Sprint announces Virgin Mobile overhaul

Not long after we heard about new plans from Virgin Mobile, its parent company, Sprint, made it official. The plans are exactly in line with the leaked promotional material. All plans include unlimited text, email, and data, and will run from $25, for 300 anytime minutes, to $60 for unlimited everything. Unlimited BlackBerry will cost $10 extra. Yet that wasn’t the only change for Virgin Mobile.

With its new line of plans, Virgin will no longer offer its pay-as-you-go plans. Current customers will be able to stay, but Virgin will no longer offer the rates to new customers. What will become of them? Sprint plans to launch another prepaid brand to focus more on the pay-as-you-go side of the business. It makes me wonder if this will also affect Boost Mobile, which has both a flat-rate unlimited plan and pay-as-you-go options.

Virgin has also released the handsets that were rumored, and actually added one more. The LG Rumor Touch and Kyocera Loft are available now, as well as the LG Rumor 2. The BlackBerry Curve 8530 will hit shelves later this month.

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1. mike freeman Says
   

   Common Cents is the name of the new paygo only brand. To be frank about it, I think they should have given the new seven cents a minute , text, mms/im rate to VM instead of starting yet another brand.

   VM devices won’t work with CC and CC phones can’t work on VM. More incompatibile devices and networks.

   Sprint is notorious for no byod with the exception of Boost Mobile.

   
   Posted on May 7th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
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   [...] there! If you're new to the site, you may want to subscribe to the the feed.When sprint announced big changes for Virgin Mobile, they eliminated Virgin’s pay-as-you-go plans. They wouldn’t go away [...]

   
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