Virgin Mobile India and MySpace announced a tie-up under which the social networking site will be incorporated into Virgin Mobile handsets in India. The service will be offered as part of the vbytes offering of Virgin Mobile which comes at a daily access price of Rs 5.

Deval Parikh, Chief Officer, Handsets and VAS, Virgin Mobile India said, "With more and more online youth community logging onto social networking sites, we wanted to make this service available to our customers on a broad set of handsets. We are thrilled to be the first to have partnered with MySpace in the Indian mobile service space to make this service accessible to Virgin Mobile customers on handsets as low as Rs. 2999.”

“MySpace and Virgin Mobile users in India will love having the freedom and convenience of accessing their social network while they’re on the go,” said John Faith, Vice President and General Manager of Mobile for MySpace. “With India being the fastest growing wireless/mobile market, it is a priority for us to provide our users in India access to their MySpace network in ways that fit their lifestyle. Virgin Mobile is an ideal partner that will help us deliver on that strategy in India.