I been using Virgin Mobile for my cell phone service. I started with them when the 300 minute plan a month was $25.00 and when they increased the plan rate to $35.00 a month all of us that were paying $25.00 went on paying the $25.00 a month plus even if we got a new phone we kept paying the $25.00 a month.
Well Virgin Mobile just sent out a text message to everyone:
“New smartphones are any phones launching in May 2012 and thereafter.
To best complete a phone swap, we recommend waiting until your plan month is finished. This will avoid you having to pay for one month of service twice.
The Beyond Talk Plan rates that would apply are as follows:
$35/mo
Web, Data, Messaging, & Email: Unlimited
Anytime Minutes: 300 min.
$45/mo
Web, Data, Messaging, & Email: Unlimited
Anytime Minutes: 1200 min.
$55/mo
Web, Data, Messaging, & Email: Unlimited
Anytime Minutes: Unlimited
All plans include 2.5GB per month of full-speed data. Customers will continue to have data access but maximum speeds may be limited to 256Kbps or below for the remainder of the monthly plan cycle. During this time, customers may experience slower page loads, file downloads, and degraded streaming media. Throughput speeds will be restored when your new monthly plan begins.
2.5GB gets you 400,000 mobile Internet page views, or 91 hours of streaming music, or 20 hours of video clips, or 36,000 emails without attachments. Data usage per activity is based on average. Bandwidth varies by website, video, email and other Internet application.”
I have the $25.00 a month plan, as I said before, so if I keep my current phone I will keep paying $25.00 a month. But, of course, all of us keep looking at the new phones and will want to upgrade at some point.
I guess, for me, when that time comes that I am going to get a new phone I may move to MetroPCS or some other phone service. It does not appear that Virgin Mobile is going to be loyal to old customers and wants to keep old customers.
By the way.. It is rare for me to use more than 10 minutes of voice time a month and I use almost zero data. So I do not need a new phone but on the other hand I am not putting any drain on the VM service. VM should treat me better.
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