VoIP Provider News

26 September 2007

A federal jury on Tuesday ordered Vonage Holdings to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for violating six of its patents, prompting analysts to question whether the troubled Internet-phone company could survive.

Vonage, which lost another major patent case earlier this year, said it will appeal the decision that sent its shares plummeting 33 percent.

18 December 2007

Vonage is facing some customer complaints over a multi-day outage this past weekend. But that's the least of its worries. On Friday telecommunications equipment maker Nortel Networks filed a lawsuit against Vonage in a U.S. District Court in Delaware claiming that it violated nearly a dozen patents.

This past year has been a rough one for the voice over Internet protocol company. I have to say, the long-term outlook is getting bleaker for the firm as it faces a seemingly endless stream of lawsuits.

27 September 2007

Shares in Internet phone service Vonage fell below $1 yesterday amid mounting concerns the company will be run out of business by patent problems with rivals Verizon and Sprint.

Vonage was hit with its second major legal setback in two days when a federal appeals court upheld a ruling that Vonage's technology infringed two Verizon patents.

The decision bars Vonage from using the patents in its core technology for making Web phone calls and leaves the company on the hook for millions of dollars in damages.

17 December 2007

Residential voice telephony has become an unlikely hotbed for clever new products and new pricing models. For example, several VoIP providers are now promoting unlimited calling for one-time or low annual upfront payments, notably Ooma (www.ooma.com) and YMax’s MagicJack (www.magicjack.com).

02 October 2007

eBay is cutting more than a third of the price it agreed to pay for Skype VoIP service.

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc said on Monday it would cut as much as $1.2 billion off the $4.3 billion potential price it agreed to pay for Web-based phone-calling service Skype two years ago.

17 December 2007

All new companies should be lucky enough to have a launch story like this one.  Jaxtr, which only became public this March, has announced that their membership base has grown 10-fold since this summer, going from 500,000 users to hitting the 5 million mark this month.  That type of growth puts them ahead of juggernauts like Skype, believe it or not.  Jaxtr’s service can be used for calls in over 220 countries now, allowing subscribers to make and receive calls without being subjected to enormous international calling fees.

11 October 2007

VoIP provider, SunRocket created a flood of questions when the Virginia-based company closed its doors abruptly on July 16, 2007. The company ceased all operations without warning to customers or employees. The official cut-off date for service was expected to be August 5. While many SunRocket customers were to be absorbed by other VoIP providers, some customers actually got more than they bargained for.

09 January 2007

Having been battered by intellectual property lawsuits, Vonage is trying to rejuvenate its business with MyVonage servies and new hardware like the V-Portal router

Troubled VoIP service provider Vonage is rolling out new products and services at the Consumer Electronics Show in a bid to reverse its downward spiral.

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17 October 2007

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — MySpace and Skype announced Tuesday they are meshing social networking with Internet telephony, creating the largest voice-connected online community on Earth.

The partnership comes as MySpace rival Facebook gains ground and Internet telephony pioneer Skype struggles for ways to profit from the technology.

Skype will craft its voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) into MySpace instant messaging software worldwide by December, letting website members easily call each other's computers free of charge.

14 January 2008

Now that traditional ad supported video is losing ground via DVR fast-forward, wouldn't it be great if the ad-supported model could be migrated to one of cable's new services?