Vonage/Verizon

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:38:05 -0400
Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:

> I'm guessing they've been looking to bury Vonage for a while, and just figured
> out how, or maybe our court system is just that slow.  Either way, Verizon has
> lots of incentive to kill off VOIP providers that eat into their cash-cow.
Agreed here. Courts are always slow by their very nature. The issues
are whether Vonage (and other VOIP providers) actually used Verizon
patents. Certainly, if they are able to severely restrict the number of
VOIP users, they will do better. 

> Stupid gov't-sanctioned monopolies...
Former government sanctioned. Certainly, AT&T was  a government
regulated monopoly what was broken up back in the early '80s. They
still have the monopolistic mentality, and are not shy to try to use
government to protect their interests. 
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