Verizon Patent Lawsuit

Posts: 176 · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:49 pm Post subject:

navydavy2001 wrote:

Storm_Law wrote:

If they were in the 9th Circuit they would have a better chance of winning!

The case is out of DC I believe.

I think it's actually Alexandria, VA. (DC burbs, but VA)

Verizon has their HQ there, don't they?

Posts: 113 · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:34 am Post subject:

I have no clue.

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 26, 2007 Posts: 4

Verizon looks like a shaddy company, even on their homepage, you get redirected to all kinds of portals for security reasons ?!!?!

I just hope they won's win, although...

Posts: 153 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Jan 11, 2007 Posts: 153

The case is Verizon Services Corp v Vonage Holdings, 06-cv-682, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The court has four divisions: Alexandria, Newport News, Norfolk, and Richmond. http://www.vaed.uscourts.gov/ This case was heard in Alexandria.

The case lists the plaintiffs as Verizon Services Corp with principal offices in Arlington, VA and Verizon Laboratories with principal offices in Waltham, MA. That's the former GTE Automatic Electric Laboratories; I once interviewed for a job at that location programming their electronic switch way back in 1975.

Verizon justifies its choice of location based on the location of its HQ, the fact that Vonage has customers and does business in the Eastern District of Virginia (and the claim that Vonage has infringed on the patents within the Court's jurisdictional area), and the current work and residence location of at least one of the inventors.

Appeal from this District is to the 4th Circuit Court of appeals in Richmond, VA. http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/

Posts: 20 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Jun 30, 2005 Posts: 20

Storm_Law wrote:

Frankly at this point all I care about is keeping my phone number, service, and at the same price. We will see what is going to happen.

I agree in that Vonage offers things that I can't get any place else. I didn't move to Vonage lightly, as I read all of the reviews and saw all of the people having problems with connections. Overall, I've never lost a call and people who I talk to can't tell if I'm on a land line or a Voip line.

If Vonage goes, I don't know what I'll do. It will not be replaced by a land line or other Voip service. I'll switch to my cell, which is Verison, which I really like.

Posts: 172 · Vonage Forum Master Joined: Apr 19, 2006 Posts: 172

Vonage says they will continue their service and there won't be any disruption on the service (as long as you have your broadband internet of course) nor would they change the rates. As long as the price and the service would not change I see no problem at all. Smile

Posts: 10 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Nov 19, 2005 Posts: 10

Serra wrote:

Overall, I've never lost a call and people who I talk to can't tell if I'm on a land line or a Voip line.

I think their service all depends on your isp

Posts: 4 · New Forum Member Joined: Mar 26, 2007 Posts: 4

That is so un-true.
It depends partly on your ISP.
Then it depends on their ISP too. And this is already their problem. The customer doesn't have to suffer because they made a poor choice ISP-wise.
And let's not forget that systems crush, servers have functioning failures, etc etc...this being their problem too.
So, don't try to blame this all on the customers ISP!

Posts: 163 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:50 pm Post subject: Re: at this point............

Lucky8 wrote:

Serra wrote:

Overall, I've never lost a call and people who I talk to can't tell if I'm on a land line or a Voip line.

I think their service all depends on your isp

Absolutely.

And your network.

And your router.

And your Vonage settings.

And your bandwidth.

And...

Posts: 233 · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:09 am Post subject:

Quote:

That is so un-true.
It depends partly on your ISP.
Then it depends on their ISP too. And this is already their problem. The customer doesn't have to suffer because they made a poor choice ISP-wise.
And let's not forget that systems crush, servers have functioning failures, etc etc...this being their problem too.
So, don't try to blame this all on the customers ISP!

Well I've had Vonage for quite some time now. I never had any problems until recently. My ISP keeps having their router blink. How do I know it is not Vonage? (1) Everything in the house drops the connection; (2) I never lose any lights on my cable modem; (3) all I do is reboot my cable modem (which belongs to the ISP) and everything works. Funny thing, the Vonage service is first to come online after a reboot. Maybe I'm just lucky.

As for Verizon I have one response, "Pound salt." Of all the POTS companies I've had, Verizon and Sprint tie for last place. I've moved a LOT. BellSouth was in first place. Of all the cell service I've had Verizon was worst in dropped calls and service, Alltel was best. If you add up ALL of my telecommunications through time, Vonage takes first place with fewest outages and best customer service. Again, just lucky I guess. Smile

Now, don't discount that I do have all of my networking equipment on a UPS. That probably helps.