Vonage announces the availability of service in Bethalto, East St. Louis, Edwardsville, Highland and Troy, Illinois.

High-speed Internet subscribers working and residing in southern Illinois can now take advantage of Vonage's broadband phone, which offers unlimited local and long distance calling and popular features like call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail for one low, flat monthly rate. Vonage customers living near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers can now keep their current numbers or choose telephone numbers within the popular (618) area code.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, announced the availability of service in Bethany, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Harrison, Lebanon and Middletown, Ohio.

High-speed Internet subscribers working and residing near the Ohio River can now take advantage of Vonage's broadband phone service, which offers unlimited local and long distance calling and popular features like call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail for one low, flat monthly rate. Vonage customers in the southwestern corner of Ohio can now keep their current numbers or choose telephone numbers within the popular (513) area code.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, announced the availability of service in Bend, Hood River, Prineville, Redmond and the Dalles, Oregon. High-speed Internet subscribers working and residing near the Deschutes River can now take advantage of Vonage's broadband phone service, which offers unlimited local and long distance calling, with popular features like call waiting, call forwarding and voicemail for one low, flat monthly rate. Vonage customers near the Cascade Mountains can now keep their current numbers or choose telephone numbers within the popular (541) area code.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, announced that it has turned on emergency 911 service in over 2,200 PSAPs across the country. In less than a week, Vonage equipped over 200 calling centers in more than 35 new counties, with 911 calling capabilities.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced the availability of Virtual Numbers with area codes from Austria, France, Ireland, Italy and Spain. European friends, family and business associates residing and working within these nations can now call U.S.-based Vonage customers for the price of a local call.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., announced it will stream Dave Navarro's Indie 103.1 FM radio show directly from its web site, http://www.vonage.com. Navarro will be hosting the radio show from the Premiere Lounge at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, January 23 and 24, 3:00 - 5:00 MST. Those interested in accessing the live streaming audio feed can click on the graphic on home page of Vonage.com or can dial 1-700-367-1031 to listen to the programming.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading provider of broadband phone service, announced that it now has emergency 911 service in over 1700 PSAPs across the country. In just one week, Vonage equipped an additional 112 calling centers, in over 50 new counties, with 911 calling capabilities.

Vonage Holdings Corp, a leading provider of broadband phone service, announced that it has raised $250 million in convertible debt funding with a group of investors led by affiliates of Bain Capital, with strong participation from leading financial institutions and existing investors including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Meritech Capital Partners. The latest round of financing brings total investment in the company to $658 million.

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.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading broadband phone company, and UTStarcom Inc., a global leader in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and services, today launched the F1000, a portable Wi-Fi handset manufactured by UTStarcom and configured with Vonage's Voice over IP (VoIP) phone service. This product, which will offer mobility across 802.11b networks, is now available at http://www.vonage.com for $129.99 with a $50 instant rebate for a total of $79.99.

Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., a leading broadband telephony provider, announced that throughout the Christmas season children will be able to dial *101 from a Vonage line and hear a recording from Santa Claus. After hearing the recorded message, they will be able to leave Santa a message and tell him what they want for Christmas.

Vonage the nation's largest provider of VoIP, could now be barred from allowing new customers to sign up. This is because Vonage failed to meet the required deadline of the FCC providing customers with reliable emergency 911 (E911) services to its subscribers. AT&T also failed to meet the Monday, November 28th deadline. You can read more about the ruling here "Internet Phone Providers Fall Short on 911".

Peer 1 Network Enterprises, Inc. announced that Vonage Canada has selected Peer 1 to provide Internet infrastructure for Vonage Canada's Internet phone service roll-out to a growing number of Canadian homes and businesses.

Vonage Canada and its parent company Vonage Holdings Corp. currently supply more than 1,000,000 customers in North America with telephone service over the Internet, providing customers with a reliable network and secure infrastructure for dependable, trustworthy service. To further expand its network, Vonage Canada sought to partner with an Internet network and infrastructure provider that could provide world-class service uptime, full redundancy and disaster recovery solutions to minimize service disruptions. As consumer acceptance of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) grows, and more people subscribe to Vonage Internet Phone Service, Peer 1 Network's scalability across numerous locations becomes even more critical.

Force10 Networks today announced that Vonage Networks, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp. and the leading provider of broadband telephone services to residential customers in the U.S., is deploying the TeraScale E-Series switch/routers to increase the capacity of its nationwide network and build in the scalability to support an increase in VoIP calls over the next several years. Leveraging the industry-leading density and innovative architecture of the Force10 TeraScale E-Series, Vonage is upgrading its network with a combination of high density Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet to accommodate increasing traffic demands.

Though the discussion of SPIT (SPam over Internet Telephony) was not a major topic during the VON Expo, it was brought up. Jeffrey Citron, chief executive of Vonage, answered a few questions in regards to security issues but he apparently wasn't ready to share their strategy.