Amp’d Staying Alive Through July 31

Amp'd Mobile has apparently bought its customers a one-week reprieve: the company now says its potentially suspending operations July 31.

Customers of Amp’d Mobile who were expecting to find themselves without mobile phone service have apparently been granted a one-week reprieve: the company now says it will “potentially” be suspending operations on July 31, rather than the previously published date of July 24. However, Amp’d Mobile’s customer support still went offline as of July 23, so customers looking to contact the company for answers or a rebate on unused portions of contracts are probably out of luck.

No details have emerged on how Amp’d managed to get another week out of Verizon, on whose network Amp’d is operating; it’s possible the company made some sort of one-time payment to keep its service running another week and to give its customers a chance to migrate their service to new providers. Amp’d says it will submit all port-out requests to migrate numbers to different carriers within 24 hours.