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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 debuts several new calling features

Packet 8 debuts several new calling featuresPacket8 has cool featuresI tried packet8 features...and i think that is ALL i like. the voice quality kind'a sucks at the moment. But i got a good deal. i signed up through www.packet8-voip.com which offered me 1 month free service. so i'm cancelling after...

Tags: Packet 8, Packet8

Discussion threads 2006-06-29

While some VoIP providers scratch their heads, Packet 8 expands E911

While some VoIP providers scratch their heads, Packet 8 expands E911Packet8 rocks!For whoever is consider a VOIP phone service, DEFINITELY check out Packet8! I've been with them for several months, and my Insight broadband and it perform outstandingly day in and day out. Best of all, it's like $20 a...

Tags: TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Packet 8, Packet8, Lingo, E911

Discussion threads 2005-02-18

Additional Resources

Motley Fool: Vonage will "eventually succumb"

Motley Fool: Vonage will "eventually succumb"Really long cableI'm sitting London using my Vonage line on a daily basis. Will Comcast or Time Warner run a really long cable to reach the UK customers? Anyone I include Vonage in this have any idea how many customers Vonage has outside of the...

Tags: VOIP, Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., Motley Fool

Discussion threads 2007-08-07

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

So why is SunRocket's site still up? Here's why

So why is SunRocket's site still up? Here's whySign-up screensI have no problem with the page itself still being available ... but the sign-up screen really should have been updated to reflect that due to whatever issues (fanancial, impending sale, some other) they wish to blame - no new customers...

Tags: SunRocket, Packet8

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

SunRocket orphans, send me your switching stories

SunRocket orphans, send me your switching storiesVonage: morons on the phone...A less than auspicious start to my relationship with Vonage. I signed up on Monday (16 July). They won't give me the 2-month free deal because "that's Tuesday's deal", so unless I cancel my account and reapply from...

Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket, ViaTalk, HERE IS, phone

Discussion threads 2007-07-18

Packet 8 takes leap forward with customized recording services

In what I view as a promising and useful extension to Packet 8's enterprise-oriented VoIP service tools, the company has started to offer professional voice recording services to business users who subscribe to its 8,000-subscriber, Packet8 Virtual Office hosted iPBX phone service.Message3 on hold and voice production services vendor...

Tags: Packet 8, Asterisk

Blog posts 2007-07-14

Skype free call offer "F-ing brilliant" Vonage IPO-killer?

Skype free call offer "F-ing brilliant" Vonage IPO-killer?F-ing stupidNOT giving Skypein away for free limits the usefulness of this offer. Are people willing to give a bunch of personal information to Skype in exchange for a LIMITED offer of free Skypeout? Some "toe-dippers" will, but others will compare FULL features.Also...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, Vonage Holdings Corp., Skype Technologies S.A., VoIP, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-05-17

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 why VoIP videophones haven't caught on yet

I visited the Packet 8 booth at the Consumer Electronics Show. Tried the Packet 8 videophone, a product that has been having some modest success via direct website sales but has frankly not wowed them at retail. The phone was stocked at New York's J&R Music World last year- but...

Tags: videophone

Blog posts 2006-01-06

I comment on Ted's Top Ten VoIP Gifts Roundup

That's Santa's Sleigh Phone, as shown on the totally cool site Claus.com. Although Santa's probably not on VoIP just yet, that's a good way to transition us to fellow VoIP blogger Ted Wallingford's Top Ten VoIP Gifts Roundup.Thought I would run his list, with my Comments.Ted's list is...

Tags: headset, VoIP

Blog posts 2005-12-16

I weigh in on Ted's 10 VoIP predictions

Some months back, fellow VoIP blogger Ted Wallingford posted a list of his top ten predictions for the VoIP industry.He now revisits this list with a progress/lack of progress report on each.Let's visit some of Ted's points, see what he says, then read what I have to say.10. You’ll give...

Tags: VoIP, E911

Blog posts 2005-10-10

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

Packet 8 says they are bleeding money: I say they oughta sell to ...

Packet 8 says they are bleeding money: I say they oughta sell to ...Poor Marketing Poor PlanningLets face it boys and girls, pack 8 doesnt stand out. They are tring to advertise like vonage but dont have the market branding that vonage has developed. Simply running occastional radio...

Tags: SMB/SME, Web site development, Telephony, VOIP, Packet 8, oughta

Discussion threads 2005-08-11

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

The VoIP phone and access price wars *aren't* "coming": they're here

Last month, I posted my opinion that by 4Q of this year, we'd be seeing widespread VoIP phones for less than $100 - from name brands.Heck, it's only 2Q and barely that, but Packet 8's already there. They've temporarily lowered the post-rebate price of their Packet8 Broadband Consumer VideoPhone from...

Tags: VoIP, VoIP phone

Blog posts 2005-04-15