Vonage Settles Patent Suit with Sprint
Monday's settlement resolves all claims in the dispute, the companies said.
Sprint agreed to license Vonage its portfolio of more than 100 patents on connecting calls between a regular telephone network and a packet-switched network such as the Internet.
The $80 million Vonage agreed to pay consists of $35 million for past use of the patents, $40 million for a fully paid future license, and $5 million in prepayment for services.
Vonage's stock rose in Monday trading, but there is still the issue of Vonage's case with Verizon, so hold onto your phones, er, hats!
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Thats a shame, I am a new vonage customer and so far I love it. My att phone bill kept runing around 120 a month with limited features, so far vonage has been 25 a month with caller id, local, long distance, can even call Europe for free. Anywhere else in the world is 1 cent a minute. I hope they survive this, now if we could please get some broadband and cable competition, my near 200 dollar a month cable bill from comcast is rediculous. |
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