Over 90% of Vonage U.S. Subscriber Lines Now Have E911

Vonage and PSAPs Continue Working Together to Turn up E911 for Customers Across the U.S.

Over 90% of Vonage U.S. Subscriber Lines Now Have E911

HOLMDEL, N.J., Sept. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Vonage America Inc., a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG) , 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 (NYSE: VG) 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.

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