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Vonage I suspect Verizon is making a big deal about Vonage because:
(a) Vonage is
I suspect Verizon is making a big deal about Vonage because:
(a) Vonage is one of the leading players, with a large established customer base. Sets a really good precedent.
(b) Vonage has a large customer base, many of whom are made up of Verizon defectors.
(c) Vonage is in a somewhat shaky financial situation.
Assuming Verizon wins on appeal, I strongly suspect that Verizon *does* intend to go after other companies. Later. After they have their clear legal precedent. After they have leveraged their monopoly to either destroy Vonage or (what is probably their preference) acquire Vonage at a greatly reduced market cap.
After all, Verizon can easily offer a solution that preserves the 2+ million customers' 911 services - allow Verizon to buy Vonage outright in a sweetheart stock deal, as the only alternative to Vonage folding entirely. If Verizon's patents hold up, then all Verizon needs to do to satisfy regulators is come up with a plan to keep those customers with their 911 access - and continuous service under a new brand name would certainly fit THAT bill...
If the courts truly hold up the patent suit, which I doubt.. but if they do... the court have little choice but to let that deal happen. Vonage would have been found to be the "bad guy", and as the victim, Verizon could certainly ask for an alternative to a complete shutdown. Once Verizon offers the judge a way out - a way to punish an infringer without costing millions of people their 911 access - it'll be a done deal.
Then, when Verizon has an established Voip service with 2.2 million customers (the company formerly known as Vonage) they can turn around and leverage their patent to try and destroy their new direct competitors, and/or buy them out.
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(a) Vonage is" on 04/10/2007 |
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