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Its not a matter of if but when, confirmed a Virgin Mobile executive at the Sprint Open Developer conference held this week in Santa Clara, Calif.
Its early to know...
Its not a matter of if but when, confirmed a Virgin Mobile executive at the Sprint Open Developer conference held this week in Santa Clara, Calif.
Its early to know when they [Virgin Mobile and Boost Mobile] will coincide But theres only one prepaid division inside of Sprint and we want to be the dominant prepaid player in the industry, replied Darshan Patel, the director of mobile data services at Virgin Mobile USA to our question on the future of Sprints 3 prepaid networks.
Sprint to kill Helio and offer prepaid smartphones
As for Helio, the situation is a bit more complicated as the virtual operator which Virgin Mobile acquired in June last year, offers both prepaid and postpaid plans.
Again, according to Patel, Helio postpaid customers will shift to Sprint, while its prepaid users move to Virgin Mobile.
My guess is that when the dust settles in a year of so Virgin Mobile will become Sprints branded prepaid division.
Finally, Patel confirmed that Sprint will offer prepaid smartphones from RIMs Blackberry, HTC and even perhaps from Palm! Wonder if they would be able to sell these for $130 or less, which is price of the most expensive feature phone from Virgin Mobile.
Follows is the video excerpt where Patel answers our question on Sprints long term prepaid strategy:
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