Prepaid Wireless News

By Joe Paonessa • 10/31/22

Xfinity Mobile is running a few deals for new customers. Their current featured deal is for a free Google Pixel 6a. There’s also a deal for BYOD customers. Customers who have...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/26/22

Visible by Verizon has launched some limited-time offers for the Halloween season. The provider is marketing the offers on its website using seasonally themed catchphrases suc...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/21/22

Verizon Prepaid has updated its wireless plans. The provider has made several changes to its plans including lowering starting prices, adding hotspot to its cheaper unlimited...

By Jon Horovitz • 10/21/22

I had a great week of listening and learning the past week.  First, I had the opportunity to meet in New York City with Dennis Bauer, the co-founder of San Francisco based GIG...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/20/22

According to an article in BleepingComputer, some Verizon Prepaid customers were the unfortunate recipients of a message from Verizon notifying them that their accounts have b...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/20/22

Consumer Cellular, the MVNO that targets an older demographic has released a new phone plan for AARP members. Those who have a membership can now get two unlimited lines for $...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/19/22

Ultra Mobile is now offering double data on select plans for new and existing customers. The T-Mobile powered MVNO has also increased the throttled data speeds on its $49 unli...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/17/22

Consumer Cellular has added more data to its wireless plans. Some plans have almost doubled their data allotments like the $25 3GB plan which got a data bump up to 5GB. Wave7...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/17/22

Straight Talk Wireless is the first carrier-owned prepaid brand to introduce a home internet plan. Straight Talk, owned by Verizon Wireless, formally announced the plan today....

By Joe Paonessa • 10/13/22

Last month, Lycamobile released some pretty aggressive promos offering new lines significant multi-month discounts on a few plans. This month, the T-Mobile MVNO has fine-tuned...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/13/22

Boost Mobile has launched another $5 phone plan offer. This latest one gets new customers 10GB of high-speed data with unlimited talk and text for $5 flat, for one month. The...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/10/22

Tello Mobile has launched three phone and plan bundle deals for the month of October. Tello is referring to the offers as “Sweet October Deals.” The T-Mobile powered MVNO is o...

By Joe Paonessa • 10/10/22

Charter Communication’s Spectrum Mobile has been rapidly accumulating subscribers. In July of 2022, Charter announced Spectrum Mobile had amassed 4.3m subscribers up a whoppin...

By Bridget Cox • 10/01/22

Once again, Simple Mobile has stolen the top spot in Wave7 Research’s quarterly independent multi-carrier dealer survey. To date, Simple has commanded the lead every quarter i...

By Jon Horovitz • 09/30/22

I looked at the calendar today and was astonished to see that tomorrow is October 1st and the beginning of the fourth quarter.  It seems like only a few weeks ago that we were...