Anyone use VoIP? (Vonage, CallVantage, Skype, etc)

[Alex Franke]

I think Verizon is probably trying to establish legal precedence with this case before they go for the companies with money (Time Warner, Cox, etc). I've read that the language in the patents is pretty vague, so prior art would probably be a great defense. I don't think it'll mean the end of VoIP, though -- there are already millions of users. Even if there ends up bing a 5-10% royalty, it's still a pretty good deal.

Plus, for $199 I'll break even after three months -- every month after that is just gravy. And if it takes the whole two years to settle, I'll end up saving about $1,400 -- enough for a couple of good tools!

If something catastrophic goes down, I imagine it'll take longer than three months to do so... but we'll see!

[Alex Franke]

Well, so far I'm totally impressed. I ordered SunRocket yesterday for a one-time payment of about $210 for a full two years NSA, and UPS brought the hardware to me today!!

A quick look at the instructions mentioned that "it may take up to ten days to be able to receive calls", and yet I plugged it in and placed and received my first calls within about five minutes. The quality so far has been just like the regular phone. No problems while using the computer/Internet either. And so far it's true what they say about nobody noticing the difference.

Apparantly they're still doing the "free year" deal for referrals through the end of the month, so PM me if you're interested and I can give you my number as a referral code. (A couple friends from work signed up also, so I actually have a bonus pending that will cut my net cost in half!)

I totally dig the fact that I'm not going to have to pay another phone bill for two years!

I also got my new camcorder today -- the Panasonic GS320... waitin' for the battery to charge! I'll post about that in my camcorder thread.

Thanks again for all your input on this!