Reviews:
 ·Bright House
| Funny how they attack Vonage, but no one else... Why are they going after Vonage, when Vonage did not invent VoIP, they only used existing equipment made by other manufacturers and developers. They should sue Digium too then, for making FXS/FXO ports, and PRI cards, which allow PSTN to talk to a VoIP gateway. Or sue SunRocket, SIPPhone, etc, for their access too. It's not just Vonage. I hate Vonage, but I hate companies who wait 5 years or more to finally say "Hey, you're infringing on us". This is Verizon's way of paying the FiOS bills if you ask me. We all remember the scare a few months back about how Verizon's investors were getting pissed. It only makes sense, please the investors by promising to reclaim losses by suing their competition for phone product, out of business. If you ask me, Vonage should NOT have to pay, and if they DO get charged with violating, since it took Verizon so long to say something, Verizon should get nothing but the $4.93 a month, worse case scenario. They should pass a law I made up called "The Sleeper Law" which states you have X amount of years to sue another company for violation of patents, and if you don't sue, then you're only entitled to receive damages going forward from the time the lawsuit was resolved. This should keep patent holders on their toes, because if you're going to patent something, and sue someone for it, you can't expect to recover the full damages, considering you never made the service work, so you can't put monetary value on damages, as you wouldn't know the cost to run it, since you never made it yourself. I really think a law like this should be made and passed so companies like Verizon, Microsoft, etc, can't sue for stupid things like this (and yes, this is just plain stupid, on Verizon's part, for waiting this long, they knew Vonage was able to provide Voice over Net, with PSTN callin/callout numbers, and even assisted Vonage with providing E911 service, now they want to extort, if you ask me).
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