Scant few companies prefer a crappy economy in which to do business, but Virgin's latest financials suggest that this kind of operating environment might just be the sweet spot. 'Course, Virgin's US offerings are all about "value" -- prepaid and all -- and it seems that the Sprint-based MVNO is getting mad play from that angle, reporting close to a quarter million net adds in the fo...

Virgin Mobile USA Inc. released “selected” — meaning positive and unaudited — metrics today, and suggested that the troubled economy was sending mobile subscribers into its arms.

Sprint Nextel has changed the terms of its commission payments to its MVNO partner, Virgin Mobile USA which suggests that the firm is taking a more aggressive stance in trying to boost its flagging subscriber base.

Rating: New pre-paid service to be launched in Summer 2009 Irelands post office, An Post, will be offering it’s own-branded MNVO from the middle of 2009. The postal service will be purchasing voice capacity and other services from Vodafone, and offering a uniquely Irish mobile brand to Irish customers. It will initially be concentrating on pre-paid ...

The Carphone Warehouse's MVNO offering cheap festive international calls

Blyk launched their youth-oriented, ad-funded MVNO into the UK market just over a year ago with much fanfare. Since then it has generated a lot of discussion in the industry about the viability and potential success of the “Blyk Model”. As a year has now passed, we took the opportunity to talk with Shaun

Long before Virgin Mobile acquired Helio, we started hearing whispers that the Samsung F400 was destined for the carrier’s lineup. With its vertically dual-sliding design featuring a number pad on one end and dual speakers on the other, it would have been a pretty snazzy little handset for music fans on everyone’s favorite MVNO. Alas, things

While the Finnish giant is ramping-up to roll it's Vertu-focused MVNO sometime early next year, the company has announced it has decided to pull their regular device line-up, including the just announced E-71 model for DoCoMo, according to this statement: "In the current global economic climate, we have concluded that the continuation of our investment in Japan-specific product variants is no...

So this is the kind of MVNO deal Nokia was preparing for Japan. Their luxury arm, Vertu, announced that they have signed an MVNO deal with NTT DoCoMo to provide communication services to Vertu customers. Beginning from Q2 2009, Vertu will start operating its service under the name VERTU Club. In addition, Nokia-owned company also said

Nokia's Vertu luxury handset division and Japan's NTT DoCoMo have announced the formation of a new MVNO, called Vertu Club, to launch in 2009. The MVNO will use NTT DoCoMo's network in Japan. Read the full story here.