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Verizon’s lawsuit against Vonage is the VoIP version of showdown at Ok Corral!
The weary entrepreneurs have gone from fighting the regulatory morass to fighting the patent morass. The ability of Verizon et al to play the dimensions of uncertainty associated with patents makes one nostalgic for the ability of Verizon et al to play [...]

The remarkably uniform pessimism regarding Vonage’s prospects, reflected in the share price, would lead you to believe that Vonage is on the death bed, gasping its last breath. The $58 million potential payout to Verizon has the gravediggers out in full force. The B-word is being thrown around. However, Vonage’s reported results and financials do [...]

Never mind net neutrality, I want my privacy. As in packet privacy. The telcos say they need to sell non-neutral routing of traffic to recover the cost of building broadband networks. Moving from the Internet, where a packet-is-a-packet, to something that looks suspiciously like the 20th century telephone network requires remarrying the content [...]

The rich bonuses Ed Whitacre and Duane Ackerman take into their imminent retirements make them the only sure winners of the compromises required to close AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth on Dec. 29, 2006.
The M&A euphoria lifting AT&T’s stock in 2006 does not diminish the threat the Internet poses to Ma Bell’s $120 billion in revenues [...]

GigaOM readers in a poll earlier this month have spoken - Vonage stock is a sucker’s bet and is headed down. The stock market seems to agree. The odds are against the company. Daniel Berninger, senior analyst with Tier 1 Research thinks otherwise, and believes that like MCI that put the squeeze on old AT&T, [...]