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Virgin releases myBuddies 65 plan that includes 6GB data

Virgin has continued this week where they ended last week by coming out with a new plan. This time it’s similar to a previous offering, now with 6GB for $65/month. This “limited time offer” plan is on “until Further Notice”, starts today, and also comes with 200 anytime minutes, Unlimited Canada-Wide calling to 10 numbers, [...]

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Virgin comes out with a $5 Unlimited Text & Picture Messaging add-on

Virgin’s new Prepaid and talk and text plans are available now, along with a new $5 Unlimited text add-on. Virgin is showing some love and giving members (aka customers) the option who have a talk and text plan to send unlimited Canada, U.S. and International text and picture messaging for $5/month. This is available starting [...]

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Virgin offers up free Voicemail, Call Display on all talk and text plans

Two weeks ago Koodo Mobile started to include call display and voicemail into their plan, plus also increased the rate plans by $5 each. Effective February 14th, “back by popular demand”, Virgin Mobile will do the same. From the internal doc we received it states that Virgin is “rekindling an old flame” and giving free [...]

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Virgin Mobile rolling out new Prepaid plans February 14th

New prepaid plans are what Virgin Mobile is coming to the table with on Valentine’s Day. There’s 4 in total and it looks like they’re giving more for less – about $5 less. As usual, all plans include the following features: Incoming Text, Voicemail, Call Display, Call Waiting, Call Forwarding and 3-Way Calling. Here’s what [...]

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Virgin creates “Date ‘em or Diss ‘em” Valentine’s Day e-cards

In true Virgin fashion they are celebrating this upcoming Valentine’s Day with provocative e-cards. There’s 2 categories, “Date ‘em or Diss ‘em”, and some solid one liners: “You’re the kinda person I’d consider losing weight for”; “Will you be mine? Also, will you lend me some money?”; “I’ll try not to let everything you do [...]

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Virgin’s new contest gives members and their buddies a private pre-screening of John Carter

Here’s something cool to start February off with. If you’re thinking about joining or upgrading to a Virgin Mobile smartphone you might have the chance to win a pre-screening of the upcoming flick John Carter. It’s not just any pre-screening – Virgin will hand over the entire theatre to you and your buddies, plus also [...]

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Bell and Virgin Mobile rollout HD Voice

Almost a year to the date WIND Mobile implemented HD Voice to their customers, this reportedly brought a “better quality, clearer voice service experience”. Today, both Bell and Virgin have rolled out HD Voice to their HSPA+ customers – this is available for free on select handsets. For Bell, currently the HD Voice compatible phones [...]

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Virgin adds 5 more buddies to the $35/month talk and text plan

Virgin has upped the amount of ‘buddies’ on their $35/month talk and text plan. Starting today the plan will see unlimited Canada-Wide Calling to 10 Buddies, up from 5. As the doc states above, this is in place “until further notice”. Here are the plan details: – 10 unlimited buddies, – Unlimited text (international text [...]

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Virgin offering new customers who BYOP (bring your own phone) monthly discounts

Virgin is focussing their attention on wooing those customers who just want to purchase a SIM card, or as Virgin puts it “BYOP” – Bring You Own Phone. You could save a bit of dough, upwards of $120/year, but depends if you purchase a talk and text plan, or a smartphone plan. The promo goes [...]

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Virgin joins in the fun, offers 1 month free service on any talk and text plan

Last week if was the free long distance promo that made the rounds at the carriers, but this week the latest trend is to offer customers 1 month of service for free. Rogers, Fido, Public, Bell and now Virgin is giving customers 1 month free when they sign up on any talk and text plan. [...]