GetJar, the independent mobile app store, has struck a deal with *Virgin Mobile* France, to provide the French carrier’s new mobile app store to launch on Wednesday with its entire selection of free applications, some 45,000 in total. The deal is the second for Getjar this month. Earlier in June,…

U.S. lawmakers are considering passing legislation that would impose a five-year moratorium on new state and local taxes for cell phones, just in time to prohibit governments from leveraging increasingly popular wireless services—like data and internet—to be a potential revenue source in this economic downturn. Dow Jones reports that taxes…

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) is rolling out a pre-paid offering for the broadband data market, turning the conventional practice of signing up for a two-year broadband data contract on its head. Virgin said the service, called Broadband2Go, won’t require an annual contract, a monthly subscription or an activation fee.…

Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) provided a very bullish outlook on the company’s financial position of its wireless unit today, by saying that it will likely beat its own estimates of achieving 43 percent to 45 percent profit margins, Reuters reports. The company’s CFO John Killian said today that unless there…

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA’s CEO Dan Schulman (pictured, right) has a front row seat to the latest trend in the wireless industry—a move by the mass market to adopt aggressively priced prepaid unlimited offers.  Schulman said prepaid interest has heightened recently as prices have fallen and perceptions have changed…

Bell Canada has acquired Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) Canada in the hopes of driving wireless-customer growth and competing more effectively with other discount providers. Bell Canada, which already owned half of Virgin Mobile Canada, paid $142 million for the remaining stake, reports the Financial Post. In a conference call discussing…

*Virgin Media*, Britain’s second largest pay-television company, and owners of *Virgin Mobile UK*, its MVNO service, reported first quarter earnings today. Mobile revenue in the quarter fell 3 percent to £135.3 million ($205 million) from £139.5 million ($211 million) a year ago, as low value prepay subscribers left the company,…

SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM), South Korea’s dominant mobile carrier, is on the look out for new business, with $2.2 billion at its disposal over the next five years to find and invest in them, Reuters reports. With its home market saturated, and with the telco facing stagnate revenue growth, SK…

Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) has cut the price of its unlimited calling plan down to $50 from $80, joining the US’s second-tier carriers in a prepaid price war, reports AP. The new plan rolls out April 15, and according to Virgin spokesperson Jayne Wallace the move was “definitely a response…

As promised, Opera Software (OSL: OPERA) is announcing its first U.S. carrier deal this week at CTIA—too bad it’s with Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) and not one of the country’s four-largest providers. Not only is the agreement limited because it is with a carrier that doesn’t have a subscriber…

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) CEO Dan Schulman said the MVNO plans to introduce touch-screen handsets into its line-up as part of a move into “smarter” phones, although didn’t give any details about the particular handsets or when they would be rolled out. He made the comments at the Dow…

T-Mobile USA launched a trial in San Francisco two weeks ago that allowed customers to sign-up for unlimited voice for $50 a month, but now there’s evidence that it is quickly expanding the offer to more customers nationwide. Ironically, it was RCR Wireless News, which shut down today, that first…

Virgin Mobile USA released its full year and fourth quarter earnings, showing some promising results for the second half of last year. Total operating revenue was up by 6.7 percent for 2008 compared to 2007, and net income increased by 88 percent to $7.95 million. The big news from Virgin…

It doesn’t have a big screen, it’s not touch sensitive and it is even slow at times, but if it’s price you are concerned about, Helio’s Ocean 2, just unveiled by Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM), may offer some relief. Yesterday, Virgin Mobile USA unveiled the second-generation Helio device, the first…

—Aussie Android delayed: Australian consumer electronics maker Kogan, which planned to release a Google Android phone on Jan. 29, has delayed its launch, saying the handset needed to be redesigned “to ensure its compatibility with all future Android applications,” reports TheAge.com. He declined to comment, citing a non-disclosure agreement he…

Boost Mobile, the MVNO running on Sprint’s smaller Nextel network, is offering the most aggressive national unlimited plan yet—for $50, customers will get an unlimited voice, texting, Web access and push-to-talk services, AP reports. The kicker is that it is available without a contract. Other regional players such as MetroPCS…

In the busy holiday quarter, Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) easily blew past its expectations for customer additions, saying it added a net 216,000 compared to its previously reported expectations of between 60,000 and 100,000. Virgin’s CEO Dan Schulman: “Our new offers have helped lead to strong customer growth and…

This year was somewhat an anomaly for the wireless industry. A lot of things got done: the impossible of mergers closed; new phones launched that hold the promise of significant industry change; new business and distribution models emerged; and higher-speed networks were more prevalent, making for a better user experience.…

Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) will now get paid $4.50 for each subscriber it signs on to the Sprint Nextel network between July 1, 2008 and Dec. 31, 2009, reports the Kansas City Star, referencing a document filed with the SEC. Previously, Sprint paid Virgin $2.50 per subscriber, up to…