Starting June 29th, Virgin Mobile will offer an iPhone prepaid plan for as little as $30 a month after a $5 discount if you're willing to set up automatic payments with your credit card. It's such a good deal, that it makes no sense to go with anything other than prepaid for your next iPhone.

It seems like all the carriers have banded together to kill the angel known as unlimited data. Even little 'ol Virgin Mobile has joined the murder party, informing their customers that as of March 23rd, Virgin Mobile will throttle users who pass the 2.5GB data threshold. That supposedly effects 3% of their customers.…

Whether you blame it on Twitter, texts, or the inability to make a phone call on a touchscreen phone, the US is moving away from voice calls, with the average length of a call falling dramatically in the last year.

A Winnipeg man has been dumped by his girlfriend of two and a half years, after she found his phone riddled with sext messages. Only problem? He didn't write any of them. Virgin Mobile did.

Sprint's picking up Virgin Mobile in a deal worth $483 million. Virgin Mobile, if you recall, is an MVNO that runs on Sprint and bought Helio earlier. They're going to mash it up with their Boost Mobile for MVNO funtimes.

Virgin Mobile has lifted the veil on its Broadband2Go service and accompanying 3G dongle. Its selling points—that it's contract-free and runs over Sprint's network—are somewhat negated by its $150 setup cost and punishing rates.

A slew of car manufacturers are offering delayed/canceled payments for those who lose their jobs. Now Virgin Mobile will be the first cellphone service provider to follow suit. UPDATE

The Helio Ocean was an amazing phone in its day, so we were excited to see all the cool updates hitting Virgin Mobile's Helio-branded Ocean 2. Turns out, there's not much cool to be found.

MobileCrunch has lots of photos of the Helio Ocean 2 for Virgin Mobile, which we last saw in a spy shot a few months back. It's definitely real now.