Rumor has it that Vonage is in talks with
BellSouth to Buy Vonage
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BellSouth to Buy Vonage TrackBack URL : http://blog.tmcnet.com/mt/mt-tb.cgi/9198
BellSouth representatives are declining comment on today's rumors of a possible acquisition of VoIP provider Vonage. Late this afternoon, an inquiry sent from TMCnet to BellSouth generated a quick but definite refusal to comment on the question.Today R... Read More
Skibare pointed me to a Yahoo news release about a dial-up VoIP adaptor from Nomad International. According to their numbers, over 80% of U.S. Internet subscribers are still on dial-up. I'm still not convinced that dial-up VoIP will have... Read More
First of all, let me be clear that I generally like Vonage. Their customer service needs significant improvement, and I'd have touble recommending it to someone who doesn't have at least minimal technical skills, but you can't beat the price and the ... Read More
Rich Tehrani of TMCnet posted today that there are rumours of Bell South purchasing Vonage at 3.5 billion dollars US. http://blog.tmcnet.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/9198. The blog wires are humming with comments etc about this today, and there's all kinds o... Read More
Virtually all the big boys in the software and technology service markets have some sort of VoIP strategy. AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google… It was only a matter of time before Ebay and others got into the game. Will Amazon.com be... Read More
Now there’s a thought to boggle the mind. I somehow missed this one when Rich Tehrani first mentioned it back in July. Now he’s claiming that his source is only once removed from a participant in the negotiations. All I can say is wow. ... Read More
Looking back at the TMCNet Blog, “Vonage is in talks with Bell South to sell their VoIP service company for about 3.5 billion dollars. At about 800,000 subscribers that values each Vonage subscriber at $4,375!” Both Vonage and Bell South ha... Read More
There is also a rumor about that Google (GOOG) is negotiating to buy Deltathree (DDDC).
Hmm... for much less they can buy Primus (PRTL) and pick up Lingo's VoIP base, plus a real international telecom company!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=PRTL&d=t
the Packet8 shareholders continue to float rumors of Packet8 being bought by BellSouth! Rumors are like opinions, everyone has one but some are just BIGGER than others! NONE of the rumors makes a bit of sense to me especially the VALUE your talking about with 3.5 billion! NO WAY in even Bernie Ebbers sick mind would BellSouth do that type Price!
Skibare
Here is a post that may explain the inflated valuation: http://voip-blog.tmcnet.com/blog/rich-tehrani/voip/more-on-bellsouth-vonage-purchase.html
My source is reliable but we will have to wait and see what happens.