Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile branded services used to be offered in Australia, France, Singapore, India, Qatar, South Africa and the United States.

VMLA announced in June of this year its plan to become Latin America's leading mobile virtual network operator (MVNO).

Richard Branson commented: "We are excited to have made such good progress towards launching our first mobile business in Latin America in Chile.

We are very appreciative of Subtel’s (Chile’s Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones) prompt approval of our application," said VMLA's chairman Phil Wallace.

[3] Virgin Mobile won for three consecutive years the ALCO Customer Loyalty award for having the highest net promoter score (NPS) index in the telecommunications industry in Chile.

[4] As of January 2016 Virgin Mobile Chile has a net portability balance of 322,560 customers[5] that have transferred their phone numbers from or to other companies.

Some notable product offerings include no contract prepaid plans and a variety of payment options, from top up terminals to PayPal.

The high rate of active mobile lines in Colombia makes this country a good place to set telecom and networks operations.

On 23 September 2019, the Ecuadorian government through a tweet from its former Communications Minister Andrés Michelena,[7] informed about the signature of an agreement that allows Virgin Mobile to start officially its operations in the country.

Richard Branson (Virgin Mobile CEO) and Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno met in NY and signed the agreement.

Since 10 April 2014, it has been possible to purchase micro, nano and regular sim cards through several points of sale located in shopping malls or over the internet.

[10] Virgin Plus became the fifth brand offering the iPhone in Canada, after Fido, Rogers Wireless, Telus, and Bell Mobility.

On 1 March 2008, Virgin launched the Mobile brand in India through a franchise arrangement with NTT DoCoMo.

[16] However, on 29 March 2008, the Department of Telecom (DoT) cleared the deal after clarification from Tata Teleservices indicated that Virgin had not entered India as an MVNO.

[23] However, it later gave notice of plans to terminate the Vodafone deal in its Q2 2021 financial report, due to Telefónica (owners of O2) acquiring 50% of the business.

Virgin Mobile USA was headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and provided service to approximately 6 million customers.

Founded in 2001 as a joint venture between Virgin Group and Sprint Corporation, Virgin Mobile USA commenced operations in June 2002 as a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), providing services via the Sprint 1900 MHz CDMA network.

In June 2017, Virgin Mobile dropped all Android and began to only offer iPhones to new customers under its new "Inner Circle" unlimited plan.