GigaOM (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Despite all the troubles with VoIP service providers such as SunRocket and Vonage, VoIP as a technology seems to be doing quite well in the U.S., according to data from Telegeography. As of the end of March, there were 16.3 million consumer VoIP lines, or about 13.8 percent of U.S. households, and 27 percent [...]
Tom Keating (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Robert Traphan, a college friend of mine stayed at my house last night and we were talking about the various VoIP products and services. Robert is a former SunRocket customer until the SunRocket implosion . Robert was a huge fan of SunRocket over both Packet8 and Vonage. One of his favorite features was SunRocket Signature Message Screener, a piece of software that runs on your PC and allows you to...
Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
One Technician's Sunrocket/Teleblend Post Mortem Report > Grand Central Feature Update Read more...
Remove the Labels (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
When independent VoIP provider SunRocket utterly imploded last summer, a company by the name of USA Telephone decided they'd take the opportunity to try their hand at the VoIP Business. The company created a new company named “TeleBlend,” purchased “certain limited strategic assets” of SunRocket, and then paid SunRocket's liquidators to send fleeing sunrocket customers [...]
broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
When independent VoIP provider SunRocket utterly imploded last summer, a company by the name of USA Telephone decided they'd take the opportunity to try their hand at the VoIP Business. The company created a new company named "TeleBlend," purchased "certain limited strategic assets" of SunRocket, and then paid SunRocket's liquidators to send fleeing sunrocket customers an e-mail calling Teleblend...
Best VoIP Blogs (Free subscription) | 02/14/2008
8×8’s Packet8 may not be the largest VoIP service provider, but they have nice stable growth. Unlike some VoIP service providers which tried to grow fast but then crashed and burned (See SunRocket posts here, here, and here), Packet8 has had slow steady growth over the years. So I’m pleased to report that 8×8, Inc. [...]
Tom Keating (Free subscription) | 01/30/2008
8x8's Packet8 may not be the largest VoIP service provider, but they have nice stable growth. Unlike some VoIP service providers which tried to grow fast but then crashed and burned (See SunRocket posts here , here , and here ). So I'm pleased to report that 8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT), provider of Packet8 broadband Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), videophone and mobile VoIP communication services,...
bizjournals (Free subscription) | 01/14/2008
ViaTalk Inc. received a sudden influx of business when national competitor SunRocket shut down.
Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
All was not sunny and bright in the land of VoIP in 2007, with serious problems facing Vonage , SunRocket, and Skype among other VoIP carriers. The lessons learned in the just-past year will serve VoIP carriers and customers well as they move into the future. Much of the trouble involved relatively small VoIP carriers and their encounters with much larger firms. Vonage spent the year with the specter...
VoIP Monitor .net (Free subscription) | 01/05/2008
VoIP Provider ViaTalk has been removed from the Better Business Bureau for a high volume of complaints. Brendan Brader CEO of ViaTalk claims, "The expulsion was due to the influx of customers after SunRocket went belly up." From a post on dslreports forums Brader states, "We've been working with the Better Business bureau since the beginning of ViaTalk, but our membership was revoked recently due...
News On Women (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
NeuStar (NYSE: NSR) appointed Lisa Hook President and Chief Operating Officer. Lisa, a former AOL and Time Warner Executive, had previously been President at SunRocket. Read more about it in the prnewswire press release on yahoo.com.
broadbandreports.com (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
Lisa Hook, who (according to Sunrocket employees) played a major role in the VoIP company's 2007 implosion, has found new employment. Hook has been named president and chief operating officer of Neustar, a provider of clearinghouse and directory services to the telecom and Internet industry. From the company's press release : "Lisa is the ideal leader," said Jeff Ganek, chairman and chief executive...
The Washington Business Journal (Free subscription) | 01/02/2008
The former chief executive of SunRocket, the second-largest Internet phone startup that dissolved in July, has found a new home. (NSR)
Alec Saunders (Free subscription) | 12/31/2007
New Telephony's Kelly Teal writes: VoIP clearly has moved into the mainstream, but 2007 marked a year of high-profile stumbles that appear to signal the end of standalone IP telephony. The rest of the article talks about the stumbles of Vonage, SunRocket and Ebay / Skype, concluding with this quote from Infonetics Research analyst Stéphane Téral: Overall, [...]
VoIP Weblog (Free subscription) | 12/28/2007
Here are some highlights from Q3 2007: Sunrocket Flameout : My first post on The VoIP Weblog was about SunRocket and whether or not they were going to live . And, of course, they ended up in the dead pool . Even after their service got subsumed by TeleBlend, SunRocket's web site lives on even today ! Ooma : It's funny, I haven't heard anything about Ooma in a while. Good thing, else I'd say what I...
