The "What happened at CellNUVO" speculation thread

I think this company is just a cover the Russians used to hack the election. Now that the us Government is closing in on them they have to leave town

Because you must be Karl!

No, I am Keyzer Soze.

Ouch on the last 2

This is my speculation:
There is a lot of gambling going behind the scenes. At play are our phone numbers, our hard earned silver and the future of Cellnuvo itself. Guided by self interest, I have no choice but to root for Cellnuvo.

Didn't Tom say he will update us right after the holiday? What happened to that?

I would take his words with a grain of salt at this point :slight_smile:

Did you try a PRL update?

Did you try ##72786#?

If those didn't work, maybe his update got "Escalated"

I have not seen nor heard anything - NADA, Zilch....

In case of my ongoing issues, support "asked tier 2 to handle this ASAP" two days ago with no effect, so yesterday I asked support to maybe try tier 3 :slight_smile:

Don't forget to take out the battery and wait 20 minutes. And if it's unremovable then take it to your local tech and have it removed anyway..

...and don't forget to dial that ##72786# number afterwards. It's free

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In case of my ongoing issues, support "asked tier 2 to handle this ASAP" two days ago with no effect, so yesterday I asked support to maybe try tier 3 :slight_smile:

Yeah, now you that you've been Breadcrumbed, don't be surprised if you get Ghosted, Cushioned, or Benched -

https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/lifestyles/dating/have-you-been-ghosted-breadcrumbed-zombied-find-out/FVE7p7kDxCD2iRGwjqATUM/

Since this is a speculation thread let me speculate on CN's finances.

Let's say each customer has 100,000 silvers stashed away with CN...some here have estimated that to be worth around $90-$100 dollars. I am not sure how many customers CN has, but let's just estimate that to be 10,000 that means they owe their customers around $1,000,000. Of course most will not use all the silvers at once. With Red Pocket let's say it cost CN $7 wholesale price to maintain each account monthly since they are on a monthly plan instead of PAYG, that means $70,000 monthly, plus salaries for a couple of employees, plus other expenditures. Supposedly customers can opt for different plans which may alter the monthly costs. You all can piece all the numbers together. I kinda just wonder how many swipes it will take to make this business viable and whether or not it has anything to do with what's going on now.

Please keep in mind that CN has told some of us here that the company is very healthy.

Pity you edited the part below this. I was thinking along the same lines.

Hehe, I decided to let them draw their own conclusion :slight_smile:

Looking at Reddit, prepaidphonenews, R+ Social, there is very little activity going on about CellNUVO on social media.

When Ringplus was folding and lines were being closed, lots of people suddenly turned up at R+ Social. There is almost no noise about CellNUVO.

I guess that the demographic they attracted have accepted that they've lost their old numbers, and that is that.

Hmm, in that case I may have speculated incorrectly about the # of CN customers. But I get a free pass since this is a speculation thread and I can speculate all I want :unsure:

its too long without service. How can I release my device, so that I can register on other MVNO. Anyone, any suggestions are welcome.

have trying port out to h20 for one week still in processss.....

This is the rock-and-a-hard-place several folks are in. There is no known method other than contacting CN Support to close an account (and thereby free up the ESN), or to swap a placeholder into the account to free up the phone-- neither of which has worked during the troubles. Some folks have reported that their ESN's test as available for immediate activation when tested on Ting/Tello/ etc. If yours reports that way, you could activate the device elsewhere as long as it remains in that status-- but I personally suspect that if the phone tests that way, it probably means that a solution is nearing to getting that line corrected at CellNuvo, and that activating the phone elsewhere may throw a wrench in the works--- do so only if you're comfortable with the fact that you might

  1. lose the original # (or complicate it's recovery)
  2. lose your silver balance. (I think CN will try to accommodate, but we don't know that's possible.)