Vonage IPO Site Not Mac Friendly?

Vonage's upcoming IPO seems to be having another headache as Mac users complain about not being able to register for the offering through a special site unless on a Windows PC.

As VoIP provider Vonage prepares for their IPO and looks to issue shares to select Vonage customers, Mac users trying to register through the IPO Web site are looking to be left out in the cold.

A review of the Vonage IPO Web site states on the front page that the “browser requirements” include Microsoft IE Explorer version 5.5 or later and the Windows Operating System, including Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000 and XP. No mention is made of Mac or its Safari browser.

Digital Trends first became aware of this issue with the Vonage IPO Web site via an email from a reader telling us of the problem. Several calls to Vonage’s support number listed on the IPO site independently verified that Macs indeed could not be used to access the site.

This is not the first set of issues to trouble the upcoming IPO. An article which ran in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal detailed continued service problems Vonage has, especially in relation to “poor sound quality, dropped calls and other glitches”. A huge thread at respected tech site Slashdot is flush with user complaints around this topic, as an example.

A call to Vonage press relations regarding this matter was not returned.