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U.S.
Senator Jon Corzine -D-NJ- to Honor Net2Phone for Export Achievement
Net2Phone brings calling alternatives to India, lowering costs
and promoting economic growth
Newark, NJ - Dec 4, 2002 - In honor of its success in providing
Internet telephony services to India, Net2Phone, Inc., the leading
provider of Voice over IP (VoIP) services, will be awarded today
a certificate for export achievement by Senator Jon Corzine (D-NJ)
and U.S. Commercial Service Deputy Assistant Secretary Bruce Blakeman
on behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The award will be presented to Net2Phone Chairman Howard Jonas
and Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen Greenberg
at the Net2Phone headquarters in Newark, New Jersey at 1:00 p.m.
Within weeks of India's telecommunications deregulation in April
of 2002, Net2Phone VoIP calling services provided the country with
one of the first alternative means of telephony to the government-run
incumbent. As a result, Indian businesses and consumers have been
able to experience the benefit of reduced communication costs through
their Net2Phone service. Net2Phone's services are marketed to consumers
by local ISP's licensed to provide VOIP services. This type of marketing
also enables access to Net2Phone's services from the popular public
calling centers that permeate the country.
"In a country where for many businesses the cost of communications
is an issue, and where homes lack even a traditional phone line,
Net2Phone offers an affordable, high-quality calling solution,"
said Senator Corzine. "We congratulate Net2Phone for its achievements
in India and look forward to further positive developments for the
company worldwide."
"This embassy is very happy that Net2Phone is receiving an
award from the Department of Commerce for its achievements in India.
This is an excellent example of leading US and Indian companies
working fruitfully together in a frontier area of technology. We
would like to wish Net2Phone even greater successes in the future,
said Indian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Alok Prasad.
"Net2Phone is advantaged by our ability to quickly move into
new areas and offer services through the strength of our proprietary,
comprehensive global network," said Stephen Greenberg. "With
hubs throughout the world and the widespread use of the Internet,
Net2Phone's services can be made available to millions in a matter
of weeks. We are very grateful to the U.S. Commercial Service, that
has helped Net2Phone in accelerating its export expansion efforts."
"This honor recognizes Net2Phone's dedication to providing
high quality VoIP service as markets around the world are freed
from monopoly control," said Howard Jonas, Chairman of Net2Phone.
"Historically India is one of the most costly nations for international
calls to destinations such as the United States. Now, through Net2Phone,
international calls from India cost pennies on the dollar as compared
to traditional offerings."
The U.S. Department of Commerce's Export Achievement Certificate
recognizes companies that are business clients of the Commerce Department's
U.S. Commercial Service, and that have used its services to make
their first export sale or open new foreign markets.
The U.S. Commercial Service is a Commerce Department agency that
helps small and midsize U.S. businesses sell their products and
services globally. The Newark U.S. Export Assistance Center is part
of the agency's worldwide network, which includes 108 U.S. Export
Assistance Centers throughout the United States and more than 150
international offices. Last year, the agency helped U.S. companies
generate $34 billion in export sales.
About Net2Phone
Founded in 1995, Net2Phone is a leading provider of voice services
over IP networks to consumers, businesses and carriers 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. Incorporated
within the company is its Cable Technologies Division, which has
developed a fully outsourced standards-compliant telephony solution
for cable operators. 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 (NYSE: T - News), and
IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT; IDT.B). For more information about Net2Phone's
products and services, please visit www.net2phone.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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