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