August 2007

Kevin E Anderson, Founder of Cognigen Networks, 1951-2007

The VoIP provider suffers crippling network outage, then blames problems on underlying carrier Global Crossing. It turns out that GC had nothing to do with the outage, and Teleblend is forced to issue an apology. 

While doing research for another article, we came across a few new ways to make free local and long distance calls that you might find interesting.

ATEL Communications, Inc., a San Diego, California based telecom master agency announced today that their August special for agents to pass to their California customers is a $319/month full Internet T-1 with a $0 install that pays 20% commission.

Comcast customers in many parts of the country may find that the company is charging them for the "privilege" of taking their money.

SunRocket VoIP customers have dialtone once again, but only for a few more days. The carrier is giving customers until August 5th to port their numbers to another carrier.

 SunRocket's website posted the following bulletin for its customers on Monday:

  - ALL SERVICES TO BE DISCONTINUED NO LATER THAN AUGUST 5, 2007 -

 As previously reported, SunRocket is in the process of discontinuing its operations and SunRocket will no longer be able to provide its customers with the phone service.