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Articles tagged with: Sprint Nextel and Virgin Mobile
Sprint completes purchase of Virgin Mobile USA
Sprint Nextel on Tuesday said it had completed its $483 million acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA, boosting its presence in the market for customers who pay for cell phone service month-to-month. more
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Sprint, Virgin Mobile agree to settle lawsuits
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iPCS Sues Sprint Nextel over Virgin Mobile Purchase
iPCS, which won a long winded legal battle with Sprint earlier this year over its acquisition of Nextel has now launched a new round of lawsuits against Sprint over its purchase of Virgin Mobile. more
Mystery Company Tried to Buy Virgin Mobile USA
It has been revealed that there was a second mystery suitor interested in buying Virgin Mobile USA during the negotiations that eventually lead to Sprint Nextel issuing an agreed takeover of the company. more
Sprint Nextel-Virgin Mobile USA deal gets FTC's OK
The Federal Trade Commission has removed a regulatory hurdle to Sprint Nextel Corp.'s proposed $483 million acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA Inc. more
Virgin Mobile USA Added 216,000 Subscribers in Q4 '08
Virgin Mobile USA has announced that fourth quarter net customer additions were approximately 216,000 with churn for the fourth quarter 2008 of 4.8%. The CDMA based MVNO ended the year with approximately 5.38 million customers, including customers added with the acquisition of Helio, which closed on August 22, 2008. The Company attracted more than 3.3 million gross customer additions during the year. more
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Sprint Nextel Increases Comission Payments to Virgin Mobile
Sprint Nextel has changed the terms of its commission payments to its MVNO partner, Virgin Mobile USA which suggests that the firm is taking a more aggressive stance in trying to boost its flagging subscriber base. more
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Virgin Mobile USA Loses Chief Financial Officer
Virgin Mobile USA has lost its Chief Financial Officer, John Feehan - who has announced that he will leave in Mid-November to join a firm working in identity theft protection. more
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Bango reports four-fold increase in WAP billing in the USA
In the last three months, mobile billing vendor, Bango says that it has seen a four-fold increase in the number of WAP transactions in the USA, as content providers choose to sell their content using its mobile billing relationships with AT&T, Sprint Nextel and Virgin Mobile. This reflects a shift in the way mobile content is sold in the US with WAP billing gaining momentum as the industry realizes the mobile web delivers a superior and safer consumer experience. more
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Virgin Mobile USA and UK Q2 2008 Results
The Virgin GroupĂ's two largest mobile businesses reported their second quarter results this week, which showed a drop in customer numbers on both sides of the pond. In the United Kingdom, Virgin Mobile lost 3.0% of its customer base in the quarter - equivalent to 134k connections - reducing its total from 4.42m to 4.29m. Meanwhile in the USA, its namesake lost 111k connections, which saw the base drop back through the 5m mark to end June at 4.99m - 2.2% down quarter on quarter. more
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