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Net2Phone Named One of New Jersey's Fastest
Growing Technology Companies in Deloitte & Touche "Fast 50" Program
Net2Phone Attributes Revenue Growth to its Cutting-Edge Innovation
and Expanding Marketshare
Newark, NJ, August 15, 2002 - Net2Phone, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTOP), a
leading provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) services, announced today
that it has been ranked ninth in Deloitte & Touche's prestigious
"Technology Fast 50" Program for New Jersey, a ranking
of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the area. Rankings
are based on the percentage of growth in fiscal year revenues from
1997-2001.
"Net2Phone is proud to be included in the top 10 of prestigious
technology companies," said Stephen Greenberg, CEO of Net2Phone.
"In a market that changes daily, we attribute our revenue growth
over the last five years to our cutting edge technology, brand name
and quality of service-factors that have contributed to expanding
our retail and wholesale market share worldwide. We look forward
to continued revenue growth and increased shareholder value resulting
from our continued focus on our core strengths and developing technologies."
"In today's economy, triple-digit percentage revenue growth
is an exceptional accomplishment. We commend Net2Phone for making
the commitment to technology and delivering on the promise of market
longevity. We are proud to honor Net2Phone as a Deloitte & Touche
Technology Fast 50 winner," said Ray Lewis, Technology, Media
& Telecommunications Partner at Deloitte & Touche.
Net2Phone's increase in revenues from 1997 to 2001 resulted in
a 9th ranking overall in the Fast 50 for New Jersey. The average
increase in revenues among companies who made the Fast 50 for this
region was 794% percent.
To qualify for the Fast 50, companies must have had operating revenues
of at least $50,000 in 1997 and $1,000,000 in 2001, must be public
or private companies headquartered in New Jersey, and be "technology
companies" defined as companies that own proprietary technology
which contributes to a significant portion of the company's operating
revenues or devotes a high percentage of effort to research and
development of technology.
Winners of the 20 regional Technology Fast 50 programs in the United
States and Canada are automatically entered in the Deloitte &
Touche Technology Fast 500 program, which ranks North America's
top 500 fastest growing technology companies. For more information
on the Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 or Fast 500 programs, visit
www.fast500.com.
Founded in 1995, Net2Phone is a leading provider of voice services
over IP networks to consumers and businesses worldwide. With millions
of users around the world, Net2Phone enables toll-quality calls
between computers, telephones, and broadband devices utilizing IP
networks. Recognized as the first company to bridge the Internet
with the public switched telephone network, Net2Phone has routed
billions of minutes of traffic over its award-winning network. Traded
on the NASDAQ under the symbol NTOP, Net2Phone's strategic partners
and investors include Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: LMC.A; LMC.B),
AT&T Corporation (NYSE: T), and IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT;
IDT.B). For more information about Net2Phone's products and services,
please visit www.net2phone.com.
About Deloitte & Touche
Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional
services firms, provides assurance and advisory, tax, and management
consulting services through nearly 30,000 people in more than 100
U.S. cities. The firm is dedicated to helping its clients and its
people excel. Known as an employer of choice for innovative human
resources programs, Deloitte & Touche has been recognized as
one of the "100 Best Companies to Work For in America"
by Fortune magazine for five consecutive years. Deloitte & Touche
refers to Deloitte & Touche LLP and related entities. Deloitte
& Touche is the US national practice of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu is a Swiss Verein, and each of its national
practices is a separate and independent legal entity. For more information,
please visit Deloitte & Touche's web site at www.deloitte.com/us.
For more information on the Technology Fast 50 and Fast 500 programs,
please visit www.fast50.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
These forward- looking statements involve risks and uncertainties
and actual results could differ materially from those discussed
in the forward-looking statements. For this purpose, any statements
contained in this press release that are not statements of historical
fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Factors which
may affect the Company's results include, but are not limited to,
the Company's ability to expand its customer base, the Company's
ability to develop additional and leverage its existing distribution
channels for its products and solutions, dependence on strategic
and channel partners including their ability to distribute the Company's
products and meet or renew their financial commitments, the Company's
ability to address international markets, the effectiveness of the
Company's sales and marketing activities, the acceptance of the
Company's products in the marketplace, the timing and scope of deployments
of the Company's products by customers, fluctuations in customer
sales cycles, customers' ability to obtain additional funding, technical
difficulties with respect to the Company's products or products
in development, the need for ongoing product development in an environment
of rapid technological change, the emergence of new competitors
in the marketplace, the Company's ability to compete successfully
against established competitors with greater resources, the uncertainty
of future governmental regulation, the Company's ability to manage
growth, obtain patent protection, and obtain additional funds, general
economic conditions and other risks discussed in this Report and
in the Company's other filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. All forward-looking statements and risk factors included
in this document are made as of the date hereof, based on information
available to the Company as of the date thereof, and the Company
assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or
risk factors.
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