Comments on: Vonage, Verizon spar in court over patents

Net phone company says it didn't copy Verizon's patents, but the telecommunications giant says harm has been done and its VoIP rival must pay.

[coachgeorge]

Poor Verizon..............................

While I do not know the law or the specific details of the proceedings, I do not feel bad for Verizon. Had they not been ripping us off, I would not have switched to Vonage.
Why do I feel they have been ripping me off? My tel. bill dropped from $80.00 per month to $25.00 per month.
Was it worth $80.00 per month? Yes because there were no other options. Vonage came around and showed that indeed the service is only worth $25.00 a month. Aparently 2 million people agree with me.

[feliusrex]

Competition by lawsuit hurts the consumer

Why is it that Verizon needs to file a lawsuit to try and compete? I don't subscribe to Vonage, and I don't use Verizon either, but companies that try and sue a competitor out of business make a bad name for themselves. It's pretty easy to say that I won't be considering Verizon for any services in the future. I always wonder if companies that make these sort of nuisance lawsuits consider the negative impact that they have on people that might want their service. Verizon has pretty much lost even if they win the lawsuit.

My other gripe is that Verizon even has patents on such obvious and rudimentary technology. I'm rooting for Vonage in this one, if only so that Verizon's patents gets struck down. Our patent system is so broke it's not even funny.

[Borman449]

Squashing the competition

Once again the evil empire that is Verizon is attempting to kill off another competitor. They have plenty of money to do it, mainly from surcharges, fees, and cost recovery, and anything else their greedy, selfish minds can come up with. I dumped Verizon as sonn as there was somewhere else to go, and I sleep better knowing this corporate monstrosity is not getting a penny from me. I hope Vonage customers stand with them against this corporate evil.