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Virgin Mobile promises wireless broadband
News In its latest set of quarterly results, Virgin Mobile has revealed it will be unveiling its own mobile broadband offering in the fourth quarter of this year. However, should Virgin's mobile broadband product echo T-Mobile's own offering, customers...
[August 7, 2008, 16:41]
Virgin Mobile USA, LLC Achieves Real-Time Customer Service With Intelligent Communications
White Papers Virgin Mobile USA realized early on that providing the best customer service in the industry would be vital to its success. Virgin Mobile's vision required applications that could support the delivery of a real-time experience at any time of day...
[October 6, 2006, 0:00]
Virgin Mobile prepares for IPO
News The financial details of the Virgin Mobile flotation -- planned for later this month -- and the windfall its execs can expect to see as a result have been made public. With a percentage of the IPO reserved just for them, Virgin Mobile staff are...
[July 8, 2004, 14:15]
Virgin Mobile retreats from Singapore
News Virgin Mobile, which first announced its intention to exit Singapore's in July, is officially ceasing its operations there on Friday. Virgin Mobile was equally owned by Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), the country's largest telecom and Sir...
[October 11, 2002, 13:21]
Virgin Mobile Canada Implements VeriSign Content Portal Services to Deliver Innovative Features and a Compelling Customer Experience
White Papers Virgin Mobile Canada wanted to create a robust, reliable, and adaptable delivery platform to support storefront operations, including financial, delivery, merchandizing, and management functions. Virgin Mobile Canada deployed VeriSign Content...
[November 8, 2008, 0:01]
Virgin Mobile and NTL: the UK's first quad-play offering?
News On 5 December 2005, Virgin Mobile confirmed that it is in discussions with NTL about a merger that would create the UK's first quad-play offering. According to press reports, the UK's best-known businessman Richard Branson will exchange his 72...
[December 20, 2005, 15:55]
Virgin Mobile expands customer support
News Virgin Mobile has announced it is to create 200 new jobs in the North East of England through the opening of a customer support centre. Tom Alexander, chief executive of Virgin Mobile, said in a statement: "We are very excited to be opening up a...
[April 9, 2003, 11:02]
News Burst: Mobile Virgin speaks first words
News Virgin Mobile, has been valued at £1.36bn by City brokers Investec Henderson Crosthwaite even before its launch. Observers predict that while Virgin Mobile will charge customers a high initial premium to purchase handsets, call charges could be as...
[November 1, 1999, 9:21]
Virgin Mobile takes on US market
News And Virgin Mobile is entering the new United States market just weeks after Branson's version of Virgin Mobile in Singapore was shuttered because of limited sales, the company said. But Virgin Mobile might have a tough time finding dancing room in...
[July 24, 2002, 7:04]
Virgin Mobile pulls out of Singapore
News Virgin Mobile's shareholders, Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and Richard Branson's Virgin Group, announced their intention in a statement today, citing weak market conditions in the country. Virgin Mobile does not build physical mobile...
[July 9, 2002, 7:57]
Virgin Mobile admits storing customer location records
News Virgin Mobile admitted late last week that has been storing information that records its customers' movements around the UK since November 1999, and has no plans to delete the data. According to a report in The Guardian on Saturday, Virgin Mobile...
[October 29, 2001, 11:57]
Virgin Trains boosts on-board mobile signals
News Virgin's cross-country trains are being fitted with equipment which will boost mobile signals. Because of the design of Virgin's Voyager trains — the windows are made out of glass containing metal compounds — making a phone call can currently be...
[May 15, 2007, 15:17]
Virgin Trains boosts in-carriage mobile coverage
News Travellers on Virgin Trains could soon be chattering for longer. Repeater technology, which retransmits 2G and 3G, will be installed on all 52 of Virgin's high-speed Pendolino trains on the London to Glasgow route by November.
[April 8, 2008, 9:29]
Oracle Case Study: Virgin Mobile
White Papers Virgin Mobile is a national mobile telecommunications provider in Australia. The company wanted to establish reliable, flexible, and scalable data warehouse platform in five months to meet launch schedule and overcome natural complexity of data...
[March 7, 2006, 23:00]
Virgin Mobile admits storing customer location records
Talkback There is a sure-fire way for customers to punish Virgin for this: A boycott. When Virgin operates in the red, they will learn that any business must give customers what they ask for, or perish. Use other mobile phone providers.
[August 31, 2003, 20:10]
NTL and Virgin Mobile confirm £800m proposition
News Having just bagged Telewest, NTL now has its sights on Virgin Mobile. The broadband provider officially revealed its interest in the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) this morning, saying it is prepared to offer shareholders 0.09298 NTL shares...
[December 5, 2005, 16:45]
Buying coke with your mobile is Virgin on the bizarre
News While their boss is squabbling over the National Lottery, the lads and lasses at Virgin have come up with the world's first cellular vending machine. Sounds a bit sci-fi, but Virgin and Ericsson have got as far as knocking up a prototype machine.
[September 22, 2000, 11:53]
T-Mobile, Virgin broadband ads fall foul of watchdog
News Virgin Media also fell foul of the ASA this week over claims in an advert that its 20Mbps fibre-optic service is the UK's fastest, attracting complaints from members of the public and from Sky. The objections centred around whether the 'fastest...
[October 17, 2008, 11:32]
NTL's takeover of Virgin Mobile is agreed
News Cable operator NTL has completed its takeover of Virgin Mobile, creating the UK's first 'quadruple-play' telecoms operator. The two companies announced on Tuesday morning that NTL will pay a total of £962.4m for Virgin Mobile.
[April 4, 2006, 10:10]
Virgin Mobile pulls out of Singapore
Talkback I tell u virin mobile will be back in the future to start their network operator
[May 17, 2006, 11:09]
