use certain BYOSD (Bring your own Sprint Device) phones on it’s network.  Di...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/06/13

Sprint MVNO Karma is getting ready to launch on Sprint’s LTE network.  Karma is a unique MVNO in that it’s a data only network and they allow you to share your data with frien...

By Joe Paonessa • 11/04/13

Straight Talk Wireless, one of the only MVNOs to offer service on all 4 of the BIG 4 is now offering the Samsung Galaxy S3 in select markets as one of it’s Verizon based offer...