Engadget is reporting that Helio is charging its users $5.99 a month for the YouTube Mobile site. “The company’s official stance is that the $5.99 monthly fee goes toward a…

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Earthlink named Rolla Huff as the new CEO of the company...Huff succeeds former CEO Garry Betty, who died in January from complications of cancer at the age of 49. Huff…

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Users can’t buy what they can’t find – and they will lose interest (or patience) with each additional click. It’s a rule of thumb in the mobile space that has…

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Earthlink (Nasdaq: ELNK) has released its first quarter earnings for the three months ending March 31st. As a company it saw consolidated revenue of $324.4 million, an increase of 4.7…

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This is not technically news...I spoke to Helio CEO Sky Dayton in Feb, and he said they had stopped selling the service. Now Engadget Mobile reports that the existing customers…

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Earthlink, one of the co-parent of the MVNO Helio, filed its 10-K annual report this Friday, and in it tons of details about Helio‘s financials for 2006 and the need…

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A new benchmarking study by Strategy Analytics - which surveyed a group of MySpace “fanatics” (no details of the sample size) - has found users were generally satisfied with the…

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The FCC website has a filing for a PN-810 handset from Pantech with a Helio logo, according to RCR Wireless. It’s a double slider phone, with a big screen and…

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Helio did a smart thing, or at least tried to: it released some subscriber numbers and other generally positive date a day before half-parent Earthlink’s earnings numbers were to come…

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EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK) reported a 4Q loss of $24.8 million compared with a year-earlier profit of $29.2 million. The losses stemmed from marketing and operating costs associated with Helio, a…

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Helio is releasing some numbers pre-3GSM and pre-CTIA: it says that the company will have about 100K subscribers in Q2. All of these are all post-paid...Helio markets itself an upmarket…

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Telecoms Korea is reporting that Helio has started signing up customers in Korea...it’s behind a subscription wall so that’s all the information we have. Obviously, one of the company’s parents—SK…

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Despite Cingular claiming that the MySpace Mobile deal is exclusive to it, the social network’s year-old deal will continue on Helio. The MVNO is set to launch MySpace Mobile v.2…

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I got pinged about this from my wife yesterday, when she was shopping next door at J Crew on the Santa Monica Promenade (I am still in Bloomington, IN today,…

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The MVNO Helio has launched its third phone, after the first two in the initial launch: it has teamed up with Google and Samsung to deliver a new phone with…

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Helio will premiere an anthology of short movies at the same time as it appears on the online Sundance Channel. Sundance has acquired the US rights to The Art of…

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Helio, the MVNO founded by Sky Dayton, the founder of EarthLink and Boingo, has announced plans for a hybrid EVDO and WiFi service, called what else, Helio Hybrid. Helio Hybrid…

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More from CTIA...I missed the day three morning keynote discussion panel on mobile social media. Podtech recorded Helio CEO Sky Dayton’s comments on the panel...some good point about phone as…

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Helio‘s throwing money at it in a big way: three months after the official launch of the U.S. MVNO, it is announcing its move into fully-owned retail stores, and trying…

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Helio, the high-end MVNO which is targeting the youth market in U.S., has launched a promo which is bound to get some kids rolling in: the post-paid service is dropping…

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Updated: I have it from a reliable source that this is not the case...that one percent is not owned by Tom Cruise. So it rests. The original post: We broke…

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Jupiter Research analyst Julie Ask has done some back-of-an-envelope calculations and estimated there are 500,000 Americans looking for an entertainment oriented mobile device in any given year. Helio apparently wants…

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Not sure what the exact Helio losses were for Q3, but some indication from parent company Earthlink’s Q2 earnings announcement today and we’ll have more later from the analyst conference…

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Helio, the high-end MVNO targeted at youths, has started its TV campaign, the first ad was on Comedy Central last night, during the Jon Stewart show. The whole idea: don’t…

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There has been some speculation on other industry blogs about how Korean handset player VK Mobile‘s bankruptcy would affect SKT-Earthlink JV MVNO Helio, since one of the two handsets in…

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