FTG Farmstead Telephone Grp.

EAST HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. (AMEX:FTG) announced that on Friday, November 18th it had gone live with its One IP Voice service in Dallas, Texas, thus completing the build out of its One IP Voice Hosted VoIP service across the United States. The Company plans to be fully deployed in January of 2006 providing local, long distance and internet service along with fully bundled hosted solutions to small and medium sized businesses throughout the United States. Small and medium sized businesses represent over 5.6 million businesses domestically. Jean-Marc Stiegemeier, Farmstead's Chairman and CEO, stated, "We set our course in 2005 to become a full service carrier based VoIP provider and have consistently met our milestones. Our carrier based platform was launched in late September, and we have since deployed the One IP Voice service in Tier 1 cities nationally, right on schedule. Over the next few weeks, we will be completing our Tier 1 support platform to aid our One IP Voice offering, preparing for our planned January launch to the SMB community." 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/. To add yourself to our email distribution list, click here: http://www.b2i.us/frame.asp?BzID=1042&to=ea&Nav=1&S=0&L=1 This release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. In addition to historical information, investors should consider carefully the risks associated with an investment in the Company's securities as previously outlined by the Company in its prior filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Investor Contact: Alex Lewis or Dave Gentry Aurelius Consulting Group 407-644-4256 http://www.runonideas.com/ Contact: Mel Lipes Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. Voice: 860-610-6005 Fax: 860-282-5737 DATASOURCE: Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc. CONTACT: Investor Contacts: Alex Lewis or Dave Gentry of Aurelius Consulting Group, +1-407-644-4256, ; or Mel Lipes of Farmstead Telephone Group, Inc., +1-860-610-6005 Web site: http://www.farmstead.com/

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