{"id":5361,"date":"2007-04-07T13:14:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/quoted-in-chicago-tribune.html"},"modified":"2007-04-07T13:14:04","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T13:14:04","slug":"quoted-in-chicago-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/quoted-in-chicago-tribune.html","title":{"rendered":"Quoted in Chicago Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I was quoted in today&rsquo;s edition of the Chicago Tribune regarding the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/ip-communications\/verizon-vs-vonage.html\">Verizon Vs. Vonage<\/a> case. The article by Jon Van is well written and explains the situation well. When I spoke with Jon, the court <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/vonage-left-for-dead.html\">ordered<\/a> Vonage to stop accepting new customers. After this interview however the company won a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/vonage-spared-for-now.html\">temporary stay<\/a> of the federal judge&rsquo;s ruling.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This is the article where I was quoted:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/technology\/chi-0704060474apr07,1,7169642.story?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed&amp;ctrack=1&amp;cset=true\">Vonage decision on hold. Net phone firm mulls next step<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Here is my quote:<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&quot;What this shows is that Vonage has gotten big enough to be a threat,&quot; said Rich Tehrani, editor in chief of Technology Marketing Corp., which publishes Internet Telephony.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&quot;That&#8217;s what Verizon is showing us. This is one way to compete, through patent litigation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The hidden challenge to Verizon is that by crippling Vonage, they may strengthen the cable companies, which are doing more damage to the phone companies with VoIP than Vonage is. What Verizon might be doing is cutting off its nose to spite its face.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was quoted in today&rsquo;s edition of the Chicago Tribune regarding the Verizon Vs. Vonage case. The article by Jon Van is well written and explains the situation well. When I spoke with Jon, the court ordered Vonage to stop accepting new customers. After this interview however the company won a temporary stay of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}