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I think Verizon is going to be requiring any MVNO to screen their customers so they dont go through this again.
I think Verizon is going to be requiring any MVNO to screen their customers so they dont go through this again.
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Amp'd customers are going to start getting Verizon bills.
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@doormat: I think Verizon would be better off screening their MVNO's first. How amp'd was able to get this much debt on their network without alarm bells ringing is beyond me.
I've never given a dime to the Verizon corporation, but I'm sure this is like karma for consumers who have been screwed over by them.
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There goes the sub-prime cell phone industry!
@scoobydoo: Remember Iridium? Motorola took what, $5 billion in charges related to their failure.
But frankly, if amp'd only has about nine grand, I do have a higher net worth.
ampd has all these big celebrities on their tv ads. Thats where all the money went. I think I can run a better phone company from my closet than ampd mobile.
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Wait a second...a cell phone company who makes its livelihood off of people who couldn't afford to pay attention is actually going out of business? Because nobody paid their bills?
Get out of town!
Here's your sign...
Nice to watch Verizon finally get a bit of a screwing over... maybe they'll realize this is what it feels like to be one of their customers -- screwed.
I almost feel bad for Verizon.
But not quite.
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I'm all for Verizon getting screwed but do you really think they are going to lose this money? You Verizon customers will just be squeezed that much more to pay for the deadbeats at Amp'd.
Three cheers for the idiot MTV crowd who can't pay their bills!!!
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I think the \"losing $370,000 per day\" figure reflects more of a \"loss of opportunity for $370,000 income and sure there are some actual hard costs in there too\"... but I doubt seriously that it COST Verizon $1,000,000 every 3 days to allow Amp'd access to their infrastructure.
This has GOT to be a case of \"Amp'd is racking up this bill that we know they can't pay.\" and not \"Amp'd is bleeding dollars out of our holdings.\"
I knew Amp'd would fail since it started. most of the people I go to school with haven't even herd of it not to mention their ad's are more redundant and boring than those 1980's drug PSAs
@Ncisfan: except the first couple that aired when they first started [www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
[www.youtube.com]
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I always figured something like this would happen - I've never trusted their commercials. It'll be interesting to see what happens to them now!
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Why do they have to have permission to cut Amp'd users? Why are they obligated to pick up the slack at all?
Seconding Enm4r's question. If Amp is violating their contract by not paying, surely Verizon is no longer obligated to provide the service their contract with Amp would obligate them to.
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I take sadistic pleasure in watching Amp'd go down in flames, and catch Verizon on fire as collateral damage.
For future reference, Verizon, don't make any deals or sign any contracts with a company that uses an apostrophe in place of an \"e\" in its name.
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Wooho, I am richer than Amp'd, now how much more do I need to surpass \"Verizion\".
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Sounds like somebody didn't learn their history:
A few years ago, Mitsubishi Motors \"sold\" loads of vehicles in the US at 0 percent down, 0 percent interest, and 0 payments deferred for 12 months. Free car for a year, yay!
A year later, they discover that *surprise surprise* alot of those folks buying the cars couldn't make the payments, and had to eat a 454 million dollar loss...but at least they're still in business!!
I had ampd and it was a clusterfuck. The billing didn't make since. Nothing worked. It was inconvenient as all hell to pay the bills. They would shut off my fone before I even got the bill to pay it. They wouldn't even notify me that it was shut off. No bullshit my fone was cut off consistently every 3 weeks. Then I had to use a hard line to call in and find out what was wrong because I couldn't call ampd when it was off. Ampd may have had less then desirable clientèle but they definitely didn't have their shit together and it was by far THE WORST EXPERIENCE I ever had with a fone. The customer service was wretched, too.
I'll admit I actually had ampd. And, no, I haven't paid my bill. But it's due to the fact that they have no clue what they're doing in their billing department and want to charge me for 2 months of service that I didn't use cause my phone got wet and then I had to wait for it to come in off back order. For the irony, I now have verizon. I'm very happy with them (for no. Seems a lot of you have had a bad expearance). But Skatha777 hit the nail on the head. It was the first sell phone I had that was incovenient. But as soon as they get my bill straight (going on 4 months now) I will gladly pay what I owe. Key word is owe. Refuse to pay them a DIME more than I am spost to. And forget calling cust service. You will wait for not less than 15-20. Very bad. Glad they are going do the crapper. Reception sucked also.
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\"credit risk customers\"
Problem found.
I'm still trying to understand why Verizon would make a deal with Amp'd given that Amp'd was signing up ONLY customers that Verizon WOULDN'T give an account to without an $800 deposit.
You'd think Verizon would have at least LOOKED at Amp'd's business plan first.
Guess Verizon got what they asked for...