Internet Phone Start-up Goes Belly-Up

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday July 17, 2007 @01:00AM from the fewer-packets-on-the-grid dept.

westlake writes "The New York Times has a short piece on the failure of SunRocket, the second-largest internet phone service after Vonage, with 200,000 customers. Start-ups like SunRocket are under enormous pressure from the telcos and cable, which have marketing muscle and can bundle VoIP with Internet, TV, home security services, and so on. The start-up has only one product, and since they don't own the lines, they can't control the quality of service. Attracting subscribers can put a start-up deep into the red. Vonage added 166,000 subscribers in the first quarter of 2007, but lost $77 million."

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Re:Marketing Failure? by mgblst · 2007-07-17 06:03 · Score: 0, Troll

Well, we here at Slashdot apologise, and we will ensure that you are kept updated in the future to anything that might be part of your job. Obviously we can't really rely on you to do it yourself.

Seriously, what sort of shit is this. Are you so retarded, that the fact that you haven't heard of something is a good argument anymore, or are you still less than 11 years old??