Farmstead Telephone Group Goes Live with VoIP Service in Wisconsin

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 15  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. (AMEX:FTG) announced that on Tuesday, November 15th it installed its One IP Voice network service in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  The Company continues to roll out its One IP Voice offering in Tier 1 cities, with scheduled deployment in Dallas 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.

Spence Kiddle, One IP Voice's Vice President Business Development stated, "Our delivery of One IP Voice's Services in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is another milestone delivered on our deployment roadmap.  Later this week we plan to deliver services in Irving, Texas.  Customers are looking for simplicity in a complex business world.  Our bundled offers will allow business owners to focus on their business needs for growth, while we focus on supporting their converged communications needs as they grow.  By combining our Carrier-based Hosted telephony platform, managed network, and client side integration we make it a simple 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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