Virgin Mobile

[Mlarsen]

I considering switching from T-mobile to Virgin mobile. I'm tired of paying a 100 bucks a month for a phone. Virgin Mobile has a plan : 300 anytime minutes and unlimited/uncapped data for 45 bucks.It looks like Virgin mobile piggybacks on Sprints network and I know from from experience Sprint has excellent coverage. Another big seller for me is the new Motorola Triumph.

http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and-Services/Mobile-Phones/MOTOROLA-TRIUMPH-US-EN

Has anybody used Virgin mobile? Horror Stories? It seems like a really good deal to me. Let here some of your opinions.

[lambo]

I have it, but mine is only 25 bucks a month for 300 min and unlimited data...

The Samsung Intercept is, perhaps, the worst Android phone in the world. I think I will up grade to that motorola.

Edit: They upped their prices??!! WTF?!

[Mlarsen]

I was wrong 45 bucks for 1200 minutes and unlimited data

[tjts1]

Also have the 300 min, unlimited data for $25/mo. They just jacked that up for $35/month for new users but the phones are cheaper. With Skype on my phone I don't even come close to using up all 300 minutes. The data coverage is excellent. I was able to run Pandora and a few other data intensive apps pretty much everywhere on the west coast.

[equate975]

Depends on your area, sprint is a god damn joke around here. If you're going to go with them I would recommend boost over virgin, $50 unlimited and you can get a droid.

[lambo]

Also have the 300 min, unlimited data for $25/mo. They just jacked that up for $35/month for new users but the phones are cheaper. With Skype on my phone I don't even come close to using up all 300 minutes. The data coverage is excellent. I was able to run Pandora and a few other data intensive apps pretty much everywhere on the west coast.

Wait, it's just for new users?

[scottinAZ]

I also have Virgin on the 300min/unlimited data for $25. dont know if they jacked the prices, but I do know that if you need more airtime, you can easily swap plans to one of the others. Had Virgin for better than 3 years with no issues.

[tjts1]

Wait, it's just for new users?

Yup, it will stay $25/mo forever even if we replace phones. I'm happy with my optimus v.

[lambo]

Yup, it will stay $25/mo forever even if we replace phones. I'm happy with my optimus v.

Awesome! I wish I had waited, literally weeks, and gotten that instead of this piece of crap intercept. At times I just want to pelt it at the nearest brick wall...

[dreamchasin]

Guy at work has Virgin Mobile and gets the same amount of coverage as my Verizon LG Revolution. We work in a grocery store overnight and on the one side of the store I don't get service to send texts, but I have service to get on the internet. He has service for internet AND texting which royally pisses me off because I pay 100 a month and he pays 25. I have a 600 dollar phone, he has a 150 dollar phone, fuck my life.

[Mercury[BKM]]

i left verizon and their 150 a month phone for Boost, 60 bucks a month for my blackberry (minus 10 bucks a month for auto pay) making it 50 a month, and phone works everywhere in dallas and everywhere ive ever needed my phone while travelling.

i now pay 600 a year vs verizon's 1800 a year. To hell with that noise

[mrsleeve]

All depends on where you live as far as service coverage. Where I live Sprint is SHIT, and where I used to live it went to SHIT. If you travel away from your home area a lot the roaming can add up on the lower cost carriers.

I hate it cuz its expensive and shit CS, but I have VZN, but it works nearly every where I go, and work all over the place and I need to have a phone that works,.

[tjts1]

There is no contract and no roaming charges with virgin.

[mrsleeve]

^
well thats cool, did not know that.

[Pantless Spency]

VERIZON BITCHEZZZZZ.






lol i kid.
that plan for 25 a month doesn't sound bad at all.