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Vonage Allowed to Sign New Customers

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the at-least-for-now dept.

terrymr writes "The Court of Appeals for the federal circuit has stayed the injunction against Vonage pending their appeal." The appeals judge agreed with Vonage's argument that the amount of consumer churn that Vonage or any telco suffers from would surely mean disaster for their bottom line, were they denied an influx of new customers.

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  1. Woo hoo by quokkapox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Woo hoo hoo

    Let them sign up all the new customers they want, as long as they reveal how I can expunge that damned jingle from my brain.

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  2. Ain't Gonna Help by The+Dobber · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How many people are going to sign up knowing there is a possibility that Vonage will go tits up in the near future?

    They're toast.

    1. Re:Ain't Gonna Help by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How many people know that Vonage is in trouble? A handful of internet tech news readers only, I would wager...

    2. Re:Ain't Gonna Help by jambarama · · Score: 4, Insightful

      How many people are going to sign up knowing there is a possibility that Vonage will go *** up in the near future?
      I can answer that. All of the people who don't know about the patent issues. Like my parents and most of my friends. I took a brief unscientific poll of the dozen people around me. About 3/4ths knew what VOIP was, and of those most knew Vonage. And of everyone, no one had heard of the patent dispute with Verizon.

      I think we often overestimate how much the general public knows/cares about this stuff.
    3. Re:Ain't Gonna Help by timeOday · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Well, personally I do care. I dropped my landline for Vonage a couple years ago, and I'm happy enough. I couldn't speak to their customer service as I've never tried to use it, but the actual phone service seems fine enough to me. Granted, Vonage hasn't been very dynamic about introducing new features to keep people excited (why can't I set up separate voice mail boxes for family members?) but I do think it's saving me money. Mostly I just dread the hassle of finding a new provider and transferring my telephone number, what a pain.

      Fundamentally, I don't even see why I'm still stuck paying a phone bill at all. I don't pay an email bill or a filesharing bill.

  3. Zestfully clean by quokkapox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Zestfully clean, you're not fully clean unless you're Zest-fully clean.

    These things run through my consciousness without my permission. They've invaded my brain via the commercial mass-media during my childhood and adolescence. They are inescapable and pernicious. I'd like to buy the world a Coke.

    Go ahead, tell me you've been raised in America and you don't have a corporate media advertising slogan running through the back of your mind now and then. Ancient Chinese secret, huh?

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