Full-Featured Flat-Rate Calling Comes to Luzerne County and Lackawanna Valley

EDISON, N.J., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage Holdings Corp., the leading
provider of broadband phone service, today announced its local availability in
Wilkes-Barre and Scranton, Pennsylvania.
High-speed Internet subscribers nestled in steamtown can now take
advantage of Vonage’s broadband phone service offering free unlimited local
and long distance calling. Each plan includes the most popular features like
call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail for one low, flat monthly rate.
Vonage customers within Wilkes-Barre and Scranton can now keep their current
numbers or choose telephone numbers within the popular (570) area code.
«Northeastern Pennsylvania residents don’t have to spend their time mining
the phone companies and cable operators for cheaper plans and better features.
The Vonage locomotive has steamed into town giving consumers and small
businesses a choice where they never thought they had one -- their local phone
service,» said Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman & CEO of Vonage Holdings Corp. «Our
presence in this area gives residents and small businesses the option to
choose a phone service that provides inexpensive, flat-rate calling plans with
free, customer-controlled features, and significantly reduced international
rates.»

Using the latest technology, Vonage sets the standard for the new
generation of phone service with residential and business calling plans:

* $14.99/month -- Residential Basic Plan -- 500 minutes of local, toll
and long distance calling throughout the United States and Canada.

* $24.99/month -- Residential Premium Unlimited Plan -- unlimited calling
throughout the 50 United States and Canada anytime, anywhere.

* $39.99/month -- Small Business Basic Plan -- 1500 minutes of calling
throughout the United States and Canada, including a free dedicated fax
line.

* $49.99/month -- Small Business Unlimited Plan -- unlimited calling
throughout the United States and Canada, including a free dedicated fax
line.

* Services and hardware included for free on any of the above plans:

-- Voicemail -- Call hunt
-- Caller ID -- Call transfer
-- Call waiting -- Repeat dialing
-- Call forwarding -- Bandwidth saver
-- Call return (*69) -- Area code selection
-- Caller ID block (*67) -- International call block
-- Web-based account management -- Linksys RT31P2 Device

• Real-time billing activity -- Great international calling

  
  

• Online voicemail retrieval rates:

  
  

• Real-time inbound/outbound * Tel Aviv 4 cents per minute
  call record details * London 3 cents per minute
  

  • Sydney 4 cents per minute
    
  
  About Vonage(R)
  Vonage is redefining communications by offering consumers and small
  businesses an affordable alternative to traditional telephone service. The
  fastest growing telephony company in North America, Vonage’s service area
  encompasses more than 1950 active rate centers in over 125 global markets.
  Vonage is sold directly through [ >>> ] and retail partners such
  as Amazon.com, RadioShack, Best Buy, Circuit City, Staples, Fry’s Electronics
  and Office Depot. Wholesale partners such as EarthLink, ARMSTRONG(R),
  Advanced Cable Communications and the Coldwater Board of Public Utilities
  resell the Vonage broadband phone service under their own unique brands. With
  more than 300,000 lines in service, Vonage continues to add more than 25,000
  lines per month to its network. Over 5 million calls per week are made using
  Vonage, the easy-to-use, feature-rich, flat rate phone service. Vonage is
  headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. For more information about Vonage’s
  products and services, please visit [ >>> ] or call
  1-VONAGE-HELP. Vonage(R), Vonage Digital Voice™, Toll Free Plus(SM) and
  Virtual Phone Number(SM) are trademarks of Vonage Holdings Corp.

Vonage Holdings Corp. on Thursday announced it is slashing the price of its unlimited local and long-distance calling plan by $5 to $24.99.

Vonage, the broadband phone company, also announced plans to move all the customers subscribing to Unlimited Local -- a $24.99 unlimited local calling plan with 500 minutes of long-distance service -- to Premium Unlimited, the package that offers unlimited local and long-distance calling in Canada and the United States.

„Through some recently completed market research and trend analysis, we realized that ‘local unlimited’ really had no meaning for customers and in the world of IP and ‘buckets of minutes,’ the industry is moving away from distinguishing one kind of minute from another,“ Vonage spokesman Mitchell Slepian says.

The Edison, N.J., company now offers two residential plans: Premium Unlimited and Basic 500, a $14.99 plan offering 500 minutes in Canada and the U. S. Vonage says Premium Unlimited is its most popular calling plan.

The company says it has about 275,000 Internet phone customers.

EDISON, N.J., /PRNewswire/ Vonage, the leading broadband telephony provider today announced it is now offering its subscribers 311 dialing for city information services. Calls dialed to 311 are routed to the public information center in the customer’s area enabling them to receive information such as public transit and garbage collection schedules, as well as tourism and parks and recreation information.

«Vonage is pleased to offer its customers the convenience of 311 dialing for city information services. This is just another example of Vonage answering its customers needs,» stated Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage.

The 311 dialing feature is available at no charge to all customers who have activated their dialing 911 service. Vonage customer access to 311 services is available in 13 markets across the US including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Dallas and Washington DC.

Leveraging the power of customers’ existing broadband connections, Vonage sets the standard for the new generation of phone service with the most competitive residential and small business calling plans:

-- $14.99/month Residential Basic Plan — 500 minutes of local, toll and
long distance calling throughout the United States and Canada.

-- $24.99/month Residential Unlimited Local Plan — unlimited local
calling plus 500 minutes of long distance calling throughout the
United States and Canada.

-- $29.99/month Residential Premium Unlimited Plan — unlimited calling
throughout the United States and Canada.

-- $39.99/month — Small Business Basic Plan — 1500 minutes of calling
throughout the United States and Canada, including a free dedicated
fax line.

-- $49.99/month — Small Business Unlimited Plan — unlimited calling
throughout the United States and Canada, including a free dedicated
fax line.

     -- Services and hardware included for free on any of the above plans:
         * Voicemail                      * Call hunt
         * Caller ID                      * Call transfer
         * Call waiting                   * Repeat dialing
         * Call forwarding                * Bandwidth saver
         * Call return (*69)              * Area code selection
         * Caller ID block (*67)          * International call block
         * Web-based account management   * Motorola VT1005v device
 — Real-time billing activity   * Great international calling rates:
 — Online voicemail retrieval — Tel Aviv 4 cents per minute
 — Real-time inbound/outbound — London 3 cents per minute
 — call record details — Sydney 4 cents per minute

About Vonage®

Vonage is redefining communications by offering consumers and small businesses an affordable alternative to traditional telephone service. The fastest growing telephony company in North America, Vonage’s service area encompasses more than 1900 active rate centers in over 125 North American markets. Vonage is sold directly through [ >>> ] and retail partners such as Amazon.com, RadioShack, Best Buy and Circuit City. Wholesale partners such as EarthLink, ARMSTRONG®, Advanced Cable Communications and the Coldwater Board of Public Utilities resell the Vonage broadband phone service under their own unique brands. With more than 225,000 lines in service, Vonage continues to add more than 25,000 lines per month to its network. Over 5 million calls per week are made using Vonage, the easy-to-use, feature-rich, flat rate phone service. Vonage is headquartered in Edison, New Jersey. For more information about Vonage’s products and services, please visit [ >>> ] or call 1-VONAGE-HELP. Vonage®, Vonage Digital Voice™, Toll Free Plus(SM) and Virtual Phone Number(SM) are trademarks of Vonage Holdings Corp.