Sunrocket speechless

A meteoric rise and a meteoric exit! That's how I would sum up Sunrocket as a company..Out of blue, out of nowhere, it came out there to challenge Vonage and it's likes and ended up coming second in the VOIP with an impressive customer base and forced other VOIP providers to cut the cost of their plans...Impressive, marketing genius or just another foolhardy endeavour?

Yesterday came a loud thud and a sudden demise. SunRocket was no more...founders decided to pull the plug (or atleast that is what it seems)..no notifications to customers, no hints anywhere...almost like it died in a freak accident. Surprised, shocked and enlightened...maybe this is how corporate America is like!

SunRocket's website is still alive, but they no longer answer their helplines, their service works in spurts now. My wife had this clever idea of using up our remaining Sunrocket funds to make calls in India, but well for that our phone should work :). Anyways, competitors are poaching SunRocket's huge customer base..i have fallen prey to JoiPhone, another VOIP company (am still optimistic on VOIP)..As long as SunRocket was alive, their service was good. I just feel their exit could have been more graceful.