Farmstead Telephone Group Goes Live with VoIP Service in Georgia

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 10  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. (AMEX:FTG) announced that on Wednesday, November 9th it installed its One IP Voice network service in Norcross, Georgia.  The Company continues to roll out its One IP Voice offering in Tier 1 cities, with scheduled deployment in Dallas and Milwaukee later this month.  The Company's full-service VoIP hosted solution, when fully deployed in January of 2006, will provide local, long distance and internet service along with fully bundled hosted solutions to small and medium sized businesses.  Small and medium sized businesses represent approximately 47% of gross domestic product.

Al Stein, One IP Voice's Executive Vice President stated, "Norcross, Georgia was the next milestone to be delivered on our deployment roadmap. Next week we plan to deliver services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Irving, Texas.  Our bundled offer approach including the Carrier-based Hosted telephony platform, managed network, and client side integration make it an easy choice for small business owners."   One IP Voice is taking a complete portfolio approach to meeting SMB customer needs unlike others in the industry.

About One IP Voice

One IP Voice, a wholly owned subsidiary of Farmstead Telephone Group, provides carrier-based Hosted IP Telephony solutions along with Network Services.  The primary target of the One IP Voice offering will be to the Small to Medium Businesses (SMB) market for the under 200-employee businesses. The facilities-based One IP Voice offering will include Hosted IP Centrex and IP Trunking services, bundled with private One IP Voice "Last Mile" connectivity on a national basis, long distance calling, On Net calling, local area calling, 911 capabilities and Wide Area Network (WAN) voice and data connectivity.  One IP Voice will also offer a consumer VoIP product.

About Farmstead

Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. is an Avaya Inc. Platinum Business Partner, selling, installing and maintaining both new and refurbished Avaya business communications products nationwide.  Further information about Farmstead Telephone may be found at http://www.farmstead.com/.

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