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Vonage said it exceeded 400,000 lines on its network, doubling it...

Vonage said it exceeded 400,000 lines on its network, doubling its subscriber base in less than 6 months. It said it ended 2004 with more than 390,000 lines in service having added 115,000 lines in the 4th quarter alone.…

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Vonage also announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Wed.: (1) It has teamed with UTStarcom to introduce a Wi-Fi handset, F1000, configured with Vonage’s VoIP services. It said the product will be available to Vonage subscribers during spring or summer for 802.11b networks nationwide. (2) It has extended its relationship with Texas Instruments (TI) to include TI VoIP software and semiconductors in new Vonage-compatible communications products available from Viseon and VTech Communications. The 2 new devices include a digital home telephone from Viseon and a cordless broadband telephone system from VTech and are expected to be available in 2005. (3) It has joined with VTech to develop a 5.8 GHz expandable broadband phone system configured with Vonage’s service. It said the product, configured with the TI TNETV1060 VoIP chipset, will be available at over 8,000 retail locations nationwide during spring-summer.