Google partners with Virgin America to provide free in-flight wi-fi this holiday season
Google has announced that they are collaborating with Virgin America to offer free WiFi on every Virgin America flight between November 10, 2009 and January 15, 2010.
This is an excellent news for travelers flying in this airline company in the coming months.
Google [...]
Virgin Media and Universal launches a new music subscription service
Richard Branson owned Virgin Media has announced the launch of a new music subscription service in collaboration with media industry giant Universal.
This service would allow Virgin Media’s broadband customers in Britain to download and listen to as many music files as they want for a fee. [...]
Virgin Mobile announces Pink Slip Protection plan
Virgin Mobile USA has announced a new plan for their customers which is aimed at retaining them for the long term while creating goodwill.
The company would launch a new unlimited prepaid calling plan that would come with Pink Slip Protection.
Pink Slip Protection would enable the customer to get [...]
Virgin Mobile USA lowers prepaid plan prices
Virgin Mobile USA has become the latest mobile player in the US market to drop the prices on their plans.
The company has lowered the price of its unlimited calling plan to $50 from $80 per month.
Virgin serves around 5.4 million subscribers in the US market.
The price cut [...]
Project Playlist gets access to EMI Music
EMI Music and Project Playlist have announced that they have signed on a deal.
Project Playlist would now get access to EMI Music for their web based service.
Ronn Werre, president of EMI’s Music Services spoke about collaborating with Project Playlist: “Making our music available on a fan [...]
Virgin UK gets Yahoo mobile services
Yahoo and Virgin Mobile are collaborating to bring Yahoo mobile services to Virgin customers in the UK market.
Yahoo has managed to edge past Google to secure this new deal as they hope to stay competitive in the mobile search and advertising market.
Yahoo representative Mitch Lazar spoke about this latest deal: [...]
Virgin America set to test launch in-flight Wi-Fi service
Virgin America is preparing to launch their in-flight wireless internet service.
The service would remain in beta for a week before the commercial launch on December 1.
They are aiming to have this facility on all its planes by the middle of next year.
The technology and solutions [...]
Virgin Media consider mobile broadband as complementary services
UK based cable service operator Virgin Mobile has entered the market of providing mobile broadband services.
The company however said that they do not believe mobile broadband has a mass market appeal.
Instead they are going to provide it as a complementary service to their customers.
Company Chief Executive Neil Berkett [...]
Virgin Mobile Shuttle 3G mobile phone launched in USA
Virgin Mobile has collaborated with Personal Communications Devices to launch their first 3G enabled mobile device in the US market.
This new product is the Virgin Mobile Shuttle.
Virgin Mobile Shuttle comes loaded with technologies like EV-DO, GPS and other high end features.
The company added that the device [...]
Virgin Mobile USA launches $79.99 unlimited plan
Virgin Mobile USA has gone offensive against the market leaders. The company has launched a new unlimited plan which would cost the customer $79.99 per month.
The company said that this prepaid plan will be available July 1.
Till now Virgin was charging the customers $99.99 for 1000 minutes per [...]
