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Amp'd Dies At Midnight
Assets being auctioned off...
by Karl Bode Tuesday 31-Jul-2007 tags: business · wireless
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According to the company FAQ, today is the last day of service for the hipster-focused MVNO Amp'd Mobile, who recently filed for bankruptcy after nearly half of their very hip customers failed to pay their bills.

The company's bankruptcy auction proceedings begin this morning. Here's the asset auction list (pdf) if you're in the mood to buy some Amp'd banners, really bad intellectual property for handsets or used audio equipment on the cheap.

As with SunRocket, fleeing Amp'd customers are being courted by a company they've never heard of. They're getting text messages saying "Keep your Ampd phone and get 100 free TXT by switching to Prexar Mobile." Prexar's website insists they're trying to give customers "an easy and effortless transition."

Interestingly it looks like Prexar has ties to USA Telephone, the same company that's gobbling up the remaining assets of failed VoIP provider SunRocket.

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Registration

Domain Name: PREXARMOBILE.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: »domainhelp.opensrs.net
Name Server: NS1.PREXAR.COM
Name Server: NS2.PREXAR.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 26-mar-2007
Creation Date: 26-mar-2007
Expiration Date: 26-mar-2008

Looks like they are fairly new... at least from the registration.
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Prexar

Now Prexar will just go bankrupt.....

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Re: Prexar

yep

Jon
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Ah hipsters..

America's Future. Bunch of fraek'n losers.

dmeyer

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MVNOs

Now if they would just take Boost, Disney Mobile, Helio, and Virgin Mobile with them...
acs12798

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Re: MVNOs

Boost isn't really an MVNO as Sprint Nextel owns them. Anyway, whats your problem with MVNOs

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Re: MVNOs

said by acs12798:

Boost isn't really an MVNO as Sprint Nextel owns them. Anyway, whats your problem with MVNOs
My problem with them is that it lets any company with enough dollars and stupid marketing ideas create a virtual cellular/PCS company. Building and running a brick-and-mortar network requires staying power and some engineering know-how. These MVNOs are just paper mache marketing companies; the people buying the phones don't have a clue who actually runs the network they're on.

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Re: MVNOs

Very well said!

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said by rf_engineer:

said by acs12798:

Boost isn't really an MVNO as Sprint Nextel owns them. Anyway, whats your problem with MVNOs
My problem with them is that it lets any company with enough dollars and stupid marketing ideas create a virtual cellular/PCS company. Building and running a brick-and-mortar network requires staying power and some engineering know-how. These MVNOs are just paper mache marketing companies; the people buying the phones don't have a clue who actually runs the network they're on.
I know...
Virgin Mobile - Sprint.

"Virgin Mobile USA network services are provided on the Nationwide Sprint PCS® Network."

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Re: MVNOs

said by dadkins:

said by rf_engineer:

said by acs12798:

Boost isn't really an MVNO as Sprint Nextel owns them. Anyway, whats your problem with MVNOs
My problem with them is that it lets any company with enough dollars and stupid marketing ideas create a virtual cellular/PCS company. Building and running a brick-and-mortar network requires staying power and some engineering know-how. These MVNOs are just paper mache marketing companies; the people buying the phones don't have a clue who actually runs the network they're on.
I know...
Virgin Mobile - Sprint.

"Virgin Mobile USA network services are provided on the Nationwide Sprint PCS® Network."

I stand corrected

( This is one of the times were capitalism takes over.... Virgin is probably getting marketing $$$$ for that little blurb... )

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Re: MVNOs

LOL!
Not good to make blanket assumptions...
I have Virgin Mobile because of No Contract, No monthly bill, no ETF, and it's the best deal going.

Just a perk that they run on Sprint, huh?
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Re: MVNOs

said by dadkins:

LOL!
Not good to make blanket assumptions...
No it's not, but ask Amp'd, Helio, Disney Mobile (or any of the hundred other MVNO) subscribers who their network provider is and see how many say Disney or MTV or give you a strange look and ask what a network provider is

Just a perk that they run on Sprint, huh?
If you actually consider Sprint a perk

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Re: MVNOs

Who cares really?
If you go to Verizon... I would imagine even an idiot would be able to say Verizon.
Or AT&T...
Or Sprint...
Or ???

So, some of us decide to get a MVNO... there's a problem with saving money?
I don't have a contract. No ETF. No monthly bill.

Sprint may suck there, but just because it might there doesn't mean it sucks everywhere.
4 bars, always.
Sprint can't match the price I'm paying and yet I still get to use their network?
Sounds like a perk to me!
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Re: MVNOs

said by dadkins:

Sprint may suck there, but just because it might there doesn't mean it sucks everywhere.
4 bars, always.
I don't look at bars, I look at customer churn. Sprint has consistently had higher churn than AT&T/Cingular and Verizon. In Q1 2007 they had the highest of the big four.

As always your mileage may vary, but churn is a pretty good overall barometer.

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Re: MVNOs

I'm not so sure that churn numbers provide the best rating of a service. I had Sprint for work...LOVED it.lays had signal except the subway (NYC)...then my company switched us to Verizon...no signal at my house at all and I have a heck of a lot more calls that drop when it switches service to another tower as I go down the NJ Turnpike between exits 15W and 16W.

I just want Sprint back with my broadband data card!
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Churn by actual Sprint customers...
Like I said, no one - not even Sprint, can match the deal I have by Virgin Mobile, yet I still get to be on/use Sprint's network.

I'm looking at *NO ONE* has a better deal ATM.
$20 every three months(or if I need more money on the account - sooner) - and still on Sprint PCS. Hmmm...

I'm looking at me having a cell for the least amount of outlay & no monthly bill.
No contract, no ETF.

Think about it!
This MVNO is looking pretty sweet!

YMMV.
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Re: MVNOs

Yes, churn by actual Sprint customers, and arguably some percentage of that churn could be due to customer service and not coverage issues. But when you get into these Ford versus Chevy discussions, bars don't tell the story nor does anecdotal evidence.

That's great that Virgin is working out for you and apparently it's working out for several million other customers as well. YMMV in effect. I just see MVNOs as a troubling fad where marketing is a priority over quality and the goal is to suck more money out of market segments that shouldn't have phones with unnecessary features to begin with. The MVNO is at the mercy of their provider and is unable to make any commitments or improvements to the underlying network. And as we've seen with Amp'd due to their targeting of customers that the big four don't really want, their business model is riskier and less stable. Customer stickiness with a model that relies heavily on prepaid with no contracts is about nil. Arguably the stickiness lies in customer support, coverage, features, and content, though the MVNO really has direct control of only two of these. But I digress.

Of course, I'm old school (I used to work in cellular) and I've found the trend of all of wireless over the past seven or eight years troubling and annoying.

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Re: MVNOs

Coverage, yes! *HERE* I have excellent coverage!
*HERE* I have Virgin Mobile - MVNO with Sprint as the actual network.

You saying that all MVNOs should go away makes no sense.
I'm getting a killer deal and Sprint's network *HERE* works great!

Maybe you should re-evaluate your cell package and look at other services.
I don't have to pay $30-$100 per month for cell service... do you?
Mine works out to under $7.00 per month with current usage trends.

Yeah! This MVNO is sweet!
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actually there is cheaper than Virgin Mobile...they are called PagePlus...and they piggy back off the Verizon network

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said by rf_engineer:
I don't look at bars, I look at customer churn. Sprint has consistently had higher churn than AT&T/Cingular and Verizon. In Q1 2007 they had the highest of the big four.

As always your mileage may vary, but churn is a pretty good overall barometer.

Of course, I'm old school (I used to work in cellular) and I've found the trend of all of wireless over the past seven or eight years troubling and annoying.
From an RF person this is absurd, coverage and network are all that matters. If I can't make a call when I need to then the provider is useless.

Sprint is a joke of a carrier their native coverage looks like a roadmap for interstate highways.

Their poor coverage is what leads to churn.

Your last point though I will agree with, cellular has went down hill since the StarTAC and the whole stupid flip and thin craze. Along with the feature creep..... Its a phone people, its to make calls!
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Re: MVNOs

said by rec9140:

quote:
said by rf_engineer:

I don't look at bars, I look at customer churn. Sprint has consistently had higher churn than AT&T/Cingular and Verizon. In Q1 2007 they had the highest of the big four.

As always your mileage may vary, but churn is a pretty good overall barometer.

Of course, I'm old school (I used to work in cellular) and I've found the trend of all of wireless over the past seven or eight years troubling and annoying.
From an RF person this is absurd, coverage and network are all that matters. If I can't make a call when I need to then the provider is useless.

Sprint is a joke of a carrier their native coverage looks like a roadmap for interstate highways.

Their poor coverage is what leads to churn.

Your last point though I will agree with, cellular has went down hill since the StarTAC and the whole stupid flip and thin craze. Along with the feature creep..... Its a phone people, its to make calls!
You're misinterpreting my "bars" comment. Bars are what people read on phones and talk about X carrier being better than Y. We'd often joke in cellular when a customer called about how many bars they were getting that we would drive out to the cell site and turn it up a bar or two

Coverage is important. But one person saying X carrier is great because they get six bars in Hometown, Nebraska isn't indicative of great coverage. As you mention, maps are what you need to look at. You use test vans equipped with real gear to measure that, not a $50 shiny phone that takes pictures and has a signal meter that varies 15 dB.

For overall health, though, I'm not going to look at just coverage, I'm going to look at churn. If overall coverage is poor, it's probably going to be reflected in churn.

I'm with you on things going downhill. I just want a phone that I can make calls with and send some emails. I don't need music, video, pr0n, IM, and sport scores. Unfortunately subscriber growth is flat as they've gotten every customer they can get. Now it's a battle to entice customers over from other carriers with stupid features.

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said by rec9140:



Sprint is a joke of a carrier their native coverage looks like a roadmap for interstate highways.

Their poor coverage is what leads to churn.
Sprint's coverage is about the same as Verizon. Both cover about 260m pops natively. Verizon shows roaming on their maps. Sprint is adding CDMA coverage faster than Verizon on existing Nextel sites. Sprint also has the best roaming agreements of any carrier.

Sprint's high churn is the Nextel side, not the CDMA side.

rec9140
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Re: MVNOs


The Sprint Road Map

VZW Coverage

The Nexhell Road Map
said by sprintuserrrrr :
Sprint's coverage is about the same as Verizon. Both cover about 260m pops natively. Verizon shows roaming on their maps.
All the carriers are hiding coverage and who provides it unless you dig. VZW, sprint, all of them ... BUT...

Sprints, NATIVE COVERAGE, what THEY OWN AND BUILT, NOT roaming agreements/partners, is a road map for interstates and major highways.

It doesn't compare to VZW own NATIVE coverage either. VZW builds out their coverage past the narrow corridors of interstates and highways that Sprint doesn't.

I'll take that 2nd map versus the road map above, any day.

said by sprintuserrrrr :
Sprint is adding CDMA coverage faster than Verizon on existing Nextel sites.
I don't have access to that kind of sensitve company data to verify that, but nexhells coverage is another joke in and of its self too. Another carrier who looks like a road map.

said by sprintuserrrrr :
Sprint also has the best roaming agreements of any carrier.
Well, thanks for the laugh.... no way I am buying that statement. I'll take my VZW phone anywhere and be able to make a call, especially rural areas off the Sprint Road Map and make a call. Yes VZW has major areas covered by partners too, but their native coverage far exceeds sprints in a heartbeat, especially off the major highways.
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said by dmeyer:

Now if they would just take Boost, Disney Mobile, Helio, and Virgin Mobile with them...
Agreed!
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At the very least, Helio...

"BUT IT'S GOT MYSPACE MOBILE!"

I'd just want to stab a needle with AIDS-infected blood into someone every time I hear that stupid ad. And for that matter, an AIDS-infected needle into every dumbass that signs up for 't3h mysp4c3 m0b1l3!!!11!!'
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Account spending limit losers...

They get all the account spending limit poor credit losers who have bad credit for not paying their bills in the first place. Just a matter of time before this happened. How amusing..

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Amp'd losers, who would want 'em??

OK, so Amp'd goes under for providing service to a bunch of losers who don't pay their bills, so now this wrecking crew steps up and wants to buy them.

I can see the auction listing for when Prexar goes under.

10 (ten) un used crack pipes

200 (two hundred) heavily used crack pipes.

1 (one) Scooby Doo bong, with multiple hoses...


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Re: Amp'd losers, who would want 'em??

said by N3OGH:

OK, so Amp'd goes under for providing service to a bunch of losers who don't pay their bills, so now this wrecking crew steps up and wants to buy them.

I can see the auction listing for when Prexar goes under.

10 (ten) un used crack pipes

200 (two hundred) heavily used crack pipes.

1 (one) Scooby Doo bong, with multiple hoses...


lmfao
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said by N3OGH:

OK, so Amp'd goes under for providing service to a bunch of losers who don't pay their bills, so now this wrecking crew steps up and wants to buy them.

I can see the auction listing for when Prexar goes under.

10 (ten) un used crack pipes

200 (two hundred) heavily used crack pipes.

1 (one) Scooby Doo bong, with multiple hoses...


Correct me if I am wrong, was this not pre-paid? They have to pay for those minutes, they don't buy them they have no service, plain and simple. I have a gut feeling more is going on here than what is being told because I wouldn't consider a pre-paid phone as having a "bill" since you pay for the minutes you need, not a set monthly limit from a normal provider.

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Really comes as no surprise

...you market a service particularly aimed at a customer base that has little or no experience in meeting continuing monthly payments, then you will reap the consequences...

This is much akin to the real-estate bust that is at least in part due to the rash of sub-prime lenders, and their predictable demise...
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Re: Really comes as no surprise

said by PeteC2:

...you market a service particularly aimed at a customer base that has little or no experience in meeting continuing monthly payments, then you will reap the consequences...
Thats why there is prepaid. Its like electroshock therapy, if you answer wrong (dont pay), you rehabilitated (homies cant call you/phone is dead).
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said by PeteC2:

...you market a service particularly aimed at a customer base that has little or no experience in meeting continuing monthly payments, then you will reap the consequences...

This is much akin to the real-estate bust that is at least in part due to the rash of sub-prime lenders, and their predictable demise...
You get a bill with pre-paid service? That's harsh! No wonder they weren't paying! (I'm pretty sure Amd'd was prepaid... if it wasn't, just ignore me...)

Seriously, when it's all paid up front, I'm not sure I understand how they're blaming the customer...

I got my oldest a pre-paid via T-Mobile to help her learn about responsibility... Once you use up all the value in the account, if you don't BUY more, you don't get service... I.E. no continuing monthly payments ....

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Pay - As - You - Go

...and the DUH award goes to Amp'd!
My cell has no monthly bills!
I slap money to it and when it starts getting low, add more money. No brainer!
No contracts, no bills!

Yeah, MVNO - Virgin Mobile(on Sprint).
I get WAY more than I really need and none of the monthly headaches.

Works for me!
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Re: Pay - As - You - Go

I own a prepay cell phone also. $20 dollars every 3 months works fine for me. Since I dont make many phone calls.

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Re: Pay - As - You - Go

said by Lowtarget:

I own a prepay cell phone also. $20 dollars every 3 months works fine for me. Since I dont make many phone calls.
EXACTLY!
I'm burning through the initial $20 playing with it and getting ringtones(REAL Music ringtones) and whathaveyou...

...but $20 every three months, can't beat it!
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Re: Pay - As - You - Go

I must be the only one left who wants my phone to sound like.. well... a PHONE!

But wait, 20 every 3? Who are you with? I thought T-Mo was cheapest at 100/year.
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Re: Pay - As - You - Go

If you go with PagePlus Cellular you can go for as little as $10 every 120 days. They run off of Verizon's towers too, so good network. Oh and they've been around for ten years, so not like they are going to pull an Ampd any time soon.

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said by sivran:

I must be the only one left who wants my phone to sound like.. well... a PHONE!

But wait, 20 every 3? Who are you with? I thought T-Mo was cheapest at 100/year.
Virgin Mobile(runs on Sprint network):
»www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp···45161737

You get money, not minutes.
Use the money for... whatever.
Yeah, this thing can sound like a phone(euro ringer tone) but WTH, Motley Crue: Girls Girls Girls is a change of pace.

Here, the actual ring tone attached...
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C'est la vie, Amp'd Mobile!

It was a good ride while it lasted.

My PAYG balance is down to $0.25; guess I'll burn that easily before midnight.

It may be "water under the bridge", but I feel if Amp'd had emphasized pay as you go they would have had better cash flow and survived much longer.

To add insult to injury, we're told that our Motorola e816 "Hollywood" handsets will be banned from the Verizon Wireless network after the shutdown, so all of us will have paperweights after midnight.
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Re: C'est la vie, Amp'd Mobile!

We'll just have to wait and see about the e816.

It is the PTT application that apparently is the problem (pings the network way too often)

That can easily be deleted on earlier e816 models.

Newer models have to be flashed to Verizon/Alltel firmware to get rid of PTT.

Supposedly there are tens of thousands of these still active.

Something tells me Verizon will either find a way to make it work (help people get rid of PTT) or offer another phone

Both approaches are cheaper than defending a class action.

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Re: C'est la vie, Amp'd Mobile!

said by ncbill:

...Both approaches are cheaper than defending a class action....
Class action against who? Amp'd is gone, nothing left to sue.

Verizon is under no obligation to offer service to former Amp'd customers. Amp'd sold them the phone, not Verizon.

I would think Verizon would want to get some of that business back, but I'm sure they don't want to take on the derelicts that didn't pay their bills sinking Amp'd in the first place...
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Re: C'est la vie, Amp'd Mobile!

I paid my AMpd bills (pay as you go). It was cheap $10 a month & the phone Razr worked well.

I left Verizon because my 2 analog phones wouldn't work any longer nothing physically wrong with them. Verizon told me my phones are too old to fix. But they could sell me a new phone and outrageous new monthly charges. The clarity was better than the digital phones. I know analog will end some day but they would not honor my old contracts the fixed lifetime monthly fee rates. So I do see why many of you like Verizon. After having verizon account for many years I fould in the end that they were greedy and crooked as any of the other phone service providers that have gone bankrupt.

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said by ncbill:

We'll just have to wait and see about the e816.

It is the PTT application that apparently is the problem (pings the network way too often)

That can easily be deleted on earlier e816 models.

Newer models have to be flashed to Verizon/Alltel firmware to get rid of PTT.

Supposedly there are tens of thousands of these still active.

Something tells me Verizon will either find a way to make it work (help people get rid of PTT) or offer another phone

Both approaches are cheaper than defending a class action.
Except that there are no grounds for a class action. Verizon did not sell you the phone, nor are they under any obligation to activate or support it. Amp'd sold and supported the phone for their service - they were the ones obligated to support it. Their service has ended, and so is the support for that phone.

So it's cheaper for them to do nothing at all.
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Already active on other providers

Plenty of e816 phones have already been activated on other Verizon MVNOs.

Those certainly aren't affected by tonight's amp'd cutoff.

I expect Verizon will offer the cheapest surplus phone they can as replacement if the ping issue can't be resolved.
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Prexar/USA Telephone

The nameservers for the prexar mobile site refer to prexar.com, which is owned and operated by our good friend Bill Fogg as a subsidiary of USA Telephone.

Looks like the vultures have some more meaty carcasses to pick clean.
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Who wants to bet it's the same company as TeleBlend

»www.prexarmobile.com/about/ leads me to believe they're connected somehow.

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Re: Who wants to bet it's the same company as TeleBlend

Yep....
ElJay

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Yes they are. Both are USA Telephone... Lots of buying going on for USA Telephone.
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prexar

5000 Text5 $59.99/mo.

WOW

kayrocks

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ampd

ask peter adderton what he did with the 10 million dollars he pockected from not sending out the $ 100 rebates ....
sounds like we need to do class action suit against him and his company

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Re: ampd

The wave of the future...

1-Create company...

2-Market and gain customers...

3-Rake in as much cash as possible into off shore Swiss accounts...

4-Bankrupt your company...

5-Start up a new company in the same industry and provide a "seamless transition" from your old company to your new one...

Repeat as often as you'd like!

The 'murrikan Dream fulfilled!

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Wave of the future?

said by FiL:

The wave of the future...

1-Create company...

2-Market and gain customers...

3-Rake in as much cash as possible into off shore Swiss accounts...

4-Bankrupt your company...

5-Start up a new company in the same industry and provide a "seamless transition" from your old company to your new one...

Repeat as often as you'd like!

The 'murrikan Dream fulfilled!
That scam has been going on for years with CLEC's.
--
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom; it is the arguments of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." William Pitt the Younger

ok

@verizon.net

Pay As You Go

Amp'd had a good amount of PAYG customers such as myself, so don't go calling all former Amp'd Customers "non-paying deadbeats"
:P

anon_bystander

@centurytel.net

Re: Pay As You Go

I use prepaid (or used to) for my company. It's so much cheaper than a $49.99/mo plan that turns into $70 after taxes and made up fees and imaginary surcharges that all go right into their pockets (swiss bank accounts).

meister_sd
Premium
join:2006-01-29
La Mesa, CA
kudos:7

Where is the auction?

I'd like to know where the auction is and how to get some bids in. They have a lot of computer and networking stuff.
bevishead9

join:2003-03-02
Houston, TX

I switched

Im an ex ampd customer on pre paid so I never had any bill to pay. I liked ampd for its cheap streaming TV. When I say cheap i mean it used to be really cheap. It was 1 cent a min to watch Tv on your phone for god sakes. I have since switched to page plus and they were extremely nice and gave us ampd users 100mins for free just for porting over to them. I plan on being with them for a while.
kevinloydw

join:2001-08-18
Gresham, OR

If anyone has any extra Amp'd Phones they do not want?

I collect cell phones as a hobby I do not care if it is a paper weight or not...

Thanks,
Kevin L. Ward
kward@wardcomputer.com

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