In case you haven’t heard, there was a shake-up in the VOIP market. We got bit by the Sunrocket closure, but so far our service is still working…for the most part. Voicemail is down, but we can still make and receive phone calls.
We’ve had VOIP for over a year and a half now, and I really had no complaints up until this happened. Previously we’ve had both Verizon and Cox, and I was really tired of paying a large percentage of my bill in taxes and fees. It just didn’t seem as if we were receiving much bang for our buck. So we decided to try VOIP.
Vonage had a pretty decent offer at the time so we had them for a year which was fine, but then I saw the “unlimited calls for two years” package offer from Sunrocket for $199. Seemed like a no-brainer to me so I signed up last December.
And now the company no longer exists. So that’s seven months of service (so far) which comes out to ~$28.00 a month, assuming the service stops working this month. That’s still not bad considering what we used to pay with Verizon and Cox, but certainly not the savings I had anticipated.
I had thought about switching to another VOIP-only company such as via:talk, but now I’m not sure a company can make it on VOIP alone. Plus, I really don’t reel like dropping another $199 so soon after getting burned by Sunrocket.
So we’ve decided to wait it out to see if Sunrocket will get bought by another company. If so, great; if not, we’ll probably just stick with our cell phones. It’s not as if we need a landline for our home anyway. We might even go with something like this.