Vonage® Now Provides Emergency 911 Service in Over 2500 Calling Centers Across the Nation
HOLMDEL, N.J., Feb. 9/ -- 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
About Vonage®
Vonage is a pioneer in the broadband phone industry. Vonage's award winning service is sold on the web and through national retailers like SAM's Club, Best Buy, Circuit City, Staples, Fry's Electronics, Office Depot and CompUSA. Vonage Holdings Corporation is headquartered in Holmdel, New Jersey. For more information about Vonage's products and services, please visit www.vonage.com/ or call 1-VONAGE-HELP. Vonage® is a trademark of Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp.
Source: Vonage
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