Unless Vonage pursues bundled services, any Verizon settlement won't matter

Vonage says it has a workaround it will introduce in the next few weeks for two of the disputed "name translation" Verizon paents, and working on third, I think that all this buys them is time.

The first two workarounds are for technologies related to email retrieval, as well as a key point int he VoIP process that connects Internet-based calls to traditional phone networks.

These steps- as well as the patent infringement bar recently set higher by an unrelated U.S. Supreme Court decision- may convince an appeals court judge to overturn patent infringement judgements rendered against Vonage. 

If and when this happens- and I think it is more of a matter of when- Vonage will issue a cheery press release with executive level comments bordering on the ecstatic.

Still won't change the competitive landscape, though. Pure-play Vonage is being triple-play bundled to death. All that winning the Verizon battle will do will be to avoid shutdown by judicial fiat.

But what about eventual shutdown by financial fiat? Vonage still lost $72 million last quarter.