{"id":10209,"date":"2009-07-28T22:15:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hothardware.com\/News\/Sprint-Acquires-Virgin-Mobile-USA-Expands-Prepaid-Presence"},"modified":"2009-07-28T22:15:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T02:15:42","slug":"sprint-acquires-virgin-mobile-usa-expands-prepaid-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/?p=10209","title":{"rendered":"Sprint Acquires Virgin Mobile USA, Expands Prepaid Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, isn’t this an interesting development? Just a few short months after Virgin Mobile–one of the few remaining MVNOs left in America–introduced a delightful new pay-as-you-go mobile broadband plan, the company is now be swallowed whole by Sprint Nextel. If you’re shocked to hear that the USA’s sole Palm Pre carrier is busying buying up companies, you aren’t alone.The news of the takeover comes as quite the shock to the entire industry, but we suppose we can at least understand it. You see, both Virgin Mobile<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, isn’t this an interesting development? Just a few short months after Virgin Mobile–one of the few remaining MVNOs left in America–introduced a delightful new pay-as-you-go mobile broadband plan, the company is now be swallowed whole by Sprint Nextel. If you’re shocked to hear that the USA’s sole Palm Pre carrier is busying buying up companies, you aren’t alone.The news of the takeover comes as quite the shock to the entire industry, but we suppose we can at least understand it. You see, both Virgin Mobile Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computerhunter.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}