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Sprint To Buy Virgin Mobile USA For $483 Million

July 28th, 2009 1:10 PM | by Christen da Costa

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Sprint has agreed to acquire Virgin Mobile USA in what appears to be a stock only deal.  It will ‘retire’ Virgin Mobile of all its debt to Sprint and net them about $140 million in equity.  I suppose the deal includes the recently acquired Helio and if all goes to plan it will strengthen Sprint’s Boost Mobile business.

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Helio Ocean 2 Heads To Open Waters, Release Date, Specs & Pricing Announced

February 3rd, 2009 4:30 PM | by Christen da Costa

Virgin Mobile is letting the Helio Ocean 2 into open water.  Release date and pricing you ask?  February 12th for $149.  Specs include a 2.6-inch screen, 3G connectivity, A-GPS, stereo Bluetooth, media player, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD card slot, Opera mini browser, Microsoft Exchange mail support and a 2MP camera.

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