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SunRocket Drops a Fourth of Its Staff

Kim Hart writes in The Washington Post:

SunRocket, an Internet-phone-service provider in Vienna, laid off about a quarter of its workforce -- about 30 employees -- on Friday in an effort to reduce expenses as its subscriber growth shows signs of tapering off.

The three-year-old start-up was one of the pioneers of Internet phone technology and quickly attracted customers with its inexpensive calling plans. With 206,000 customers, SunRocket is the second-largest stand-alone Internet-phone-service provider behind better-known Vonage. But SunRocket's growth has slowed in recent months as it battles giant cable companies.

As I've been saying for several years, if you don't own the infrastructure or the "last-mile", you will lose in the VoIP market end-game...

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 7/02/2007 11:42:00 PM