Vonage/Verizon

[mark.richards at massmicro.com (Mark Richards)]

Matthew Gillen wrote:
> gboyce wrote:
>> Speakeasy has been purchased by Best Buy:
>>
>> http://www.speakeasy.net/press/pr/pr032707.php
> 
> I think I've got it worse, Verizon is inches away from shutting down Vonage
> with patent violations:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/23/1730259
> 
> I love that as Vonage customer, they have communicated *nothing* about this to
> me.  They apparently issued a press release about it, but I couldn't find a
> link to it from their front page, and the only way I knew about it was from
> the comments on slashdot:
> http://pr.vonage.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=235198
> 
> I hope they win their appeal...

I'd like to know what it is that Verizon is claiming.  Does anyone have 
an idea?  Seems to me that if Verizon was so upset it would have acted 
long ago.

Learning this back to back with the demise of Speakeasy (I consider the 
purchase == demise), which was brought on by what I feel were Verizon's 
unfair practices with regard to equal access to public facilities for 
ADSL and other service provision, the choices for technical and other 
consumers is being further squeezed.

Where is our government in this?  Are they not interested in preserving 
competition and consumer protection? (tongue-in-cheek).


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