  chakeyPremium
join:2004-06-14
Gladstone, NJ | End date Has anyone seen an end date for service? The email does not mention when service will cut off. | |
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join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2
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| Re: End date said by chakey:Has anyone seen an end date for service? The email does not mention when service will cut off. A good question. A few rumors were going around the SR forum that everything would go dead on Friday, due to stale config files for the gizmo's
I took the plunge, and signed up with TB (teleblend) and will be more than happy to let everyone know how it goes over in the old SR (maybe soon to be the new TB forum?)
Stay tuned...
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| | chakeyPremium
join:2004-06-14
Gladstone, NJ | Re: End date Good luck! I've gone the ViaTalk route.
BTW--I never received this email. Anyone else not get it yet? | |
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| | | |  CampMasterRather Be Camp'nPremium
join:2001-05-16
Trabuco Canyon, CA | Re: End date said by thatguy5245:I have yet to receive the email either me too, nothing yet.
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| | | | | Chakey, They never sent me a message either. I suppose they didn't have to since I found out anyway. I signed up with Vonage's monthly plan yesterday and need to make sure SR doesn't try to charge my CC again! I have to shell out some coin for a call blocking solution, otherwise, goin' with the big dog hoping the "ship stays afloat". | |
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| | | | | | | | Re: msg deleted Well, SR has just changed their "no gotchas" slogan to "we gotcha" as they walk to the bank with the proceeds from those that got short-changed on their annual plan, including me. However, you do have to give the 2 ex MCI founders credit for offering a feature rich VoIP at a reasonable price. I would certainly be dubious about the two providers (TeleBend and Packet8) appointed by the liquidators, thier either friends of the family or money talks. After browsing the alternatives I ended up with Lingo. Would have gone back to Vonage if they had a annual plan. Even so, Vonage is having it's finacial woes at present. | |
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join:2006-10-18
West Chester, PA | Re: End date I found my message in my spam folder. Check it. | |
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| | |  dmolaviPremium
join:2005-04-11
Sewell, NJ | said by chakey:Good luck! I've gone the ViaTalk route. BTW--I never received this email. Anyone else not get it yet? i didn't receive it either, but my boss, who signed up a year after i did, got it yesterday. maybe since i've already started a port to viatalk, their system just ignores me now...*shrug*
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join:2001-03-25
Saint Louis, MO | Yes chakey, I received it yesterday, 19Jul07. It was the exact message that is referenced earlier in an earlier post. | |
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| | | | said by gatorkram:said by chakey:Has anyone seen an end date for service? The email does not mention when service will cut off. A good question. A few rumors were going around the SR forum that everything would go dead on Friday, due to stale config files for the gizmo's I took the plunge, and signed up with TB (teleblend) and will be more than happy to let everyone know how it goes over in the old SR (maybe soon to be the new TB forum?) Stay tuned... Guys,
Whatever you do, don't sign up with Teleblend. They registered the domain on the 18th, the same day SR sent out the emails telling everyone to use Packet8 and Teleblend. Be aware!!!! This could be another shaft by a company that I loved when they worked so marveously, and now let me down. | |
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| | | | | Re: End date No kidding. Who's to say this teleblend isn't linked in some way to Lisa Hooker/Slut. Sounds like a scam/fraud. | |
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| | | | After signing up with Teleblend was your service back to normal or how long is it suppose to take before service is totally restored if you sign up with them? | |
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| | | gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Suddenlink
| Re: End date said by SunBurned :
After signing up with Teleblend was your service back to normal or how long is it suppose to take before service is totally restored if you sign up with them?
My service was really never completely gone. I can say a few things, TB has changed my CC, and the password that used to work to get into the router and "unlock" it no longer function.
I still don't have voicemail, but as far as the phone itself goes, it seems to be working just fine.
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| | | | gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 | Re: End date I posted this in another thread, but figured I might as well stick it here.
This is what came up on my CC, for Teleblend charges:
USA TELEPHONE KENNEBUNK ME
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|  Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
join:2002-03-03
USA
kudos:4 | Their web site STILL shows no change and no indication that anything is going on:
»www.sunrocket.com/
I guess the 1st ones fired were their webmasters. Either that or they outsourced their web site and when they stopped paying their bills, the outsourcer refused to make any more changes.
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| | | | Re: End date Webmasters were let go last Friday I believe. | |
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join:2004-06-14
Gladstone, NJ | I just got the email this morning. My voicemail is back and service is working fine. I wonder when it will stop? | |
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| | | Don't sign with this company, it is sunrocket. They filed a BK and 3 days after opened a new company called teleblend and is using the same equipment and phones. Isn't that peculier and a coincident! They don't want to pay back or give continuing service to annual customers.
They can go to hell! I would never sign under this company.
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| | | Went with VOIPVOIP.COM... I tried to get my GIZMO to work with other servies but VOIPVOIP was the easiest. Plus, I am bot to the POTS for my main commo. VOIPVOIP at no charge and .03 per minute (no incoming line) is a great compromise.
Otherwise, Packet8 would have been my choice and they apparently own their own infrastructure. Unlike former SR. | |
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| | | | Re: End date I checked the VoIPVoIP too, but I do not know how to re-configure my SR adapter. Let me know and I will join them too.
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| | ? Wow. Crazyness. How do you get the names wrong? People are going to go looking for the company and not find anything. | |
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2 edits | Re: ? They do get the name correct later on in the e-mail....
Readers also seem to be indicating that the SunRocket # now kicks to Teleblend, and their user data has found its way to Teleblend's sign-up servers.... | |
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join:1999-08-17
Manassas, VA | oh well, I took the Packet8 offer I cant stand to be w/o phone. | |
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| | Teleblend Teleblend seems to be taking credit for the people that still have service with SR. I signed up with Teleblend last night and my phone seems to be working better today. I can sign into my account on Teleblend, but I have know idea if I'm still on Sunrocket or Teleblend. I put it on credit card in case I need to dispute any charges. Hope it works | |
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| | | Re: Teleblend Hi
Did you have to pay anything for teleblend? because I prepaid 240$ for SunRocket last month and hardly used for 1 month. Thanks | |
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| | | | Re: Teleblend said by Indu :
Hi
Did you have to pay anything for teleblend? because I prepaid 240$ for SunRocket last month and hardly used for 1 month. Thanks
I didnt see anything about credit for Sunrocket. Probably as many recent users did, dispute it with the credit card company and also sign up for telebend to make use of the $13+ a month porting the telephone SR tel # | |
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| | Both companies are jokes Guys - If you haven’t already, take a look at Lingo (»www.lingo.com). This company is solid as a rock - backed by Primus, the 5th largest telecom in the world. Don’t switch to a provider who’s going to bite it like Sunrocket a few months down the road (ViaTalk, Packet8, etc.). They are all small, independent VoIP providers that have small customer counts and rely on venture capitalism (aka SunRocket). Lingo's parent company has $1.3 Billion - yes, that's with a 'B' - in annual revenue and over 2.4 million customers.
Special SunRocket to Lingo promotion at www.lingo.com/sunrocket.
Can’t beat it. Become a Lingohead!
www.myspace.com/lingophone | |
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| | | Re: Both companies are jokes P8 has been around for 20 years, never had a problem with them, the service is excellent. | |
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| | | nice TOS tho.
Lingo residential customer; i.e. usage exceeding 5000 minutes per month. | |
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| | | Photoguy, you have been pimping Lingo since the second you joined BBR. Why not just admit you're working for them. This deceptive viral marketing is downright repugnant behavior.
I certainly know to avoid Lingo now. | |
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| | | do you work for LINGO. please make it clear | |
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| | | "Lingo's parent company has $1.3 Billion - yes, that's with a 'B' - in annual revenue and over 2.4 million customers."
SO WHAT? DO you really think if their VIOP division doesn't turn a profit they are going to bail them out indefinitely? They can get shitcanned at any time too. | |
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join:2000-11-17
Ann Arbor, MI
kudos:2 | No email yet After 3PM and there is still no email from Sunrocket to me... | |
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| nklbPremium
join:2000-11-17
Ann Arbor, MI
kudos:2 | Re: No email yet Wouldn't you know it but later that evening the email did show up. Looks like it's ViaTalk for me.
(btw, anyone doing this switch, remember you can get coupon codes from »retailmenot.com)
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join:2005-02-03
Rego Park, NY | Didnt receive any notification! same here, no email. i just found out about this whole business!
My phone was going off and on for the past 2 days and now i cant make overboard calls either. But now it works for incoming calls from abroad and in US it works fine.
Pff, my contract was to expire on the 11th of August - i guessed i squeezed as much as i could from Sunrocket...
real shame cuz i had awesome deal with them and they were great.
Gonna have to look for new VoIP i guess... | |
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| gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Suddenlink
| Re: Didnt receive any notification! said by Ar_Pi:same here, no email. i just found out about this whole business! My phone was going off and on for the past 2 days and now i cant make overboard calls either. But now it works for incoming calls from abroad and in US it works fine. Pff, my contract was to expire on the 11th of August - i guessed i squeezed as much as i could from Sunrocket... real shame cuz i had awesome deal with them and they were great. Gonna have to look for new VoIP i guess... Everyone has to look at their situation, and decide what is best for them. If you head over to the sunrocket forum here, you will find plenty of information and links to help you with all of this.
Good luck to you all.
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join:2001-08-24
Boston, MA | ??? I can't help but wonder if VoIP isn't really ready for "primetime". You have SunRocket that just folds overnight and nobody steps in (Courts, FCC, etc.), ViaTalk with the same business model is SR, and Vonage who is about ready to take it up the ass from Verizon.
I'm starting to think that I may go back to Cable or POTS for the next year or two until all this unfolds. It may be more expensive, but at least they're stable. | |
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|  CylonRedPremium,MVM
join:2000-07-06
Bloom County | Re: ??? If I did VOIP right now - it would have to be with a MAJOR player - like Time Warner and not a independent company like Vonage et al.
Although - my preference is POTs and at least stable unlike VOIP companies operating at a loss to get customers then realizing they can't raise rates to begin making money or lose their customers to other companies offereing a lower cost.
Only other way I would go with an independent is if they are public and they are making money on the actual service - even if they would charge more.
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join:2000-09-29
Tucson, AZ | No email I also received no email... | |
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| gatorkramKaBOOM BabyPremium
join:2002-07-22
Winterville, NC
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Suddenlink
| Re: Is this email real? said by lzman:It is interesting that there is still no official announcement on SunRocket's website. I posted the email headers a long with the full email that I got.
I don't really know how in this situation, we can say for sure if it's real, or not, and I am not even sure we could all even agree on what being "real" or "legit" in this case, would even be or entail.
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| | Yes-I received my email last night 11:28 PM EST An ex-happy SR customer for over a year. No challenges until Monday this week. Signed up Tuesday with ViaTalk for the 6 months free but called them, waited 11/2 hrs and canceled this morning. Funny thing, the invoice was completed 5 minutes after my call. I have to give them kudos, they emailed me and said disregard the invoice statement since I canceled. Went with TeleBlends as #1540 customer. Why not at $12.95/mo for now. Also since they have access, records and most of all the equipment we all have as access, it is the best at this time. Lets try a few months and see. When they notify us of any rate increase, we can do what we always do - shop around!! Much Success to everyone and hats off to Voip! | |
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| | Ticket number 60 My ticket number is 60. I am customer 3071, I hope teleblend will give good service. | |
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spivver
join:2007-07-15
Manchester, NH | Teleblend = Sunrocket? Has anyone else noticed that you can't sign up for Teleblend UNLESS you have a Sunrocket number?
Even if you click the "Got Vonage?" link, it still asks for your Sunrocket number.
Their entire FAQ section is devoted to Sunrocket questions.
Is Teleblend a subset of what was left of Sunrocket? | |
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| | | Re: Teleblend = Sunrocket? Jeez, I guess we posted the same thing at the same time.
LL | |
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| | spivver
join:2007-07-15
Manchester, NH | Re: Teleblend = Sunrocket? OK now this is getting creepy. Stop it. | |
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| | | | | Re: Teleblend = Sunrocket? I agree with both of you. They're using the same images on their front pages, and it really seems like they're the same people. | |
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| | | Not the same people (they explains who they are on their TeleBlend/SunRocket website), but they are one of the two services that SunRocket recommends, and they seem to be the ones who got a claim on SunRocket's equipment and keep the service going. SunRocket's last email says: "...Teleblend has been working behind the scenes already to restore and continue service for all Sun Rocket customers."
The transfer to TeleBlend took me about a minute and was completely transparent and amazingly easy. The SunRocket gizmo, number, the SR account settings (voicemail, call forwarding, whatever) are all working as if SunRocket was still in charge. All I lost, apparently, is my second line, since I chose not to pay an extra $5 a month for it.
Actually the service has been improving lately. The problems we had a couple of weeks ago seem to have been resolved, and most importantly, the echo is gone. Go figure, maybe this one's going to be as good or better than SunRocket? Keeping my fingers crossed  | |
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| |  Teleblend... smelly
Their website seems to be solely dedicated to moving SR customers over to them. No info other than the $13/Mo. promo rate they'd charge. No info on international rates and no info on anything else at all.
It looks like this whole outfit was created for the purpose of pumping SR customers in: for example, to sign up the first thing asked is your SR phone number. So... you can't really create new service from scratch?
Looks like vulturing to me, and vultures can't soar too high.
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join:2007-07-15
Manchester, NH | Re: Teleblend... smelly I guess I figured it out 70 seconds before you did  | |
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| | google only has the recent news listed for teleblend.... google only has the recent news listed for teleblend....and nothing else. You google teleblend and you get 2 pages. My guess is that someone inside of sunrocket set this site up waiting for sr to fail.
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From whois the domain was registered yesterday!
Registrant:
Network Operations
520 E Zarragossa Street
Pensacola, Florida 32502
United States
Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (»www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: MYTELEBLEND.NET
Created on: 17-Jul-07 Notice the date!
Expires on: 18-Jul-09
Last Updated on: 17-Jul-07
Administrative Contact:
Operations, Network domreg@overgroup.com
520 E Zarragossa Street
Pensacola, Florida 32502
United States
(850) 470-5502
Technical Contact:
Operations, Network domreg@overgroup.com
520 E Zarragossa Street
Pensacola, Florida 32502
United States
(850) 470-5502
Domain servers in listed order:
NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited
Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited | |
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| Re: Beware Teleblend To its looks like its $12.95 for as long as you had your Sunrocket contract. What is it after that?
Why do i think Sunrocket just shutdown changed name to Teleblend to get out of the prepay deals. Or is it my imagination the terms of server pages look almost the same. What did they do just remove sunrocket and put teleblend in place. | |
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|  CyberRagePremium,MVM
join:2001-03-21
Jasper, AL
2 edits | Looks like teleblend.com was registered a couple of years ago. I have no idea what myteleblend.net is. I may have over looked it but I don't see that domain or company name mentioned anywhere except in your post. Do you get passed off to myteleblend from teleblend?
Added: Ah, I see, you are passed to myteleblend.net when you try to sign up. Probably teleblend.com set that up to capture SR's customers.
Registrant:
UnCommUm
5 Bragdon Lane
Kennebunk, Maine 04043
United States
Registered through: TLD Webs
Domain Name: TELEBLEND.COM
Created on: 14-Feb-05
Expires on: 31-Dec-09
Last Updated on: 18-Jul-07
Administrative Contact:
Fogg, Bill bfogg@usacsp.com
UnCommUn
5 Bragdon Lane
Kennebunk, Maine 04043
United States
2074679004 Fax --
Technical Contact:
, Dev hostmaster@prexar.com
Prexar, LLC
40 Summer Street
Bangor, Maine 04401
United States
2079744300 Fax -- 2079744378
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.PREXAR.COM
NS2.PREXAR.COM
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I went back to the whois and googled the Admin contact Bfoog
207-467-9004 Google it or click here :
»www.google.com/search?complete=1···G=Search
Seems that they no longer do biz in Ky or FLa, and Hmmmm (I belive the the admin contact is like the Record of Owner in some instances.
Administrative Contact:
Fogg, Bill bfogg@usacsp.com
UnCommUn
5 Bragdon Lane
Kennebunk, Maine 04043
United States
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If they are behind this I wouldn't put much faith in this new "Teleblend" company... I know from first hand experience that Prexar is a total POS company and I believe Prexar was absorbed by USA Telecom in 2003. | |
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| | | Re: Hook line and sinker said by Caddyroger:Teleblend = Sunrocket without the $3.00 credit for international calls, no free signature numbers, no give aways of free phones. Some says Lisa hooks wasn't to smart but it could be she pulled the wool over every ones eyes. No, when I signed up @ Telebend yday, it did say $3.00 credit for international calls. That being said, today I tried to check my status and both the website and the telephone are dead - says we are transferring to a representative and thensays your call cannot be transferred
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| | | | Re: Hook line and sinker If they start doing what Sunrocket, did give away there money they won't in business like Sunrocket is now. Sunrocket Charged $199.00 per customers but spent $200.00 in free gifts to each customer
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| | Has anyone else tried voip.com? I had two lines/accounts with at total of three numbers on Sunrocket. I've only been a SunRocket customer since January '07, but their service was intermittently flakey. Still, I thought I was saving money - now I gotta refute the credit card bill.
After reading ConsumerCompare.org on Tuesday, I signed up for voip.com. They offered a $50 rebate (they have since stopped the rebate offer) off their $199 annual plan and because it seemed like I could get the second line for only $9.95/month and the third (virtual) number for another $5/month.
Well, I voip.com immediately gave me an account number and they dinged my credit card right away. But they have my account in a funny state where I can't add the additional line nor the virtual number. I opened 4 service tickets on their web site (which is a nice feature of their web site), but all I got was a couple of canned emails. Their customer sales support was clueless - they had to refer me to technical support. I spoke to their technical support twice, and all they could say was "wait another day or so." After 1.5 days of trying to work with voip.com, I broke down today and I also signed up with Teleblend on their promise to keep some kind of service running.
I did read Teleblend's fine print - it says the $12.95 service is month-to-month. But they also say that they can change the terms simply by posting another agreement on their web site (see very end of the T's & C's) - some assurance!
Since I only signed up with voip.com for one number, I'll probably go ahead and see how their service works. | |
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join:2000-03-18
Indianapolis, IN | How is Packet 8 softtalk Not to replace sunrocket. Just to have on the road when I'm traveling. | |
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join:2004-02-20
Johnson City, TN
·Callcentric
| Re: How is Packet 8 softtalk I've used it several times. It worked perfectly for me. I've use FWD and Stanaphone softphones and by far, P8's was the most reliable and had the highest quality.
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