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- drethedog, on 10/11/2007, -5/+151"From AsianZensation @ Jul 22nd 2007 6:41AM
I work for Ampd Mobile in the IT at the corporate office.....I'll tell you the past few days here have been weird, quiet and just tense. We had a meeting on friday with the CEO and he basically told us not in these exact words but basically start udating your Resume!!! Since Ampd is over I'm gonna let you guys in on some info. Verizon is pulling the plug on us on the 24th, (which you guys know already) they want to do it on Monday but the court order indicates that Monday is the rediculous deadline Ampd has to meet in order for Verizon not to shut us down. We have to come up with 7 million dollars by Monday before Verizon can pull the plug....which means Tuesday at 12:00am they terminate Ampd Forever! We have collected 3 million which some of it came from our customers who were in collections already! My opinion for the downfall of Ampd, 1) Letting customers get to exagerating overdue balances up to....you ready for this: I saw customers who racked up 6 thousand dollar balances and where still not shut off....NO JOKE! and some of them were on family plans....I sawn a family plan ith 5 lines 60 days overdue ownig us $7,450.00 I dont know about you but I know Verizon Sprint, T-Mobile Etc....once you reach 30 days or atleast close to $1,000.00. they shut you off! 2)Our "brilliant" VP of Marketing who focused our budget more on getting top celebs and music artist for out content then actually focusing on servicing our customers and actually hiring decent customer service reps who are the worst i have ever come across Seriously Ampd customer service was one of the worst CS I have ever ever seen......they get about 3 or 4 days of crappy training, then after having to learn like 7 different systems in that short time, they throw them on the phones and dont even know the difference between CDMA and GSM.....Im surprise we lasted over 2 years!!! and finally here is also my opinion on the CEO: the CEO has that 7 mill we need (of hes own money) to get us out of this hole and give us that extra time so that verizon doesnt pull the plug just yet, but even hes not stupid enough to invest back into hes own company when he doesnt even believe in it anymore. S**T I wouldnt...... no one does. thats why no one wanted to invest on the "titanic".....Well enough of my rant but Im very disapointed to leave Ampd after 2 years with company and how laid back it was....we ocasionaly had beer breaks during work hours...sometime we buy cases of Coronas and just drink and chill...those where the good ol days. Well back to the EDD line on Tuesday for me! lol " - davidjunit, on 10/10/2007, -4/+144Oh my! I find this quite entertaining, I mean, look at the types they market to. These are the kids that think it's cool to be dumb.
Shiet, payin' bills is fo' bitches, hoe. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+123From Wikipedia:
On June 1, 2007, Amp'd filed for chapter eleven bankruptcy. According to court documents, around 80,000 of its 175,000 subscribers were recorded as nonpaying customers. - theshizzler, on 10/10/2007, -1/+70they appeal to popstar rapper types and the 14 year olds who want to emulate them
- tofur, on 10/10/2007, -4/+55Are we even surprised by this? Ampd marketed directly to the "thug" culture and kids that wanted to emulate said "thugs". Just about all those people in those categories are not contributing members of society and are more of a burden. Do we really think that they will actually "contribute" money to pay their bills? . Good riddance I say...
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+53Good, that's what you get for having ***** commercials.
- mrmacky, on 10/10/2007, -0/+44Dang should have went with Amp'd, I wouldn't have even had to pay :
- smacksaw, on 10/10/2007, -2/+46I work at Amp'd Mobile and I'm really getting a kick out of these replies.
- obey43, on 10/10/2007, -0/+38i never understood the concept of Ampd and Boost mobile. seems like they were destined to fail.
what was/is the appeal of services like them? is there any? - Retrospekt, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36How many people actually used Ampd mobile?
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+40with that stupid chirp garbage all the ghetto scum at my school were beeping everyday its no wonder they filed for bankruptcy
- Loserbait, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24With coherency like that, no wonder they got shut down...
- mbthompson, on 10/11/2007, -1/+21Amp'd mobile, DEAD!
- RussellDovey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22Title doesn't say it all!!!! WHY are they closing down?
Bloody digg, I don't know, rassafrassin... - dasunst3r, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21Maybe Amp'd will make a comeback as Pwn'd.
- danakin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20Not even EE humor-worthy
- crazycrazypete, on 10/10/2007, -1/+19That's actually Boost you are thinking of. Boost is strictly prepaid (on sprint/nextel network) and doing well. It is very popular in urban and hispanic markets. Amp'd used verizon and was post-paid, hence the large # of unpaid bills.
- Sk8SkaNJ, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18You see non-paying , contract free customers switching to a 500/600 dollar phone and 2 year contract? I don't even know why you bothered to bring Apple up.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+19Blink182 fans and anyone who says "WHERE YOU AT?!"
So maybe 23? - shitton, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Direct link:
http://promotions.ampd.com/q_and_a/ - PowerMax, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16...around 80,000 of its 175,000 subscribers...
- Bilbobaggins, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16Not really, most people on Amp'd were anything but wealthy. And the iPhone costs more than most people are willing to pay for a phone.
- strafefire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+14You are getting AMPd and Boost mobile confused...which is why AMPD probably failed...
- equallyunequal, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Their Q&A says you can take your phone to any carrier if they use CDMA. That is FALSE. Sprint, Verizon, and Alltel require you to use their branded handsets. The only way to take it to another carrier is to clone an ESN which is ILLEGAL.
- ngt13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13does this surprise anyone...
- strafefire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12That's Boost mobile, fool!
- smacksaw, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15The amazing thing about this is somehow Amp'd was worse that those Verizon aholes. You know you're full of ***** when Verizon won't even deal with you anymore.
- po43292, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Yeah they didn't have "bill paying" market.
- subxero37, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10What's an ad?
- vpshockwave, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10You act as if iPhone is a carrier.
AT&T is the carrier. And they suck. - realyst, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Dunno why you're being Dugg down. I couldn't even bring my forcefully unlocked Aliant phone to Telus because they only activate ESNs that are within their database.
- Jeebugorn, on 10/10/2007, -4/+13i love the t-mobile myfaves ad at the top right of this page! classic!!
- hipsterdood, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9i went to the home page and the first thing i saw was "now paying your bill is even easier" and it made me laugh
- DerProfi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9dugg for "rassafrassin"!
- mercurysquad, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Great, now we just need someone to mention Bush and this thread will be complete.
- strafefire, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8You are thinking of Boost mobile.
Ampd mobile tried to market to the Spike TV crowd that wanted to have 30-55secs crappy video clips sent to their phones, AND overpay for service. - extremeg24, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Get ready to file for unemployment.
- crgnetworks, on 10/10/2007, -3/+11lemme' chirp dis fool.
- oracleofmist, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9I remember when they aired their first commercial with some cool techy stuff (nothing related to cell phone) and ended with a site link. I went to the site and most of it didn't work or linked back to the home page. Never thought twice about them.
- cgomez, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8That's Boost Mobile, not Amp'd, but good effort.
- kingkilr, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Boost mobile, Where you at?
- YoctoYotta, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You misunderstand ESN cloning. Cloning -- while illegal as you state -- involves stealing an ESN, MDN, and MSID (aka MIN) from one person in an attempt to appear as that person on their carrier's network and incur usage under that person's account instead of paying for service yourself.
Different carriers use various methods to prevent phones from other services to be brought to their own. Verizon actually doesn't care if you try to activate a Sprint or Alltel ESN, but those phones generally won't work because they do not have a Verizon PRL (prefered roaming list) file that points the phone at Verizon's towers. You can manually program the phone so it "works", but you'll be permanently roaming. Same thing for Alltel, which is very snug with Verizon, as it grew up as a regional carrier that relied on interoperability with Verizon's network to offer service in areas Alltel hadn't built out into. All of this is necessary for Verizon, because they are the Frankenstein's monster of the cell world, having bought most of their networks from many small regional carriers. They have literally thousands of "networks."
Conversely, Sprint essentially built their own network from the ground up. Where Verizon has thousands of "networks," Sprint has two or three. This difference is enough to stop the Alltel and Verizon phones from operating on the Sprint network. Sprint also uses what's called a private label (PLBL) database that alll MVNOs report the ESNs they intend to use to Sprint, so that Sprint can actively block any ESNs not in the PLBL. It's a white list by all means of the term. Verizon will be implementing a similar white list system for MVNOs come early 2008, but currently does not stop anyone from trying to use a Sprint or Alltel phone. - TheSpook, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7My questions is WHY? Is this normal in the cell phone market? davidjunit had a good point, but how do you get to 80,000? Can't you just axe their account after 2-3 months of non-pay (particularly if you are having cash flow issues)?
- shadokast, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Finally no more of those dumb ass commercials. I wanted to shoot that guy whenever i heard him sing.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6you mean now people have to go out, and work jobs and and get good credit??? noooo !!!
- sdubois92, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Up next on the ghetto-tech culture hit list: Boost mobile
- petdance, on 10/10/2007, -3/+9All articles marked "title says it all" marked down. Title doesn't say it all, or there wouldn't be an article to read. It's YOUR job as submitter to summarize somewhere between 60 characters of title, and the full article text.
- G-RaZoR, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7It's a good thing I wasn't a customer of Ampd Mobile, not because of them shutting down, but because IT dept has information on all the customer's balances due.
- kavery, on 10/10/2007, -1/+71. It sucks.
2. When nearly half of your subscriber base are non-paying members, kind of hard to put the cha-ching in the register.
Now I won't have to listen to ***** rap stars hawk this garbage. - shahadar, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Amp'd will probably sell the 'debt' of the delinquent customers to specialist debt collectors, who will hound them at every hour of the day, call their work, feed their children additives, and put Vaseline on their door knobs until they pay.
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