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Nederland Mobiel does a disappearing act

Tuesday 24 November 2009 | 12:52 CET
 
MVNO Nederland Mobile is unreachable. The nederlandmobiel.net website has been off the air since the beginning of October. All known telephone numbers give a busy signal, the 088 number provided by Nederland Mobile is nonexistent. Nederland Mobiel announced in June that it was taking over Tommy Telecom's customer base. MVNO Tommy Telecom supplied prepaid mobile telephones auctioned out by the Postcode Lottery. The Lottery has since stopped offering packages but has taken over providing services to clients. The Lottery said it is not in touch with Tommy Telecom. When Nederland Mobiel was set up, Tommy Telecom was in a financial conflict with Aspider, which supplied MVNE services. A spokesperson for Aspider accused Tommy Telecom and Nederland Mobiel of bankruptcy fraud. Tommy Telecom's operations were to be passed on to Nederland Mobiel. Ron van de Rhee, who founded both companies, denied this. He was at this time unavailable for comment.

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