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Virgin Mobile’s “National Fearless Day” was awesome

By John Connors ⋅ November 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Virgin Mobile held their “National Fearless Day” contest today and it was actually an awesome event, nothing shy of what you would expect from them.
Here’s why it was so cool:
1. Richard Branson was in attendance
2. There were 3 challenges
- 1. Find the letters in a tank full of maggots and Spell “Fearless”
- 2. Get chained [...]

Virgin to launch iPhone “in the coming months”, we say Feb

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ November 19, 2009 ⋅ 14 comments

We let you know a few weeks ago that Virgin Mobile was going to bring on the Apple iPhone and today an official statement went out: “Virgin Mobile Canada will launch iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS in Virgin Mobile Retail Stores and online in Canada in the coming months”.
No worries about the coming months, we [...]

Virgin’s “National Fearless Day” is tomorrow!

By Rob Avison ⋅ November 18, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

For those who live without fear then you probably want to attend Virgin’s “National Fearless Day” is tomorrow. This Virgin Mobile’s attempt to find Canada’s most fearless person.
Over the past couple weeks Virgin asked Canadians to upload a 1-minute video of why they are “fearless”. People voted and tomorrow they will be giving away a [...]

All Virgin Mobile phones at $0.00… except the Motorola RAZR2 V9m?

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ November 17, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yesterday we wrote a short post about how Virgin discounted all their BlackBerry devices, however it seems to be a step further than this as all their devices have been dropped down to the clearance price of $0.00 on a 2 or 3-year plan.
All except for one glorious knight in shining armour of days past. [...]

Virgin Mobile drops BlackBerry prices to $0.00

By Rob Avison ⋅ November 16, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Virgin Mobile has once again dropped their prices for all of their BlackBerry devices. You can now get the BlackBerry Pearl 8130, Flip 8230 and the Curve 8330 for $0.00 on a 3-year contract. These all have to be on Virgin’s BlackBerry Bundle monthly plan and make sure you read all the fine print before [...]

Virgin Mobile to launch Apple iPhone in February

By Kate O'Brien ⋅ November 8, 2009 ⋅ 29 comments

This was eventually bound to happen but we’ve been informed that Bell’s sub-brand, not the almost forgotten Solo Mobile but the über-cool Virgin Mobile Canada will be launching the Apple iPhone. The targeted release date is scheduled for the February time frame… which means Virgin is going HSPA.
No word of pricing but you can bet [...]

Rogers fires back at Virgin’s “WTF” comment!

By Rob Avison ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ 17 comments

We thought the Globalive foreign ownership issues was Canada’s version of a wireless soap opera!
It turns out it’s not and the surprising and almost awkward battle between Virgin Mobile and Rogers Wireless flamed up this morning with Virgin’s latest ad campaign hammering down the recently introduced Rogers “Government Regulatory Recovery Fee”, or in short the [...]

Virgin says WTF is with the Rogers GRRF fee?

By Rob Avison ⋅ November 6, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

Rogers recently removed the System Access Fees and introduced the “Government Regulatory Recovery Fee” (GRRF) and off all companies to respond it’s Bell’s sub-brand Virgin Mobile that says “GRRF! WFT!… seriously Rogers. What’s the Fee?”.
Always putting things so eloquently, Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Mobile Canada said, “I’d like to congratulate Rogers for removing [...]

Virgin’s “30-day You’ll Love Us Guarantee” goes live!

By Ian Hardy ⋅ November 3, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Right on schedule from what we informed you a couple days ago… Virgin has gone live with their “30-day You’ll Love Us Guarantee”. You can check it out here at Virgin and learn all about the new perk. They have also changed their plans (see here) and see below the the updated plans.
Virgin says “We [...]

Virgin’s 30-day Guarantee & new rate plans coming

By Rob Avison ⋅ November 1, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

Interested to see how Virgin is going to stack up against the others over the next few months? Read on…
In the past Virgin has always had their “Virgin Mobile Bill of Rights” and now what seems to be going to happen is effective November 3rd, the creative folks over at Virgin are bringing on a [...]

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