Judge Orders Injunction Against Vonage > *Sigh*

*Sigh*

Why can't Vonage, which is a registered company in Canada, just move their servers from NJ to say, Ontario Canada?

Customer's wouldn't know or care where the servers were and they can connect to the PSTN from there?

Am I wrong or this is possible??

They'd have to connect to the PSTN in Canada then too. Not much good for local calling.

This is not the same as moving your webserver offshore...
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This might seem silly but vonage has been advertisting themselves as a telephone company. With that statement comes certain expectations (911).

Vonage could have marketed themselves as a voip provider (no broadband telephone company/not a telephone company)

None of us generally care about the 911 feature unless we need it (too late?). Then again, it was a mandate on the telephone companies in the first place. My hunch is that they don't want to be in that business in the first place, but we, as a society (USA) determined it was beneficial.

911 is essentially a mandate and requirement of a POTS line, with very few exceptions.

Although I can't verify, I'd be willing to bet the 911 issue has survived the courts. It's been around a long time and the telephone companies generally fight anything that doesn't profit themselves (reasonably so).

As an aside, we all pay for crap we don't want, be it packaging, processing, overhead, etc...

There is quite a bit of paper shuffling overseas too, but that's a whole nother discussion.

Back to point, Vonage needed to figure out a better way to declare themselves something other than a traditional ld or local telecom provider. Providing the same services as either or both of the both with nothing essentially different didn't help them.

Vonage sorta brought this on themselves. There may be a reason, Citron's income is one motivation. The investors have their own motivations..and I'm not convinced guranteed profits are always the motive of venture capitalists.

I agree with you overall. The innovative services, such as many of the web applications, have happened. We might finally start to see the apps that the Jetson's had...

VoIP never tauted claim to fame to anything other than providing a service for those with broadband access; an existing ISP is required.

You should review what most users went through when the ads kicked in and the VoIP illiterate types signed up demanding a 911 service, nOObs! No, nobody who knew anything wanted a darn thing to do with 911 & VoIP. The customer remark for courts and 911 reflected that now it's in place the court will have to protect those using VoIP -Because of it.