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Virgin Mobile to Buy Helio, Kill It, Consume It

By Mark Wilson on June 25, 2008 at 10:58 PM

It appears that the rumours were right, kinda fake telecom provider Virgin Mobile will buy kinda fake telecom provider Helio. Once the acquisition is complete, Virgin Mobile will consume Helio and hopefully become stronger from the nourishment, but the trendy Helio logo will be gone forever. Since both companies run on Sprint’s network, it shouldn’t be that big a deal from a technical “will my phone still work??” standpoint. Although Helio was extremely progressive in features and pioneered “all in” plans. We don’t know if Virgin is interested in giving users the world like Helio did in the financially challenging MVNO space. [Yahoo and Electronista]


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  • peter
    June 28, 2008 at 5:41 AM

    well this merge between helio and virgin mobile might actually be alright and maybe they can start a new era in wireless together. helio’s known for its great data and great techonology and with more subscribers now maybe it’ll be exciting to see what kind of technology sk telecom can come out with

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