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Virgin Mobile offers programs, tips to help customers “show the recession who is boss”

TORONTO - Virgin Mobile Canada is offering money back to customers in order to help them through the recession and achieve “chic-onomic” status. The quirky, self-described “#1 mobile youth network” will credit up to $150 back to a customer’s account once they have signed up for the company’s ‘Auto-Pay’ feature available on pre-paid monthly plans that are paid using a credit card. Virgin Mobile said that they will then “automatically” credit a customer’s account $5 every month for up to 30 months through its new ‘PayCheck’ program. PayCheck was designed to help offset the cost of a new phone, while leaving...