I work at a uni where they have had a stand here everyday for the past 18 months and I dont think they have sold a single contract to any student. They (the sales team) never appear to have anybody interested so as the title says "I'm not surprised".

Paris? Why not

Not suprised they went under, they could have been better managed by a dancing monkey troupe. I wona free phone and years contract with them, casued nothing but hassle, including (but not limited to ) them taking £400 out of my bank account for no reason and without autherisation, not supplying me with bills, randomly suspending my account whenever they felt like it. In the end I go them to cancel the deal as I was tired of it all. Customer services were nice enough, but seemed like they had not autherisation to do anything and the management was poor.

Paris because not even t-mobile gave her a poorer quality of service than dot mobile gave me.

That's because all the ones who live around me must have spent all their cash on cars

MVNO = Mobile Virtual Network Operator

In the UK only Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and 3 own their own mobile phone network (i.e. all the masts around the country). Anyone else you've seen selling mobile phone services (there are loads) is a MVNO - they sell the handset, bill the customer, but buy access to to someone else's network.

So, were they basically another Amp Mobile? All focused on signing people up, without taking the time to do credit/background checks?

"Dot Mobile's failure on the UK yoof MVNO scene follows the closure of Disney's virtual network, and the bankruptcy of Amp'd stateside. Blyk, the ad-funded MVNO that is targeting British yoof, is still in the running. ® "

Never heard of "Blyk" till I read this, I take it they are a South African outfit?

And when the "Yoof" refuse to sign up to their virtual network the sales person can legitimately ask " Is it coz i's Blyk?"

I never got charged a penny over my £20 a month contract, despite frequently making hour-long calls to another network. Looking at my bills, almost all months show all my units "rolled over" to the next... seems like something might have gone wrong there on the old e-billing system, but I wasn't going to blame them for that!