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When your Fortune 500 company is under fire from multiple fronts for complicity with the NSA's supersniffing scandal (let's call it SS), what to do? When your copper wire business is drying up and your VoIP service suffers due to startup competitors, what to do? Sue the competition! So it goes with Verizon's latest lawsuit against Vonage, conveniently at a time when Vonage's stock is in the dumps after a lackluster IPO. Given that Vonage's stock tanked 50% in the month since its initial public offering, it has been in the crosshairs with investors. But Verizon's ploy seems more to be about its desire to be a network hog, especially now that the Congress has already held hearings on Net neutrality. Where does the Evil Empire go from here? Obviously back to court; the corporation with the most lawyers usually wins. Meanwhile, I wonder if startup efonica will be served with papers this week as well; perhaps Verizon can claims all forward-thinking technology stems from abuse of its patents. (Side comment: did you ever check your bill on Verizon's website? It takes up to 60 seconds for the empire's deathstar servers to retrieve your recent charges, assuming it can find them at all—it usually takes about 10 days after your bill date. So where do the online bills reside, on a server in Fiji? Which has to be hauled from those pure aquifers, akin to Jack and Jill going uphill to fetch a pail of data? Just wondering.)
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evil empire, fiji, fortune 500, monopoly, verizon
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Posted on 6/20/2006
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