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Vonage A takeover simply is not going to happen. Here are 5 reasons why:
1. Cost Right
A takeover simply is not going to happen. Here are 5 reasons why:
1. Cost Right now Vonage is trading at about $1000 per customer. Cable Co's can get those customers at a much cheaper price themselves, especially since they can run commercials on cable for free, are allowed to telemarket to their own customers (exception to the do not call list), and can run inserts in the bills they send out.
Tivo is a great example of this principle. Everyone bought that money-burning loser thinking that a Cable Co would buy it out. It never happened. They just set up their own versions of Tivo.
Tivo stock dropped 85%. A great warning to you longs: this was another company that captured the imagination of many consumers and was the first player to the market. And they got squashed like a bug by the Cable Companies.
2. Branding Customer service nightmares and the heavy news coverage of the botched IPO, the worst in at least three years, is not something these companies want to be associated with. They want to increase the value of their own brand, not buy someone else's damaged goods.
3. Location Cable Cos do not want customers outside of their territories. It increases their costs dramatically, and people expect Cable Cos to send someone out in person when something goes wrong. If Comcast currently has no customers in Iowa, why on earth would they want Vonage's (unprofitable) operation in that state?
4. Litigation You buy Vonage, you get all 15+ lawsuits that come with it.
Furthermore, any company already in the phone business would expose itself to antitrust actions by private parties and/or the federal government and/or state attorney generals.
5. Anti-takeover provisions in Vonage private placements Vonage disclosed in its prospectus, without going into any detail, that provisions of its pre-IPO private placements make a takeover unlikely.
Read The Full Thread: Vonage buyout: ain''t gonna happen
• Cost
TiVo is probably not the best example to use here, no TiVo wasn't bought
• On cost per customer, we actually don't know, because in a rather stunning lack
• They're are so many inaccuracies in what Big Time states that I'm not even going
• No offense, but this posts shows a massive level of ignorance. Skype was bought
• Vonage's pricing was similar to Skype with respect to revenues.
You seem
• Skype has a huge customer base that is only beginning to be tapped. Vonage has a
• Time Warner is giving away AOL services to anybody that has broadband.
Interesting
• How does Vonage have "broadband customers?" Because they sell a service to such
• All of Vonage's customers have broadband. They have also trusted Vonage with
BigTime posted "A takeover simply is not going to happen. Here are 5 reasons why:
1. Cost Right" on 06/23/2006 |
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