SunRocket VOIP, a supposedly leader in US VOIP market, one of the strong competitor to Vonage has official shut down. This is breaking news for customers of Sunrocket. They are now officially named as “Sunrocket Orphans” and now I can predict competitor companies will be literally rambling to get the sun rocket customers on their board.
If you are a current sunrocket customer, there is no choice but to switch to new one. However the biggest issue is about loosing your sunrocket phone number which you shared with your friends, family and almost the world. How will they know your new number?
Interestingly Vonage is the first company trying to capitalize on this situation and offering SunRocket customers to transition their phone number over to Vonage, and also receive the added benefit of two months free service. Wooho! Way to go, but wait are you sure you want to go to Vonage? Another VOIP company which is already in trouble over multiple legal issues? I won’t be surprised if Vonage would be out of business overnight.
That leaves us with few choices; however some of the new VOIP phone companies are offering some good deals and seems more reliable. Sometimes smaller companies tend to do better than bigger VOIP firms.
Lets quickly look at which other Sunrocket alternatve VOIP providers can offer value.
1) Lingo: We recently reviewed their offering under Lingo VOIP Review. Basically, Lingo is now catching up with their competitors and providing excellent VOIP services at competitive prices. For $21.95 they give almost all featured with unlimited calling to over 22 countries including USA and Canada. Its must a check out.
2) PhonePower: The fairly new entrants in the VOIP provider space, however they offer stellar services at great prices. For $9.95 they are offering Voice Mail, Call-Waiting, Caller-ID Fax to email, any area code, E911 and much more.
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I will review some more alternatives to VOIP in coming days.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
SunRocket out of Business
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6 comments:
God, from last night i have been trying to call home, and this morning got to know that # is not working called sunrocket several times. but their customer service on phone or email, not answering. yes 199/yr was a good deal but what abt people like us who were getting 199 for 2 years??? unlimited usa canada and $3.00 international credit. I am dead meat. help me decide what to do?
umm tell me something about vonics??
dia, am talking to some guys in US to get me the real news. The funny part is you can still signup for their services but apparently the CEO has resgined last week and she was packing her bags yesterday in office. This was the last update i got from a former sunrocket employee lol. "Evil Grin" :D
will chase up with some other informers late night to get the real story of this issue. I also heard rumours that a company named pluto has bought sunrocket, still unconfirmed.
it seems vonage will take some action soon. This is going to be massive, 200K customers loosing accounts overnight thats sux.
I just tried to call ViaTalk to switch from SunRocket to ViaTalk and found that I am 102 customer on hold and order must be placed using web.
Asha
i read some where that packet 8 will be taking over
Ok i signed up with vonics, total was 235 with taxes etc. for 15 months, after that we can renew our contract at same rate or may be cheaper, Read some very nice reviews about vonics+ its giving 100 international minutes, so what else u want. Anyhow the problem now is to unlock the sunrocket gizmo and use it. as the vonics gizmo will come after around 5 to 10 days. Now if anyone can help me with user name and password to unlock gizmo. I found 3 "master"passwords but arent working for me, any comments???
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