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Everybody is looking past 1 fact. And that is Vonage can pay royalties to Verizon. It may raise the rates they must charge to customers but they can stay in business.
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| said by TKJunkMail  :Everybody is looking past 1 fact. And that is Vonage can pay royalties to Verizon. It may raise the rates they must charge to customers but they can stay in business. Isn't that is assuming that Verizon and the court accepts that? ... Does Vonage has sufficient financing to withstand months and months of legal fees and still stay afloat?
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TKJunkMail
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| said by Jeffrey :said by TKJunkMail :Everybody is looking past 1 fact. And that is Vonage can pay royalties to Verizon. It may raise the rates they must charge to customers but they can stay in business. Isn't that is assuming that Verizon and the court accepts that? ... Does Vonage has sufficient financing to withstand months and months of legal fees and still stay afloat? Vonage might not have enough resources to do both, but they made their choice and will live or die by it. But other VOIP providers that may be violating the Verizon patents can negotiate or fight - their choice.
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said by TKJunkMail :Everybody is looking past 1 fact. And that is Vonage can pay royalties to Verizon. It may raise the rates they must charge to customers but they can stay in business. Even if that's true they would then lose their only competitive edge which is a lower price. Without a lower price there is no reason to leave the reliability of POTS.
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said by TKJunkMail :said by Jeffrey :said by TKJunkMail :Everybody is looking past 1 fact. And that is Vonage can pay royalties to Verizon. It may raise the rates they must charge to customers but they can stay in business. Isn't that is assuming that Verizon and the court accepts that? ... Does Vonage has sufficient financing to withstand months and months of legal fees and still stay afloat? Vonage might not have enough resources to do both, but they made their choice and will live or die by it. But other VOIP providers that may be violating the Verizon patents can negotiate or fight - their choice. I had thought I read something that said Verizon was not interested in the royalities and they wanted Vonage shut down instead. |
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said by TKJunkMail :Everybody is looking past one fact. And that is Vonage can pay royalties to Verizon. It may raise the rates they must charge to customers, but they can stay in business. Yes, and I am pretty sure that to laugh at Vonage some more, Verizon will charge them some astronomical amount for royalties, forcing Vonage to charge more for their VoIP than Verizon charges for their POTS service. With that in mind, how can Vonage keep existing customers and sign up new ones? The main selling point of VoIP is that while it does have some drawbacks compared to POTS, it is cheaper, and those who are willing to live with these drawbacks in order to save a few bucks will use VoIP instead. However, if they had to live with drawbacks AND pay more while they are at it, then what's the point? Might as well go back to POTS service then.
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