Comments on: With PrePaid Customers In Mind, Sprint Buys Virgin Mobile USA For $483M

By: Sprint Clawing Back With Help From Android, Prepaid: Tech News «

Sprint Clawing Back With Help From Android, Prepaid: Tech News « — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:19:29 +0000

[...] is also experiencing real growth in its prepaid business, which it bolstered last year with the purchase of Virgin Mobile, adding it to a stable of other brands including Boost Mobile. Sprint added 471,000 prepaid [...]

By: Complete List of 2009 Web, Internet and Tech Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:16:03 +0000

[...] VirginMobile USA provides wireless products and services. Press Release VentureBeat GigaOM [...]

By: Sprint Bet On the Wrong Smartphone

Sprint Bet On the Wrong Smartphone — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:16:50 +0000

[...] It now has a total of 48.3 million subscribers. Sprint is enlarging its prepaid business with an acquisition and competitive rate plans as a way to ensure that contract customers who leave for pre-paid plans [...]

By: dennis warner

dennis warner — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:13:48 +0000

I have had Virginmobile now for over 6 years and it works perfect for my needs. If Sprint starts changing things and eliminates my pay as you go, well then i’m gone.! I left AT T when Cingular took them over and raised their rates. Leave my Virginmobile as it is. PLEASE!!

By: Complete List of Q3 2009 Web, Internet and Tech Acquisitions » The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:46:15 +0000

[...] VirginMobile USA provides wireless products and services. Press Release VentureBeat GigaOM [...]

By: Sprint, Virgin USA Merger Approved By FTC

Sprint, Virgin USA Merger Approved By FTC — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:31:42 +0000

[...] Om Malik | Tuesday, August 25, 2009 | 7:31 AM PT | 0 comments Sprint’s $483 million purchase of prepaid phone services giant, Virgin USA has been approved by the Federal Trade Commission [...]

By: Technically Philly » Friday Q&A: Shawn Glisson, a Boost Mobile regional specialist | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:31:30 +0000

[...] we’re watching Sprint buy Virgin Mobile [for the prepaid market] and you’ll see more acquisitions and mergers like that from [...]

By: Virgin Mobile Boosts Profits With High-End Phones

Virgin Mobile Boosts Profits With High-End Phones — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:52:48 +0000

[...] | Monday, August 10, 2009 | 7:51 AM PT | 0 comments Virgin Mobile USA, which recently agreed to be acquired by Sprint for $483 million in stock, said today its sales for the second quarter were largely unchanged from [...]

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By: I’m Taking the Prepaid Plunge | Tech Newz

I’m Taking the Prepaid Plunge | Tech Newz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:03:18 +0000

[...] industry (as evidenced, most recently, by Sprint’s announcement last week that it plans to buy Virgin Mobile USA as part of a move toward more prepaid clients), we thinks it’s an important area on which to [...]

By: BlueScreen

BlueScreen — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:06:26 +0000

I really hope that if Sprint is taking over Virgin Prepaid Mobile, that they start making some kinds of changes to their offers and plans. Right now Virgin has $10 prepaid cards with 120 minutes that are only available to buyers with low income. Why am i not fond of this? Because it’s not available to me! If Virgin is going to be making these kinds of “special offers” and is being socially conscious (all of a sudden mind you), then i think that they should make this offer available to everyone and not just the select few. I have used Virgin for almost a year now, and I have yet to get a discount. Help ME out Virgin, THE PERSON WHO IS ALREADY A CUSTOMER!!! :/

By: So Far the Palm Pre Isn’t Helping Sprint

So Far the Palm Pre Isn’t Helping Sprint — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:45:26 +0000

[...] cell phone business, which may face its own issues in the coming months as Sprint plunks down $483 million to buy Virgin Mobile USA — a deal it announced [...]

By: Shankar Saikia

Shankar Saikia — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:33:53 +0000

SOCIAL MEDIA VS TRADITIONAL MEDIA: BLIND TASTING

I did an experiment – I read this same story on Wall Street Journal online and GigaOM. The story on GigaOM had a lot more depth – I liked the GigaOM version. Of course, if this were a blind tasting, where I did not know the source of the article, I would not have known which came from the WSJ and which came from GigaOM. How is GigaOM different from traditional/mass media!

By: tom

tom — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:13:30 +0000

with all the cool GSM smartphones showing up for sale second hand what we really need in america is a cheap GSM MVNO prepaid option with cheap data.

i am interested though to see what happens with current boost mobile data plans if and when the switch is made to EVDO. $49.99/month for unlimited everything is a great deal if it were not for the antiquated iDEN network. but am also very interested in whether or not sprint will now allow used sprint phones to be activated on virgin mobile plans. this could be a big deal. one of the main attractions of leap and metroPCS is that they allow any flashed over phone(from sprint, verizon, alltel, whoever) to be activated for use on there network. if the new virgin allows a cheap prepaid data plan to be setup on say a used palm pre this could be a really great deal.