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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

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

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

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

Additional Resources

FCC hearings: Comcast versus Vuze

The FCC held its hearing on Comcast's Network Management practices at Harvard University yesterday.  Vuze executive Gilles BianRosa whose company filed one of the two FCC complaints against Comcast reportedly told the FCC yesterday that BitTorrent does not hog bandwidth.  Since most Internet experts would dispute that claim, I generated the...

Tags: FCC, Bandwidth, BitTorrent, Network, Comcast Corp., Broadband Provider, Broadband, Vuze, Congestion Problem, Free Press, Broadband Internet, Networking, Network Technology, Telecommunications, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-02-26

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

Cringely doesn't need no stinking facts to push Net Neutrality

Robert X. Cringely - the PBS pundit who was caught masquerading as a Stanford PhD and Professor) - has a new blog out titled "We Dont Need No Stinking Best Effort". Cringely has come out with another bogus accusation against the Broadband companies claiming that theyre now in a...

Tags: VoIP, Technology policy, Networking, Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2007-04-13

Complete Verizon-Vonage Patent analysis Part Three: 6,359,880

Time for us to kick around the third in the three disputed Verizon Patents at the heart of the infringement claims against Vonage.Thats be Verizon Patent 6,359,880 - Public wireless/cordless internet gateway.Abstract:A localized wireless gateway system provides wireless telephone communication, and for at least interexchange communication, provides voice ...

Tags: Vonage, General

Blog posts 2007-04-09

Vonage clarifies purpose of deal with VoIP Inc.

Vonage clarifies purpose of deal with VoIP Inc.kill the competitionVerizon attacks the one name-brand company that is competing for voip customers, to try to shut them down. All these internet technical patents are broadly written mumbo-jumbo. (look at the fight over "jpg" patents, too.) Vonage had licensed and bought...

Tags: Telephony, VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp., patent

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Following failed IPO, Vonage's loss widens

Following failed IPO, Vonage's loss widensFollowing failed IPO, Vonage's loss widensYou guys definitely called it right on this stock. Good for you!re: vonagei heard about this from other voip co. while back.. i have vonage for voip right now , the services is very good and only fault...

Tags: Financial Planning, Investment, Telephony, Vonage Holdings Corp., IPO

Discussion threads 2006-08-01

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

Packet 8 CEO: don't confuse us with THEM. Me: OK, but only up to a point

Packet 8 CEO: don't confuse us with THEM. Me: OK, but only up to a pointeveryone knowsthat Vonage is being sued for patent infringement not because they may have actually infringed patents. It's a smackdown by deep corpoorate pockets to drain time, energy, money from an uppity start up...

Tags: Investment, Vonage Holdings Corp., Packet 8

Discussion threads 2006-07-08

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

EXCLUSIVE: Verizon to Court: halt Vonage sales, services- and we have the complete details

The Verizon patent infringement suit against Vonage, revealed today but filed last Monday in the U.S. Appeals Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, asks the Court to: "Enter a permanent injunction, pursuant to 35 U.S.C. 283, restraining and enjoining Defendants Vonage Holdings and Vonage America and their...

Tags: Verizon Communications Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp.

Blog posts 2006-06-19

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