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Breaking News: Sprint-Nextel to acquire Virgin Mobile USA
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Govt. plans to launch mobile tender by July end (France)
www.WirelessFedration.com/news: President of telecom regulator Arcep said that the government still intends to launch the tender offer for frequencies set aside for the country’s fourth mobile phone license before the end of July.
The only official candidate for the license is lliad. Numericable and Virgin Mobile France said they were considering the possibility to bid jointly.
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Virgin Mobile France chooses Miyowa MoveMessenger
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Virgin Mobile France launches Paradyse range of contract plans
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Virgin Mobile launches Broadband2Go mobile internet service in USA
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Virgin Mobile launches more family plans (USA)
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Virgin Mobile Canada offers Twitter on mobile
www.WirelessFederation.com/news:Virgin Mobile Canada and Twitter have inked an agreement which will enable Virgin Mobile subscribers to send and receive tweets by SMS. Subscribers can get started by logging into their Twitter account and updating their settings, after which they can use Twitter on the go right from their mobile phone by using the short code [...]
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Virgin Mobile ends March with 5.2Mn subscribers (USA)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile USA has posted its Q1′09 revenues of USD 337.3 million, up 2 percent from USD 330.02 million in Q1′08. Adjusted EBITDA rose to USD 49.5 million from USD 28.7 million for the same period. The net profits grew 301% USD 19.1 million from a net profit of USD 4.7 million, while free [...]
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Bell acquires Virgin Mobile, purchases rest 50% stake (Canada)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Bell Canada is acquiring the rest 50% stake in Virgin Mobile Canada worth CAD 142 million. The telco has also given consent to an exclusive, long-term licence to continue using the Virgin Mobile brand in Canada as well as cooperating with the Virgin Group on sponsoring and media events. The acquisition is anticipated to [...]
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Virgin Mobile in talks with Numericable to jointly bid for 4th 3G licence (France)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile, France MVNO has reportedly confirmed that it is in talks with cable operator Numericable, among others, about a possible joint bid for the country’s fourth 3G network licence. Virgin Mobile France CEO Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux said that no decision had been taken, but that if the company chose to proceed it [...]
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Virgin Mobile launches VJazz mobile phone in India
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile, the Indian mobile service provider, has launched VJazz music phone, which offers unlimited downloads of music tracks for one year. The handset is priced at INR 4250 and features a 1.3 megapixel camera, 1000 SMS and phonebook storage space. The handset is being offered with a 1GB SSD card.
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Virgin Mobile France likely to bid for 4th 3G network licence, says CEO
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile France is seriously considering the possibility of bidding for France’s fourth 3G network licence, announced company CEO Geoffroy Roux de Bezieux. Virgin was almost obliged to study such a move since it was the country’s fourth biggest mobile operator by subscribers and the EUR 206 million licence price was good value, Executive [...]
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Virgin Mobile targets 5Mn youth subscribers by 2011 (India)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile said, the VAS provider aims for 5 mn youth subscribers by 2011. “By 2011, the number of mobile user among the youth is likely to go up to 50 million in India. We aim to win 10 per cent of that market,” said Virgin Mobile’’s Chief Executive Officer M A Madhusudan.
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Virgin stops charging premium tariffs for calls to national employment service (France)
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MVNO Virgin Mobile France has dropped the charges for calls to the national employment service. The calls to made to the number 39 49 are now considered standard national calls, to be deducted from prepaid credit or postpaid inclusive minutes.
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Virgin Mobile & Sprint Nextel link 9th PCS service amendment (USA)
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile USA and Sprint Nextel have inked the Ninth Amendment to the PCS Services Agreement. Under the terms of the Ninth Amendment, Virgin Mobile will pay fixed, lower rates for domestic network usage for each minute of use each month exceeding a base amount, effective from 1 April’09.
With the start of 2010, Virgin [...]
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Virgin Mobile USA gives Pink Slip Protection to unemployed
Femtocell News writes…
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile USA has launched Totally Unlimited prepaid calling plan with no roaming charges. The calling plan is priced at $49.99 and will be available from 15 April. The prepaid tariff plan will strengthen its monthly plans with a special programme designed to support subscribers who become unemployed.
Customers subscribing for the new USD 49.99 [...]
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Virgin Mobile enters the forray of price war (USA)
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile USA has finally bitten the bullet and dropped the price if unlimited calling plan to $50 from $80 per month. The incumbent has subscriber base of around 5.4 million in the US market. The price cut is attributed to the fierce competition in the mobile segment. Both MetroPCS Communications and Leap Wireless [...]
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Virgin Mobile to launch Connect & Opera Mini 4.2 in April (USA)
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile, the USA based mobile service provider, in April, will introduce Virgin Mobile Connect and Opera Mini 4.2, for its prepaid subscribers. Connect is a social networking dashboard and will be available to Virgin Mobile USA’s prepaid subscribers on the Shuttle, Jax or X-tc handsets. The Connect interface enables [...]
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Virgin Mobile introduces PAYG ‘Addict Tariff’ (UK)
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Virgin Mobile has launched a pay-as-you-go tariff dubbed as ‘Addict Tariff’. The tariff offers calls rate at GBP 0.20 per minute to UK landlines and mobile networks, a GBP 0.10 rate for texts to any UK network, a GBP 0.20 per call rate for voicemail, and a GBP 0.30 per day rate for mobile [...]
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Virgin Mobile USA’s X-tc from Kyocera Wireless hits stores in April
Messaging on your cell phone will be getting a lot more exciting with the launch of Virgin Mobile USA’s (NYSE: VM) X-tc from Kyocera Wireless. The phone is equipped with a sleek, slide-out QWERTY keypad that’s perfect for text fiends and fans. The answer to all your messaging needs, the X-tc keeps you connected with [...]
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Virgin Mobile reports Q4′08 & full year 2008 results (USA)
Virgin Mobile USA, a leading national provider of wireless communications services, reported its financial and operational results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2008.
Full year 2008 highlights:
End of period subscribers of 5.4 million, up 6% year over year
Total operating revenues of $1.3 billion, Net service revenues of $1.2 billion; both [...]
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Virgin Mobile plans to enter GSM network space (India)
Virgin Mobile India, a JV between UK based Virgin Group and TTSL, intends to enter the GSM mobile network space as it awaits TTSL’s soon-to-be-launched GSM service.
Currently, Virgin Mobile operates as a CDMA service provider under TTSL’s brand franchisee arrangement. Under the arrangement, Virgin Mobile provides TTSL with designing, marketing and servicing of the services [...]
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Virgin Mobile launches lowest £8.50 tariff, competes with 3 (UK)
Virgin Mobile launches the lowest contract tariffs in the UK market in rivalry with 3’s £9 offer. The subscribers to this contract tariff can enjoy 100 minutes and 100 text messages for £8.50 per month. Handsets like Samsung G600, LG KC550 and Nokia 3120 will be available free on the tariff.
According to Virgin Mobile managing [...]
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Virgin Mobile posts a subscriber base of 5.38Mn at 2008-end (USA)
Virgin Mobile USA, has reportedly added 216,000 subscribers in Q4′08 taking its subscriber base to a total of 5.38 million at 2008-end, rising from 5.1 million at 2007-end. The prepaid MVNO has posted a churn rate of 4.8% at Q4′08-end, down from 5.5% in Q3′08 and 5.1% a year earlier.
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Sprint-Nextel paying Virgin Mobile more to ramp up subscribers (Engadget Mobile)
Filed under: Sprint , Virgin Mobile , MVNOs Listen, we know that something’s going on with Sprint — take the move toward leased access for WiMAX on Clear and the recent big sale of cell towers , for example — but this is just getting fishier and fishier. Now, it looks like Sprint is trying to up its total subscriber count by paying Virgin Mobile an additional $2 per customer it signs through…
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Sprint-Nextel paying Virgin Mobile more to ramp up subscribers (Gadget & Tech News)
Filed under: Sprint, Virgin Mobile, MVNOs Listen, we know that something’s going on with Sprint — take the move toward leased access for WiMAX on Clear and the recent big sale of cell towers, for example — but this is just getting fishier and fishier. Now, it looks like Sprint is trying to up its total [...]
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Virgin Mobile USA selects Exclaim to provide MyApps (USA)
Exclaim(R), the leading publisher of innovative user-generated content, socialization & infotainment community applications for mobile consumers, today announced the launch of its MyApps portfolio of mobile applications on Virgin Mobile USA’s on-deck storefront. MyHoroscope, MyLovesigns and MyFaith, part of the MyApps Infotainment Community portfolio of mobile applications, are immediately available on select Virgin Mobile USA [...]
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