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UK MVNOs may be losing that personal touch
Rating: Virgin Media/Mobile UK fails to impress
It is always dangerous to base an assumption on such a low sample, but the experience of one Brit cellular user has raised our curiosity. This particular reader has been on a 24 month contract with Virgin Media (formerly Virgin Mobile UK) for a BlackBerry Curve 8520 which was utilised purely for work email purposes and not personal calls. Given that the contract will finally expire early this month [January 2013], he called Virgin hoping that the firm’s customer retention policy would at least secure an equivalent deal. No such luck. The agent only made a feeble effort to entice him onto the most expensive tariff. Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, Mobile Operators, virgin
Tagged BlackBerry, Curve 9320, giffgaff, gigabag, o2, tesco, virgin mobile
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Oranges texts us to say we can save £48 per annum
Rating: & Virgin Mobile UK users can now utilise the Orange network
It’s not every day that a utility company (which is what mobile network operators effectively are) get in contact to say that they can reduce your monthly bill. Well, that’s exactly what’s just happened. We signed up for Orange Best Plan service and every six months the company reviews our existing plan to see if we could be getting a better deal from Orange. Apparently we could. However, you have to go online to review your Best Plan review – through ‘Your Account’. That wasn’t easy. We should also mention that Virgin Mobile (UK) contacted us to say that we can now use the Orange network as well. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, orange, t-mobile, virgin
Tagged BT, Easy Mobile, everything everywhere, orange, ROK, t-mobile, Toucan, virgin mobile
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Bet on the Grand National by smartphone
Rating: A lot easier if you have an iPhone
From the very beginnings of the mobile Internet, it became clear that a desire to gamble could entice even technophobes into learning how to place bets from their handsets. So it is something of a tradition to investigate every year just how difficult it is to bet on the UK’s Grand National race at Aintree – which takes place tomorrow [April 9th]. In the early days, the solution meant accessing WAP sites and to some extent things remain the same today. The big difference is that if you’re an Apple iPhone user, it is now very easy. For other smartphone users, things are a little different. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Web, Mobile applications, android, iphone
Tagged bet, Blue Square, Curve, dot mobi, Grand National, horse, MoneyBookers, Mony, Neteller, Paddy Power, paypal, Perfect Partner, racing, racing post, Shake-a-bet, SkyBET, virgin mobile, WAP, William Hill
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Virgin Mobile USA extends Free I.P. Program for Lady Gaga US Monster Ball tour
Fans Can Once Again Volunteer to Help Homeless Youth and Earn Free Tickets to Lady Gaga Concerts
WARREN, N.J., May 26, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Virgin Mobile USA announced today that it will extend the popular “Free I.P.” volunteer program to its continuing title sponsorship of the explosive Monster Ball Starring Lady Gaga Tour this summer. Free [...]
Virgin Mobile targets “the youth” with launch of Indian GSM network and further price reductions
The Virgin Mobile strategy for spreading to new countries is pretty well established. It partners with an existing carrier in the country, and offers its own branded services over its partner’s network. In India, the Virgin Mobile partnership is 50-50 with indigenous operator Tata Teleservices. But Tata runs a CDMA network, which has much less coverage in India than the dominant GSM networks. So Virgin has announced a new GSM service, an ad campaign targeting a youth audience, and new reductions in call and SMS rates. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Operators, mobile news, virgin
Tagged GSM, india, mobile, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, Tata, Tata Teleservices, virgin, virgin mobile
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Is Sprint buy out of Virgin Mobile more about reputation?
First announced back in July, Sprint has announced that its acquisition of Virgin Mobile in the USA is now complete. Can the Virgin brand help Sprint get over its bad public image problems? Continue reading
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Tagged mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, pre-paid, sprint, sprint nextel, unlimited, virgin, virgin mobile
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Virgin Mobile sells its Canadian operation 100% to Bell Canada
Bell Canada has announced that it has finished buying the 50% of Virgin Mobile Canada it didn’t already own. The acquisition includes long-term rights over the branding. The mobile operator will still operate independently, as its own company, but it is now an entirely Bell-owned subsidiary. Continue reading
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Tagged bell, bell canada, canada, mobile branding, mobile brands, mobile carrier, mobile network, mobile operator, the source, virgin, virgin mobile
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Free Virgin mobile USA Festival with Weezer, Blink-182, Public Enemy and Franz Ferdinand plus donation SMS
Virgin Mobile USA will have a FreeFest on Sunday august 30 at Merriweather Post Pavillion in Columbia. The admission is free…. but people that come are encouraged via to donate via SMS. So Kyocera Communications the sponsor and RE*Generation Virgin’s charitable arm will be there in full force. Continue reading
Virgin Mobile France partners with independent mobile app store GetJar
Virgin Mobile France has announced a huge partnership with mobile application store GetJar. The platform, device and OS agnostic app store will selling its entire selection of free mobile apps through the French operators soon-to-launch app store.
The Virgin Mobile France app store should be launched by Wednesday of this week – the 17th of June. [...]
Virgin announces pay-as-you-go wireless broadband plan for light users
Virgin Mobile USA has unveiled its new wireless broadband plan – which is the first pay-as-you-go tariff from one of the major US operators. The service sells data usage in four packages ranging from 100MB to 1GB, but according to Virgin it really shouldn’t be used by heavy data users!
The packages offered are 100MB, 250MB, [...]
Virgin Mobile USA New Family Tariffs
Virgin Mobile USA has unveiled three new contract plans for families
– $175/month All-In plan with 4000 shared anytime minutes — unlike comparable plans, this includes unlimited messaging and data services
– $50 A La Carte plan including 600 shared anytime minutes with
unlimited mobile-to-mobile minutes
– An additional 200 shared anytime [...]
Virgin launches Vmusic in India – free music has never been worth so little
QuickPlay and Virgin Mobile today announced a new music service for the Indian market. Vmusic will be the first unlimited service for full-track music downloads from Virgin Mobile in India. Quickplay will be providing the infrastructure for the service, which will be free to subscribers… for the first 12 months, anyway.
vJazz phones from Virgin Mobile [...]
Posted in Mobile Agencies, Mobile Content, Mobile Devices, Mobile Music, Music, mobile news, virgin
Tagged DRM, Mobile Content, mobile downloads, Mobile Music, Music, virgin, virgin mobile, virgin mobile india
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Virgin Mobile India packages free music with new mobile device
The new vJazz mobile phone from Virgin Mobile India is it’s latest attempt to catch the youth segment. The phone is aimed square at music lovers, coming pre-packaged with the vMusic service – but the allure of the vJazz is that all music downloads are free for a year with the phone.
The phone comes with [...]
Posted in Mobile Content, Mobile Devices, Mobile Music, Mobile Operators, Mobile Web, Music, mobile news, virgin
Tagged india, mobile carrier, Mobile Content, mobile device, mobile downloads, mobile handset, mobile internet, Mobile Music, mobile network, mobile operator, mobile phone, Mobile Web, virgin, virgin mobile, virgin mobile india, vjazz
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Virgin sweetens unlimited mobile data plan with free music downloads
Virgin Mobile and Bebo have teamed up to provide free music to mobile users of the social network. The new service is part of Virgin’s recently launched Addict price plan, which offers unlimited data and SMS to users who top up by at least 20 euro per month
The free-to-download service works by letting users download [...]
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Tagged bebo, mobile advertising, Mobile Content, mobile downloads, mobile internet, Mobile Music, mobile social network, Mobile Web, Music, social network, virgin, virgin mobile
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Jobless and on welfare? Then Virgin will pay your mobile bill.
Virgin Mobile USA has taken the interesting precaution of guaranteeing it’s customers bill payments for them if they lose their jobs. Under the “Pink Slip Protection” plan, if you become unemployed and are eligible for welfare, Virgin will pay your mobile bill for you for three months. All it requires is that you’ve been with [...]
