Prepaid Wireless News

By Joe Paonessa • 09/26/22

Cricket Wireless recently launched its first set of fall deals. Cricket’s first featured fall Android deal is for a free Samsung Galaxy A03s for those who port to Cricket’s $6...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/22/22

Total by Verizon is set to launch its first free phone offers beginning on 10/1/22. That’s less than two weeks after the brand’s official launch on 9/21/22. There will be seve...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/20/22

Lycamobile is running several 50% off plan promotions. As part of the offers, Lycamobile’s $59 “Absolutely Unlimited” plan is $29.50. The $49 60GB unlimited plan is $24.50 and...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/20/22

Google Fi has a new promo out to try and win back its former customers. The promo will give former customers up to 6-lines for free for the remainder of the year on an unlimit...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/16/22

Tracfone Wireless has quietly updated a handful of wireless plans. A HowardForums user noted Tracfone’s $20, $25, and $30 plans all got updated to have an extra 1GB of high-sp...

By Bridget Cox • 09/15/22

The prepaid wireless industry is booming in 2022. Consumers are looking for savings wherever they can find them. The most obvious place, for many, is their wireless bill. The...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/13/22

On April 4, Verizon filed a trademark for “Total by Verizon.” And since early June, Jeff Moore, Principal of Wave7 Research has been reporting that Total by Verizon would like...

By Bridget Cox • 09/10/22

The preorder iPhone 14 deals for the various wireless providers are rolling out and big savings to bring in new subscribers and for customer upgrades seem to be common themes....

By Bridget Cox • 09/09/22

Limited connectivity may result in limited demand Every few years, the developers at Apple decide to make some big changes to their flagship devices. In the past, these change...

By Jon Horovitz • 09/09/22

Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital format. The result is the representation of an object, sound, image, document or signal obtained by genera...

By Joe Paonessa • 09/06/22

Optimum Mobile has quietly raised the prices of its budget wireless plans. It’s has also raised the price of all of its plans for customers that aren’t also Optimum internet c...

By Bridget Cox • 09/02/22

It’s back to school time and for prepaid wireless customers, it’s sign up and save season. Parents want to keep in touch with their students in transit to and from school and...

By Jon Horovitz • 08/26/22

This past May, I wrote about why consumers purchase certain handsets to go along with their wireless service plan.  I received quite a few comments, one of the main areas bein...

By Bridget Cox • 08/25/22

Metro by T-Mobile recently launched eSim support in July for online or customer service activation only. Another major MVNO responded with a quiet eSim launch of their own thi...

By Jon Horovitz • 08/19/22

Consumer Cellular has been one of the greatest success stories in the MVNO space.  Founded in 1995 in Portland, Oregon, Consumer Cellular helped to pioneer providing cellular...