Giving an overview of the company, Virgin Mobile, is one of the popular mobile network service provider around the globe, licensed under the Virgin Mobile brand from the United Kingdom based Virgin Group founded by the British businessman Richard Branson and John Tantum from US. Virgin Mobile USA was established back in 2001 in a joint venture between Virgin Group and Sprint Corporation and later in 2009, Sprint Nextel bought the joint-venture partnership from Virgin Group, to become the sole owner of the company in the United States.
Recently the company has made an official statement that the telecommunications giant in the country will discontinue Virgin Mobile USA and will transfer all their active and existing accounts to Sprint's yet another subsidiary, Boost Mobile beginning in February. According to the company, customers on the network were notified starting early January about the decision to discontinue Virgin Mobile USA's service plans across the stateside. It is worth mentioning that all existing customers will keep their phone numbers, monthly plans, as well as payment dates the same on the new Boost Mobile's network.
At this time a decision to discontinue the Virgin Mobile USA service has been made. As we are committed to providing you with great service, we will transfer your account to our sister brand Boost Mobile.Source: Virgin mobile