Prepaid Wireless News

Black Friday 2022 Thankful For Wireless Industry

A Week Until Black Friday, We Should All Be Thankful For The Industry We Work In!

By Jon Horovitz • 11/18/22

Thanksgiving is less than a week away and in just seven days it will be Black Friday. How important has Black Friday become for retail? In 2019 (rig...

US Mobile Updates Plans, You Can Now Get 15GB For $20/Mo

By Joe Paonessa • 11/17/22

US Mobile has just updated some of its plans to offer even better value. One eye-catching change is that US Mobile’s $20 plan with 12GB of data just g...

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Metro by T-Mobile Offering Free Phones In Walmart Stores, Service In Puerto Rico

By Joe Paonessa • 11/14/22

Metro by T-Mobile is offering free phones in Walmart stores. Wave7 Research recently described the offerings in a prepaid report the firm sent to its...

Mint Mobile Buy 3 Get 3 Free Offer On Display At Best Buy

Mint Mobile’s Buy 3 Months Get 3 Free Offer Is Officially Back

By Joe Paonessa • 11/14/22

Mint Mobile’s buy three months get three months free offer is officially back on the Mint Mobile website. This is the third year in a row that the T-M...

Nebula Wireless Aims To Pair Premium Services With Affordable Pricing

By Joe Paonessa • 11/11/22

Nebula Wireless is set to formally launch by early January 2023 with plans starting at $20/month. Due to contractual agreements, the upcoming MVNO can...

Total by Verizon Display Being Set Up At Target

Verizon Begins Marketing Push Of Total by Verizon With First TV Ad

By Joe Paonessa • 11/09/22

Verizon has begun the marketing push of Total by Verizon with the launch of a couple of TV ads. There’s an ad in Spanish and one in English. Both ads...

Cricket Wireless Introduces “tryCricket” Free Trial Offer, Surpasses 13m Subscribers

By Joe Paonessa • 11/03/22

Cricket Wireless is the latest brand to offer a free trial. Today, the prepaid provider unveiled its “tryCricket” app and initiative. Customers can no...

Verizon Prepaid Largely Improves Plans, Adds Choose Your Own Discount

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...

MVNOS Grow Your Business With New Platforms And Products

MVNOs Need To Look At New Products & Platforms To Keep Up With The Big Guys

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 o...

Verizon Prepaid Suffers Data Breach

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 t...

Consumer Cellular Two Unlimited Lines For $55

Consumer Cellular Introduces Two Unlimited Lines For $55

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...

Ultra Mobile Double Data For Up To One Year

Ultra Mobile Offering Double Data, Plus Unlimited 3G Data On $49 Unlimited Plan

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 da...

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Consumer Cellular Adds More Data To Plans, Lowers Multi-Line Prices

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 da...

Straight Talk Becomes 1st Carrier Owned Prepaid Brand With Home Internet

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...

Lycamobile’s Promos Get More Aggressive With 12GB For $10/Month Offer

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-M...