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Revisiting Virgin Mobile Wireless Broadband: Supper Time Blues
Last week, Stop the Cap! took a look at Virgin Mobile’s new unlimited $40 prepaid wireless broadband service. Early testing looked promising, with speed test results that were well within economy tier...
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Virgin Media to Game Developers: It’s All Your Fault You Assumed We Weren’t...
Virgin Media broadband customers in the United Kingdom who spend free time playing the highly addictive World of Warcraft (WoW) suffered some serious withdrawal episodes after game developers released...
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Virgin Mobile Gives Up on Unlimited Wireless Broadband: Will Adopt 5GB Cap...
Your unlimited experience is about to hit a roadblock. Sometimes being popular isn’t the best thing in the world. When Virgin Mobile introduced an unlimited, prepaid wireless broadband plan in August,...
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Virgin Mobile Tries to Turn That Frown Upside Down: 5GB Cap Explained
Virgin Mobile has begun notifying their Broadband2Go customers of how they plan to continue delivering “an outstanding customer experience”: by throttling the speeds of any customer who exceeds 5GB of...
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Virgin Mobile Tightens the Noose on Its ‘Unlimited Mobile Broadband’ With...
Virgin Mobile, which last year excited a number of our readers with the introduction of its Broadband2Go unlimited mobile broadband plan, has continued to evolve the meaning of “unlimited,” to now mean...
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Canadians Trash Their Cell Phone Options: Bad Service, Worse Value; Koodo...
Canadians overwhelmingly rate their mobile phone providers poor for value, telling Consumer Reports they are paying too much and getting far too little coverage and service in return. The 2011 Consumer...
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AT&T Scores Last (Again) in Consumer Reports’ Ratings; Oddly AT&T Reseller...
AT&T has once again scored dead last in a nationwide survey (subscription required) of wireless providers commissioned by consumer magazine Consumer Reports. Among national coverage carriers,...
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Welcome to Virgin Mobile’s Higher Calling: The 2.5GB/256kbps Usage Throttle...
Not quite. Virgin Mobile founder Richard Branson is trying to convince customers they should sign up with a phone company that only sells you the services you need, but if “unlimited data” is one of...
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Sprint Signals New Focus on Profitability; Cutting Back Upgrade Promotions,...
Sprint will focus its postpaid wireless business on profitability in 2013, with reductions in customer discounts and a tighter upgrade policy that will raise prices for some and slow down others...
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Sprint Applying Speed Breaks to Top 5% of Wireless Data Users Accessing...
Effective June 1st, all Sprint contract and prepaid customers, as well as those using Virgin Mobile USA and Boost will find their wireless data speeds throttled if Sprint finds they are among the top...
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