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In a significant development, Vonage has settled down the two years old patent dispute with Sprint Nextel and agreed to pay nearly $80 million. They have now reached out a new agreement under which Vonage would use Sprint patents for its VoIP services.

Off $80 million, $35 million is for the past use of the license, $40 million for a fully-paid future license and $5 million in prepayment for services.

Vonage will now access to Sprint VoIP portfolio that includes more than 100 patents covering different methods, components and systems required for residential VoIP services.

Vonage said,

We are pleased to resolve our dispute with Sprint and enter into a productive future relationship. We believe this deal is good news for Vonage, our customers and our shareholders.

Earlier, Vonage was ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million in damages for infringing six patents. A jury in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, issued the order on September 25th, 2007.

The US-based residential VoIP player is yet to resolve its patent dispute with Verizon Communications.

Source: www.voip-news.com

p-news.comVonage Holdings Corp. has announced its third quarter results. Revenue grew by seven percent over the previous year to $226 million.
“We reported our fourth consecutive quarter of …

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p-news.comVonage has a new patent. It’s for something called “Method and Apparatus for Enhanced Internet Telephony.” According to the company, “The invention, which was filed for patent …

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p-news.comIke Elliot of Telecosm is taking a long-term hiatus from blogging due to taking a job with Level3. Apparently he and the company think that blogging then becomes a conflict of interest …

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p-news.comVoIP Watch wonders if Vonage just screwed up when Verizon sued it. After all, Cox won the lawsuit that Verizon filed against its company. Read it here.
Smith on VoIP has some speculative …

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p-news.comI was speaking with a woman this week about her phone service. It seems that she has been having trouble with the clarity of her Vonage. She’d been perfectly happy with it until it …

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p-news.comVonage has introduced a new option for its service. Vonage Pro revamps its options to offer more to customers. The service includes Vonage Digital Voice, Vonage Companion, Vonage Visual …

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p-news.comWell, that didn’t take long. Vonage announced that they were letting interim CEO Jeffrey Citron go last week. Today, they announced that Marc Lefar has been named chief executive …

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p-news.comAww, isn’t that cute?
Vonages is pleased to bits about the New and Emerging Technologies 911 Improvement Act of 2008 that President George W. Bush signed into law this week.
Of course …

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p-news.comComcast, Comcast, Comcast.
The television and internet provider is at it again — blocking VoIP traffic. Do they ever learn?
Now, they are saying they will work with Vonage to ensure …

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I received an emailed press release from Comcast this morning about their plans to work with Vonage to address “the reasonable network management of Internet services” that left me a tad …

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AT&T, long before it merged with SBC had made a half-hearted attempt at getting into consumer VoIP by selling a service called, CallVantage. It was surprisingly good, especially its call …

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p-news.comWhat could a company want with a memory stick that turns any PC into a VoIP phone? What could they want with it so much that they would spend $6.5 billion to get it? Interesting stuff. …

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Vonage has a problem and its getting worse. Long ridiculed for poor customer service and lousy quality now they’ve chosen to take the non-comment approach when they get asked about that …

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Despite all the troubles with VoIP service providers such as SunRocket and Vonage, VoIP as a technology seems to be doing quite well in the U.S., according to data from Telegeography. As of …

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I happen to always enjoy reading Ike Elliott’s analysis of companies in the VoIP space that are publicly traded. God does his microscopic analysis remind me of what we used to see from …

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After a really rough 2007, Vonage (VG), the independent voice-over-IP service provider, seems to be having a better 2008. This morning the company reported its first-quarter 2008 financial results, …

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It looks like Vonage is gearing up for some efforts in the media if I read the tea leaves properly.
They hired a new PR firm and one of the things they plan on doing is deploying a social media …

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p-news.comVonage and the state of Connecticut have reached a settlement deal in the May 2005 lawsuit in which the state claimed that Vonage didn’t inform customers of 911’s deficiency on …

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BusinessWeek: Clearwire and Sprint: Squeezed Together?
Fortune: Yahoo! Playing for Time in
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A few weeks back Ike Elliott wrote about the differences in growth and momentum between Comcast and Vonage.
Here’s my take:
1) Vonage churn is one, if not the highest in the telco industry. …