Verizon vs. Vonage: The Empire Strikes Back

It seems like Darth Vader's troops are winning...

-Ramon

It is hard to feel too sorry for Vonage. They are a walled-garden and don't cooperate with the greater voip community at all. There are hundreds of VOIP / POTS gateway services that allow direct voip inbound calls. There is a whole community of direct end-to-end voip users but vonage goes out of its way to block these calls.

-wolfgang

Don't you realize the "the greater community" is next? Armed with a court decision, Verizon can pretty much own VoIP.

-Ramon

It is? What is the patent for?

What will they own? The voip / POTS (Plain Old Telephone Service) gatewaying market? Big deal. All that will do is force the VOIP players to do what they should have done a long time ago and allow interconnections amongst themselves and route around POTS as much as they can.

If Verizon wants to shoot itself in the foot and make POTS even less desirable then let them. Routing voip to POTS is pretty much a pessimizing solution anyway. You get the high delay of VIOP combined with the echo and low fidelity of 8khz ulaw from POTS.

-wolfgang

Once wifi is in place, voip will not be needed to connect POTS.

Cell phones will be internet devices that stream audio/video.

If cell phones will be Internet devices that stream audio and video over wifi wouldn't that make them VOIP devices???

-wolfgang

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Once wifi is in place, voip will not be needed to connect POTS.

Cell phones will be internet devices that stream audio/video.

if cell phones will be Internet devices that stream audio and video over wifi wouldn't that make them VOIP devices???

-wolfgang Lmao

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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: Armed with a court decision, Verizon can pretty much "MONOPOLIZE" VoIP.

Sorry for the correction. No offence intended.

"Internet telephony provider Vonage, which is facing a possible shutdown of its service this week because of a patent dispute, may have gotten a stay of execution.

According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company has signed a deal with a wholesaler of voice over Internet Protocol services called Voiceone, owned by a company called VoIP Inc., that could provide it with a work-around for at least two of the three patents owned by Verizon Communications. Voiceone also offers wholesale voice over IP service to several large companies including Broadwing Communications, iBasis and Google."

-Ramon