Vonage® Equips Over 80 New Counties With Enhanced 911 Capabilities
HOLMDEL, N.J., Dec. 14 / -- Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced that it has been continuing to roll out Enhanced 911 service to large and small cities across the U.S. In just two weeks, Vonage has equipped an additional 140 locally-run emergency call centers, in over 80 counties, with E911 -- a feature that automatically associates a physical address with the calling party's telephone number.
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 call centers, also known as Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs), across the country to turn on E911 for as many customers as it could bringing the total number of ready PSAPs to nearly 900. Vonage continues to test and turn up new PSAPs which are VoIP ready every day and will continue to do so until it meets the FCC's mandate of 100% compliance.
"We are doing everything in our power to get E911 to all Vonage customers as quickly as possible," said Jeffrey A. Citron, Vonage's Chairman and CEO. "Vonage continues to work tirelessly with the FCC, regulators, Congress and public safety to turning up a national E911 system. We will not rest until every single Vonage customer has equal access to E911. Regardless of when or where or how they're calling 911, our goal is to get them help when they need it and we will not quit until we do that."
Since November 28th, Vonage has added the following counties to its list of those with E911 capabilities:
STATE COUNTIES FCC ID NUMBER(S)
Connecticut Fairfield 1359, 1370, 1363,
1420, 1386, 1398,
1396, 1344, 1374
Connecticut Hartford 1387, 1342, 1348,
1399, 1339, 1393,
1378, 1368, 1362,
1395
Connecticut Litchfield 1350, 1400
Connecticut Middlesex 7715
Connecticut New Haven 1354, 1358, 1303,
1408, 1351
Connecticut New London 1397
Connecticut Tolland 1401
Connecticut Windham 1384
Florida Brevard 1673, 1642
Florida Broward 1665
Florida Escambia 1627, 1502,
Florida Flagler 1506
Florida Pasco 7940, 7941, 1478,
1626
Florida Seminole 1689
Georgia Cobb 1700
Illinois De Kalb 2420
Illinois Randolph 2400
Indiana Porter 2648
Indiana Union 2680
Maryland Anne Arundel 3208
Maryland Charles 3218
Maryland Dorchester 3219
Maryland Kent 3227
Maryland Wicomico 3238
Massachusetts Hampden 7743
Massachusetts Middlesex 7715, 7745
Michigan Muskegon 3495
New York Broome 5044
New York Erie 5168, 5112, 5110,
5109, 5092, 5088,
5076, 5069, 5065,
5052, 5045, 5032,
7988, 7987, 5074
New York Rensselaer 5185
New York Rockland 5209
New York Schenectady 5189, 5086
New York Suffolk 5204, 5205, 5202,
5033
New York Westchester 5233, 5195, 5155,
5123, 5038, 5149,
5171, 101036, 5132,
5095, 5232
North Carolina Cleveland 4438
Ohio Clinton 5566
Oregon Washington 5842
Pennsylvania Delaware 5882
Pennsylvania Beaver 5852
Pennsylvania Berks 5854
Pennsylvania Fayette 5888
Pennsylvania Lawrence 5902
Pennsylvania Philadelphia 5869
Vermont Washington 7235
Virginia Alexandria City 7079
Virginia Amherst 7082
Virginia Arlington 7084
Virginia Chesapeake City 7102
Virginia Chesterfield 7103
Virginia Colonial
Heights City 7110
Virginia Culpeper 7114
Virginia Frederick 7131
Virginia Fredericksburg City 7132
Virginia Henrico 7145
Virginia Hopewell City 7147
Virginia Isle of Wight 7148
Virginia Loudoun 7157
Virginia Lynchburg City 7160
Virginia Manassas City 7162
Virginia Manassas Park City 7163
Virginia Newport News City 7171
Virginia Norfolk City 7172
Virginia Poquoson City 7182
Virginia Portsmouth City 7183
Virginia Prince George 7185
Virginia Prince William 7186
Virginia Roanoke 7193
Virginia Roanoke City 7192
Virginia Salem City 7196
Virginia Southampton 7202
Virginia Spotsylvania 7203
Virginia Stafford 7204
Virginia Suffolk City 7106
Virginia Westmoreland 7109
Washington King 7346, 7370
Washington Kitsap 7293
Washington Pierce 7250, 7361
Washington Skagit 7349
Washington Snohomish 7352, 7353
West Virginia Wayne 7600
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