Virgin Mobile USA

Sprint’s Virgin Mobile USA brand rolled out a new entry-level, voice/messaging-only rate plan that breaks from the brand’s traditional focus on cellular data access. The new plan runs $25 per month and includes unlimited domestic voice calling and messaging, with …

A day after AT&T Mobility adjusted pricing for its Aio Wireless no-contract service, Sprint countered the move by announcing a price cut for its Boost Mobile offering. For a limited time, Boost is offering unlimited voice calling, messaging and data …

There will continue to be a slow rise in voice communication with the use of voice over Internet Protocol) relative to cellular calling. VoIP allows

Looking to perhaps boost customer interest, through the end of the year Sprint’s Boost Mobile brand is boosting the amount of services available through its International Connect Mexico Mobile Plus package. The package, which customers to Boost’s Unlimited plan can …

At the peak of the mobile virtual network operator fervor we witnessed in the 2005 to 2007 timeframe, common wisdom held that a successful MVNO must have killer content, a highly targeted

Virgin Mobile USA is set to increase pressure on rival no-contract offerings with the upcoming addition of Apple’s iPhone 5 handset to its lineup. The device, which will sell for $550 beginning June 28, is set to run across the …

I don’t need to tell any of you, but dang, if that prepaid space is not getting more exciting by the day. I know carriers have been instigating pricing and marketing wars in the no-contract arena for years now,

Not wanting to let rivals get all the prepaid attention, Verizon Wireless this week launched a lower-priced offering designed to tempt those looking for a basic device that they do not plan on talking on very much. The new plan …

Sprint Nextel entered the prepaid LTE space, announcing devices from its Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile USA brands compatible with the carrier’s latest network. Both brands continue to offer devices and services using the carrier’s WiMAX-based service running across Clearwire’s …

In the United States and many other countries, more than half of the population now has a smartphone. And regardless of whether they own a smartphone or a feature phone, most people use text messaging

América Móvil consolidated its dominate position in the U.S.-based prepaid space, announcing the closing on the acquisition of Simple Mobile. The deal, which was announced earlier this year, adds approximately 1 million prepaid customers to América Móvil’s U.S. operations that …

Verizon Wireless made an interesting decision this week, announcing plans to begin hating kittens, freedom and Justin Beiber beginning June 28.

Very few of us – and by us I mean humans – are advanced enough to handle more than one chore at any one time. Sure, some of us (you) are more advanced in that we (not me) can actually …

The debate over device subsidies has hit a fever pitch with carriers struggling to make the economies of smartphones jibe with their bottom line. However, a new report from Macquarie Equities Research seems to indicate that as carriers continue rolling …

Sprint Nextel’s Assurance Wireless sub-brand expanded its subsidized wireless telecommunications offering by adding 250 text messages to its free service offering that previously provided 250 calling minutes or a new plan that provides 500 voice minutes and 500 text messages …

The domestic mobile virtual network operator space has seen its ranks swell as a slightly delayed launch finally took shape and an unexpected retail chain has quietly jumped into the fray. Having had its scheduled launch delayed last week due …

An attempt by Voyager Mobile to disrupt the prepaid apple cart took a step backwards this morning as the company’s planned launch of its mobile virtual network operator service was bedeviled by what its website is calling a “malicious network …