{"id":5449,"date":"2007-04-25T11:53:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T11:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/vonage-free-to-compete.html"},"modified":"2007-04-25T11:53:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T11:53:49","slug":"vonage-free-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/science\/vonage-free-to-compete.html","title":{"rendered":"Vonage Free to Compete"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Vonage has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/usubmit\/2007\/04\/25\/2553514.htm\">launched<\/a> a grassroots campaign to ensure the company&rsquo;s customers realize Verizon is using the courts to cease innovation. The lynchpin of this activity is a tongue in check website which reads, &ldquo;Al Gore invented the Internet and now Verizon is trying to patent it.&rdquo;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Will customers care enough to write their politicians to ensure there are many choices when it comes to VoIP? Time will tell. In the mean time, check the company&rsquo;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freetocompete.com\/\">site<\/a> for details.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vonage has launched a grassroots campaign to ensure the company&rsquo;s customers realize Verizon is using the courts to cease innovation. The lynchpin of this activity is a tongue in check website which reads, &ldquo;Al Gore invented the Internet and now Verizon is trying to patent it.&rdquo; &nbsp; Will customers care enough to write their politicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,212,199,188,1673,116,156,189,203,118,190,191,205,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449"}],"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=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}