With so much buzz going on this week, it was easy to overlook yet another mobile strategy being unveiled by Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS). It said it is launching a…

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Helio said this afternoon that it is eliminating some executives as their roles and responsibilities are consolidated into other departments. The departures are part of a larger realignment of functions…

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Yes, the Amp’d story refuses to die: Amp’d Mobile is trying to raise cash, even from its former CEO Peter Adderton, to repay some of its creditors by auctioning off…

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During today’s EarthLink call discussing Q4 and full year results, CEO Rolla Huff said it was a hard decision to stop investing in Helio, which is performing quite strongly: “We…

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Voce, the Beverly Hills based premium MVNO service which was so premium no one ever cared about it, has shut down. The company has gone through a lot of trouble…

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Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) reported preliminary Q4 results today during a Thomas Weisel conference, revealing that it failed to add as many subscribers during the holiday as it wanted.…

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Updated: Presenting the move as routine, MNVO Helio just announced that Sky Dayton has moved to non-executive chairman of the board, leaving the post of CEO for Wohnee Sull, who…

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Subscribers to UK ad-funded MVNO Blyk are allegedly turning off their phone’s messaging function in order to avoid receiving ads, according to the Inquirer citing a tip from a “disgruntled…

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Disney (NYSE: DIS), not content with two failed MVNO ventures in U.S., is now entering Japan, and launching a mobile service aimed at women. Vote below: (RSS readers may have…

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Disney (NYSE: DIS) has unveiled the three handsets which it will offer in its Japanese MVNO, due to launch on March 1st. “Aimed at young working women, Disney Mobile will…

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Howard Handler, who has served as CMO of Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM) since it launched here in U.S. in 2003, is leaving the company. Bob Stohrer, currently VP of…

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"Virgin Mobile” has signed up Player X to manage its games and video services. Player X will be responsible for “selecting, signing and managing entertainment content partners on behalf of…

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MVNO Helio has sold the trademark “Buddy Beacon”—the name of its mobile friend-finder service—to uLocate, the company that runs the service, for an undisclosed sum. uLocate will continue to operate…

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Kajeet, the prepaid MVNO targeted at kids, has received $10 million in debt financing from Chicago-based BlueCrest Capital Finance. The company previously raised about $64 million in two rounds of…

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Is ESPN’s (NYSE: DIS) new mobile strategy paying off? For three days, ESPN.com has had more visits to its NFL content through its mobile phone web site than it did…

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Italian broadband provider Tiscali is planning to roll out a UK mobile phone service in the last three months of 2008, according to Telegraph.co.uk. It’s currently in discussions with the…

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We’re marking the new year with some updates to our ContentNext Media Index, an index of 100 U.S.-traded companies in the media, Internet content and related sectors. Two of the…

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Dutch mobile operator KPN has found success in Germany with the cut-rate, no-frills, no subsidized handsets mobile plan it offers through Base, a brand it had imported from Belgium. Indeed,…

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Will Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and its push for open networks put more pressure on the struggling MVNO sector? Red Herring has a rather muddled story on how MVNO’s will fare…

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Another MVNO bites the dust: XE Mobile, a virtual operator that targeted college students with a pay-as-you-go service, says it’s shutting down on December 31, with service cut off and…

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Helio, the MVNO joint venture of SK Telecom (NYSE: SKM) and Earthlink, (NSDQ: ELNK) is launching a new YouTube application for users of its Ocean handset. The operator already offered…

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Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gunning for the US market, so too are Asian wireless firms. The lure: the potential that these players see in the country’s mobile internet…

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Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has begun serving ads on its US MSN Mobile page, moving into the mobile advertising business in the USA—it already sells mobile ads in Belgium, France, Spain,…

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Bill Stone, till recently the president of the shuttered MVNO service Amp’d, has joined mobile software and content retailer Handango as the new CEO. Founder Randy Eisenman will remain “actively…

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Kahn Gauthier Swick has filed a class action lawsuit against Virgin Mobile (NYSE: VM) USA on behalf of shareholders, apparently because the stock has fallen 55 percent from its peak…

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