[Hidden-tech] what happens if Vonage goes under?

Matthew Crocker matthew at crocker.com
Wed Apr 18 16:29:42 EDT 2007


> Does anyone have an idea what happens to phone service if the VOIP  
> provider Vonage goes bankrupt? Has anyone recently transferred  
> their Vonage number to another service? Was it easy? Any service  
> disruption during the transfer?
>

I start singing in my office?    I'm using my VoIP service at home  
over a 'standalone' CrockerDSL service.  I literally just ported my  
home phone number to my switch today.  Final stages of rolling the  
product out.  Technically everything runs great, just need to put  
some polish on the billing side of things.

One of two things will happen:

1). They win their appeal next week and things go on as normal until  
Verizon appeals the appeal.
2). The lose their appeal next week and Sprint buys them.

I see #1 happening until it ends up in a higher court.

I don't see a Judge telling Vonage to shut down overnight stranding  
2.2 Million people from making calls (E-911 and all).   Things don't  
look too good for them but I think their service will survive, just  
may be under a different name.

Hopefully in a month or so I'll be able to start putting residential  
customers on my VoIP service.  You'll need CrockerDSL, we supply the  
DSL Modem/ATA and wire it into your house phones.  We can port your  
home phone number.

Pricing is not set in stone but will be roughly $100 setup, $60/month  
+ tax, includes up to 3.0 mbps DSL service (3.0mbps) + usage ($0.0399/ 
minute for US, Canada, most of Europe).  All services (Voicemail,  
CallerID, 3-way calling, etc.. ) included.

  Currently you must have CrockerDSL service in order to get  
CrockerVOIP service.  In the future I'll open it up to Comcast/ 
Charter/VerizonOnline networks.

If Vonage were to go dark next week I'm sure we would be able to port  
all of the stranded 413 Vonage customers over to our switch,  I just  
won't get any sleep for a couple weeks.

Right now my switch can handle 10,000 phones, it can grow to 1 Million

CrockerVOIP is *only* available for 413 numbers right now.

As you may or may not know, Crocker Telecommunications, LLC is a  
registered CLEC in Massachusetts,  we have two switches in  
Springfield,  One interfaces directly with Verizon for local/LD  
calls,  one is our customer facing soft switch.   All voice traffic  
leaving our network is 100% TDM, direct to Verizon or VerizonBusiness  
(MCI).  Voice quality is excellent.  I've been running on VoIP in my  
office for over a year on this switch.  Everything is 'carrier-grade'  
with multiple layers of redundancy.

SUMMARY:  I'm not taking residential VoIP customers right now, I can  
if I have to so customers don't lose service (e.g. Vonage shuts  
down).  I am accepting Business VoIP customers (big and small) and  
can switch you from your current provider.

-Matt

> Thanks,
>
> Joseph Steig
> joseph at steig.com
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Matthew S. Crocker
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Crocker Communications, Inc.
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PO BOX 710
Greenfield, MA 01302-0710
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