Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Finally in the News - Worldgate declares Bankruptcy

There still is no word on where we go from here, but several news sources have reported Worldgate has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.  This is the selling off of assets with no intentions of reorganization.

Here is one article:

http://www.telecompaper.com/news/worldgate-files-for-bankruptcy

I have contacted ZVRS.com, a company who sells Worldgate's Ojo equipment, private-labeled as Z-Ojo and pronounced "zoe-joe."  Their primary mission is to serve the deaf community and had a difficult time understanding why I have so many Ojo phones when no one in my family is deaf.  Yet, they do offer a service for the hearing customer base.  I had little success in trying to talk with them so I sent an email to their technical people explaining that I simply wanted to change my "carrier" from Worldgate to their system, pay the monthly fee, and call it good.  This, I believe, would amount to changing the STUN server settings on each Ojo phone and then perhaps uploading new software - not really a big deal.  Hopefully, the technical people will respond favorably.  ZVRS can be reached at http://www.zvrs.com/

Good luck!

Chuck