{"id":399,"date":"2009-05-09T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=399"},"modified":"2009-05-09T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:09:19","slug":"bell-mobility-aquires-virgin-mobile-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Bell Mobility aquires Virgin Mobile Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bell.ca\">Bell Mobility<\/a> (TSE: BCE) acquired 100% of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginmobile.ca\">Virgin Mobile Canada<\/a> on May 7th, for a cost of $142 million CAD.\u00c2\u00a0 Bell, who already controlled 50% of the company, was purchasing the remaining 50% of the company controlled by Virgin Group.\u00c2\u00a0 Virgin Mobile Canada will continue to operate independently and maintain the Virgin branding.\u00c2\u00a0 Virgin Mobile was created in 2004 by an equal partnership between Virgin Group and Bell Mobility.\u00c2\u00a0 Virgin Mobile has been successful at targeting the youth market with its prepaid phones and more recently with its monthly plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LfbEw\">Bell Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bell Mobility (TSE: BCE) acquired 100% of Virgin Mobile Canada on May 7th, for a cost of $142 million CAD.\u00c2\u00a0 Bell, who already controlled 50% of the company, was purchasing the remaining 50% of the company controlled by Virgin Group.\u00c2\u00a0 Virgin Mobile Canada will continue to operate independently and maintain the Virgin branding.\u00c2\u00a0 Virgin Mobile &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=399\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bell Mobility aquires Virgin Mobile Canada<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stocks","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}