Sorry, Android. Sprint is giving its Virgin Mobile mobile virtual network operator a face-lift: the MVNO will offer only iPhones and seems to be taking a page from Sprint’s recent offer for a year of free service — Virgin Mobile customers who buy an iPhone get six months of service for $1, with another six months free. Plus a lot of travel-related perks tied in to the Virgin brand:
.@virginmobileusa is offering crazy perks as it becomes first iPhone-only wireless carrier https://t.co/yFFpV5JawG pic.twitter.com/xHGOVgecDW
— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) June 22, 2017
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson was on-hand for Sprint’s announcement.
Welcome to @VirginMobileUSA #InnerCircleLife, a game-changer to shake up the mobile industry https://t.co/8mD3DYrEtC pic.twitter.com/slOqC9npGK
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) June 22, 2017
Game-changer? Shake up the mobile industry? Where have I heard that before, hmmmm … I guess we’ll see if Sprint can make that work for Virgin Mobile, the way that T-Mobile US has pulled it off.
If Apple’s iPhone is the only option for Virgin Mobile customers, not so in India — where Apple is actually an underdog and is boosting its investment and offering reduced prices on devices, according to this Wall Street Journal piece.
Where is Apple actually an underdog? In world’s second biggest mobile market https://t.co/IFFk8OFUSM
— WSJ Tech (@WSJTech) June 22, 2017
Executives from the four national wireless carriers were among the tech leaders who visited the White House this week to meet with President Trump. Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure gave his takeaways:
.@Sprint CEO @MarceloClaure discusses his meeting with @POTUS on #5G & future of wireless @WhiteHouse for #TechWeek on @CNBC. pic.twitter.com/59W2QH8TpG
— T-Mobile Newsroom (@tmobilenews) June 22, 2017
Where will Amazon drones live, when they’re not delivering items from the formerly-Whole-Foods salad bar? Perhaps in a drone-hive, which Amazon has patented just in case.
The future of @amazon drone deliveries could start at massive 'beehives" https://t.co/Y4Udq8pIzS $AMZN pic.twitter.com/6LnTZDWZjI
— CNN Tech (@cnntech) June 23, 2017
For your fun Friday random, check out this interview with the guy who played Barney the purple dinosaur for a decade. He has an electronic engineering background and used to be a software analyst for Texas Instruments.
This man played Barney the dinosaur for 10 years — here's what it was like pic.twitter.com/n51QdlC8Au
— Business Insider Tech (@BITech) June 20, 2017
