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| Latest feed from Prepaid News Virgin Mobile Posts Decent Q3 Numbers Prepaid mobile leader Virgin Mobile announced their Q3 earnings last week and while the numbers didn't blow anyone out of the water, they were rather encouraging. They rang up about 323.2 million in sales in Q3 with about 4.1 million of that in profit, not bad considering last quarter they made $3.6 million on $317.4 million in sales. Slightly less sales from last quarter but they manged to keep more from less, indicating a stronger operational efficiency and higher ARPU numbers (they average somewhere just north of $20 per month per user).To show that Virgin is committed to maintain a more efficient workforce in these tough times they also announced that they would be cutting their workforce by 10 percent (roughly 45 jobs) in the coming quarter. While these cuts are not as bad as we see in other industries and companies, the mere suggestion of cutting jobs always leads investors and shareholders to loose confidence. The result of this announcement caused shares to fall by about 10%.View Full Details About Virgin Mobile's Q3 FilingEmma Lee is marketing manager for the International Phone Card superstore phonecardmania.com Great Europe Prepaid Phone Card Commercial Here is a commercial for the Great Europe Phone Card.Emma Lee is marketing manager for the International Phone Card superstore phonecardmania.com Pingo Adds Softphone The popular rechargeable calling card from Ibasis called Pingo announced last week that they have added a new feature to their offer that will allow users to make calls from a softphone. The softphone is a PC based application that a user downloads from the Pingo site and he/she can use to make calls from their computer (internet connection required).The softphone is not a new application and has long been offered by companies like Net2Phone, Skype, DeltaThree and many others but Pingo hopes that by adding this application they will open up a whole new user base of individuals outside of their current toll free and local access footprint. This service will be ideal for travelers and especially for those in the Middle East and Asia where softphone applications are commonly used. The only downside for Ibasis is that they will have a whole new fraud element that they will need to keep a close eye on going forward!The one surprise of this offer is that they are not offering lower rates for using a softphone vs. the calling card. Odd since Pingo is actually able to save by not paying the inbound toll-free/local access charge for calls made via the softphone. I suppose they feel the convenience is the main attraction not a potential cost savings. To learn more about this website visit their website softphone page.Emma Lee is marketing manager for the International Phone Card superstore phonecardmania.com |