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With a reprieve from the courts, what’s Vonage’s first public step in its patent battle against Verizon? Hire more lawyers? Partner with other patent holders? Nah — instead, Vonage went and bought some newspaper ads, and built a net-neutrality style “grassroots” website designed to enlist public support for its fight against the big telco. Just [...]

Scoring an important win in its ongoing patent battle with Verizon, VoIP provider Vonage on Tuesday won a permanent stay of a previous court’s injunction, meaning simply that Vonage is free to conduct business as usual while it pursues an appeal of the original ruling that found it had infringed some of Verizon’s VoIP patents.
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In more than one of the discussions we’ve had with folks about the Vonage-Verizon patent fight, there has been out-loud wonderment that some prior art hasn’t yet surfaced to invalidate Verizon’s claims. From VoIP Watch blogger Andy Abramson (and his radio cohort Ken Rutkowski) comes a report from “someone” who claims that a 3Com may [...]

Are Skype’s plans to push users into higher-revenue calling plans starting to take hold? That might be one explanation for a surge in revenue during the past quarter, from $66 million in Q4 2006 to $79 million in the first quarter of 2007, while total minutes of both Skype-to-Skype and Skype-out usage stayed flat.
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Sometime Wednesday afternoon, if all goes as scheduled, representatives and lawyers for a group of Iowa rural telcos and their Internet Free-Calling partners will meet with FCC chairman Kevin Martin, to present their side of an ongoing battle with AT&T and other large telcos.
What do the rural telcos want? Quite simply, they say they want [...]

OK, maybe Ma Bell will push back from scarfing down that tasty plate of telecom pasta: According to the NY Times, the telecom giant backed down from its previous continental expansion plans Monday, perhaps due to political pressures.