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NJTC Gala
November 17, 2009
Dan Schulman, President, Sprint Prepaid, receives the NJ Technology Council's annual Super Award as Public Company of the Year

National Alliance to End Homelesss
November 17, 2009
Dan Schulman: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness
In recognition of Homeless Youth Awareness Month and the work of Virgin Mobile USA – the Alliance’s 2010 recipient of the Private Sector Achievement Award – a few words from Dan Schulman, President, Sprint Prepaid.

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Reuters
August 30, 2009
Associated Press Photo

In this photo released by Virgin Mobile USA, Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group (R), cools off Flavor Fav (William Drayton, Jr.) with ice-water while doing some guest bartending alongside Dan Schulman, President, Sprint Prepaid (L) at the Virgin Mobile FreeFest concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, August 30, 2009. The concert - featuring Blink-182, Weezer, Public Enemy and a dozen more acts, was held as a give back to music fans and to solicit donations to assist homeless youth agencies in need throughout the U.S. REUTERS/Bob Riha, Jr./Virgin Mobile USA
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eWeek
August 25, 2009
FTC, DOJ Approve Sprint-Virgin Mobile Deal
Roy Mark
The proposed $483 million deal between Sprint and Virgin Mobile clears antitrust hurdles from the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The acquisition is likely to be part of a continuing consolidation trend in the prepaid market. Sprint's Boost and Virgin Mobile will be competing in a crowded market that already includes Leap Wireless, TracFone and MetroPCS. The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice gave the green light Aug. 24 to Sprint Nextel's proposed $483 million acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA. The agencies' reviews of the deal, announced July 28, covered the antitrust aspects of the transaction.

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NYSE Magazine
April 2, 2009
Irreverent Start-Up
Robert Hertzberg
Maybe it is all the years he spent working in a more traditional corporate setting, but President Dan Schulman can't suppress a smile when he takes visitors on a tour of the Warren, N.J., headquarters of VIRGIN MOBILE USA INC. (VM). A disco ball spins to rock-and -roll tunes in the reception area. The sign above a large hook in the lobby advises the overdressed to hang their ties: "Our business is fun. Ties are knot. Kindly leave them here." And a battery-operated candle "shrine" to Sir Richard Branson, the brand's irrepressible British founder, hangs on the wall.

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Wall Street Journal
February 4, 2009
Virgin Mobile Aims Low
Roger Cheng
Virgin Mobile USA Inc. may benefit from an incoming wave of wireless customers looking to escape high monthly bills and annual contracts.
The company, which resells wireless service on a prepaid basis, has always gone after a younger, budget-conscious crowd. That should play well as more people try to save money-a change in consumers' spending attitudes that many believe represents a permanent shift.
"It's not just a retrenchment," Chief Executive Dan Schulman said in an interview. "We've had enough of a shock to the system that consumers are fundamentally rethink how they spend and what they spend on."
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USA Today
July 15, 2008
Virgin treads a quirky path to success
Leslie Cauley
Virgin Mobile USA definitely walks to its own, very big drumbeat.
Big cellphone carriers such as AT&T and Verizon Wireless are famous for herding customers into long-term service contracts. Virgin specilizes in prepaid plans that allow its customers - half of them under 35 - to pay as they go, by the minute or by the month.
That difference is what distinguishes Virgin, CEO Dan Schulman says, It's also what keeps Virgin on its toes. Because there's no contract, there's nothing to prevent people from leaving, Schulman says. "You really have to earn your keep every single day."
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U.S. News
August 3, 2007
The View from ING Direct and Virgin Mobile
Kimberly Palmer
Banks and cellphone companies frequently top consumers' most-hated lists. But two companies, online banking giant ING Direct and cellphone provider Virgin Mobile USA, are trying to come to their rescue.
Industries where dissatisfied customers are rife often spawn "white knights," companies that spring up to serve rankled consumers, says Gail McGovern, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. McGovern has found that many companies inadvertently make their customers miserable, through unexpected fees (in the case of banks) and inconvenient contracts (for gym and cellphone use).

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Fortune
September 20, 2004
Virgin's Territory Spawns Imitators
ATTENTION, FORTUNE READERS: DAN Schulman, CEO of Virgin Mobile USA, hopes you haven't seen his company's irreverent television advertisements, which targets teens and twentysomethings. "If your readers have seen our ads, that means we are wasting a lot of money," laughs Schulman.
Schulman needn't worry. Virgin's spots - the current crop aired during the recent MTV Music Awards - feature phone conversations sung in soaring, American Idol-style vocals and seem to be hitting all the right notes. The two-year-old company, a joint venture of Richard Branson's Virgin Group and phone company Sprint, has quietly become the No. 10 wireless provider in the highly competitive U.S. market, thanks to its popularity among the 15- to 24-year-old set.

Read the full article featuring Dan Schulman in Fortune