
HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vonage America Inc., a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp. , a leading Internet telephony provider, today announced that over 90% of its U.S. subscriber lines are now equipped with Enhanced 911 (E911) service -- a feature that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number.
In less than one month, Vonage has equipped an additional 250 locally-run emergency call centers across the U.S. with E911 -- bringing the total number of calling centers with emergency 911 service to over 5800.
Vonage's nomadic E911 solution gives customers the ability to reach a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), or 911 center, through the dedicated 911 network infrastructure. With Vonage's nomadic E911 solution, a customer's call is automatically routed to the appropriate 911 center, with the caller's registered street address and telephone number appearing on the dispatcher screen -- regardless of where or what exchange they are calling from. Vonage will continue to turn up and test new PSAPs that are VoIP-ready every day.
"Today over 90 percent of our U.S. subscriber lines have full E911 capability, which is a tremendous step for Vonage," said Vonage CEO Michael Snyder. "Vonage will continue to work with the FCC, regulators, Congress and public safety until PSAPs across the nation are equipped with E911."
In just 15 days, Vonage has added the following counties to its list of those with E911 capabilities -- bringing the total number of calling centers with emergency 911 service to over 5800.
* In the event Vonage is unable to connect to the 911 system or for customers who are using mobile devices such as Wi-Fi phones, softclients, or the Vonage V-Phone, Vonage offers a national emergency call center which enables customers to get local help when they need it.
STATE COUNTIES FCC ID --
'PSAP IDENTIFIER'
Alabama Elmore 176, 237
Alabama Crenshaw 164
Alabama De Kalb 190
Alabama Hale 201
Alabama Randolph 261
Alabama Lowndes 229
Arkansas Jefferson 352
Arkansas Lonoke 8086
Arkansas Baxter 293
Arkansas Craighead 336
Arkansas Crittenden 312, 7984
Arkansas Greene 363
Arkansas Jackson 360
Arkansas Poinsett 367
Arkansas Cross 313
Arkansas St. Francis 384
California Sonoma 903
California Contra Costa 1039
California Sacramento 738
California Tulare 1006
California Alameda 787
California Los Angeles 794, 780, 980
California San Francisco 1018
California Lake 779
Connecticut Hartford 1324
Florida Columbia 1486
Georgia Coffee 1731
Georgia Troup 1878
Georgia Wayne 1876
Illinois Cook 2495, 2376
Illinois Marion 2418
Indiana Greene 2564, 2608
Indiana Crawford 2535
Iowa Decatur 1933
Iowa Dallas 1930, 2001
Iowa Lucas 1977
Iowa Webster 2027
Iowa Henry 1957
Iowa Warren 2023
Iowa Boone 1903
Iowa Davis 1932
Iowa Greene 1948
Iowa Buchanan 1905
Iowa Cherokee 1918
Iowa Chickasaw 1919
Iowa Guthrie 1950
Kentucky Lee 2968
Kentucky Harlan 2938
Louisiana Richland 3116
Louisiana Bienville 3054
Louisiana West Baton Rouge 3111
Maine Androscoggin 3240
Maine Kennebec 3258
Michigan Wayne 3569
Michigan Oakland 3412
Minnesota St. Louis 3717, 3716
Minnesota Cook 3617
Minnesota Carlton 3610
Mississippi Marshall 4051
Mississippi Neshoba 4059
Missouri St. Charles 3933
New Jersey Hudson 4676
New York Chenango 5054
North Carolina Caldwell 4205
North Carolina Haywood 4296
Ohio Montgomery 5371
Ohio Cuyahoga 5323
Pennsylvania Wayne 5935
South Carolina Lancaster 6072
South Dakota Yankton 6201
South Dakota Charles Mix 6133
South Dakota Hughes 6176
Tennessee Hamblen 6261
Tennessee Tipton 6368
Tennessee Claiborne 6228
Texas Hopkins 6654, 6450
Texas Rockwall 6867
Texas Kaufman 6689, 6939
Texas Lubbock 6746
Texas Kimble 6698
Texas Rusk 6642
Texas Zavala 6520
Washington Benton 7355
Washington Clallam 7328
West Virginia Wetzel 7608
Wisconsin Walworth 7416, 7538
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About Vonage
Vonage is a leading provider of broadband telephone services with over 2 million subscriber lines. Our award-winning technology enables anyone to make and receive phone calls with a touch tone telephone almost anywhere a broadband Internet connection is available. We offer feature-rich and cost-effective communication services that offer users an experience similar to traditional telephone services.
Our Residential Premium Unlimited and Small Business Unlimited calling plans offer consumers unlimited local and long distance calling, and popular features like call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail -- for one low, flat monthly rate. Vonage's service is sold on the web and through national retailers including Best Buy, Circuit City, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Target and is available to customers in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. For more information about Vonage's products and services, please visit http://www.vonage.com/.
Vonage Holdings Corp. is headquartered in Holmdel, New Jersey. Vonage(R) is a registered trademark of Vonage Marketing Inc., a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp.
This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to our E911 deployment. In addition, statements in this press release that are not historical facts or information may be forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release are based on information available at the time the statements are made and/or management's belief as of that time with respect to future events and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and outcomes to be materially different. Important factors that could cause such differences include, but are not limited to, our history of net operating losses and our need for cash to finance our growth; the competition we face; our dependence on our customers' existing broadband connections; differences between our service and traditional phone services, including our 911 service; uncertainties relating to regulation of VoIP services; system disruptions or flaws in our technology; our ability to manage our growth; the risk that VoIP does not gain broader acceptance; and other factors described in the "Risk Factors" section of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2006, and in our subsequent periodic reports filed with the SEC. While we may elect to update forward-looking statements at some point in the future, we specifically disclaim any obligation to do so, and therefore, you should not rely on these forward- looking statements as representing our views as of any date subsequent to today.