Helio is dead, long live Helio

by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 9th 2008 at 4:20PM

The deed is done, and Virgin Mobile is wasting no time giving its fresh acquisition a giant bear-hug to welcome it to the family. Helio is now "Helio by Virgin Mobile," tagged with the line "Plan To Have It All" -- hopefully a nod to the fact that Virgin plans to keep Helio's offerings distanced from Virgin as a higher-end, feature-rich carrier that can compliment Virgin's typical lineup of ultra-cheap prepaid goods. To kick things off, Helio is now offering an upgrade to its $80 A La Carte plan, boosting the 1,500 included minutes to a limitless bucket -- nice, we'll take it -- and Virgin is stealing some of Helio's mojo to offer the Shuttle, a new handset marketed under the Virgin name that'll integrate Helio's Buddy Beacon service. Just stay on track with the Ocean 2, fellas, and everything's cool by us.

Filed under: Helio, Virgin Mobile, MVNOs

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, helio, mvno, shuttle, virgin, virgin mobile, VirginMobile

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Jason @ Sep 9th 2008 6:49PM

Everything's not cool with me though :(

Sorry Helio, the Ocean is horribly buggy, slow, and there's no excuse for not giving the people an update after over three years.

I know I'm not the only one to jump ship. I'm just waiting for the Touch Pro, switching to Sprint, and getting an Airave. Virgin is going to have to do a lot to pull Helio out of this one.

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Christian Walters @ Sep 9th 2008 11:13PM

Your fatal mistake=going with an MVNO in the first place.

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Brian @ Sep 10th 2008 2:34PM

No excuse? How about the teetering on the edge of bankruptcy excuse? or Our investors closed the bank excuse? or Our manufacturers started to ask for payment excuse?