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Virgin Mobile in Canada same as US? http://www.virginmobile.ca/en/hot-offers/iphone5.html?province=ON&geoResult=failed# Seem like they offering iPhone 5. Didn't know that Sprint operates Virgin Mobile in Canada.

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Nope, Virgin Mobile Canada is completely separate from Virgin Mobile USA; both of their corporate parents (US: Sprint, Canada: Bell) just license the name from Virgin Group. These days they don't even use the same network technology; Bell is migrating everyone onto HSPA/W-CDMA/LTE.

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Virgin Mobile in Canada same as US? http://www.virginmob...eoResult=failed# Seem like they offering iPhone 5. Didn't know that Sprint operates Virgin Mobile in Canada.

 

Virgin Mobile Canada is owned by Bell. They operate on an HSPA/LTE network. Some of their older devices operate on CDMA. And yes, they offered the iPhone 5 at the same time as Bell did.

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Nope, Virgin Mobile Canada is completely separate from Virgin Mobile USA; both of their corporate parents (US: Sprint, Canada: Bell) just license the name from Virgin Group. These days they don't even use the same network technology; Bell is migrating everyone onto HSPA/W-CDMA/LTE.

 

Bell switched to HSPA so that they could release the iPhone 3Gs. Telus did the same thing back in 2009.

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