Vonage Touts Consumers' Right To Choose
Internet telephone firm Vonage launched a national campaign on Wednesday to educate consumers about preserving the freedom to choose their phone service provider. The "Free to Compete" initiative comes as the company tries to appeal a district court's ruling that it infringed on Verizon Communications' patents for Web-based telephony.
On Tuesday, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals decided to give Vonage a full stay of the lower court's order, allowing the firm to keep adding new customers as it works on its appeal (See Technology Daily's PM edition).
Verizon has pursued the litigation "in an effort to achieve in court what it cannot achieve in the marketplace," Vonage said in a press release. The issue warrants national attention because "when competition is stifled, consumers literally pay the price," Vonage Chairman Jeffrey Citron said. He vowed to continue fighting Verizon in the marketplace and in court.
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