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- Packet8 shows profitability is achievable in pure-play VoIP
- Arguably, the three highest profile, full-fledged VoIP services to flash across our radar screen in the last year or two have been SunRocket, Vonage, and 8x8' s Packet8 service.SunRocket, of course, is gone. Vonage, which traded yesterday at an all-time-low of $1.86 a share, is a money loser with a...
- Tags: Vonage, Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-08-03
- Via smart moves, Packet8 is growing its business sector
- Packet8 maker and marketer 8x8 reports that it now has more than 6,000 U.S.-based business customers.Trend lines seem to point to a diversification of the business beyond increasingly discounted residential service, to higher-margin business service.The lesson, at least to me, is that an appropriate message to business users- backed...
- Tags: General, Packet 8, 8X8, Packet8
- Blog posts 2007-02-02
- Packet 8 CEO: don't confuse us with THEM. Me: OK, but only up to a point
- Bryan Martin, CEO of VoIP company 8x8 (Packet8), is quoted in a press release that appears to take pains to distinguish Packet8 from that big Internet telephony competitor of theirs whose name starts with a "V."Reading this document, it appears to have been precipitated by Martin's concerns that Vonage's legal...
- Tags: Packet 8, Packet8
- Blog posts 2006-07-06
- Packet 8 says they are bleeding money: I say they oughta sell to ...
- I've just read the 10-Q Quarterly Report from 8x8, Inc., known for its Packet 8 VoIP service. In light of Packet 8's loss of $5.4 million in the second quarter ending June 30, the Management Discussion section of the Report sounds like a major reality check. The Discussion is so...
- Tags: Packet 8
- Blog posts 2005-08-09
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- Reader:recommendation by SunRocket like tobacco company suggesting cancer MD
- Re the above-- YA THINK?And the bricks keep on being tossed on the gravestone:Reader Phil from Fairfax County Virginia in the D.C. suburbs writes to tell me briefly considered switching from the deceased SunRocket to either TeleBlend or Packet 8.Yet it was the manner in which SunRocket left its subscribers...
- Tags: Packet 8
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hit
- SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hitHome page now mentions these offers and the shutdownAbout timePacket-8 (8x8) is crapI tried to join them and they were horrible. Eight weeks after signing up, they still hadn't ported my number. When I contacted them about it, they...
- Tags: Lingo, ViaTalk, Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hit
- As has been rumored ever since SunRocket went belly up Monday, their creditors have signed deals with former SR competitors 8x8 and Unified Communications Corp. to be "preferred service providers" for SR's 200,000 orphaned customers.The deal has to be good for 8x8, and its Packet 8 service. Normal start up...
- Tags: Vonage, Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Here's where many of those orphaned SunRocket users will go
- Here's where many of those orphaned SunRocket users will goWhat about Lingo?We've been using Lingo for over two years and not had a problem with them. It's less expensive than Vonage.SunrocketI've been a satisfied user of the SunRocket service since March, right up until yesterday evening when I first noticed...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, Comcast Corp., SunRocket, Lingo, ViaTalk, Vonage Holdings Corp., VoIP, Rangatel, phone, Via:Talk
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- Why convergence marketing is suffering from "domain poisoning"
- I have this theory about folks who are new to technology, don't know much about a tech company, but maybe see an ad or get word-of-mouth recommendations.More than a few such folks are liable to mis-spell the name of the vendor or service and give up out of a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., domain
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- My analysis: what will the AT&T-BellSouth merger mean?
- That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to...
- Tags: AT&T Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-05
- Here's what the BellSouth-8x8 deal means
- On Friday, BellSouth announced that it is teaming up with 8x8 (best known for its Packet 8 VoIP service) to provide $20 a month VoIP service. Subscribers will get free calling to anywhere in the U.S. or Canada,as well as discounted international calls, voice mail and caller I.D.Until I...
- Tags: 8X8, BellSouth Corp., VoIP
- Blog posts 2005-12-12
- eBay-Skype: Three VoIP entrepreueur views
- I thought it would be interesting to gather some views of the eBay acquisition of Skype held by a few informed figures in the VoIP community that other sources might not necessarily gather in one place.Here then, is a sampling:Bryan Martin, CEO of Packet 8 maker 8x8 writes in his...
- Tags: eBay Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-09-13
- Packet 8 CEO: expect Yahoo! to compete against Skype
- VoIP service Packet 8 does not currently offer softphone service. As such, they are not a competitor to Skype, the Gizmo Project, or Yahoo!'s often-speculated on efforts to build a telephony business out of its recently purchased Dialpad acquisition.Yet as a major player in the overall VoIP space, the thoughts...
- Tags: Bryan Martin
- Blog posts 2005-08-19
- Why Packet 8 VideoPhone is featured in both "Stargate" series
- In technology marketing, product placements on the right television shows and in movies are a key strategy.That's because there is a demonstrated overlap between shows that appeal to techies, and the appeal to those same techies that some technology products have.With their technological bent, there's long been an overlap between...
- Tags: Packet8, Packet8 VideoPhone, Huw Rees, Stargate SG-1
- Blog posts 2005-08-02
- Sonus: gunning for 4 for 4 ILEC sweep?
- Telecom networking publication Light Reading reports that softswitch vendor Sonus Networks will be BellSouth's softswitch provider when the Atlanta-based regional carrier gears up its residential VoIP service within the next 12 months.Because softswitches are the nexus for connections between circuit and packet-switched networks, such a partnership would give Sonus a...
- Tags: Sonus Networks
- Blog posts 2005-06-13
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