SunRocket was a U.S.-based VOIP provider established in early 2004 by Joyce Dorris and Paul Erickson, former MCI executives who were coworkers for over ten years. Dorris and Erickson departed the company in February 2007 along with roughly 30 other employees based at SunRocket’s corporate headquarters in Vienna, Virginia. SunRocket maintained primary offices in the United States and Canada. ==Company shutdown==On July 16, 2007, SunRocket ceased operations with no warning given to customers or employees. SunRocket's customer service line plays a recorded message stating that SunRocket is "no longer taking customer service or sales calls." Roger Pondel of Bell Industries, a spokesman for the Springfield, Missouri-based call center which provided services for SunRocket, stated that all 197 of its employees were terminated as of Monday, July 16, 2007. The official planned cut-off date for SunRocket service was August 5, 2007. However, it is presently unclear, if service to SunRocket customers has actually been terminated. Customers whose service was abruptly cut off found that they could forward calls from their SunRocket number to another number, such as a cell phone. However, many SunRocket clients . - Source: Wikipedia
