Minnnesota to appeal FCC Vonage ruling
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WASHINGTON - The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) plans to appeal a November decision by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prohibiting states from regulating VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) services, such as those offered by Vonage Holdings.
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Vonage is downplaying an appeals court decision affirming an earlier verdict of patent infringement on two patents owned by Verizon Communications.
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By LAWRENCE SUSSMAN  The Metropolitan Builders Association of Greater Milwaukee is suing the Village of Jackson over its plans to form a municipal telecommunications utility that would provide high-speed Internet access.
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Vonage, an Internet phone company, may receive a temporary lifeline as it struggles to survive a patent dispute with Verizon Communications.
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- Broadband telephone services provider Vonage  Holdings Corp.  said it intends to continue its fight  against a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Verizon  Communications Inc. .
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Verizon Communications won an appeals court ruling yesterday upholding most of a patent verdict over smaller rival Vonage Holdings, the second legal setback for the Internet phone company in as many days.
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A federal appeals court Tuesday blocked a judge's order that would have required the county that includes Jacksonville to install dozens of handicapped-accessible voting machines before the November election.
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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has asked the Supreme Court to hear an appeal that could determine whether cable broadband providers can be forced to open their networks to other Internet providers.
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U.S. regulators ruled Tuesday that providers of Internet-based phone call services fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government and cannot be regulated by states. -AP
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Internet phone services company Vonage  Holdings Corp.  said on Monday it did not infringe on  Verizon Communications Inc.'s  patents and a lawsuit will  not disrupt its business whatever the outcome.
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BISMARCK, ND - State regulators have delayed a ruling about whether an Internet access provider should be treated as a phone company, saying they will wait for a federal decision on the issue.
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(InfoWorld) - Vonage is downplaying an appeals court decision affirming an earlier verdict of patent infringement on two patents owned by Verizon Communications. The decision, made Wednesday, calls for the U.S. District Court in Virginia to retry the infringement judgment on a third patent. It also vacated the original $58 million in damages and 5.5 percent royalty imposed in the original judgment. The lower court will reconsider the size of the damage award and Vonage expects it to be reduced, said Charlie Sahner, a Vonage spokesman. In addition, Vonage expects a return soon of part of the cash it put up as bond after the ruling was made, he said. The decision comes a day after Vonage lost anotherÂ high-profile patent infringement case brought by Sprint-Nextel. The jury in that case awarded Sprint $69.5 million in damages. Vonage vowed to appeal that decision too. Vonage has already deployed technology so that it doesn't require the two patents upheld in theÂ Verizon case, it said. That means that if the lower court upholds the decision to require Vonage to pay royalties for using the patents, the company will only have to do so related to the period of time before the workaround was implemented, Sahner said. The company maintains that it did not infringe on the remaining Verizon patent in question and plans to defend itself against any new damages judgments. That technology applies to less than 10 percent of Vonage's network, and the company has already completed development of a workaround should the court decide that Vonage infringes on the patent, Sahner said. Vonage is the largest independent VoIP provider in the United States. While it continues to assure customers that the service remains reliable throughout the legal wranglings, the company has seen a decline in new customers. In its second quarter this year, Vonage added 57,000 customer lines, compared with 256,000 in the same quarter in the previous year. Still, Sahner emphasized that the future is bright for Vonage. The company has the cash to pay for the Sprint case, if it fails in appeal, Sahner said. "Vonage is here to stay," he said. "We want to be an alternative to the entrenched phone company and think it's important to have an alternative." This story was updated on September 26, 2007
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A federal appeals court prohibited the state of Minnesota from regulating Internet-based phone calling as if it were a traditional telecommunications service.
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The efforts of VoIP providers to keep individual states from regulating their services received another boost Tuesday, when an appeals court agreed with a lower court decision that ruled VoIP
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In a blow to its fortunes that analysts feared could be fatal to the company, VoIP service provider Vonage was handed a defeat this afternoon by a federal jury in Kansas City, Kansas trying a patent infringement case brought against it by wireless carrier Sprint Nextel this afternoon.
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The Supreme Court is expected to review a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco that ruled cable modem services should be regulated as a telecommunications service.
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Vonage Holdings Corp  said on  Tuesday that it will appeal a U.S. jury verdict that it  willfully infringed patents belonging to Sprint Nextel Corp   and that it pay $69.5 million in damages.