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A 2006 VoIP promotion couples service with commissions
A 2006 promotional article presented residential VoIP as a way to carry calls over a broadband connection, then devoted most of its attention to a customer-referral sales model.
The offer behind the explanation
The article said a buyer could become a marketing representative without charge, purchase services through that arrangement and receive commissions on personal and referred accounts. It named SunRocket as the best-selling plan and made claims about straightforward setup, included hardware and savings.
Those claims came from the promoter, not from a neutral comparison of providers. The useful distinction is between the underlying Internet-phone service and the commission structure used to market it; the text supplies neither an independent quality test nor a household-specific cost calculation.