July 28, 2005

LAS VEGAS – Residents of the Las Vegas area now have a new, low-cost, feature-rich option for telephone service with VoiceWing, an Internet-based calling service from Verizon.

“VoiceWing lets you use something familiar – your own home phone and broadband connection – to save money and communicate in exciting new ways,” said Michelle Swittenberg, executive director for Verizon’s consumer VoIP services. “It’s like having a customized, portable telephone service and personal assistant rolled into one.”

VoiceWing customers use a small telephone adapter provided by Verizon to connect their own telephones to their home high-speed Internet connections. The telephone adapter allows the VoiceWing customer to send and receive calls over the Internet instead of using a standard phone line. The service works with both DSL and cable modem broadband connections and allows subscribers to call anyone, anywhere, worldwide. Story Continues