Comments on: Vonage, Verizon settle patent spat for up to $120 million

Companies say they have "resolved" a dispute over three VoIP patents. Precise amount of settlement depends on whether appeals court agrees to review case.

[nicmart]

Who were Vonage's attorneys?

Vonage has settled two cases and is now being sued by AT&T.
Does Vonage have a case against the attorneys who didn't properly
vet the patents? It doesn't matter if the patent attorneys were on
staff or from small firms, but if they were from large firms, why
should Vonage not seek compensation?

The issue of who vetted the patents for Vonage would be a good
subject for a CNET article.

[TomboSlicko]

ATT Buyout will happen

ATT is now cleared to buy out Vonage. This will happen before the end of the year. Good deal for ATT to enter new world of VOIP with a system that is working fine and shooting ATT as the major provider of VOIP.

[nicmart]

Enter?

I've been using AT&T's CallVantage VoIP service for a couple of
years. It works as well as any POTS service I've had. I wish AT&T
would buy Vonage, but I doubt that the company has much
interest in expanding this low-profit service that would eat into
POTS profits. AT&T keeps CallVantage a virtual secret. Maybe if
it rolls out cable service at more than its present snail's pace,
that will change. (AT&T delivers its customers private info to the
government more efficiently than it brings to market new
products.)

Verizon's VoIP service is so awful that I'm surprised the company
isn't embarassed to claim it has any relevant patents.

[Wind_Freak]

what?

Please tell me this is sarcasm.

I am baffled because this article has NOTHING to do with the
iphone and in reality there are freaks like this out there.