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Virgin Mobile USA officially confirmed it will acquire rival MVNO Helio from SK Telecom and EarthLink. Per terms of the deal, SK and EarthLink will receive limited partnership units equivalent to 13 Read more...

Virgin Mobile USA will acquire embattled MVNO Helio, according to a report in The Financial Times. Citing sources with inside knowledge of the negotiations, The FT says Virgin Mobile and Helio Read more...

Goodbye, Helio: Gizmodo is reporting the embattled MVNO is on life support after merger Read more...

Barack Obama is the clear favorite to become America's next president according to a new SMS-based mobile survey conducted by Virgin Mobile USA. According to the text poll, conducted in late May, 40 Read more...

Web services giant AOL announced its Platform-A advertising unit will serve as the exclusive display advertising and sales partner for MVNO Virgin Mobile USA's WAP banner inventory. Per terms of the Read more...

Virgin Mobile USA announced the Fund My Phone application, which extends the operator's Sugar Mama marketing program to the Facebook social networking platform and enables consumers to earn wireless Read more...

Mobile entertainment community Limbo announced a year-long deal with Virgin Mobile USA to provide exclusive interactive programs promoted via SMS blasts and the VirginXL platform. Virgin subscribers Read more...

Content squared off against carriers at Monday's Mobile Entertainment Live! event as Walt Disney Internet Group executive vice president of development and operations Larry Shapiro debated Virgin Read more...

Content squared off against carriers at Monday's Mobile Entertainment Live! event as Walt Disney Internet Group executive vice president of development and operations Larry Shapiro debated Virgin Read more...

MySpace announced a partnership with mobile transaction solutions provider mBlox to make the social networking giant's text message alert program available to subscribers on the Verizon Wireless, Read more...