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Vonage Brings its Leading Flat-Rate Full Featured Broadband Telephony Service to British Columbia
EDISON, N.J., April 15 /CNW/ -- Vonage, the leading provider of
broadband phone service, today announced the availability of service in
Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia.
High-speed Internet subscribers in the largest city in British Columbia
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 residing alongside the Coast Mountain Range
can now choose telephone numbers within the popular (604) and (250) area
codes.
"Vonage is pleased to offer consumers in the City of Gardens the most
innovative option to choose from when seeking a better phone service," stated
Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage. "We're giving people in
British Columbia a great deal: free unlimited local and long distance calling,
including all of the features, for an attractive price -- all things they
cannot get from their local or long distance phone companies."
Leveraging the power of customers' existing broadband connections, Vonage
sets the standard for the new generation of phone service with the most
competitive residential calling plans:
- $19.99 CAD per month - Residential Basic Plan - 500 minutes of local,
toll and long distance calling throughout Canada and the United
States.
- $34.99 CAD per month - Residential Unlimited Local Plan - unlimited
local calling plus 500 minutes of Canadian and United States long
distance calling.
- $45.99 CAD per month - Residential Premium Unlimited Plan - unlimited
calling throughout Canada and the United States.
- Services and hardware included for free on any of the above plans:
- Voicemail
- Call hunt
- Call waiting
- Call transfer
- Caller ID
- Caller ID block (*67)
- Call forwarding
- International call block
- Motorola VT1000v device
- Area code selection
- Call return (*69)
- Repeat dialing
- Bandwidth saver
- Web-based account management:
- Online voicemail retrieval
- Real-time inbound/outbound call record details
- Real-time billing activity
- Great international calling rates:
- Tel Aviv 4 cents per minute
- Paris 2 cents per minute
- Sydney 3 cents per minute
About Vonage(R)
Vonage is redefining communications by offering consumers and small
businesses an affordable alternative to traditional telephone service. The
fastest growing telephony company in North America, Vonage's service area
encompasses more than 1900 active rate centers in over 120 North American
markets. Vonage is sold directly through www.vonage.com and retail partners
such as Amazon.com and Circuit City. Wholesale partners such as EarthLink,
ARMSTRONG(R), Advanced Cable Communications and the Coldwater Board of Public
Utilities resell the Vonage broadband phone service under their own unique
brands. With more than 135,000 lines in service, Vonage continues to add more
than 20,000 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.ca or call
1-877-272-0528. Vonage(R), Vonage Digital Voice(TM), Toll Free Plus(SM) and
Virtual Phone Number(SM) are trademarks of Vonage Holdings Corp.
For further information: Mitchell Slepian of Vonage, +1-732-528-2677,
mitchell.slepian@vonage.com; or Todd Barrish of Connors Communications,
+1-212-798-1410, todd@connors.com, for Vonage
/Web site: http://www.vonage.com
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