Talk:Helio (wireless carrier)

message: Helio is trying charge $6 a month for access to the mobile verison of YouTube. 
http://www.heliocity.net/2007/helio-charging-ocean-users-for-free-content/
July 3, 2007 - Helio has now announced that they are NOT going to charge for YouTube and MySpace. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/cellphones/helios-3g-youtube-access-now-free-274554.php
This was discussed on www.HowardFourms.com there was a huge backlash because they claim Internet is Unlimited.  Except for Youtube which isn't "Unlimited" Internet. CaribDigita 18:36, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Charging for YouTube Access

message: :On July 7, 2006, technology blog Engadget revealed that Helio had managed to secure only 100 subscriptions since its launch several months prior. Representatives from Helio were quick to respond that the number of subscribers was actually in the thousands. Even still, many industry insiders believe such a number to be remarkably low, and well below target numbers -- especially relative to the amount of money invested in Helio, and to its current overhead costs.
As of Feburary 07, 2007 Helio had 70,000 subscribers as opposed to the iphone's sales of 270,000 in the first 2 days. Even if 1/2 of the iphones weren't activated (which I seriously doubt) it trounced Helio's memberships in almost a year of doing business - again, only in 2 days . Their model of mainly selling out of established retail outlets (Game Stop, FYE, etc.) while not offering proper support to the "mom and pop" phone outlets that carry their service doesn't make sense. In  NYC there was a deal where the radio station HOT 97 was going to let Helio promote the brand at several of the stations events and Helio declined. Capturing the Urban New York Market would have been a coup but they opted to go with the "hipster" market and do promotions at the McCarren park pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Helio's Wikipedia entry is a huge corporate farce and from their numbers to date you know they have no idea what they're doing.
-this isn't a forum, there's no place for your opinions, it doesn't matter if the iPhone is the sweetest thing ever, until they publish their own numbers or you can cite something worth citing (say an independent and respectable research firm), keep it to yourself, and one small FYI: SK telecom (the backer for this project) owns more than 50% of the south korean telecom market (a very competitive one, with very advanced devices) -> so i think they might have "some idea" what they're doing, read about it 198.203.177.177 (talk) 02:28, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some of the orginal text from the original wiki entry

message: Founder of cell-phone company Helio yields CEO job to president, becomes chairman - Published: Monday, January 28, 2008 | 6:03 PM ET
Canadian Press: Peter Svensson, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CaribDigita (talk) 02:30, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: CBC reports that Helio now has almost 200,000 customers.

message: We've had a complaint to WP:OTRS about the information being included in the article and it does appear to have some merit.  While some of the information included in the section may have an appropriate place in the article, it is original research at best to take a variety of facts and bill them as the roadmap to their demise.  Please try incorporating the information with reliable sources into the article elsewhere in a more factual and encyclopedic manner.  Thanks. Shell   babelfish 09:39, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of "Milestones" section

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