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- Did you ever REALLY think Vonage stock would go below $2 a share?
- Well, it has happened.Happened today.Remember in a universe long ago and far away (nearly 18 months ago) when Vonage stock kicked off their IPO at $17.50 and public sale at $17.00 a share?Since then, the backsliding has persisted. Investors have ignored all of those whistling-past-the-graveyard Vonage announcements about increasingly higher...
- Tags: Vonage, Predictions and Observations
- Blog posts 2007-08-01
- Comcast passes Vonage in digital voice subscriber rankings
- A report from the Yankee Group now shows that Vonage has recently lost its ranking as the Internet phone service with the most subscribers.Noted on PC Magazine's website this morning, the Yankee Group now says Comcast Digital Voice basic connection diagram at the top of this post reported 2.4 million...
- Tags: Vonage, Comcast
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- SunRocket had a "cheap product and couldn't compete," Vonage spokesperson boasts
- While expressing often-offered analyst opinions that SunRocket's failure shows the competitive odds stand-alone VoIP providers are up against, Ryan Kim's article today in the San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting quote from a Vonage spokesperson.Noting that Vonage picked up some 11,000 new subscribers in the two days (last Tuesday and...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-24
- SunRocket creditors announce two preferred providers: Vonage takes big hit
- As has been rumored ever since SunRocket went belly up Monday, their creditors have signed deals with former SR competitors 8x8 and Unified Communications Corp. to be "preferred service providers" for SR's 200,000 orphaned customers.The deal has to be good for 8x8, and its Packet 8 service. Normal start up...
- Tags: Vonage, Predictions and Observations, Packet 8, News
- Blog posts 2007-07-19
- Vonage to SunRocket orphans: we'll give you two free months
- Vonage says it is offering a way for SunRocket customers to transition their phone number over to Vonage, and also receive the added benefit of two months free service.The benefit kicks in with a signup for the U.S. Residential Premium Unlimited Plan.Vonage reinforces that "qualified" phone numbers- including those once...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Ex-Vonage employee claims religious discrimination in firing
- Vonage is being sued by a former employee of Orthodox Jewish faith that the company declined to give him time off to observe several religious holidays as well as the Friday evening/Saturday Sabbath.The suit, which was filed in federal court on June 26, holds that Holmdel, N.J.-based Vonage fird...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
- Hey guess what: trying to cancel Vonage service is a pain in the..
- DSL Reports has a post today that further reinforces the difficulty of trying to cancel your Vonage account.The post comes as a result of a consumer complaint about the cumbersome Vonage cancellation process. The complaint was received by Karl at DSL Reports.Here is the cancellation complaint:"The last time I called...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- Vonage-Verizon patent infringement hearing today: but no decision yet
- Colleague Anne Broache reports that a federal appeals court weighing the patent case that Verizon filed against Vonage heard arguments earlier today but did not immediately reach a decision.Anne thinks that one hint about what the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit may be thinking...
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, Regulatory, News
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- Vonage's $3.99 a month offer to defectors would be huge sign of desperation
- Andy notes our fellow blogger Tom Keating's report that Vonage seems to be preparing a deal for defecting customers that would only charge them $3.99 a month to stick around for the following 12 months.When or if Vonage announces such a deal, they will portray it as a golden...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-06-25
- My hunch: Vonage's silence could mean looming private equity deal. And then....
- Fellow blogger Andy Abramson notes that Vonage- they of the new press release every day- has been awful quiet on that front for at least the last two weeks.Andy thinks, as do I, that this could mean something big is up. After all, why put out flotsam that some...
- Tags: Vonage, SprintNextel
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Analysts: pure play VoIP companies have "no future"
- If you thought that the prospects for Vonage and other "pure play," non-bundled VoIP services were bleak, just wait until you read analysts comments contained in a newly published piece by Kelly Teal on xchange magazine's xchange online site.First, Kelly makes the point that margins for voice services have been...
- Tags: Predictions and Observations, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-05-31
- Vonage inks deal with major tech wholesaler
- Vonage and independent retailer consumer electronics distributor DBL Distributing have inked a pact that will enable all of Vonage's enabled devices to be sold at DBL's more than 32,000 retail account locations throughout the U.S.TWICE This Week In Consumer Electronics reports that beginning immediately, wholesaler DBL will market the...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-05-30
- Verizon to court: why is Vonage objecting to our Patents NOW?
- InternetNews reports that on Thursday, Verizon urged a federal appeals court to reject Vonage's contention that a recent Supreme Court decision on obviousness justifies the reversal of a $58 million infringement judgment against the Internet telephony company. Verizon had written in its appeal that the April 30...
- Tags: News, Verizon, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-05-24
- Vonage won't get new trial, but will be able to use new SCOTUS ruling in appeal
- A U.S. appeals court has just denied Vonages request for a retrial in the patent infringement case brought against it by Verizon.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in a ruling dated Wednesday, turned down a motion by Vonage to have an infringement verdict by a lower court...
- Tags: Vonage, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Vonage: we want a do-over in Verizon patent infringement trial
- Vonage has asked the U.S. Appeals Court for the Federal Circuit to shelve its Verizon patent infringement judgement and send the case back to a lower court for retrial.The impetus: a unanimous opinion released by the Supreme Court on Monday, seen by some as a rework of Patent infringement law....
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, patents, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Verizon vs. Vonage: Is WSJ ad department taking sides?
- Paul Kapustka at GigaOm has unearthed some information that appears to paint the picture that The Wall Street Journals ad department is either quite sympathetic to, or quite afraid of, Verizons reaction to Vonages ads for Vonages FreeToCompete.com website.Last night, Paul wrote:When we looked at the back page of Friday’s...
- Tags: Vonage, Verizon, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-28
- Vonage Text: cool but non-impacting
- Im trying to wrap my head around Vonage Text.This is a new service from Vonage.The catch: your Vonage voice mails get automatically translated to text, so you can read them right from your email. You can scan new messages to read the urgent ones first, as well as do...
- Tags: Vonage, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-26
- Vonage: when we battle Verizon, we're fighting "The Man"
- Well, if Vonage cant totally convince regulators, legislators, and judges of the righteousness of its cause, then Vonage can always try impressing us.The people, man. Thatd be all Americans of voting age that dont happen to be regulators, legislators or judges.Thats the only reason I can think of for...
- Tags: Vonage, General, Verizon
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Hey Vonage, it's a STAY, not a WIN
- In the somewhat self-delusional world that some Vonage execs, analysts and users seem to inhabit, yesterdays stay of an order allowing Vonage to keep signing up new customers until the patent infringement issues with Verizon are settled amounts to a win.I have a hard time viewing this attitude as reality....
- Tags: Vonage, Regulatory, General, Comcast
- Blog posts 2007-04-25
- Vonage wins: for now
- Vonage won a request to continue business as usual and to still be able to sign up new customers while it appeals the Verizon patent infringement case. while it appeals the case. The appeal wil lbe heard on June 25. court extended its earlier stay of the trial...
- Tags: General, News, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
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