Helio sale to Virgin Mobile could happen this week?

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Do you hear that, Helio? That [cue Sir Richard Branson’s soothing voice] is the sound of inevitability. Rumors have been swirling for a few weeks now that SK Telecom — Helio’s majority owner — is getting ready to cut, run, and offload its share to Virgin Mobile, rolling the scrappy MVNO into the one and only virtual network in the US that’s been met with substantial, quantifiable success (more recent stock woes notwithstanding). Now, the Financial Times is reporting that a deal is cued up and ready for a public introduction as early as this week. The sooner, the better, because tons of questions remain about the fate of subscribers and the introduction of the pretty hotly anticipated Ocean 2, a device that at one time could’ve been Helio’s savior; too late for that now, we guess.

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