The business has now gone bust and was apparently discussed in parliament as the administrators have indicated cool new mobile only provided the handset..............the airtime contract is still held between the end user and the network provider. Therefore no rebates.................full undiscounted rate still to be paid etc.
Vodaphone have advised they will be in touch to advise what is going to happen. All in all it was always to good to be true although we have had 2 years of free mobile calls so if we end up having to pay in the third year can't complain to much................
It was a bit annoying though that the announcement was via an email from an email address you wouldn't directly associate with mobile affil. Here was the contents of that email that we received in our spam mailbox.
TO ALL KNOWN CUSTOMERS
Our ref PML/RG/RD/IB/ADM0307/MOBI101/102/H
Dear Sirs
Mobile Affiliates Limited t/a Coolnewmobile and Phones2yourdoor - In
Administration
Birmingham County Court No. 5302 of 2007
Mobile Media Systems Limited t/a Phoneboxdirect - In Administration
Birmingham County Court No. 5303 of 2007
I would advise you that I was appointed Administrator of the above
companies jointly with my partner Alistair Steven Wood by the
directors on 14 November 2007. I am authorised to act as an
Insolvency Practitioner by the Department of Trade & Industry and my
partner is authorised by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England & Wales.
The companies have ceased trading and their offices are now closed.
The statutory purpose of an Administration consists of three
objectives:
· rescuing the company as a going concern;
· achieving a better result for the company’s creditors as a
whole than would be likely if the company were wound-up (without
first being in Administration);
· realising property in order to make a distribution to one or more
secured or preferential creditors;
Within eight weeks (or such longer period as the court may allow) of
the date of the Administration Order, I am required to prepare
proposals which I will publish on the Joint Administrators’ website
www.phoneboxdirectinformation.com.
As Joint Administrator I am not in a position to pay any amounts due
by the company in respect of contractual obligations entered prior to
the date of the Administration Order.
Following my appointment customers have requested a response to two
specific questions namely:
· Recovery of cash backs due from the company.
· Contractual obligations with the network provider.
As far as the cash back is concerned my current estimate is that
there are over 30,000 customers who may be eligible to make cash back
claims. My current estimate of this liability is between £4-10
million. The companies’ assets are less than £250,000. It follows
therefore, that after the payment of the expenses of the
administration and the preferential creditors (wages and holiday pay
owed to the employees) it is unlikely that there will be funds
available for unsecured creditors.
Turning to the second matter, I am unable to comment on a
customer’s contractual position with their network provider,
customers must therefore, either speak to the network provider
directly, take legal advice or contact their local Citizens Advice
Bureau or Trading Standards Office. The network providers and/or
their agents should not be referring you back to me.
Please refer to the Joint Administrators’ website
www.phoneboxdirectinformation.com which will be posted with further
updates for the benefit of customers and creditors. This website has
been set-up to enable you to record your claim against the relevant
company. Please do not write to my office to submit your claim as
written communications will not be acknowledged.
Yours faithfully
For and on behalf of
Mobile Affiliates Limited & Mobile Media Systems Limited
P M Lyon
Joint Administrator