Mobilicity Launches… on GoDaddy

Mobilicity, a new mobile phone carrier is launching in Canada on May 15th, 2010. Starting in Toronto, then covering other major cities like Vancouver, and Montreal, the service is competitively priced with unlimited plans for calling and text messages at around $35 dollars (CAD) a month, which is pretty sweet.

After seeing some buzz on Twitter about Mobilicity, I went to their website, which was so slow I thought I was on dial-up.

This amateur stuff from a Telecom?
No… It can’t be.

But after seeing a database connection error (This means shit is broken for all your non-techies) I realized something was really up.

Check this out:

# host www.mobilicity.ca
www.mobilicity.ca has address 173.201.38.96
# host 173.201.38.96
96.38.201.173.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ip-173-201-38-96.ip.secureserver.net.

Huh? Secureserver.net is….

# whois 173.201.38.96
 
OrgName:    GoDaddy.com, Inc.
OrgID:      GODAD
Address:    14455 N Hayden Road
Address:    Suite 226
City:       Scottsdale
StateProv:  AZ
PostalCode: 85260
Country:    US
 
NetRange:   173.201.0.0 - 173.201.255.255
CIDR:       173.201.0.0/16
OriginAS:   AS26496
NetName:    GO-DADDY-SOFTWARE-INC
NetHandle:  NET-173-201-0-0-1
Parent:     NET-173-0-0-0-0
NetType:    Direct Allocation
NameServer: CNS1.SECURESERVER.NET
NameServer: CNS2.SECURESERVER.NET
NameServer: CNS3.SECURESERVER.NET
Comment:    Please send abuse complaints to abuse@godaddy.com
RegDate:    2009-09-18
Updated:    2009-09-18

Its GoDaddy. A telecom that hosts its website on GoDaddy.

Yikes.

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  • taran

    what i found mobilicity network is not very good where i live….near black oak dr..brampton…i am not sure if they are improving….coz everyone know they are just new to the market…???

  • taran

    what i found mobilicity network is not very good where i live….near black oak dr..brampton…i am not sure if they are improving….coz everyone know they are just new to the market…???

  • Ikram_ulhaq

    I got unimited South Asia plan from Mobilicity, after few days when ever I call Pakistan, you get message network is busy and I was not able to call Pakistan for many days. You get through if you are lucky, you have to try many many times. I was stuck with Mobilicity because I have to pay for phone when I got service plan from them. I topup this month again on 17-July to give it one more try and today on 20-July they announce unlimited south asia is no longer available from 22nd July.

    I am really very unhappy with Mobilicity, I know they still have unlimited plan for China and India but once they have enough people signed from Indian origion they will cancel unlimitted to india too.

    This is an other company that sucks. Stay away from Mobilicity if you are thinking to get their connection.

  • Shelley Pearson

    I have heard most of their stores are closing down. The largest one in Heartland Town Center in Mississauga is about to close down.

    So much for the ethnic puncHelly

  • Shelley Pearson

    They are also closing down Four other stores. The ones in Markham, Scarborough and Downtowm Toronto,. If you include the one in Mississauag Heartland these are the biggest four stores that they have in GTA. Are they gong bankrupt??? What will happen to the connection I got for my daughter and the phone I bought from them ?

  • Gary Jennings

    Mobilicity launched with a bang but is going down with a whimper. Most of their corporate stores are closing down. Their flagship store in the Heartland town Center in Mississauga, Markham, Scarborough and Downtown are all shutting down. What happened?

    Can anyone shed light on this? Why are they closing their flagship corporate stores if they are not going bankrupt?

  • Sean Caldwell

    Mobilicity seems to be a fly by night operator. I believe they have run out of options and are trying to consolidate by shutting down their corporate stores. These are typical systems of a company in distress.

  • Sean Caldwell

    Mobilicity seems to be a fly by night operator. I believe they have run out of options and are trying to consolidate by shutting down all of four of their major corporate stores. These are typical systems of a company in distress.

  • Gary Jennings

    Mobilicity had threatened to take Rogers to court if they launch Chatr. What happened? Was this all BS to get media mileage?

  • Tim Mansfield

    First Mobilicity threatened to sue Rogers and now they have chickened out!

    Closing down of 4 (some say 6) of their largest corporate stores is a clear case of Cut and run!

  • Jim Conney

    Okay so it is a small company with no tech savvy people working for them. So they got themselves hosted with someone my 10 year niece would for her homepage. They shut down most, may be all, of their corporate stores. They give out wild threats to sue Rogers. Then they shut down their UNLIMITED South Asia Plan. Where will it end? I think the Shareholders should appoint a new CEO to take charge. The one who is managing it now is a high school dropout who use to own a Telus dealership. What a terrible waste of all those shareholder resources? TERRIBLE CHOICE!

  • Sultan Khan

    No offense to Go-Daddy but no Telecom company in the world will host their website there. There services are not for enterprise customers. No wonder Mobilicity is shutting down all of its major stores and getting into a cold war with Rogers and its customers over blocking its UNLIMITED Plans. I received a cal from them that I was using my UNLIMITED plan for 500 minutes every month and they will block it. EXCUSE ME BUT UNLIMITED DOES NOT LIMIT ME TO 500 MINUTES! They are SCAMMERS!

  • Pat Russo

    I just received a flyer from Mobilicity claiming that its Blackberry 9700 uses MS windows mobile 6.5. Can anyone explain me as to why Mobilicity is making such wild claims. Have they gone mad or is it just another stunt to gain notoriety?

  • Charlie Borticelli

    I believe that while Mobilicity may or may not survive, part of its dealer network will certainly close down. Every second store seems to be some kind of an authorized dealer now. The market cannot sustain so many dealers. All those who are Mobilicity exclusive carry the highest risk.

  • Charlie Borticelli

    In my opinion, they have closed down all of their corporate stores and started selling their phones through grocery stores. I wonder what kind of a service would a grocery store give to their customers. Also their credibility seems to be Zilch after the South Asia Plan fiasco, the Sue Rogers fiasco, the shut down all corporate stores fiasco and lately the misprinting in their flyers to name just a few! I think the network is pretty unstable and suffers from an array of intermittent issues!

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    Very nice. Thanks
    keep up the good work and have great holidays