Sprint hits up Vonage for another $80 million
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Vonage, everyone’s favorite “gettin’ sued by The Man” company has taken another beating in the Sprint-Nextel patent suit, agreeing to settle the case and license the telco’s Internet-calling technology for the tidy sum of $80 million. This comes hot on the heels of last month’s ruling, which stipulated that Vonage was to pay $69.5 million to Sprint over six patents which the mobile phone company says it had infringed. “We are pleased to resolve our dispute with Sprint and enter into a productive future relationship,” said Sharon O’Leary, General Counsel for Vonage, though it’s possible she wasn’t as ecstatic as that quote would have you believe. This is just another money-siphoning event for the VoIP company, which in March was hit up for $66 million from Verizon for illegally using some of its patents. If you’re keeping count at home, that’s $215.5 million paid out. If this keeps up, they may not even be able to afford those snappy commercials anymore. [Warning: read link requires subscription]
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