As a Vonage subscriber and a Verizon customer /shareholder and really makes me wonder why I bother with Verizon at all. This lawsuit stinks loudly and the timing is questionable. If I wanted my landline phone company to be my VoIP provider, I would move in that direction. For Verizon to do this speaks large to the fact that market competition is something that means nothing to them. Look how far it got microsoft trying to be the ’bully’. Maybe the SEC in the US should look into VZ practices more closely.

I have translated your article into English if you wish to repost it. I have also corrected factual errors using the linked news.com story as a source.
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Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the U.S., has filed a lawsuit charging that Vonage infringed upon seven of its patents related to VoIP services.

Verizon made the complaint in US District Court in Virginia. It claims that Vonage infringed on patents held by Verizon governing technology for completing phone calls between VoIP users and traditional phone services, validating VoIP callers’ accounts, fraud protection, using Wi-Fi handsets with VoIP services and monitoring VoIP caller usage.

The Vonage service uses software which turns voice into packets and then transmits them over broadband Internet connections. Verizon has a similar service named ”Voice Wing.”

According to Vonage, their service was developed using their own proprietary technology as well as using technology licensed from third parties.

Verizon acknowledged it had made the complaint and Vonage Company subsequently had a loss of 30 percent in the New York Stock market.

News of the lawsuit sent shares of Vonage down $1.03, or 8.13 percent, to $8.22.


source: news.com

The only other company that has as many relevant VoIP patents is Verso

If you can’t beat them slow them down. I haven’t looked at the pattents yet. But as soon as I pattent breath ALL YOU ARE GOING TO BE PAYING ME MONEY.

It’s so stupid. May be in the future all people on Earth will pay to some company for sending and receiving packets on the Net? because it’s will be in patent too? maybe you will pay also for an opportunity to breathe in air? why not?

ok first of all verizon is over charging ppl for land line service as well as other things, not worried about that. Vonage is an awesome company and they are not goin anywhere i got it and voice over the internet rox’s compared to landline service verizon is just bein greedy thats all... if vonage were to ever read this you guys rox fuk verizon...

If you can’t beat them slow them down. I haven’t looked at the pattents yet. But as soon as I pattent breath ALL YOU ARE GOING TO BE PAYING ME MONEY.