Vonage to Introduce Wi-Fi Phone

by Ed Oswald

January 4, 2005, 1:46 PM

Broadband telephone company Vonage is expected to announce plans Tuesday for a Wi-Fi phone that could make calls through a customer's wireless home network or at wireless hotspots, USA Today reported Tuesday. Vonage says it would work like a cell phone, but would not cost the subscriber any additional fees to use the service.

Vonage expects to be able to offer the phone to its 400,000 subscribers at a cost of about $100 per device. According to CEO Jeffrey Citron, it's a feature that Vonage has been planning to add for quite a while. "Our customers are asking for it," he said. The phone should be available by June of this year.

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i replace my bellsouth phone service with Vonage.Not only is it cheaper,but the free features with this service is awesome...

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I switched about a year ago and I've never looked back. Even with my additional toll free number for my business, I'm still paying less than $35 a month for full phone service. It is insane how much money I saved over the past year. With the Wi-fi phone, I can give my cel phone a little bit of a break too!

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