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Vonage is a publicly held Internet telephony service provider, providing commercial telecommunication services based on voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). The company was founded in 2001 and maintains headquarters in Holmdel Township, New Jersey. The company first offered subscription service in the United States, then Canada in 2004 and the United Kingdom in 2005. As of 2014, Vonage claims approximately 2.5 million subscriber lines,〔(Vonage Investor Relations FAQs ). Vonage.com.〕 in conjunction with their services provided through mobile applications. The company name is said to be a play on their motto "Voice-Over-Net-AGE". The company previously used the trademark "The Broadband Phone Company",〔("USPTO Latest Status Info" ) U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval, January 13, 2004.〕 and changed the slogan later it to "Sounds Good".〔("Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)" ) U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Applications and Registrations Retrieval, April 8, 2010.〕 Currently, it is using the slogan "Crazy Generous". ==History== Jeff Pulver, VoIP proponent and owner of the VON conferences (today co-founder of Zula) incubated the then-called Min-X.com in Melville, New York between December 1999 and December 2000. Based on experience at Cantor Fitzgerald, Pulver developed a market in which IP telephony capacity could be traded in spot and futures contracts. By summer 2000, Min-X.com employed six technologists, former bond- or stock traders. Jeffrey Citron, former CEO and majority shareholder at Datek Online, was the first major investor in the early development stages. In October 2000, Citron invested $1 million as seed capital. In December 2000, Citron and Carlos Bhola, an investment banker, coined the business's new name, borrowing from Pulver's acronym ''VON'' for ''Voice on the Net'', and ''age,'' meaning ''time'', to form ''Vonage.'' In January 2001, Vonage incorporated and moved to Edison, New Jersey.〔Vittore, Vince (November 17, 2003) (Fantastic Voyage ). Retrieved 2010-03-30.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vonage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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