I may lose my Vonage number, quick like
USA Today: “Vonage has finally confirmed what many had feared: The embattled Internet phone company has no ‘workaround’ in hand to sidestep Verizon’s patented Internet phone technology… While Vonage has studied methods for designing around the patents, removal of the allegedly infringing technology, if even feasible, could take many months to fully study and implement.”
So unless a judge grants Vonage a permanent stay in light of the Verizon VOIP lawsuit, the company will most likely go under. At least for a few months, and I can’t wait that long without an office number.
Any other Vonage customers out there following the news?
April 16th, 2007 at 11:20 am
can’t you just switch carriers and keep your number?
April 16th, 2007 at 11:24 am
In theory, yes. But worse case scenario, I’m not sure how it will all go down. I’m not even sure if Vonage is required to offer number portability to their customers… :(
April 16th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I have heard that if you ported an existing number over to Vonage, you can port from Vonage to another provider. However, if you number was assigned by Vonage, you cannot because it was a block of numbers assigned to Vonage.
I may just try one of my numbers to see if it can be moved.