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Vonage Loses Again

If Vonage has been having great luck in terms of mindshare and being top of mind as a pure-play VoIP provider, it has been equally unlucky in the patent wars as evidenced by the recent loss in the US Court...

Posted on November 16, 2007 9:54 AM

Vonage in Settlement Talks with AT&T

Here are the details on what is happening with Vonage and AT&T settlement talks. The New Jersey based internet telephony company may be able to put this whole messy situation behind them for a cool $39 million. It would seem...

Posted on November 8, 2007 9:39 AM

SPIT

Is this one of the first instances of SPIT or SPAM over Internet Telephony? It could be. According this post a call originating from telephone number 1111111111 went into voicemail which lasted exactly five minutes. Apparently the message was prerecorded...

Posted on October 30, 2007 8:06 AM

Communications Enabled Business Process

You may have heard the term Communications Enabled Business Process or CEBP. I always wonder where new acronyms come from so I did some digging. This particular term was developed by engineers who were bored by the current state of...

Posted on October 26, 2007 6:25 PM

Vonage, Verizon Settle

Today gave some great news for Vonage and its shareholders. Verizon and Vonage have settled the ongoing patent dispute for a maximum of $120 million. The company saw its stock close at $1.53 at the end of the day’s trading,...

Posted on October 25, 2007 6:13 PM

Ooma Dialog

I wrote a blog entry titled Ooma Hysteria a few months back. A point I made in the entry is that ooma calls can potentially be tapped by users. Others commenting in the blog agreed. The company’s Chief Technologist Jeff...

Posted on October 20, 2007 4:58 PM

AT&T Sues Vonage

Vonage can’t catch a break. There seem to be companies standing in line to take numbers to sue them. It must be a very difficult time at the New Jersey based Internet telephony leader. AT&T is the latest company to...

Posted on October 20, 2007 6:33 AM

Vonage Resellers Concerned

I just heard through the grapevine that a major retailer has told a VoIP provider that if there is any more bad Vonage news they will pull the Vonage boxes off shelves and replace them with another company. I haven’t...

Posted on October 9, 2007 4:53 PM

Motley Fool on Vonage

For a financial perspective on what is happening to Vonage and its stock take a look at this article from the Motley Fool. The Fool as the site is affectionately called, thinks the stock is priced to go the way...

Posted on September 27, 2007 7:59 AM

Packet8 Win

I have to admit, the press release (see bottom of page) I received this morning from Packet8/8x8 may be among the most unique I have ever received as it details how Packet8 is the service provider of choice for a...

Posted on September 26, 2007 9:05 AM

Vonage Loses to Sprint Nextel

These are mighty difficult times for Vonage as the incumbent providers have ganged up against them and have decided to compete on patents as opposed to technology. A federal jury has ruled that Vonage has to pay $69.5 million in...

Posted on September 25, 2007 5:31 PM

Vonage Does Better

Although Vonage is still not profitable it is doing better. In its latest quarter it reported a loss of $0.22. This compares to a loss of $1.16 per share last year. Vonage said it gained about 57,000 net subscriber lines,...

Posted on August 9, 2007 8:45 AM

IP communications Earnings Strong

Let’s give a round of applause to 8x8, the parent company of Packet8 VoIP service. They have just announced a profitable quarter. For the first time since the Company launched its Packet8 VoIP service in November 2002, 8x8 posted GAAP...

Posted on August 2, 2007 11:30 AM

SunRocket and Star Trek

If you like VoIP and Star Trek do I have a blog entry for you. TMCnet’s Tom Keating writes up (turn down your speakers) what is happening with the shut down of SunRocket. Somehow he gets numerous Star Trek references...

Posted on August 1, 2007 2:40 PM

VoIP News July 24, 2007

Recent news in the IP communications space has centered on SunRocket replacements from companies like Nuvio and OneSuite. At least in the case of OneSuite, I haven’t even heard of them and their PR/marketing is nonexistent… At least to me....

Posted on July 24, 2007 10:28 PM

SunRocket Switch to Packet8

Yesterday I blogged about the SunRocket bankruptcy and I mentioned how although pure-play VoIP is not easy, a company like 8x8/Packet8 is doing a good job. Today I came across an article on TMCnet discussing how Packet8 is the preferred...

Posted on July 18, 2007 11:03 PM

SunRocket Bankrupt

I am not really so surprised by the SunRocket bankruptcy news. The company was an innovator and had some great ideas early on but for the last few years they were extremely quiet. There was little press outreach and there...

Posted on July 17, 2007 9:57 AM

SimulScribe

The voicemail transcription market otherwise known as voicemail to text is showing no signs of slowing down. I have written about this space a few times (Voicemail Transcription, Vonage Voicemail Transcription, SpinVox) in the past and I think it has...

Posted on May 30, 2007 7:02 PM

Vonage Has Better Quarter

While the NJ based VoIP company had a better quarter than a year ago, they are still working on the “workaround” which will keep them from infringing on the Verizon patents.   "We believe we have workable designs for the...

Posted on May 10, 2007 12:27 PM

Vonage Free to Compete

Vonage has launched a grassroots campaign to ensure the company’s customers realize Verizon is using the courts to cease innovation. The lynchpin of this activity is a tongue in check website which reads, “Al Gore invented the Internet and...

Posted on April 25, 2007 11:53 AM

Vonage Saved Once Again

The nation’s leading pure-play VoIP telephone replacement service has received a new and perhaps temporary lease on life as the U.S. Court of Appeals extended the stay of an earlier decision allowing Vonage to continue signing up new customers.  ...

Posted on April 24, 2007 3:31 PM

Vonage Voicemail Transcription

At CTIA a few weeks back I heard Vonage will offer a voicemail transcribing service soon but I was sworn to secrecy. As you may know I have been writing about voicemail transcription a great deal lately. I thought I...

Posted on April 21, 2007 4:37 PM

Andy Abramson on Verizon Patents

I just came across Andy Abramson’s post on Verizon’s VoIP patents which discusses the fact that 3COM may be one of the companies sitting on a VoIP patent eerily similar and earlier than one of the Verizon patents being used...

Posted on April 20, 2007 11:15 AM

Bad Vonage News

Many of my readers have been contacting me regarding recent Vonage quality and customer service issues. Tom covered some of these problems yesterday. There are also reports of potential Vonage bankruptcy related to the Verizon patent issues in case you...

Posted on April 20, 2007 8:05 AM

More on The VoIP Patent Mess

A number of people in the telecom industry tell me they have looked at the Verizon patents being used against Vonage and they say they have been doing the things that are claimed in the patents before Verizon filed. My...

Posted on April 20, 2007 7:13 AM