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Vonage Sprint Nextel sues Vonage over VOIP patents
Tue Oct 4, 2005 05:12 PM ET
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Sprint Nextel sues Vonage over VOIP patents
Tue Oct 4, 2005 05:12 PM ET
By Justin Hyde
WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel Corp. said on Tuesday that a subsidiary had filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Vonage Holdings Corp. and another Internet-based calling service.
Sprint Nextel, the third-largest U.S. wireless company, claimed Vonage and Voiceglo Holdings Inc., a unit of theglobe.com Inc. had infringed on seven patents relating to voice over data packet technology developed by Sprint.
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, seeks injunctions against Vonage and Voiceglo as well as unspecified damages.
Vonage, the largest U.S. independent Internet-based telephone service, passed 1 million subscriptions last month and is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering. Voiceglo offers a software-based system that allows voice calls between computers and to regular telephones, similar to Skype.
Vonage, Voiceglo and many other companies offer services using voice over Internet Protocol (VOIP) technology, which transmits phone calls in the same way Web pages and e-mail are sent over the Internet.
"While Sprint prefers to resolves disputes amicably, Sprint will take all necessary steps to protect the creativity and innovation of its employees," the company said in a statement.
Vonage spokeswoman Brooke Schulz said the company had not seen the lawsuit and could not immediately comment.
Voiceglo President Ed Cespedes said he had not seen the lawsuit, and he didn't know why his company or Vonage would be singled out by Sprint Nextel.
"I suppose Sprint's position is they must own VOIP and therefore anyone providing it must be violating their patent," he said.
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• Uh, are they trying to say the Sprint invented SIP? I have read three articles on
• Now that is funny. I shouldn't say this, but Sprint was my local provider in my previous
• Sprint can go fart peas at the moon.
• Sounds like Sprint is afraid of competition. So they are trying to put the companies
• I live in an area served by Sprint local telephone service. Their VoIP service
• I also have Sprint for a land line at one of my residences as well as for land-line
• I wondered over to the Sprint website just to see their side of the story. (The site
• That was no rumor about Sprint shedding the local telco business. It is a fact.
• I wonder if this is one of the patents
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Akola posted "Sprint Nextel sues Vonage over VOIP patents
Tue Oct 4, 2005 05:12 PM ET
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