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.
posted Sep 9th 2008 4:20PM
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.
Your fatal mistake=going with an MVNO in the first place.
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?