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 IDT's Net2Phone Expands European Offerings of Net2Phone
Direct
Agreement with Capcom enables expanded IP-based phone
services throughout Spain and Italy
Hackensack, NJ -- November 11, 1998 -- Hackensack, NJ, IDT's
(NASDAQ: IDTC) Net2Phone today announced that it has signed
a multi-year contract with Capcom S.A., based in Madrid, Spain,
to offer phone-to-phone Internet telephony services in Europe.
Under the agreement, Capcom, an emerging telecommunications
provider in
Spain, has purchased Net2Phone Direct gateways, and will resell
Net2Phone Direct services such as pre-paid phone cards and corporate
voice and fax services to its customers. Capcom currently offers
long-distance calling to businesses and consumers through postpaid
and calling card services. Capcom has planned an aggressive
rollout for Net2Phone Direct in Spain, Italy and other markets
in southern Europe.
Capcom has acquired fiber capacity from Spain to the US in order
to offer
the quality of service demanded by European businesses.
"IDT is pleased to be working with Capcom for two reasons.
First, as an
emerging telecommunications company in a rapidly deregulating
market, they have the ability to seize market share in high
technology and discounted telecommunications services,"
said Michael Long, Director of Business Development for IDT.
"Second, they will do this by saving Spanish and Italian
callers money and providing great service. Callers will be able
to make inexpensive calls using an ordinary telephone, GSM phone,
fax machine or PBX."
"We are pleased to be working with the leader in IP telephony,"
said Laura
Caprile, General Manager for Capcom and Printelcard. "Capcom,
using
Net2Phone technology and distributing Net2Phone products, wants
to give the best and most competitive services using IP. With
Printelcard, its
associated company, we are operating and selling prepaid telephone
cards
all over Spain. We want to be one of first companies operating
in the prepaid market in southern Europe."
IDT is a leading emerging multinational carrier that combines
its position
as an international telecommunications operator, its experience
as an
Internet service provider and its leading position in Internet
telephony to
provide a broad range of telecommunications services to its
wholesale and
retail customers worldwide. The company provides its customers
with
integrated and competitively priced international and domestic
long
distance, pre-paid calling cards, Internet access and, through
its Net2Phone product offerings, Internet telephony services
including Net2Phone Direct, Net2Fax, and Click2Talk. For more
information about IDT's Internet telephony services, please
visit www.net2phone.com.
Capcom is an emerging telecommunications provider in Spain.
Capcom
currently offers long-distance calling to businesses and consumers
through
postpaid and calling card services.
Except for historical information, all of the expectations and
assumptions
contained in the foregoing are forward-looking statements involving
risks
and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual
results to
differ materially from such forward-looking statements, include,
but are
not limited to, the competitive environment for Internet telephony,
changes of rates of all related telco rates and services, legislation
that may affect
the Internet Telephony industry, IDT 's ability to operate the
services
described on a large scale commercial level. For additional
information
regarding these and other risks associated with the Company's
business
refer to the Company's reports filed with the SEC.
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