8×8 announced today that they cut an exclusive deal with a broadband phone service provider that is going out of business. Unlike the big screw-up with SunRocket, the-as-yet-unnamed-company (Tayuc) is going to phase their service and customers out slowly, while they are [hopefully] being ported over to Packet8. This is a nice touch, considering the fiasco that was caused when SunRocket just shut their doors and walked away without telling anyone what was going on.

The exclusive deal being offered to Tayuc’s customer’s will included special monthly pricing, a free month of service and a free Uniden router/phone combination. Of course, if you go to their website now, and follow the directions, you can already get most of that special Packet8 deal right now, including the free Uniden router phone and the free month of VoIP service.

If you followed the Teleblend/Packet8 wrestling match, which involved 200,000+ old SunRocket customers, you know that after SunRocket closed it’s doors it cut a deal with Packet8 and Teleblend to pay SunRocket a fee for any of SunRocket’s old customers that converted to either Packet 8 or Teleblend. Read the 4th paragraph of the Packet8 press release where they mention that SunRocket chose them to continue VoIP service to SunRocket’s more than 200,000 customer. It’s just worth a little chuckle that they fail to mention that they were “One of Two Companies” chosen to handle the transition. I guess it’s just human nature to try to make yourself look better than you are. LOL

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If you are (or should I say “were”) a SunRocket broadband subscriber, you are probably scrambling to find a new local and/or long distance company to port your old SunRocket telephone number to. If not, you should get on it since they went out of business today, their customer service center closed and all of their employees no longer have a job. What this means to you is that you no longer have a phone company.

From what I’ve been reading, they had over 200,000 customers, so there will probably be quite a rush for new service. So, if you need a new carrier, and you don’t know where to go, click on the All VoIP Phone Companies at the top of the page and find someone to get your phone service back online. I would go with Packet8, since they have been around the longest and are the most stable of all the internet phone companies.

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