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- Packet8 CEO: in light of SunRocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exits
- Packet8 CEO: in light of SunRocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exitsVOIP Companies SurvivabilityI don't know about other VOIP companies services and their financial soundness, but I can tell you that I have been using a VOIP service from a company called IGONET for over a year...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Packet8 CEO: in light of SunRocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exits
-  As the CEO of the second-largest after Vonage "pure play" VoIP provider, Packet8's Bryan Martin is pretty much plugged in to the whole sector. At ITExpo I had an informal background conversation with Bryan. He feels that the SunRocket implosion cost all VoIP providers some credibility on...
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Does SunRocket's sudden close show more VoIP regulations needed?
- Does SunRocket's sudden close show more VoIP regulations needed?"Read My Lips:" No New Regulation ...While unfortunate for the 200,000_+ Subs that were affected by this...HOWEVER, as the article points out, everyone has cell phones and would not be completely left in the dark. The only thing I would like to...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-23
- Does SunRocket's sudden close show more VoIP regulations needed?
- When last week's failure of SunRocket left some 200,000 subscribers scrambling for an alternative home phone service, many saw this as the free market at work. Free market as in, survival of the fittest, and the availability of other choices waving discounts to former SR customers as the wisdom of...
- Blog posts 2007-07-23
- VoIP provider ViaTalk: we'll buy out your SunRocket contract
- VoIP provider ViaTalk: we'll buy out your SunRocket contractYou may be able to unlock Sunrocket's GizmoInternet sources indicate that we 200,000 Sunrocket customers may be able to unlock the SUNROCKET GIZMO, to be used with an alternate VOIP.Source:http://www.recipedelights.com/sunrocket.htmGood luck to us 200,000.Bad Review at voipreview.orgI almost went for this deal,...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-18
- VoIP provider ViaTalk: we'll buy out your SunRocket contract
- Little-known Internet phone provider ViaTalk is the latest to offer special deals to what I have been referring to as "orphaned" SunRocket subscribers.Orphaned, of course, by SunRocket's cessation of operations Monday.The deal is detailed on ViaTalk's FAQ page about how to switch from SunRocket to ViaTalk.Here's some details from...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-17
- 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...
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Say it ain't so, SunRocket
- Om's been hearing that pure-play VoIP provider SunRocket has recently laid off some 40 employees. Some mid-level executives are said to be in this number.Om asks us to regard these reports as rumors for now.I think that SunRocket's 200,000 subscriber count gives them some shelter agains the storm, but...
- Blog posts 2007-06-30
- This is huge: GE-branded VoIP phones coming to SunRocket
- This is huge: GE-branded VoIP phones coming to SunRocketGE and ThompsonBoth GE and RCA brands for home appliances were sold to Thomson at the same time and Thompson has been making both RCA and GE-branded items for years so no poetic sweetness here, just bizness as usual. (And no,...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-19
- Yahoo!-Linksys partnership more bad news for pure-play consumer VoIP
- With all due respect, I believe that not enough of we pundits are grasping the big picture implied in Yahoo!s announcement yesterday that it is pairing up with Ciscos Linksys division to offer a $99.99 list, Linksys-Dual Mode Cordless Phone for Yahoo! Messenger with Voice.Lets look beyond the...
- Blog posts 2006-11-10
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
- All You Can Eat VoIP For 12 Months? I've Read The Fine Print For You
- A new VoIP phone company known as SunRocket is offering about the sweetest-sounding services package I've seen. They call it SunRocket Annual Edition.You give them $199 up front and receive 12 months of "all-inclusive" phone service. That includes unlimited calling in the U.S., enhanced voice mail, and up to 100...
- Blog posts 2004-11-30
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- Dude, Where's My Phone Bill?
- Dude, Where's My Phone Bill?Were is my "K Y Jelly"Yep, AT&T boned me also.I figured they were up to no good last yearwhen I was trying to help another person get VOIP service and It came back that they are not accepting new customers on their web site.So now I...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-27
- Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIP
- Reader: AT&T tells me Time Warner Cable is blocking his VoIPNot just TimeWarnerWhile I never had an issue with my old SunRocket account, the move to a new service has been less than pain-free. I am using VOIP.com now, which I chose based on price and features. I've...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- PC World gets it wrong: as Vonage goes, so not necessarily goes VoIP
- It disappoints, but does not amaze me, how journalists on deadline sometimes cite rough patches being experienced by Vonage or Skype and then make a giant leap to conclude that VoIP is hosed. Take for instance the almost-always-clued-in Dan Tynan of PC World. ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Foreseen: Forsee out at Sprint. But will they learn from these mistakes under his watch?
- As I posted last week- and with plenty of reasons offered- SprintNextel's feckless CEO Gary Forsee- was finally encountering some real thin ice. Only it didn't take that long before he slipped through said ice. He's out as of today. Why?...
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Prof: footnote in eBay Patent case COULD give Vonage a break in theirs
- Prof: footnote in eBay Patent case COULD give Vonage a break in theirsSad stuffPity that this debacle is giving the entire VoIP segment a black eye because there are great companies out there that focused on the technology and not the "sizzle". Hey, I liked the Vonage commercials as...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-06
- It's about time dept.: Sprint CEO draws investor heat
- Now, finally, a dissident SprintNextel shareholder with quite a bit of clout is expressing some very public discontent about how the company is being run. Very public, as in an interview with two Wall Street Journal reporters posted today. "We...
- Blog posts 2007-10-04
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