The $350 price tag is for the sole purpose to slow sales. VM is facing a near catastrophic failure of their network if they gain more than 1 million more data costumers. If they do they will breech their contract with Sprint which oddly expires July 28th. Where they will have a new contract but Sprint is going to add the $10 fee per line.
This post makes absolutely ZERO sense.
If they want to slow sales, don't release a new phone. Just because the OV went up, and it was speculated to be because of growth, doesn't mean this will start higher for that reason. I still doubt the increase was to slow sales. That would be pretty silly considering only two weeks before they were blowing the OV out at $129. If you are near saturation, you don't hold a sale just before raising your rates.
Second, in business, lack of growth = death.
Sprint bought VM because pre-paid is the only growing segment in cell phones now. Post-Paid growth is almost at a standstill due to saturation.
As for the contract, Sprint owns Virgin Mobile.
Oh, and if Virgins network fails, so does Sprint, they are the same network.
Sprint is scared to death of the At&T T-Mobile merger. Raising prices right now would be the worst thing they could do. However, it could be a planned rate hike, but the explanations given so far have been pretty silly.
Son, grandfather doesn't work with prepaid. :'( He only works with contracts, and once it's up grandfather will abandon you.
I'm not so sure.
They kept old plans for a long time after they killed them off. Eventually they did away with them, but usually it was a year or more after they killed the plan. Granted, that was old VM, not Sprint/VM.
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