 RickPremium,MVM
join:2001-02-06
Waterbury, CT | Context does matter.... Vonage made this statement to the appeals court in the hopes that they would make permanent the emergency stay the court granted the other day.
What would you expect them to say? "we have a workaround and can roll it out tomorrow?"
They'd be shooting themselves in the foot.
Obviously they don't have a workaround in place today but publicly they did say a couple days ago that they do have one in the development phase and it's a high priority.
It would obviously be bad for them if the appeals court shut off their ability to take on new customers during the appeals process. But, I'm not so sure that they wouldn't then pretty quickly come up with a workaround if they had to. Other companies are saying they aren't even affected by this Verizon~Vonage decision and so there must be workarounds out there that are effective. It would also seem to me that Vonage could buy out one of these smaller players and use their technology if need be.
And so, I think that their statement to the court needs to be taken in context of who they're making the statement to..and for what purpose. Obviously, if they want the stay to be granted, they also want the situation to sound as bad as possible.
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JohnAPremium
join:2003-09-16
Pittsburgh, PA | said by Rick:Other companies are saying they aren't even affected by this Verizon~Vonage decision and so there must be workarounds out there that are effective. I don't recall any official company spokesperson, from any voip provider, standing up and saying that their service is totally outside the realm of the patents. Maybe you could refresh our collective memory, as to who that was, beside Vonage. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | I thought Packet 8 said as much when they referred to their ~60 VOIP patents. |
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