Is The Collapse Of SunRocket Another Nail In Vonage's Coffin?
from the to-the-ground dept
The slow death of SunRocket (which has now been confirmed), has prompted a lot of discussion about how to move to a new service if you're a SunRocket customer. Obviously, any SunRocket customer is going to have a few inconvenient days as they try to make the switch to another VoIP operator, if they do so at all. Also, just as Vonage's woes made it harder for SunRocket to raise funds, SunRocket's collapse could end up hurting Vonage. If Vonage customers start to freak out that they could lose their phone service as well (a prospect made more likely by the ongoing litigation against the company), then they may preemptively flee, looking for a more stable service. The phenomenon, whereby doubts about some sellers end up hurting more reputable services, is what economists would call a market for lemons, and this would seem to be a classic example. Meanwhile, Vonage investors have fled the scene long ago, as Vonage shares languish at all-time lows.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Gramatical Error?
Don;t you mean Will the collapse or remove the "Be"
Just trying to be helpful because it sounds too weird.
But defenetly the collapse of SunRocket will do damage to small VOIP companies. May help some gain more customers but it's a warning
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Re: Gramatical Error?
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Dear Vonage, Charge Me More
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Re: Dear Vonage, Charge Me More
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Re: sunrocket customer
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to #3
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To #4 et al...
Grated, Skype is flexible but unless you get a Skype enabled phone (which most people don't have or even know what it is), Skype is going to be limited to techies who know what they are doing and are more interested in free than value.
If Vonage goes under, my local cable company is one of my only options to get VoIP the way Verizon offered me a land line - through a phone I can pay $5 for at Radio Shack.
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Of course I already have a backup plan in place to minimize any downtime for my fax machine but hopefully it stays a backup.
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and I got a question..
If it's dead why the heck aren't they disabling the sign up feature?
I doubt many people will sign up but they got no breaking news there to say anything. :(
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VOIP
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ARGH!!! Stop saying independant VOIP will fail!!!
Are you saying Vonage is going to fail because of Verizon's patent BS??? LOL. Pahleese! Read the press releases. Vonage has appealed and will not give up on this fight. Verizon is full of $hit and even if they "win" their stupid "you stole our patent" crap, Vonage is already working on ways to stay in business without "violating" any stupid patent laws. I've been a Vonage customer for 3+ years and they have never (and I mean *never*) let me down. They are more reliable than AT&T's overpriced landline service!
Who cares about the damn stocks. Just because a company isn't doing the best on the stock market doesn't ALWAYS mean they are headed for failure. The idiots who are pulling out their stocks are the losers, not Vonage.
Really sick of this "paid off media." TechDirt is starting to fall into this category. How much is Verizon paying you to keep peddling negative press towards independant VOIP providers?? I'd curious to know...
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Re: ARGH!!! Stop saying independant VOIP will fail
I do think it is sad another VoIP has bit the dust. It is such a wonderful technology and many businesses find VoIP services can save money. I think Vonage will be able to get through their legal troubles alright though. Hopefully it pays off for them in the long run because I would hate to give up my Vonage service. Although I can't give them rave reviews since I have had a few routers from them die on me, but the support people were very friendly and helpful.
Telephone companies need to find a better way to compete with VoIP and not just slap companies around with lawsuits.
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Failure of Sunrocket
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The only place Vonage is going is up
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HUGE opportunity for Vonage..
They should offer to honor any SunRocket Customer's time left on that they've already paid for, and port their number. Thing about it.. that's 200,000 free customers, overnight.
DreamHost did a similar thing when some other domain registrar lost their license.
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Viatalk is picking up Sunrockets Customers
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rip off artists technique
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SunRocket sent me far more offers than any other VOIP company, but I never even considered them; the only thing they looked good at was marketing.
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SUNROCKETS STOLEN MY MONEY
HASABELRASOL IBRHIM
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SR rubbed the balance money on each contract from
I was a SR customer, as I understand that SR played a bankruptcy game to the customer, it looks that they planned this game when they had a promotion for 199/yr plan, they rubbed the balance money on each contract from the customer, TeleBlend(TB) takes over everything from SR except contract, they just changed the company name from SR to TB.
Do you have any idea to handle this issue, it is not a small issue, it is a big,big,big, huge issue, it is related to 200,000 customers
We have to ask government to protect us to have it in fair, where is the government? where is the policeman? where is the lawyer? where is our congressman? did they know the issue or not?
Regards,
A SR Customer
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