{"id":5387,"date":"2007-04-13T05:28:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/vonage-ceo-shuffle.html"},"modified":"2007-04-13T05:28:06","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T05:28:06","slug":"vonage-ceo-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/sip\/vonage-ceo-shuffle.html","title":{"rendered":"Vonage CEO Shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">I know I have been writing about Vonage a great deal lately and I am not sure whether to apologize about this fact or not but it is worth pointing out that Vonage and Sprint may reach some sort of business arrangement as a result of their patent dispute <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pulver.com\/jarnold\/archives\/2007\/04\/vonage_speaks.html\">according to<\/a> one of my favorite Canadian telecom analysts Jon Arnold.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">In addition customer, according to Jon&#8217;s blog ARPU isn&rsquo;t expected to go up or down which Jon sees as bad news. Well at least it isn&rsquo;t expected to go down. There is still pricing pressure on the market and Vonage hasn&rsquo;t rolled out any must-have paid services lately. Hopefully they have some up their sleeve and can get that ARPU to steadily increase.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Garett Smith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithonvoip.com\/voip-news\/vonage-ceo-resigns\/\">has comments<\/a> on yesterday&#8217;s Vonage conference call as well &ndash; specifically &ndash; who would want this Vonage CEO job? Like I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/is-vonage-the-new-google.html\"><font color=\"#0000cc\">said<\/font><\/a> a bit earlier today &ndash; this company is becoming one of the most famous tech brands in the US. You should be able to leverage this to make a profitable company. The question is who can do this best. The answer hopefully for Vonage shareholders will be <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/vonage-to-focus-on-profit.html\">Jeffrey Citron<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I have been writing about Vonage a great deal lately and I am not sure whether to apologize about this fact or not but it is worth pointing out that Vonage and Sprint may reach some sort of business arrangement as a result of their patent dispute according to one of my favorite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,189,191,205],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387"}],"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=5387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}