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EXCLUSIVE: Interview with SunRocket preferred provider TeleBlend distribution partner's CEO

TeleBlend is one of two "preferred" VoIP service providers suggested by Sherwood Partners, which is handling SunRocket's dissolutionWith more than a week since the shutoff, and former SunRocket customers still transitioning to new homes, I thought it might be interesting to check in with someone on the TeleBlend side for...

Tags: News, Packet 8, Vonage

Blog posts 2007-07-25

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

Reader: transferred from SunRocket to TeleBlend and I am still waiting

Just a few minutes ago, I received an email from a reader who has been attempting to transfer his VoIP service  from the now-discontinued SunRocket to TeleBlend.Along with 8x8's Packet8 service, TeleBlend is one of the two "recommended service providers" suggested by SunRocket creditors as a successor service to their...

Tags: Providers, Packet 8

Blog posts 2007-07-23

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

I guess the few remaining SunRocket employees had to pack up and leave so darn quickly on Monday,  no one had time to put up a placeholder on the site saying no new orders are being accepted, and as a matter of fact, we're gone.You would have thought that, anyway.But...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News

Blog posts 2007-07-18

Here's where many of those orphaned SunRocket users will go

 Now I know why SunRocket instituted their $199 a year plan. Perhaps not so much as a clever competitive marketing strategy but as a desperate move to raise cash.Not enough cash was raised to sustain operations, or even to capture the interest of a lender or buyer.With the shutdown of...

Tags: Predictions and Observations, Packet 8

Blog posts 2007-07-17

SunRocket's discount price: clever marketing or desperate move?

SunRocket's discount price: clever marketing or desperate move?Could not disagree moreSunrocket has been growing at a very fast clip. They are now the second-fastest growing "standalone" VOIP provider with about 10,000 customers added each month. Adding the $9.95 plan is the natural expansion of SRs successful business...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, marketing, Packet 8, SunRocket, VoIP

Discussion threads 2005-12-12

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

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

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

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

News to know: Verizon FiOS install; Jerry Yang; Microsoft code protection

Notable headlines:Larry Dignan: The Verizon FiOS installation: The key points. Stupid FioS broadband tricks. Gallery right.George Ou: Intel's technically legitimate but shady benchmarks. According to AMD, Intel Core 2 Duo doesn't exist.Larry Dignan: Jerry Yang makes Yahoo earnings debut amid low expectations.Read/WriteWeb: 4 Years Ago Today - Netscape Corporation Killed,...

Tags: News to know, General

Blog posts 2007-07-16

Alexa mashup site alexaholic lets you compare VoIP provider site traffic over time

Ive been having a little fun with alexaholic, a type of Alexa mash-up that lets you compare estimated page view totals and traffic patterns for several websites over specific lengths of time.Lets compare relative page view rankings for Skype, Vonage, Packet 8, Gizmo Project and SunRocket site views over a...

Tags: Web site development, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Alexa Internet Inc., mashup

Blog posts 2006-11-17

Skype applies for trademark that could mean worldwide free calling to any phone

This is going to sound strange and quite likely improbable, but I have information that may indicate that Skype could be considering dropping the equivalent of a nuclear bomb on the VoIP world. I am referring to free outbound calling anywhere in the world. Not only between...

Tags: Skype Technologies S.A.

Blog posts 2006-07-22

Monday prediction: VoIP will adopt cell's long-term contract, high termination fee model

Monday prediction: VoIP will adopt cell's long-term contract, high termination fee modelVonage is alreadyVonage is already doing this... my contract has some cancellation "gotcha's" switching to Sunrocket and they managed to hold my old number long enough to bill me yet another $27.25 for another month of service.Of course they...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Vonage Holdings Corp., termination, VoIP, VoIP company, POTS, VoIP service

Discussion threads 2005-07-18