Oblio Telecom
Founded: 1995
Ticker Symbol: N/A (now owned by Titan Global Holdings trading under symbol TTGLE.OB)
Employees: 40
Locations: Richardson, Texas
Timeline
1996: Sammy Jibrin and Radu Achiriloaie open the business
2000: Land deal with AT&T to provide their back end service for all of their phone cards via the Smartalk brand.
2005: Taken over by Titan Global Holdings, Inc in exchange for stock which was later returned to Titan since the taxes would have been more than the profits. A loan was later issued that was not required to be paid back... full story - Oblio also launches it's prepaid mobile product Bravo
2006: Oblio switches it's back end provider for their phone cards to Sprint and leaves long time provider Smartalk.
2007: Oblio Telecom is name to Intelecard's 10 to Watch list (everyone knows this is the kiss of death). Oblio receives 4 million dollars back from IRS for past Federal Excise Tax payments.
2008: Oblio Phone Cards start giving much lower than advertised minutes
Other Sources:
http://www.wirelessdealermagazine.com/spring07/Downloads/pdf64-65.pdf
http://www.obliotel.com/
http://www.herdonthestreet.com/protected/Research%20Reports/TTGL%20Initiation%20Report.pdf
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Company Profile: Oblio Telecom
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6 comments:
A wonderful review considering that oblio's cards are not working since mid January. So they have ripped off thousands of customers like me for over $5000.00 that must make their company very strong indeed.
It is not meant as a statement for the company by any means! Being that they are in the news lately in the phone card world I thought it would be appropriate to give everyone a background on this failing company.
I am much to busy to spend alot of time on the internet but I wanted to find others who have just been ripped off by Oblio. I sent a complaint to the Texas Attorney General's office and they responded that they would not look into the matter unless many more people complained. The AGO's office referred to it as "possible violation of consumer protection laws." Another production company that I spoke to today who had talked to a Titan insider who said that they shut off all the cards that had not been paid for. My cards came COD/secured funds only.
You bet, I have the copy and invoice. I would like to make it hard for these companies to run off with the money of honest business people. I thought after being in this business for 12 years that we had gotten rid of the jerks like this.
I have prepaid cards made by Oblio Telecom named Hello Asia Continental. Unfortunately you can no longer access the numbers that you have to call and nobody from the customer service of the stated prepaid company can help you in anyways. Yeah I lost just a few bucks for these cards but i wonder how many people have brought this prepaid cards and can no longer use them? Someone has to advise what to do with it.
could not use my prepaid phone cards to day. (hello asia) the 800 number & customer service number are non-functional. i deplore the kind of business you run - taking money from people like me. i agree with everybodysnuts that you should be investigated.
I used to work for Oblio in customer service. It was a real disaster actually.
Interesting to see how things went down.
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