Vonage

Walks like a telco, talks like a telco… must be a telco.

September 26, 2007

Vonage's latest woes are written up by Om Malik in Vonage: How Low Can You Go.  More interesting than Om's reportage (Sprint wins case, Vonage ordered to pay damages, stock drops to $1.30) is the commentary afterward, in which one reader takes Om to task for the "gleeful" way in which he reports the demise [...]

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Time for a voice rEvolution.

September 17, 2007

Is Vonage's day finally done?  It certainly seems that it might be the case.  Over the weekend a good friend phoned me about his home office.  He does three or four hours of business calling per day, and wants to start doing more of it from home. He wanted to know what the best choice [...]

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VONAGE: We put SunRocket out of business

July 24, 2007

Vonage Communications and PR VP Karen Cleeve is probably kicking in-house flack Charlie Sahner under the table right now.  In yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle, Sahner was soundbited in the following gem: Sahner said SunRocket failed because it couldn't meet its customer's needs for better features and strong customer support. "We were the leader from the [...]

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Sunset for SunRocket?

July 16, 2007

The rumours have been flying for several weeks now, but it looks like SunRocket might finally be done.  Om Malik has posted a portion of the contents of an internal email from SunRocket stating that the service will go down at close of business today.  That's about 15 minutes from now.  It has customers justifiably [...]

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Court says VoIP companies must pay USF

June 4, 2007

Did anyone not expect that the USF would be imposed upon VoIP?  Vonage challenged the FCC 64.9% "safe harbor" estimate handed down last year, noting that traditional telcos pay just 11.7% of their long distance revenue into the USF. The FCC reasoned that VoIP was more like cellular service, which pays 37.1%.  Vonage disagreed.  As for [...]

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Vonage's crows come home to roost

April 27, 2007

Vonage's woes are weighing down the rest of the VoIP service provider industry, financially, says Om Malik.  The crows are coming home to roost, it seems.  It just isn't easy to build a competitive carrier, no matter what the technology.  The fact that these services are delivered over a residential internet connection can't erase that fact.  The shift [...]

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Stockpiling Warheads

April 19, 2007

We've now got the spectre of a good old fashioned patent fight on our hands as Andy "Scoop" Abramson publishes the details of a decade old 3COM patent that may read on the current Verizon / Vonage dispute. And that's why patents, kiddies, are so important to startups.  As Suzie Dingwall Williams recently wrote, the [...]

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Incremental business models vs. disruptive

April 16, 2007

The crows have come home to roost for Vonage.  The company has admitted that it has no workaround to navigate past Verizon's patents, and that such a workaround may not even be feasible.  Interim CEO Jeffrey Citron has declared that one of the first belt-tightening moves will be to axe former CEO Mike Snyder's dot-com [...]

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Vonage, down… but not out.

April 3, 2007

So Vonage has dodged the bullet. In what has to be a very bitter pill to swallow, they've cut a deal with VoIP Inc to provide network services.  VoIP Inc claims to own all of their own IP, providing Vonage with a way to step around the Verizon injunction. It begs the question, however.  How [...]

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Vonage must pay

March 8, 2007

A Virginia jury has just handed Vonage another setback, ruling that it violated several of Verizon's patents.  Vonage must $58 million in damages.  The ruling is somewhat controversial, in as much as some are questioning the validity of the patents.  It's a kick in the teeth for Vonage, already down for the count.

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