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Vonage Survives Patent Dispute, But Can it Run a Reliable Phone Service?

By | December 31, 2007, 11:51am PST

Vonage has settled another patent dispute this time with Nortel, Reuters is reporting.

The case involved a counter-claim filed by Nortel against Digital Packet Licensing, a company Vonage acquired two years later in 2006. The dispute centered on patents behind emergency and information call numbers in addition to click-to-call technology.

The settlement closes the final a piece of major litigation against Vonage following suits brought by AT&T, Verizon Communications and Sprint Nextel earlier in the year.

According to Reuters the settlement will involve a limited cross license to three Nortel and three Vonage patents and will not call for any monetary payments by any party. Claims over past damages will be dismissed without prejudice, Reuters reports Vonage as saying.

Vonage shares rose 14 cents to $2.14 on the NYSE, that 3 cents off its high of $2.17

As a long time Vonage user, I’m happy that the provider has settled its last score. Now maybe Vonage can get back to delivering a reliable phone service. Over the past few months my Vonage service has given me a dial tone, allowed me to dial a number, and then given me a fast busy signal forcing me to hang up. Meanwhile folk on the other end of the line pick up the phone, but hear squat. Is it just me or has anybody else out there had a similar problem?

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David Greenfield is the principal in STAnalytics. a global technology-marketing consultancy where he advises enterprises on emerging technologies. He primarily functions as the product marketing manager at Silver Peak Systems.

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Dave Greenfield

Much to the chagrin of his clients (and his wife), David Greenfield remains an independent thinker to a fault. Little wonder he's strongly considering an investment in the Trojan body armor. His firm, Strategic Technology Analytics (STAnalytics) provides independent content, insight and analysis to many companies. Current and past customers of his that may or may not be covered in the TeamThink blog include: Audiocodes, Infoblox, Objet Geometries, On-State Communications, Phone.com, Silver Peak Systems, Skype, and Spigit. He currently holds stock options in Silver Peak Systems.

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Dave Greenfield

David Greenfield is the principal in STAnalytics. a global technology-marketing consultancy where he advises enterprises on emerging technologies. He has spent the past 20 years analyzing virtually every area of networking technology. His work has appeared in leading technology publication such as PC Magazine, Network Computing, IT Architect, and Data Communications in the past 10 years focused on real-time social software. He has consulted to and assisted Fortune 500 enterprises in their technology acquisitions. He was the editor and a blogger Network Computing and today works as the product marketing manager at Silver Peak Systems.

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RE: Vonage Survives Patent Dispute, But Can it Run a Reliable Phone Service?
jwoj369@... 14th Apr 2008
after 1 year of reliable service, i can say thumbs up. good suppport reliable hardware.
but watch for changes to your service, it will caost a fee, and not always you'll be inform about.
good service, hardare, reliability, price.
you can even transfer your own number.
what's not to like
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Vonage - A dead man walking
doug@... 31st Dec 2007
http://www.magicjack.com/site/index.html

Switch now. The only hassle (to me) is it requires
Windows. I don't use Windows normally and I had to go
into the closet to test it on my home automation system
which is the last Windows box in the house (not for
much longer).

It does work under a Windows VM in VMWare Workstation
also.
after 1 year of reliable service, i can say thumbs up. good suppport reliable hardware.
but watch for changes to your service, it will caost a fee, and not always you'll be inform about.
good service, hardare, reliability, price.
you can even transfer your own number.
what's not to like
jack

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