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Today, traditional telephone companies are scrambling to recover from the staggering loss of subscribers over the past five years, who have migrated to exclusively mobile and VoIP lifestyles. Tomorrow, the cell phone industry will be facing the same challenges: How can a giant corporation expect to make money on calling plans if its customers could just use SkypeOut for two cents a minute to an...

Enterprises don’t usually sit around waiting eagerly for their equipment vendors' IPOs. It's investors, not buyers, that typically have trouble containing their excitement. And that’s understandable. Buyers aren't the ones that will get rich, they're the ones that will make investors rich. Still, ShoreTel's planned IPO should make at least some current and prospecti...

Vonage may have less breathing room than previously thought as a result of a court's decision to hold hearings on its appeal in 60 days, rather than in the year or two the company was expecting. Ironically, the accelerated appeal resulted from a request by Vonage's own attorneys to expedite the pro...

If you're a Vonage customer, you're probably worried right now. Originally you may have chosen Vonage because it was the largest independent VoIP operator, which should also have made it the most stable. But its very size made it a fat target for Verizon's patent infringement suit. Now it could conceivably be out of business in a few days, and you could be stuck without phone servic...

Suddenly time is back on Vonage's side. Only yesterday, people were talking about how to find an alternative phone service in case an appeals court ruling today put the VoIP provider on a rapid road to bankruptcy. Today, the court cleared Vonage to continue business as usual while it appeals the pa...

What with Verizon’s recent court victory against it, Vonage has been getting pounded—on the stock market and in the blogosphere. But the jury’s still out on whether the biggest name in VoIP is toast.Related Articles:Ta...

Sometimes success is all in a name. Once upon a time, GSM, the global system for mobile communication, had a French name: Groupe Spécial Mobile. Imagine the trouble U.S. GSM operators like Cingular would have had getting favors from Congress in recent years if the name had stuck. Likewise, DECT used to stand for Digital European Cordless Telecommunication. Unsurprisingly, the technology ...

As much as VoIP providers have relished the Wild West feel of the Internet, sheriffs are riding into town in the form of laws, FCC rules and taxes aimed at gradually taming VoIP. Here’s a rundown of the three debates affecting how VoIP providers handle service, the need to include 911 capability in it, and how open your calls are to federal wiretaps.

The best advice for Vonage customers this week is not to panic. After all, the judge in Friday's hearing on the injunction resulting from Verizon's successful patent infringement suit didn't say the VoIP pioneer couldn't keep serving its customers, he just said it couldn't acquire any new ones. And an appeals court quickly put ...