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- Reader Reid: I can still log on to my sunrocket account and do stuff!
- Reader Reid: I can still log on to my SunRocket account and do stuff!. . . Not To Mention . . ."You can check out any time you like,But you can never leave."It's Really TeleBlendShortly after SunRocket went belly-up I moved to Lingo – within a couple days I ported...
- Tags: Web site development, Teleblend, SunRocket, Lingo
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Reader Reid: I can still log on to my sunrocket account and do stuff!
- If you don't believe Reid, take a look at the date sig in the lower right hand corner of the screenshot I just made. I gotta tell ya, if I receive more stories like this around Halloween, gonna nominate SunRocket for a Living...
- Tags: SunRocket, Baby Bell, Reid, SR, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- Reader: I need my old sunrocket call logs to prosecute "predatory pervert"
- Reader: I need my old SunRocket call logs to prosecute "predatory pervert"Just when he thought he was out of the woodsThe ents start chasing after him. Sorry for the LoTR reference.
- Tags: SunRocket
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- Reader: I need my old sunrocket call logs to prosecute "predatory pervert"
- A reader whose email address maps back to a document services firm has just written me with a compelling and intriguing question. A former customer of dead-and-being buried SunRocket, he wants to know if there is any way for him to obtain his own SunRocket call logs....
- Tags: SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-17
- sunrocket.com: the website that STILL won't die
- I took that grab at 5:31 p.m. Pacific Time, on Friday September 14. Let me tell you how I got there. While clearing out some websites from my IE Favorites list earlier today, I decided to see what was up with the...
- Tags: Page, Web Site, SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- 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...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, Packet8, SunRocket
- Discussion threads 2007-09-14
- Packet8 CEO: in light of sunrocket's demise, we're hearing rumors of more VoIP market exits
- Â 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...
- Tags: VoIP, Phone, Packet8, SunRocket, VoIP Company, Price Elasticity, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-13
- Why did sunrocket talk to Vonage more than a month BEFORE they went under?
- Why did SunRocket talk to Vonage more than a month BEFORE they went under?Why did SunRocket talk to Vonage more than a month BEFORE they went under?Being a customer of Sunrocket I was vary upset theat they went out of business. Even more now that I am unable to get...
- Tags: SunRocket, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-09-08
- Why did sunrocket talk to Vonage more than a month BEFORE they went under?
- Last Thursday, I reported that SunRocket LLC,, the entity that is liquidating former VoIP provider SunRocket, is suing Vonage over what the entity believes is the improper way Vonage acquired some names of former SunRocket customers.To recap, the suit says that in early June, "SunRocket and Vonage entered into a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-27
- From the grave, sunrocket sues Vonage over customer list
- From the grave, SunRocket sues Vonage over customer listAh...WhaaaaaaaaaahhhhWhaaaaaaaaaahhhhWhaaaaaaaaaahhhhWhaaaaaaaaaahhhhWhaaaaaaaaaahhhhWhaaaaaaaaaahhhhWhaaaaaaaaaahhhhWhaaaaaaaaaahhhh...:DPoooooooor poooooooor SuunRocket!Poooooooor poooooooor SuunRocket!...LOL!!!One thing to watch out about VonageI was a Vonage customer. I ended up canceling my service though. Vonage was never the problem and in fact they had some of the best customer support I've ever seen. They...
- Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, SunRocket, Vonage Holdings Corp., credit card, credit card company
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- From the grave, sunrocket sues Vonage over customer list
- Yes, there is a "ghost of SunRocket." That'd be some legal entity called SunRocket LLC, formed to preside over the dissolution of SunRocket's assets.Assets presumably, principally being, the late VoIP-ers 200,000 strong subscriber list.SunRocket LLC isn't pleased with what they view as the "illegal" way in which Vonage obtained a...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-24
- Here's why the Skype sign-in outage WON'T matter much
- Here's why the Skype sign-in outage WON'T matter muchMostly right, but...I think that the "why" of the outage -- if and when the true cause is revealed -- may have the most impact on Skype's 'popularity'.If it truly is a "glitch", then I believe it will be forgotten. If it...
- Tags: Manufacturing, SunRocket, Skype Technologies S.A., outage
- Discussion threads 2007-08-17
- sunrocket orphan to TeleBlend provisioner's CEO: I am really tired of "runaround," "incompetence"
- SunRocket orphan to TeleBlend provisioner's CEO: I am really tired of "runaround," "incompetence"Why stick with Teleblend? Look further !Thanks for this update. I'm so glad I didn't switch to Teleblend when SunRocket died on me. I personally went with Packet8, but there are a bunch of other reliable stable companies...
- Tags: E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, SunRocket, Teleblend, Telebland
- Discussion threads 2007-08-16
- sunrocket orphan to TeleBlend provisioner's CEO: I am really tired of "runaround," "incompetence"
- A reader from the Chicago suburbs has just sent me a copy of a non-friendly note he sent to the CEO of USA Telephone, the company that has been handling the switch of SunRocket orphans to "preferred provider" TeleBlend.I have to stress, these are the experiences of one reader- but...
- Tags: Phone, Customer, SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-16
- Vonage CEO:"shocked" by sunrocket's rapid demise
- During yesterday's quarterly conference call with analysts, Vonage founder-chair-interim CEO Jeff Citron was asked what he thought of SunRocket's rapid demise, and how it was handled."I was shocked to see the company go from having capital troubles to not signing up new customers and closing its doors," colleague Maggie Reardon...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Demise, SunRocket, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-10
- sunrocket orphans: selling our contact info to Vonage violates SR Privacy Policy
- SunRocket orphans: selling our contact info to Vonage violates SR Privacy PolicyIs this is solicitation really "unrelated"?The legal wording says "unrelated" marketing. Continuing your IP-based phone service since yours had been shut down due to the provider going out of business would be considered as "related marketing", IMHO. ...
- Tags: Marketing research, VOIP, SunRocket, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- sunrocket orphans: selling our contact info to Vonage violates SR Privacy Policy
- A number of orphaned SunRocket customers indicate they have reason to believe that SR asset liquidator Sherwood Partners has sold their contact info to Vonage.That would be in addition to perceived sales to Packet8 and TeleBlend, both of which were publicly identified by Sherwood as preferred providers.Many of these reports...
- Tags: Vonage Holdings Corp., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- Packet8 CEO: here's how our $199 a year and sunrocket's $199 a year are different
- Packet8 CEO: here's how our $199 a year and SunRocket's $199 a year are differentPacket8 is stable, and so are ViaTalk and JoiPhoneI think that Packet8 will do just fine. They're backed by a hosting company and their business customers. But just so you know, there some other reliable VOIP...
- Tags: VOIP, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Packet8, SunRocket
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Packet8 CEO: here's how our $199 a year and sunrocket's $199 a year are different
- FierceVoIPs Deborah McAdams posts a thorough grok of Packet8 owner 8x8's recent quarterly conference call. A good bit of the juicy tidbits pertain to the effect of SunRocket's closing on Packet8.The big factoid: latest numbers show Pakcet 8 has signed up 19,000 former SunRocket subs.That's not necessarily an entirely blessed...
- Tags: 8X8, Packet8, rnrnFierceVoIPs Deborah McAdams, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-08-06
- sunrocket's really, truly, totally going away on August 5
- SunRocket's really, truly, totally going away on August 5Know your options, there are plenty! Not just Packet8 and TeleblendsYeah, after getting a couple of these emails I also had to make a decision where to go now after SR died. My main goal was to save my phone number that...
- Tags: Fax, E-mail, Telecom & Utilities, SunRocket
- Discussion threads 2007-07-31
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