Yes, the Amp’d story refuses to die: Amp’d Mobile is trying to raise cash, even from its former CEO Peter Adderton, to repay some of its creditors by auctioning off…

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Bill Stone, till recently the president of the shuttered MVNO service Amp’d, has joined mobile software and content retailer Handango as the new CEO. Founder Randy Eisenman will remain “actively…

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What is Google (NSDQ: GOOG) thinking? I’m not being facetious, I really want to know… The company has a lot of mobile services available, and there are quite a few…

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Former Amp’d Mobile founder and CEO Peter Adderton and most of the execs on its content (Amp’d Live) team are close to joining Wi-Max broadband wireless ISP Clearwire (Nasdaq:CLWR), MocoNews.net…

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We mentioned yesterday about MTV Networks’ writeoff for its investment in bankrupt Amp’d Mobile ($36 million). Telus, the Canadian teclo which invested in Amp’d and opened up Amp’d Canada, also…

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Some more developments in Amp’d Mobile’s bankruptcy auction: the Delaware judge has approved United Systems Access (serving under PrexarMobile brand name) purchase of the MVNO’s customers. The deal calls for…

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That came out today in MTV’s parent Viacom’s (NYSE: VIA) 10-Q filing for its Q2 earnings: “In the second quarter, the Company recorded a pre-tax impairment charge of $36.0 million…

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Not that this was a surprise: Amp’d Canada, the JV with Telus, is alo dead, four month after it launched there.Telus, which handled distribution, customer care and billing for the…

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A wide ranging interview with Peter Adderton, the former founder and CEO of Amp’d Mobile, whose bankruptcy auction proceedings will start tomorrow morning in court. I spoke to him earlier…

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Updated Below: I just got a strange text on my Amp’d phone, which as we know will be turned off midnight tomorrow: “Keep your Ampd phone and get 100 free…

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So it seems, after a revised FAQ on the Amp’d website tonight. LAT is also reporting the same. So July 31 it is then.

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The teaser campaign TV ads for Amp’d Mobile (done in last 2005 before they launched last year) will go down in history as the most ironically prescient ads of all…

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Details are up here now on the Amp’d website and the customers are being told about it later today, through text messages. The service will go off on Tuesday at…

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As I mentioned earlier today, things are a lot bleaker for Amp’d with no debtor-in-possession financing in place. The company has filed with the bankruptcy court, and has finally decided…

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Unless there are other last minute shenanigans and getting debtor-in-possession financing, one might expect Amp’d Mobile to close its service by Monday...that’s just my hunch, and not based on reporting,…

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The drama continues in the bankruptcy court, as Verizon Wireless, frustrated by the failure of Amp’d to line up a bankruptcy loan, wants to disconnect the startup once and for…

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Some more reprieve for Amp’d, though judging by the comments on our posts here and here, there are some angry customers: anyway, the Delaware bankruptcy judge said Amp’d can pay…

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Amp’d has signed a deal with with Verizon that will see the MVNO continue to use the carrier’s network, in exchange for Amp’d dropping its lawsuit to prevent Verizon kicking…

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Some more interim developments in the Amp’d Mobile Chapter 11 bankruptcy court proceedings: the judge had extended its lifeline for another week, allowing the mobile phone network to tap $7.5…

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We’ve confirmed through sources: Peter Adderton, the embattled CEO of the now-in-Chapter-11 MVNO Amp’d Mobile, has left the firm as CEO. He is still on the board and is still…

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The New York Times has drawn a fairly long bow by reporting that ”Amp’d Mobile’s filing for protection from bankruptcy on June 1 may have one unexpected side effect: a…

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Amp’d Mobile’s first bankruptcy hearing was Tuesday afternoon in Wilmington. Steven Yoder, one of the attorneys representing Amp’d, told me by email, “All of the relief we sought today was…

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There are some parallels being drawn between Amp’d and Virgin, which isn’t going to help the latter’s planned IPO. Of course, Amp’d is also being compared to the MVNO business…

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--Amp’d Bankruptcy: Verizon Played Key Role In Timing; Threatened To Shut Off Service --Amp’d Bankruptcy: By The Numbers: ‘Liquidity Crisis’ Due, In Part, To 80,000 Non-Paying Customers --Amp’s Official Statement…

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Verizon played a key role in Amp’d Mobile’s decision to file for bankruptcy late Friday—and the timing, according to an affidavit by Bill Stone, president of Amp’d Mobile, filed Monday…

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