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SummaryVirgin Mobile plans offer good rates and good deals on prepaid cell phones if you're within their coverage area.You can purchase their phones and airtimes cards from many major stores such as Walmart and Target or you can purchase them online where they have good deals on reconditioned phones and extra airtime units. Virgin is generally known for taking a basic service like air travel or train travel (in the UK) and improving it with excellent customer service (or style). Usually you pay a small premium for that extra level of service, but it can be worth it. We've actually tried and liked their plane to London and trains (train) to Birmingham. I'm sure their future space flights will also feature excellent customer service. So, can you get the best of all worlds with a Virgin Mobile prepaid plan – cheap phones, good coverage, great rates and all the latest features? Decide for yourself.
CoverageVirgin Mobile relies on the Sprint network. You can now check out street-level coverage in the USA.
Rates for Virgin Mobile Prepaid PlansTheir rates have dropped and gotten simpler since I last checked. You have a choice of "pay-by-minute" and "pay-by-month" talk plans as well as pay-by-minute and pay-by-month text plans.Paylo Pay-By-Minute Talk PlansYou can choose from three PayLo plans - Basic Rate, Talk, and Talk and Text. Basic RateYou pay 20 cents per minute for talk and 15 cents per text. Web access costs $1.50 per MB. The good thing about the plan is that a $20 airtime card is good for 90 days. So if you really don't use the phone a lot, this plan's for you. It's more expensive than the Tracfone plans (using the double or triple minute phones). However, the advantage of Virgin Mobile is that you can switch between a wide range of plans.PayLo Talk PlanThe PayLo Talk plan costs $20 per month and gives you 400 minutes of voice (5 cents per minute), but text messages still cost 15 cents each.PayLo Talk n Text PlanThe PayLo Talk n Text plans costs $30 a month and gives you 15000 minutes, 1500 texts and 30 MB of web data. This plan is a good deal and is actually better than the Straight Talk $30 plan.You can top up your minutes via online via Paypal, or with your debit or credit card. There is an automatic top up option that add $20 when your account get to below $5. You can also buy airtime cards, called "top-up" cards in stores like Walmart and Target or online at Amazon.com. Pay-by-the Month Beyond Talk plansThe Beyond Talk pay by the month plans give you unlimited data for web and messaging and varying amounts of voice minutes. For $35 a month you get 300 voice minutes, for $45 you get 1200 voice minutes and for $55 per month you get unlimited voice minutes.The cheaper unlimited data plans are really good if you use your phone more for texting and surfing than talking, and they go great with the smart phones that Virgin Mobile offers. These plans cost about the same as standard cell phone plans did before everyone started using so much data. In this day, these no-contract plans are a good deal. Phones
Additional InfoText messagingText messages on the PayLo generally cost 5 cents to receive and send, but you can lower that by paying a monthly fee ranging from $1.99 to $9.99.Virgin was one of first prepaid cell phone companies to offer a phones (the Switchback and the Wildcard) with a qwerty(typewriter)-based keypad to more easily compose and send text messages. News and EntertainmentBefore the appearance of apps and smartphones, there were still good entertainment options on their feature phones such as . . .MTVand Comedy CentralThere are a couple of new ones as well from the Associated Press: AP EntertainmentWhich will feature youth-oriented entertainment news, and . . .CUBICUBI, which stands for "Can U Believe It" will features stories too weird to be yet are true.If you're into entertainment, you might enjoy a quick look at some Virgin Mobile commercials (I had some time on my hands). Customer ServiceAs I mentioned at the beginning, Virgin has a reputation for great customer service. I expect that to be the case here as well.All Set?You can purchase their phones from retail stores like Walmart and Best Buy, direct from Virgin on their website.Already using Virgin Mobile?Great, tell us about it!Your Virgin Mobile (USA) ReviewShare your experience with Virgin Mobile! What Other Visitors Have SaidClick below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
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