Vonage(R) Now Provides Emergency 911 Service in Over 2500 Calling Centers Across the Nation

HOLMDEL, N.J., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced that it has turned on emergency 911 service in over 2,500 PSAPs across the country. In less than one week, Vonage equipped an additional 125 calling centers, in close to 40 new counties, with 911 capabilities.

In June, the FCC gave Vonage, and all Internet-based phone service companies, 120 days to create an E911 system from scratch, and provide all of its customers, wherever they are in the U.S., with E911 service. In that amount of time, Vonage worked closely with local 911 centers, also known as Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), across the country to turn on E911 for as many customers as it could.

"Now that the majority of our customers have full E911 capability, we are looking forward to completing our turn up in record time. By comparison, it took the wireless industry 10 years to turn on emergency 911 service in one-half of the nation's PSAPs, a feat we've accomplished in less than a year," said Jeffrey A. Citron, Vonage's Chairman and Chief Strategist. "And Vonage will continue to work with the FCC, regulators, Congress and public safety until PSAPs across the nation are equipped with E911."

"Vonage completed deploying E911 throughout the entire state of Vermont this past January," said David Serra, Executive Director of the Vermont E911 Board. "Of all the VoIP service providers with which we have been working, Vonage has done the best job in deploying E911 in Vermont. They are very accessible and provided us with what we needed. Although we encountered some inevitable hurdles during the process, Vonage was always available to implement a solution to the problem."

Since February 1st, Vonage has added more than 100 PSAPs in the following counties -- bringing the total number of calling centers with emergency 911 service to over 2500.

  STATE                 COUNTIES                   FCC ID --
                                                  'PSAP IDENTIFIER'
  Arizona               Yuma                      520
  Colorado              Adams                     1145
  Colorado              Arapahoe                  1161, 1265
  Colorado              Jefferson                 1194, 8002
  Connecticut           New Haven                 1315
  Florida               Broward                   1466
  Florida               Lake                      1555
  Florida               Lee                       1645
  Florida               Palm Beach                1458
  Idaho                 Canyon                    2051
  Michigan              Ingham                    8025
  Michigan              Lapeer                    3440
  Michigan              Wayne                     3403, 3416, 3532, 3541
  Missouri              Greene                    3929
  Missouri              St. Louis                 3813
  New Jersey            Atlantic                  4716, 4672, 4742
  New Jersey            Bergen                    4732, 4734
  New Jersey            Camden                    4695, 4703, 4875, 4891
  New Jersey            Cumberland                4874, 4708
  New Jersey            Essex                     4677, 4787, 4807, 4810,
                                                  4693, 4770, 4813, 4778,
                                                  4684, 4727, 4759
  New Jersey            Morris                    4692, 4701, 4795, 4847,
                                                  4692, 4843, 4709, 4729,
                                                  4792, 4821, 4838, 4799
  New Jersey            Passaic                   4769, 4882, 4822, 4825,
                                                  4705, 4822, 4825, 4705,
                                                  4823,
  New Jersey            Somerset                  4877, 4856, 4687
  New Jersey            Sussex                    4754, 4872, 4863, 4673
  New Jersey            Union                     4831, 4870, 4718, 4753,
                                                  4865
  New Jersey            Warren                    4829
  New York              Genesee                   5084
  New York              Rockland                  5209
  Ohio                  Wayne                     5551
  Minnesota             Hennepin                  3728
  North Carolina        Cleveland                 4228
  North Carolina        Harnett                   4294
  North Carolina        Stanly                    4447
  Pennsylvania          Butler                    5860
  Pennsylvania          Franklin                  5890
  Pennsylvania          Washington                5934
  South Carolina        Chesterfield              6039
  Texas                 Atascosa                  6412
  Texas                 Brazoria                  6449
  Texas                 Dallas                    6872, 6386
  Texas                 Ellis                     6571
  Texas                 Erath                     6924
  Texas                 Hamilton                  6627
  Texas                 Jack                      6673
  Texas                 Lampasas                  6718
  Texas                 Wharton                   6560
  Texas                 Wilson                    7005
  Texas                 Wise                      6532
  Utah                  Cache                     7041
  Virginia              Bedford                   7087
  Virginia              Botetourt                 7090
  Washington            Cowlitz                   7260
  Wyoming               Sweetwater                7652


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