The Vonage(R) 'Pimp That Phone' Contest is Giving Four Design Enthusiasts the Opportunity to Turn Ordinary Telephones into Works of Art - And 'You' Have the Power to Decide the Winner

'Calling all Artists'

EDISON, N.J., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage Marketing, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp., the leader in broadband telephony, is giving ordinary home telephones a designer appeal with "Pimp That Phone" -- a contest derived from the wildly popular technology craze called case modding. Case modding -- the art of decking out the CPU of your personal computer to give it a personal touch -- is now moving to the telephone through the use of electric colors, dazzling jewels, and a heavy dose of imagination to make them truly one of a kind.

With creativity, a steady hand and a personalized touch, an ordinary home telephone will be transformed into the ultimate work of art. Vonage, exclusive sponsor of "Pimp That Phone", has pitted four celebrity technology contestants against each other to compete to see who can express their artistic abilities the best and can "Pimp That Phone" with the greatest success. The winner will then be crowned the ultimate "Pimp Supreme" walking away with an array of cash and prizes.

Visitors will have the opportunity to see the next-generation of communications systems, while learning about Vonage's full-featured broadband telephony service during a tour at the House of Innoventions. The House of Innoventions showcases the latest trends in home technology and is located in the INNOVENTIONS East pavilion at Epcot®. Visitors to INNOVENTIONS discover the latest trends in science and technology as they experience the fun and excitement at each of 14 exhibits.

Alliance Delivers Local Number Portability and Third Party Verification for Current and Emerging Broadband Companies

Synchronoss and 3PV Partner To Manage Mission Critical Aspects of VoIP Adoption

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. and ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- With telecommunications analysts predicting continued rapid growth in consumer and enterprise adoption of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), two companies have joined forces to allow broadband companies to grow their subscriber bases efficiently and cost effectively while maintaining regulatory compliance.

Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of e-commerce channel automation and exception management to the telecom marketplace. Third Party Verification, Inc. (3PV®) offers speech enabled, agent assisted, and e-commerce Third Party Verification (TPV) services, as well as call recording and voice-based biometric security solutions. Together, the two companies have joined forces to jointly offer local number portability and third party verification, respectively, to new and existing broadband companies. Most recently, the companies teamed up to provide comprehensive local number portability (LNP), e-commerce order management technology, and third party verification services to Vonage America, a subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp.

EDISON, N.J., July 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Vonage, a leading broadband phone company and VTech, one of the largest suppliers of corded and cordless phones in North America today announced that the IP-8100-2, cordless broadband phone system configured with Vonage's flat-rate full-featured phone service will be available at over 8,000 retailers July 24, 2005. This product, configured with the Texas Instruments (TI) TNETV1060 VoIP chipset, has a Retail Price of $149.99, and offers $50 mail in rebate after sixty days of service.

"Vonage is pleased to offer its customers the world's first broadband enabled cordless phone system, as the company is always seeking to offer a variety of hardware choices for its innovative flat-rate, full featured calling plans that are rapidly becoming the touchstone of the telecommunications market," stated Jeffrey A. Citron, chairman and CEO of Vonage Holdings Corp. "Vonage's service coupled with VTech's great design and retail strength makes this a strong partnership for two companies who share the same customer service vision of quality and ease of use."

Brightpoint, through its Accesspoint Dealer Network program, will offer its current and future dealers the opportunity to become Authorized Vonage Agents. Its dealers will be able to offer Vonage broadband telephony service plans, approved devices and activate new customer accounts.

Accesspoint is Brightpoint's value-enhancing master agent program that supports qualified dealers with a comprehensive group of services. This program, which currently serves more than 1,800 dealers nationwide, creates opportunities for independent dealers, agents and specialty retailers to offer wireless products and service activations, and earn highly competitive commissions. More information is available at www.access-point.com.

EDISON, NJ, July 7- Vonage, the leading provider of broadband phone service, today announced a partnership with Paltalk to resell broadband telephony service to its subscriber base within the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Paltalk is the largest Instant Chat (IC) community on the Internet with over 3.5 million active members participating in voice and video enabled chat rooms. The Paltalk Messenger allows members to administer their own voice and video conferences and Instant Message (IM) with buddies on MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and ICQ. Vonage will offer Paltalk's subscribers flat rate residential calling plans starting at $14.99 (USD), $19.99 (CAD) and 9.99 (GBP).

Paltalk will partner with Vonage to deploy an affordable telephony service to its broadband subscriber base. Subscribers will be offered Vonage's full array of calling plans, which include many of the standard telephony features such as caller ID, call waiting and voicemail and a number of proprietary features at no additional cost. These features include web-based voicemail, area code selection, online account management and bandwidth saver as well as a host of others. Paltalk's customers selecting any of Vonage's calling plans will also benefit from significantly reduced international rates (i.e., London and Hong Kong are 3 cents per minute, Tel Aviv is 4 cents per minute).