Sprint-owned wireless carrier Virgin Mobile will soon offer Apple’s incredibly popular iPhone, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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Like Cricket, we also expect that customers will have to pay between $400 and $500 upfront for an iPhone 4 or 4S to be eligible for the service. The carrier is set to start offering the iPhone in early July.
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Offering the iPhone on Virgin will help Sprint keep its commitment to buy more than $15 billion worth of iPhones that it made to get the iPhone 4S. Sprint’s pre-paid offerings, which include Boost Mobile, are now posting more successful growth numbers than Sprint’s post-paid side. That would indicate that bringing the iPhone over to Virgin is a smart bet.
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