It looks like a federal appeals court has issued a permanent stay on a lower court ruling banning Vonage from signing up new customers. Earlier this year a jury found that Vonage's internet telephony service violates patents held by Verizon, kicking off a whole slew of legal troubles for Vonage.
Today's ruling came just two hours after the appeals court heard arguments from the two sides.
The stay only applies while Vonage is appealing the initial ruling. If Vonage loses the appeal, the company could be finished. That said, Vonage stock jumped closed to 50% today on the first good news the company's had in months.
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4-24-2007 @ 9:47PM
Sue Polinsky said...
Hey Brad, if Vonage croaks, who's your suggestion for us to changeover 3 incoming lines and a fax?
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4-24-2007 @ 9:51PM
Brad Linder said...
I'm not certain at the moment, but that might make an excellent future Ask DLS question.
Personally, I've given up on having a land line at all. I have a cellphone for most day to day calls, and when I need to make an international call or record an interview, I use SkypeIn and SkypeOut. I receive faxes with a virtual fax number set up through K7.Net.
The weakest link in my system is sending faxes, which I currently do with FaxZero for short faxes. I haven't found a free solution for longer faxes, but most of the time when I need to send documents I can scan them as PDFs and email them.
This doesn't really answer your question unless you want to set up three SkypeIn accounts and get handsets for each one.
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