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Virgin Mobile rolls out payLo: your choice of two $20 prepaid plans

Posted on 14. Jul, 2010 by IBM.

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Ironically, we doubt payLo’s presumed namesake — J-Lo — is going to be taking advantage of this service with her zillions upon zillions of entrepreneurial profits, but Virgin Mobile’s new line of plans should find a happy home with plenty of custome…

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Virgin Mobile launching prepaid MiFi next week

Posted on 23. Jun, 2010 by IBM.

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The spotlight on Sprint’s MiFi has definitely faded since the launch of the Overdrive and EVO 4G — both of which can kick it into high 4G gear when in range — but Sprint subsidiary Virgin Mobile is bringing Novatel’s groundbreaking mobile hotspot bac…

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HTC Wildfire priced by T-Mobile, coming to UK on June 14

Posted on 19. May, 2010 by IBM.

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The biggest outstanding question about the Wildfire has now been answered by at least one carrier — T-Mobile will be delivering HTC’s student-friendly handset at the £20 ($29) per month price point on two-year contracts. Frankly, that’s a bigger financial commitment than we’d expected to have to make, but it will presumably include unlimited (which in T-Mobile lingo means a 3GB fair use policy) data use and a healthy allowance of calls and texts. If that doesn’t rub you up the right way, look out for Virgin Mobile to reveal its pricing in the near term, having announced it’ll be carrying the phone via a tweet.

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HTC Wildfire priced by T-Mobile, coming to UK on June 14 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 19 May 2010 05:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Virgin Mobile postpaid goes to the big MVNO in the sky in May

Posted on 02. Mar, 2010 by IBM.

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In the US, Virgin’s never been known as a serious postpaid player outside of its Helio acquisition, so it makes some sense that new corporate parent Sprint is killing off its postpaid services — what’s rather wild, though, is that they’re doing it in dramatic, scorched-earth fashion. The service is simply ending on May 25, a little under three months from now, with no automatic transition to any other service in Sprint’s portfolio — Virgin prepaid, Boost, Sprint, or Sprint Direct Connect — but the good news is that anyone interested in moving over to Sprint postpaid specifically will get a $50 discount off any device with a new two-year contract plus waived activation fees. It’s far from a slam dunk for either Sprint or legacy customers — we’re certain that not all of them will stay within the company’s ecosystem — but with Virgin clearly part of Sprint’s prepaid strategy, there was apparently no good business reason to continue supporting a handful of postpaid customers off to the side. For what it’s worth, a Virgin Mobile spokesperson reached out to us today to emphasize that the company’s prepaid brand is here to stay: “Virgin Mobile with Boost Mobile will be the cornerstone of Sprint’s prepaid strategy in 2010.” 2011, though… well, that remains to be seen.

Virgin Mobile postpaid goes to the big MVNO in the sky in May originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Free Virgin Mobile-to-Virgin landline calling coming to UK starting April 1

Posted on 07. Feb, 2010 by IBM.

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The BBC’s crack team at Click managed to out a juicy morsel from the boys and girls at Virgin: its mobile and landline divisions are about to get a whole lot more cozy. This doesn’t have any bearing outside the UK, unfortunately, but our British readers might be excited to hear that the company intends to make calls between its mobile handsets and its old-school granny phones devoid of per-minute charges beginning on April 1, as is evidenced by a series of tweets betwixt Click and a PR dude over at Virgin. Perhaps the thinking is that landlines are finally irrelevant enough to pull a move like this without costing the company an arm and a leg, but who knows — maybe this’ll jumpstart interest in landlines again? Nah.

Free Virgin Mobile-to-Virgin landline calling coming to UK starting April 1 originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Virgin Mobile Canada lights up HSPA+ network, iPhone 3GS, Bold 9700 in tow

Posted on 30. Jan, 2010 by IBM.

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Well, it’s a bit earlier than the invitation to the big launch event suggested, but it looks like Virgin Mobile Canada is now officially part of the HSPA+ club, and it’s now also selling a couple of new phones you might be interested in. Naturally, the network will give you coverage in line with the Bell network that Virgin is piggybacking on (encompassing 93% of Canadians), and you can expect the same download speeds of up to 21.6 megabits per second and upload speeds up to 5.76 — in “ideal conditions,” of course. As expected, the carrier is now also offering a number of new phones that take advantage of the network, not the least of which include the iPhone 3G and 3GS (in all the usual varieties), and the BlackBerry Bold 9700. Hit up the link below to check out the complete lineup, and Virgin’s new smartphone plan offerings, which start at $50 per month

Virgin Mobile Canada lights up HSPA+ network, iPhone 3GS, Bold 9700 in tow originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Leaked user guides suggest Virgin Mobile Canada about to hit the hardware mother lode

Posted on 18. Jan, 2010 by IBM.

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Virgin Mobile’s Sprint-owned US outpost has a reputation as a fairly basic, low-end network — but things are a little different up north where smartphones have been in Virgin Canada’s vocabulary for some time. Well, things are about to get really interesting — perhaps in an effort to fend off WIND’s advances — on news of an all-too-brief user guide leak on Virgin’s official support site. As smartphones go, it looks like customers can expect the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry Bold 9700 and Curve 8530, and data fiends will be pleased to see the addition of a MiFi and a branded version of the MC998D stick. Perhaps the most interesting thing here is that Virgin appears to be planning to release both CDMA and HSPA devices going forward (the 8530 versus the 9700, for example) — a symptom of parent company Bell’s recent switch. The guides are now gone, but in all likelihood, we’ll be seeing some (or all) of this stuff pop back up again in the near future.

Leaked user guides suggest Virgin Mobile Canada about to hit the hardware mother lode originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:48:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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