Vonage Reaches 120+ Universities Through Resale Deal

Campus TeleVideo, a provider of cable TV services to 125 educational institutions, will be reselling Vonage's broadband phone services under a new reseller arrangement. This press release gives details:

Vonage Announces Partnership With Campus TeleVideo

The deal includes services at UCLA, Penn State, University of Georgia and Rutgers. This excerpt gives an idea what services will be available:

"Subscribers will be offered Vonage's full array of calling plans, which include many of the standard telephony features like 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. Campus TeleVideo'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)."

Also, this excerpt from the release's boilerplate provides useful details about Vonage's market presence:

"With more than 550,000 lines in service, Vonage continues to add more than 15,000 lines per week to its network. Over 25 million calls per week are made using Vonage, the easy-to-use, feature-rich, flat rate phone service. Vonage's award winning service is sold on the web and through national retailers like SAM's Club, RadioShack, Best Buy, Circuit City, Staples, Fry's Electronics, Office Depot and CompUSA."

AB -- 4/14/05