Filed under: Laptops, Transportation
Virgin Atlantic has altered its sweeping policy of banning all Inspiron, Latitude, iBook, PowerBook
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Filed under: Handsets, Virgin Mobile, Kyocera, MVNOs, CDMA
Filed under: Portable Audio
, and the seemingly useless ability to mess with the playback speed of your music. The £30 ($52) package also comes with a booklet explaining how to get started and a coupon code for five "free" song downloads from Virgin's own online music store, but unless you're insistent upon donating to Sir Richard Branson's hot air balloon fund, you'd probably be much better off dropping the same amount of dough on Napster's 1GB player . It might not have a backlight that changes color, but it will hold a lot more than 60 songs and won't get you laughed at by the gadget snobs.Filed under: Culture, Multimedia, Virgin Mobile, MVNOs
Yeah, we've seen this system before. It didn't work for Gizmondo's Tiger Telematics when it was called Smart Adds, we didn't think it was going to work for the company's unofficial spinoff, Xero Mobile (started by the CEO of Tiger's Smart Adds division), but now Richy Branson wants you to to stop paying for (some of) your minutes by watching youth-oriented ads. Welcome to SugarMama, Virgin Mobile's ads-for-minutes system which gives you airtime in exchange for viewing a video ad or interacting with text ad, and then providing feedback to the advertisers (presumably to make sure you actually performed the act of watching or reading said ad). We don't yet know exactly how many ads it'll take to reach the monthly ceiling of 75 minutes "earned," but what would really impress us is if you could earn your whole minute plan this way.Filed under: Handsets, Virgin Mobile, Kyocera, CDMA
. Otherwise there isn't much going on here. The handset will go for $150, and should be available in
stores nationwide.Filed under: Virgin Mobile, China Unicom, MVNOs
Interfax
China is reporting that Virgin Mobile is close to signing a partnership with wireless carrier China Unicom that would
make the UK-based company the first foreign MVNO in post-WTO China. Although Virgin would still require approval from
the Chinese government, which carefully scrutinizes all proposed foreign business presences, the company will benefit
from past deals in which Spain's Telefonica and Germany's Vodafone have made invesments in domestic telecom firms.
Virgin already has offices in Shanghai, and CEO Richard Branson recently told reporters to expect a Chinese launch this
fall, so it would seem pretty likely that this venture, which is well over a year in the making, has the necessary
government support to proceed.Filed under: Virgin Mobile, Studies, MVNOs
They may not be offering the Lobster 700, but Virgin Mobile’s US outpost can lay claim to one thing: they’ve bested all of their peers in J.D. Powers’ latest survey of prepaid services through national carriers and MVNOs. The survey of 4,000 current customers measured satisfaction with call quality, company image, account management, initial activation, service plan options, and customer service, with Virgin scoring 751 on a 1,000-point scale. Coming in a close second was Verizon with their Inpulse service, scoring 736, followed by T-Mobile
[Via The Wireless Report]
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