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Virgin Mobile USA Confirms Imminent Price Changes

Jul 11, 2011, 10:55 AM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Jul 11, 2011, 2:09 PM

Virgin Mobile USA today confirmed to Fierce Wireless that it is altering all the pricing rates for its Beyond Talk service plans. Starting this week, Beyond Talk's lowest plan, which includes 300 voice minutes and unlimited messaging and data, will jump from $25 per month to $35 per month. Similarly, its $40 plan, which boosts minutes to 1,200, will climb to $45 per month. Beyond Talk will drop the price of its most expensive unlimited plan from $60 to $55, and it is also dropping the $10 add-on fee that it has charged to BlackBerry smartphone users. Virgin Mobile USA spokesperson Jayne Wallace said in an email to Fierce, "Like all major carriers, we've seen data usage in particular increase significantly over the past few months, and are taking these steps to ensure customers continue to enjoy unlimited data while using Virgin Mobile, without overages or a contract."

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tether

Jul 11, 2011, 1:48 PM

on the $25, if not fully grandfathered "SEE YA VM!"

I have this to supplement my TMO service (TMO data speeds stink outside metro areas). More of a luxury to me than anything but have it because it is cheap & truly unlimited. If they don't grandfather my $25, I'm out. Not paying $20 a more for it (2 lines). Ironically though, if ATT comes in and screws with my TMO stuff like TZones on my HTC HD2 dual-booting Android/Windows, I will be back to Virgin for their unlimited everything for $55. Would go with Boost but the VM Motorola Triumph is far superior to the Prevail. I had hoped to get 2 Triumphs with my $25 plans & use those with VM. Some question too as to if VM will let us (if grandfathered) use the Triumph on the $25 plan though. I hope so, was looking forward to having my TMO HD2 along w...
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The_Sweeper

Jul 11, 2011, 12:33 PM

Wrong plan name quoted.

The plans that are changing are the Beyond Talk plans, NOT the PayLo plans.

acdc1a

Jul 11, 2011, 11:16 AM

Good News...

This is good news for those who use a lot of voice minutes. For those who need less though, it's not terrific.

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