Vonage like old skool telco, only worse!

What’s with the big service outage at Vonage? And this isn’t the first time…

I’m curious to know: has Skype, which is supporting a much larger user base and arguably completing a much higher number of calls, ever had outages? Can a totally distributed p2p service like Skype even have outages like what’s happened to Vonage?

In my mind, this sort of problem nails the Vonage brand squarely in a voice service “no-mans land”– far more expensive than Skype, far less unreliable than traditional telco service.

As “Vonage gets Dell’d” throughout the blogosphere and message boards, *no* amount of marketing spend will overcome brand-killing events like this last massive outage.

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