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VoIP Services
The sun is indeed setting
As an update, about 3 p.m. this afternoon, SunRocket ceased taking any new customer accounts, either via the call center or online. The reason for this is clearly the company now realizes it’s "no longer a going concern" and continuing to sign-up customers with a 12-month service obligation (the majority of new sales) [...]
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CallWave – yes, no, I don’t know
Bunch of blogs have all gone crazy about new services which translates a voicemail message into a text message which is then sent to your mobile phone. I commented on SpinVox earlier, their great technology innovation is to actually have people listening to your voicemails and simply transcribing them. It sure works, but likely [...]
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Grandcentral – success or no success
Old new, Google acquired GrandCentral. Word out is that the acquisition was in the $50m range. Not bad considering they only took in $6m in funding. I had long said that GrandCentral was basically a bunch of features masquerading as a company. So good for Craig Walker and team. Could someone at Google remember to […]
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It seemed like a good idea at the time
SunRocket whacked about 25% of their workforce last week. The good news is, it was 0% of the people actually doing anything. I guess the board is starting to realize that the words, AOL, don’t necessarily spell success. Andy Abramson has a story on his blog, but it’s only part of the story. Looking at […]
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VoIP – can it stand alone?
Can simply offering VoIP stand alone services work as a stand alone product? The stats are starting to come in and the answer overwhelmingly is NO. SunRocket is a distant 2nd to Vonage in the consumer VoIP space. They recently announced they had hit the 200,00 subscriber level. What they didn’t say is they’ve spent […]
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Who’s buying residential VoIP?
With all the Vonage patent news, exactly who are Vonage’s customers and what will they do if service is interrupted (which isn’t a likely scenario IMHO). Broadband VoIP customers have tended to fall into 4 food groups, these are: techno-weenie, penny pinchers, political non-conformists and more interesting wireless [...]
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