Have OVIVO gone bust?

chunky_teddy

At least you still have a working mobile. I gave up a month of credit on O2 and ported number across on Tuesday. I know it's only £20 in cash but it's more than that in inconvenience.

Snooping4Value

Certainly should check if there was any criminal behaviour. Was it a scam? People had to pay £20 upfront for a SIM card. Multiply by 50000 subscribers, that's a million pounds.

canterswest

Snooping4Value wrote: »

Certainly should check if there was any criminal behaviour. Was it a scam? People had to pay £20 upfront for a SIM card. Multiply by 50000 subscribers, that's a million pounds.

Would not be surprised, more costs for everyone irrespective of if you took out the deal.

contractor

you could always ask this guy
http://www.linkedin.com/in/dariushzand

RedTiger

redux wrote: »

Can you reply to the email, or is it a special no-reply address?

I emailed earlier (it's just pac@ovivomobile.com) but not really expecting a reply! Have now read on HUKD that PAC codes aren't necessarily unique, so having 2 the same may not be a problem - the same PAC can be generated for all numbers using the same mobile 'account' so fingers crossed they will port ok, once I can get my hands on a new sim.

devdas121

Inteernet is also down from now...what a waste of time.

grayme-m

RedTiger wrote: »

I emailed earlier (it's just pac@ovivomobile.com) but not really expecting a reply! Have now read on HUKD that PAC codes aren't necessarily unique, so having 2 the same may not be a problem - the same PAC can be generated for all numbers using the same mobile 'account' so fingers crossed they will port ok, once I can get my hands on a new sim.

Maybe for speed they have been allowed / chosen to use the same pac code for all of us; we all have unique phone numbers.

ETA: not quite, my dad has his and my mum's pacs through, and they differ from mine but his are the same (on different accounts)

londonTiger

grumbler wrote: »

Chargeback

yeah, it's that easy.

What do you say when thr bank asks you 100 questions on the nature of the transaction??

Are you going to lie or tell the truth?

simate

How are people filing their Paypal claims online?

I'm opening this dispute because:
I haven't received my item.
Or
I received my item, but it is significantly not as described.

If the not described option, what are you choosing tick boxes wise as none seem to be applicable.


I bought 2 sims on the 13th Feb, gutted.

I also have my own Ovivo sim with £27.99 credit on it, £15 of that is my own money, the rest was from transferring my number and 2 referrals for the 2 sims I bought last month.

londonTiger

seriously everyone stop with all the conspiracy theories.

Your name and number for marketing isn't worth that much for them to set up an entire mobile phone network for a ruse to get those details.

It's unlikely they planned to shut down now. More like vodaphone pulled the plug and none of the other 3 networks were willing to give it a go.

There was a glitch 3-4 days prior to the closure where there was a loss of service - this was network wide and ovivo said they were urgently trying to fix it.

I think vodasphone just put a stop to it. Or ovivo were unable to pay the bills.

£1M is not much money for a CEO. If the CEO can build a mobile phone network, get investors, build partnerships with one of UKs biggest phone operator - he's capable of much more.

it's unlikely thathe'll throw his name through the mud and get on investors blacklist for deliberately crashing businesses for a quick buck - if you get a reputation for doing that in business. Investors won't touch you with a bargepole.