Best Cellular Discontinued Wireless Brand

Best Cellular Discontinued Wireless Brand: What Are the Pros and Cons?

By

Joe Paonessa

How Best Cellular Plans Work

The Best Cellular brand was retired in 2022 and is no longer available. This webpage remains up for historical purposes. 

Best Cellular started as just an idea in 2002. The goal was to launch a multi-national, multi-carrier MVNO that offered the widest range of coverage in America. The company was originally launched as a tri-carrier bring your own device (BYOD) MVNO offering service as a Verizon MVNO, Sprint MVNO & AT&T MVNO. In April, 2016 T-Mobile was added as a network partner as well.

The first retail store location was opened in a small town called Hotchkiss, Colorado. This first retail location still continues to operate as the corporate headquarters for the Best Cellular team as they expand Nationwide while adding new dealers and retail stores. Phones, SIM Cards and accessories are shipped from different locations, (depending on geographic location of the customer) but most of the shipments are made from Best Cellular employees based in Grand Junction, CO.

Originally launched as “Boss Cellular” in 2012, the acquisition of (18 year old) prepaid wireless domain BestCellular.com was finalized on October 1st, 2016 and the brands merged to become what is now known as Best Cellular.

The company now offers no contract plans for not only individual customers but they also offer cross-carrier corporate plans for businesses. This means a business or family can activate phones on Best Cellular using every major carrier (depending on what’s best for each employee in their specific geographic location) and the company can pay a single bill online, in-store or via phone to Best Cellular. As an example: Companies that have employees in different parts of the country may need some employees to be on the Verizon network and others to be on T-Mobile towers and a few employees in a small rural town to connect using the Sprint towers. With Best Cellular, the company can pay a single phone bill and have phones and service on a wide array of devices and carriers but pay a single bill to one company that makes it easy to manage.

Best Cellular also offers prepaid internet or things (iOT) data plans for developers of all sizes who need inexpensive rate plans for iOT & M2M development.