yes it will work as virgin use the EE/Tmobile/orange masts
I would advise you to take a look at the community virgin media mobile forum as some of the sony xperia and samsung models had a problem with not being able to recieve calls/texts while wifi is enabled.
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...-p/OtherMobile
this is the reason i changed my phone due to this problem, but not sure if its all sorted now
Juleix