Is Vonage back to the track? Invariably yes. The VoIP giant has announced that it has substantially completed the deployment of workarounds for two of three VoIP patents owned by Verizon. The infringement of these patents forced Vonage to down with legal battle a few months ago.
In an email message Vonage CEO, Jeffrey Citron revealed,
We have substantially completed the deployment of workarounds for the two name translation patents and have completed the development of the wireless patent workaround.
The VoIP pioneering company had earlier lost the patent infringement case filed by Verizon and was ordered to pay $58m in damages, pay a 5.5 per cent royalty to Verizon, and injected not to register any new customers. Vonage had challenged the ruling in the higher court.The case is pending.
In the backdrop of pending patent battle, the development of workarounds for VoIP patents is a significant step for Vonage to win customer’s support in the market.
Meanwhile, Vonage has completed the second quarter adding just 57,000 net subscribers. It has now 2.45 million customers.
