Virgin Mobile UK (also known in branding as Mobile from Virgin Media) is a mobile phone service provider operating in the United Kingdom. The company was the world's first Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO), launched in 1999. Being a virtual operator, Virgin Mobile does not maintain its own network, and instead has contracts to use the existing network of EE. Virgin Mobile was bought by NTL:Telewest on the 4 April 2006 before joining the quadplay of Virgin Media services when NTL:Telewest rebranded as Virgin Media on 9 February 2007, with a new logo in-line with Virgin Media.
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“A hidden strength
Which if Heav’n gave it, may be term’d her own:
‘Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
She that has that, is clad in compleat steel,
And like a quiver’d Nymph with Arrows keen
May trace huge Forests, and unharbour’d Heaths,
Infamous Hills, and sandy perilous wildes,
Where through the sacred rayes of Chastity,
No savage fierce, Bandite, or mountaneer
Will dare to soyl her Virgin purity,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
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—Anne Cassidy (20th century)