Vonage® Equips Over 30 New Counties With Enhanced 911 Capabilities
Vonage and PSAPs Continue Working Together to Turn Up E911 for Customers Across the U.S. in Record Time
HOLMDEL, N.J., Dec. 21 /-- Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced that it has been continuing to quickly roll out Enhanced 911 service every day to new counties across the U.S.
In just one week, Vonage has equipped an additional 76 locally-run emergency call centers, in over 30 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. Vonage continues to test and turn up new PSAPs that are VoIP ready every day and will continue to do so until it meets the FCC's mandate.
"In just three weeks we have turned on E911 service in over 110 new counties and 210 PSAPs -- bringing the total number of PSAPs equipped with E911 service to well over 900," said Jeffrey A. Citron, Vonage's Chairman and CEO. "Vonage continues to work tirelessly and effortlessly with the FCC, regulators, Congress and public safety to turn up a national E911 system and will not stop until there is equal access to E911 for Vonage customers."
Since December 13th, Vonage has added the following counties to its list of those with E911 capabilities:
STATE COUNTIES FCCID
Arizona Pinal 480
Arizona Yavapai 484
Colorado Douglas 1094
Colorado Jefferson 1068, 1162, 1180
Colorado Mesa 1165
Colorado Pitkin 1070
Florida Alachua 1443
Florida Bay 1625
Florida Brevard 1582, 1616, 1463
Florida Broward 1484, 1512, 1535, 1577, 1632, 1636, 1625, 1488
Florida Martin 1581
Florida Nassau 1594
Florida Palm Beach 1597, 1601, 1620, 1619, 1548, 1560, 1574, 1520, 1563
Florida Sarasota 1648
Florida Seminole 1472, 1556, 1614, 1652
Maine Androscoggin 3240, 3263
Maine Cumberland 3248, 3250, 3251, 3283, 3301
Maine Franklin 3253
Maine Hancock 3243
Maine Lincoln 3264
Maine Oxford 3279
Maine Kennebec 3241, 3298, 3255
Maine Penobscot 3242, 3280
Maine Waldo 3296
Maine York 3246, 3261, 3276, 3286, 3288, 3292, 3304, 3305, 3259, 3260, 3299
Maryland Alegany 3205
Maryland Cecil 3216
Minnesota Anoka 3598
Minnesota Carver 3611
Minnesota Hennepin 3604, 3607, 3683, 3626
Minnesota Washington 3732
Oregon Linn 5796
Utah Box Elder 7019
Washington King 7346
Washington Pierce 7337
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