Vonage’s track record with issues involving courts and lawsuits hasn’t been the greatest. They’ve lost or settled a number of patent disputes in the past 18 months. Now they can put one in the win column. A U.S. District Court…
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Vonage Not Out of the Woods Yet
Vonage reported fourth quarter 2007 results, and had somewhat positive news, but with one big looming issue. They posted gains in subscribers and revenues, and had a substantially lower loss of $11 million dollars, compared with $117 million from the…
Maybe Vonage Demise Predictions Were Premature
It seemed real safe to pile on Vonage the past few months. With the parade of patent lawsuits and the black eye of VoIP service disruptions, many analysts (myself included) weren’t giving them much of a shot to survive. With…
Skype Shakeup Adds to Stand Alone VoIP Uncertainty
Recent news out of eBay is that skype hasn’t turned out to be the goldmine that they hoped. Skype co-founder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom stepped down as CEO and eBay wrote off $1.4 billion of the original $2.6 billion Skype…
Barbarians at the Gate, Awaiting Vonage Demise
If there were odds in Vegas for Vonage’s long term survival, they wouldn’t be looking good right now. Just after losing a patent infringement case to Sprint to the tune of $67 million (plus a 5% royalty of future profits),…
Is VoIP Damaged Goods?
Seems like VoIP can’t catch a break this summer. It started with Vonage’s patent troubles earlier this year and got worse with the bankruptcy of SunRocket. Most recently Skype suffered a widely publicized outage. Are these just growing pains for…
Comcast Overtakes Vonage
The Yankee Group released a research report on VoIP which crowns the cable industry as the driver of VoIP adoption among consumers. Notable findings include Comcast surpassing Vonage during the first quarter of 2007 as the leading provider of consumer…
VoIP.com Opens Retail Store
VoIP.com, a Florida based pure play VoIP provider,
SunRocket Flameout – Who’s Next?
The news of SunRocket’s demise is official. They have ceased serving customers. We reported about their problems back on July 2nd. Like sharks circling a wounded fish, Vonage and other are courting SunRocket subscribers – see Vonage ad image to…
SunRocket Flaming Out?
A couple of influential bloggers, Om Malik and Andy Abramson, reported over the weekend about potential problems at SunRocket. While these are just rumors at this point, several commenters have added fuel to the fire. Apparently there have been numerous…
No Love for Pure Play VoIP
Pure play VoIP providers like Vonage are getting no love from many industry analysts. Many question whether pure play VoIP service providers can survive in a telco and cable dominated world of triple play bundles. Vonage is of course the…
Vonage on Life Support?
It’s one thing to lose a patent infringement case, quite another to be given two weeks to stop using the technology behind the patents. Oh by the way, the technology in question is fundamental to Vonage staying in business –…
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