But Vonage is likely to have trouble sustaining an average price that high for long.
But Vonage spokeswoman Brooke Schulz says the carrier deal has nothing to do with technical workarounds.
Similarly Vonage is taking on the phone companies with an Internet based calling service.
Vonage quickly soured investors on IPOs of what are perceived to be riskier bets.
Vonage is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings ahead of the opening bell on August 3.
"Someone like Vonage kind of drops the bottom out of the market for everyone, " says Lopez.
Market-leader Vonage is also close to compliance, and already offers 911 to customers in Rhode Island.
Court testimony indicated that Vonage gets about one-fourth of its new customers from Verizon.
Vonage did overcome those early setbacks to see steady gains in 2010 and 2011.
Vonage, which leads the VoIP market, is still growing, but not as fast as its cable rivals.
Vonage could conceivably continue doing business by setting up a workaround that doesn't infringe on Verizon's patents.
Put it in any computer's USB port and you can make and receive calls using Vonage's service.
If anybody is suffering irreparable harm, Taranto said, it is Verizon, which continues to lose customers to Vonage.
Rebecca Arbogast, a legal analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, says any proof of earlier innovations may come too late to save Vonage.
Vonage's just-released data did hold out the hope that, as the company matures, its margins could eventually prove substantial.
In the three years and three months since Vonage began offering service, it has proved widely popular--and wildly unprofitable.
Yet even if Vonage had never spent a dime on marketing, it still would have never turned a profit.
Sprint Nextel (nyse: S - news - people ) has also sued Vonage for patent infringements.
Vonage has requested either a stay of 120 days or until its appeal is heard, which could take years.
Vonage (nyse: VG - news - people ) is cheap and easy, and I'm a customer.
Hilton will decide whether to issue the injunction or allow Vonage a stay.
Yet the FCC's Vonage decision might be more notable for what it didn't say than for what it did.
Skype, however, says it has no plans to drop its prices, even if Google (and Vonage, and others) undercuts them.
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For a Google or a Yahoo, or a Vonage or anybody to expect to use these pipes for free is nuts.
Apparently, that inane but catchy yodel in Vonage's TV ads are working their magic, bringing Vonage's voice-over-Internet service to the masses.
That was also the year that Kadambi co-founded a Vonage-like service DSL router service, Starnet with Ayyappan Sankaran and Mark Mah.
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In U.S. District Court, Vonage s submissions of prior art were dismissed, and the company was ruled to have infringed on the Verizon patents.
New evidence can t be submitted during an appeal, and if Vonage sought to challenge Verizon s patents, the review process could take years.
Had a chance to sit down with Vonage chairman Jeffrey Citron in a warm and transparent orange box behind his bustling booth.
Vonage is also facing a liquidity crisis, Clayton Moran, an analyst for the Stanford Group Company said in an interview on Thursday.
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