Vonage dumps on themselves
This post was published 3 years 10 months 7 days ago which may make its actuality or expire date not be valid anymore. This site is not responsible for any misunderstanding.Companies filing for an IPO have typically have to take a dose of truth serum before they go public and illustrate in their prospectus every detail, drawback, and benefit the company has to offer. Usually companies bury the drawbacks, and try extremely hard to not make these problems sound so horrible. Vonage, however, seems to have drank too much of that truth serum.
In their own words, here is Vonage on Vonage detailing why their calls are different than a regular call:
Certain aspects of our service are not the same as traditional telephone service. Our continued growth is dependent on the adoption of our services by mainstream customers, so these differences are becoming increasingly important. For example:
Both our new E-911 and emergency calling services are different, in significant respects, from the 911 service associated with traditional wireline and wireless telephone providers and, in certain cases, with other VoIP providers.
Our customers may experience lower call quality than they are used to from traditional wireline telephone companies, including static, echoes and delays in transmissions.
Our customers may experience higher dropped-call rates than they are used to from traditional wireline telephone companies.
Customers who obtain new phone numbers from us do not appear in the phone book and their phone numbers are not available through directory assistance services offered by traditional telephone companies.
Our customers cannot accept collect calls.In the event of a power loss or Internet access interruption experienced by a customer, our service is interrupted. Unlike some of our competitors, we have not installed batteries at customer premises to provide emergency power for our customers’ equipment if they lose power, although we do have backup power systems for our network equipment and service platform.
It’s honest, I have to hand them that. Lets see if they put this in their marketing materials!
The website says this call came from Vonage’s website, but I don’t see it anywhere. Then again, who trusts a website called “Myspace Layouts, AIM Buddy Icons, MSN Icons & Security News” ;)
It is, that I believe, Vonages prospectus.
haha this kind of goes hand in hand with their commercials
“people do stupid things…. like making their company look like a pile of shit right before it goes public [que music] ** do do dodo do, do do dododo**”