July 28, 2009

Sprint to buy Virgin Mobile USA

Sprint Nextel said Tuesday it would buy out Virgin Mobile USA in a deal that values the small wireless carrier at $483 million and pushes Sprint deeper into the low-end prepaid mobile market.

Sprint, which already owns 13.1 percent of Virgin Mobile, will pay a mix of shares and cash to buy the rest of the company from Richard Branson's Virgin Group, South Korea's SK Telecom and public shareholders.

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