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Vonage (NYSE: VG) (pronounced ) is a commercial voice over IP (VoIP) network and SIP company that provides telephone service via a broadband connection (the company's name is a play on their motto "Voice-Over-Net-AGE"). more...

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Vonage is known as the "Broadband Phone Company" and has recently marketed itself as "Leading the Internet Phone Revolution." Vonage currently holds the most subscribers, and is currently operating on 1.8 million lines having completed well over 5 billion calls. It was Vonage that has led the Voice over Broadband (VoBB), or Broadband Phone industry through its aggressive consumer marketing in the United States, Canada, UK and other countries globally.

In order to use the service, customers must purchase or use a branded "VoIP router" or a phone adapter that connects to their main router or broadband modem. In addition, an upload speed of 30–90 kbit/s as well as a reliable/QoS optimized connection is necessary to make calls without substantial lag or jitter.

Vonage was originally based in Edison, New Jersey but is now located in Holmdel, New Jersey, in a building previously occupied by Prudential . Vonage offers services to subscribers throughout the United States. The company expanded into Canada in April 2004 and into the United Kingdom in January 2005.

Vonage went public on May 24, 2006 at a price of $17 a share. The price on 1 November 2006 was $6.88 .

Prior to the IPO, Vonage solicited its customers via automated phone call announcements and emails with an offer to buy shares of the IPO. The price fell $2.15, or 12.7 percent, to close at $14.85 on the New York Stock Exchange. Vonage's IPO was the worst trading day for any IPO in 2006 up to that point. The IPO raised $531 million for the company.

Telephone number availability

Subscribers are permitted to choose any number in the country of the service they subscribe to for their primary line. Whether it be Vonage US, Canada or UK, subscribers may choose from any area code regardless of their actual residence. Subscribers also have the option of obtaining additional "virtual numbers" for a monthly fee. For example, a subscriber in Florida may choose a number with Manhattan area code 646, allowing callers from New York to be billed only for a local call. In addition, Vonage also offers 'virtual numbers' in Mexico, Canada and throughout Europe for any and all customers to choose from. This is especially beneficial to businesses with an international client base. While Vonage supports porting a telephone number in the US via the FCC's Local Number Portability (LNP), Vonage does not offer phone numbers in every area code in the United States.

Although only residents of the US, Canada, and the UK may subscribe to Vonage (paying with a credit card from their respective nation), the routers with phone ports can be plugged into the internet anywhere in the world. For instance, a student studying abroad in Brazil plugs the router and phone into cable internet service in the apartment or into an internet café that accepts notebook computers (LAN plug-ins), and the service works with the original local phone number and pricing. The student thus receives calls from and makes calls to the home country for no extra fee. International pricing is often so low that it can be cheaper than calling direct in the same country. For example, the Vonage price to Rio de Janeiro is USD$0.06/min (2005), but calling from a cell phone or payphone in Brazil costs about USD$0.20/min. Vonage also offers a USB phone adapter that connects a telephone to the USB port of a computer that has internet service, giving it a dial tone and a normal interface to the worldwide telephone network.

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