Comments on: VonageLovesYou, Even if You Don’t

By: Here Comes Trouble: An Antidote to Software Patents - GigaOM

Here Comes Trouble: An Antidote to Software Patents - GigaOM — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:00:49 +0000

[...] Berninger, Friday, January 18, 2008 at 12:00 AM PT Comments (0) The $250 million Vonage burned through as a result of the patent lawsuit brought by Verizon et al provides yet another example of why [...]

By: roman nakonechnyy

roman nakonechnyy — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:17:48 +0000

Gees vonage’s sucks when my v-tech modem device broke nobody came to fix it or even answer hundreds of times I called vonage to help me fix the phone they charged me for 2 months but it still not fixed

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:27:29 +0000

Seems like a router has always been tossed in though. I got mine for free and didn’t do any special deal.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:05:31 +0000

…and i love vonage back, seriously, my bill is always low, like under 25ish bucks, and i used to pay over 80 for identical services and features…plus it’s backup - isn’t everybody all mobile now???

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:15:58 +0000

6) 5% royalty to Spring going forward (new sales)

I don’t think that they have to pay Sprint a percentage. I thought that they did a settlement with Sprint and that did not include a percentage…

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By: Dhiren

Dhiren — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:50:41 +0000

with all the cash they collected in IPO, sure the’ll love us

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:59:23 +0000

Holy Toledo! I have not looked at their balance sheet lately, but it has to be bleeding lots of red.
1) Promotion that is costing them money. Router costs is probably greater than $25 alone.
2) Sprint lawsuit $80M
3) Verizon lawsuit $58M
4) AT&T lawsuit TBD

5) 5.5% royalty to Verizon going forward (new sales)
6) 5% royalty to Spring going forward (new sales)
7) AT&T royalty - TBD

8) Customer acquisition costs?
9) Increasing customer churn

…..damm, this does not look good for Vonage shareholders,imo.