Broadband Phone Service is available in Beaumont, Texas.
Press Release Summary:
Broadband Telephone Service offers consumers and small businesses alternative to traditional telephone service. It provides unlimited local and long distance calling and includes call waiting, call forwarding, and voicemail for one flat monthly rate. Additional features include call transfer, caller ID, repeat dialing, web-based account management, real-time inbound/outbound call record details, and real-time billing activity.
Original Press Release:
Vonage® Launches Service in Beaumont, Texas
Unlimited Local and Long Distance Calling for $34.99 a Month Comes to the Banks of the Neches River
Edison, NJ, February 19, 2004 - Vonage, a leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced the availability of service in Beaumont, Texas.
High-speed Internet subscribers in Jefferson County can now take advantage of Vonage's broadband phone service offering free unlimited local and long distance calling, which includes the most popular features like call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail for one low, flat monthly rate. Vonage customers nestled near the Neches River banks can now keep their current numbers or choose telephone numbers within the popular (409) area code.
"Residents and small businesses in a community known for its southern hospitality and friendliness will surely consider Vonage's service the most friendly and easiest to use, as it offers flat-rate, full featured digital telephony service replete with all of the typical features and a number of proprietary features such as online voicemail and Web-based account management * which are not available from traditional phone carriers in the community," said Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman & CEO of Vonage. "Vonage is the most exciting telephony plan seen in decades. The Museum Capital of Texas has a new exhibition: traditional phone service from the Bells."
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:
o $14.99/month - Residential Basic Plan - 500 minutes of local, toll and long distance calling throughout the United States and Canada.
o $24.99/month - Residential Unlimited Local Plan - unlimited local calling plus 500 minutes of United States long distance and Canadian calling.
o $34.99/month - Residential Premium Unlimited Plan - unlimited calling throughout the United States and Canada.
o $39.99/month - Small Business Basic Plan - 1500 minutes of calling throughout the United States and Canada, including a free dedicated fax line.
o $49.99/month - Small Business Unlimited Plan - for unlimited calling throughout the United States and Canada, including a free dedicated fax line.
o Services and hardware included for free on any of the above plans:
o $14.99/month - Residential Basic Plan - 500 minutes of local, toll and long distance calling throughout the United States and Canada.
o $24.99/month - Residential Unlimited Local Plan - unlimited local calling plus 500 minutes of United States long distance and Canadian calling.
o $34.99/month - Residential Premium Unlimited Plan - unlimited calling throughout the United States and Canada.
o $39.99/month - Small Business Basic Plan - 1500 minutes of calling throughout the United States and Canada, including a free dedicated fax line.
o $49.99/month - Small Business Unlimited Plan - for 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:
o Voicemail
o Call hunt
o Call waiting
o Call transfer
o Caller ID
o Caller ID block (*67)
o Call forwarding
o International call block
o Motorola VT1000v device
o Area code selection
o Call return (*69)
o Repeat dialing
o Web-based account management
o Bandwidth saver
o Online voicemail retrieval
o Real-time inbound/outbound call record details
o Real-time billing activity
o Great international calling rates:
- Tel Aviv 6 cents per minute
- London 5 cents per minute
- Sydney 6 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 the US, Vonage's service area encompasses more than 1900 active rate centers in over 113 US markets. Vonage is sold directly through www.vonage.com and retail partners such as Amazon.com. 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 100,000 lines in service, Vonage continues to add more than 15,000 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 www.vonage.com or call 1-VONAGE-HELP. Vonage®, Vonage Digital Voice(TM), Toll Free PlusSM and Virtual Phone NumberSM are trademarks of Vonage Holdings Corp
