It’s all change at Helio, the lovechild of Earthlink and SK Telecom, with Sky Dayton has moving from the CEO position to non-executive chairman of the board, and Wonlee Sull switching from president and COO to the job of CEO. Sull has previously worked at head of the Platform R&D Center at SK Telecom.
Helio hasn’t had it easy in recent times, following Earthlink’s decision to stop funding the MVNO last year after it posted a net loss of $92 million in the third quarter and SK Telecom stepped in with its cheque book to the tune of $270 million.
With the change of leadership, Helio has revealed some stats on its performance. The operator now has “nearly” 200,000 subscribers and an ARPU of $85, $35 more than the industry average. Helio also said 95 percent of its users access the internet through their mobiles and send an average of 550 texts a month.While the words “US MVNO” can’t help but conjure a battlefield littered with the corpses like ESPN and Disney Mobile, Helio’s stats hopefully indicate that the company is actually getting hold of the data-hungry customers it always promised it would.
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