MVNOs Shutdown
Articles about when USA MVNOs shutdown and stopped offering wireless service.
By Joe Paonessa • 05/31/24
Thanks to a reader tip, BestMVNO has learned that Boss Wireless is shutting down. There’s a banner on the provider’s homepage that reads: We regret to inform you that BOSS Wir...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/16/23
NET10 Wireless appears to be headed to the recycling bin. A visit to the NET10 Wireless website today surprisingly led me to be pitched Simple Mobile service. A new tab on the...
By Joe Paonessa • 08/15/23
BestMVNO has learned from a reader tip that Nebula Wireless, which initiated an Indiegogo campaign in November 2022 to prepare for its commercial debut, has now shut down. Neb...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/17/21
Last month, Verizon announced that it was selling its media business division that includes AOL and Yahoo to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion. Veriz...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/27/20
Venn Mobile launched wireless service in late January 2020 featuring one unlimited everything plan with 50GB of mobile hotspot for $30/month. Venn Mobile is run by the same pe...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/27/20
ZIP SIM, an MVNO that specializes in temporary phone plans designed for travelers to the USA is shutting down. The company sent out an email today notifying its subscribers th...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/22/19
DataPass was a multi-carrier partner MVNO. The company offered service plans on the T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon networks. The MVNO burst onto the scene in early 2018 by off...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/28/18
Word broke in May that TPO Mobile may be exiting the USA market. A short while later TPO Mobile sent out a notice to its shareholders that it was working on a deal with Ting...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/18/18
Que up Freddy Mercury and Queen’s Another One Bites The Dust. It looks like U.K. stationed TPO Mobile is about to exit the USA market. A few days ago TPO Mobile sent out a pr...
By Joe Paonessa • 11/10/17
Harbor Mobile was a T-Mobile and ATT business plan reseller. Over two years ago the company stopped selling service on the T-Mobile network. At that time its customers were t...
By Joe Paonessa • 07/20/17
Kajeet has been notifying its subscribers that they will be ending cell phone service effective 8/23/2017. The company has stopped activating new lines, and has partnered wit...
By Joe Paonessa • 06/01/17
Charge launched itself into the MVNO stratosphere with good intentions in early 2016. The Sprint MVNO hoped to differentiate itself from other providers by offering data only...
By Joe Paonessa • 05/19/17
Mast Mobile launched with much promise over 1 year ago. The company was started in part by two former Virgin Mobile executives who together with a couple of other partners we...
By Joe Paonessa • 03/11/17
Prepaid Phone News picked up a bit of information stating that enVie Mobile was shutting down and rather abruptly. EnVie Mobile has since confirmed this on their own website....
By Joe Paonessa • 02/04/17
It looks like subscribers of the Sprint MVNO Ringplus will have to find a new MVNO provider. Ringplus sent out a notice to its subscribers yesterday that it will be forced to...