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Net2Phone Launches Consumer Long Distance
Dial-around Service
New feature offers simple access to VoIP without the purchase
of any equipment
Newark, NJ - June 23, 2003 -Net2Phone, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTOP), the
leading provider of retail Voice over IP (VoIP) services, today
announced that its Net2Phone Global Services division has launched
No-PIN Dialing as a new feature for its rechargeable calling cards.
No-PIN Dialing allows Net2Phone customers to access its worldwide
VoIP network without purchasing equipment, switching carriers, or
entering a 14-digit account number/PIN. Users simply dial the access
number of their calling card service and can place calls to anywhere
in the world from the US.
The No-PIN Dialing feature, now available for Net2Phones
PennyTalk and Net2Phone Directâ Calling Cards, is based on
a new technology created by Net2Phone that recognizes the number
from which a customer is calling and authenticates the account.
Customers can register up to 5 phone numbers (a cell phone number,
home phone number, or any other number a customer frequently calls
from) with each account at no extra charge.
This new feature enables our customers to make VoIP phone
calls from their home, business or cellular phones at no added expense
and without having to purchase any equipment, switch their phone
company, or subscribe to any additional services, said David
Span, Senior Vice President of Consumer Services. We expect
this to bring new value to our customers while helping to reduce
churn, increase recharges and improve customer retention. Now the
hassle of remembering account and PINs are eliminated, making Net2Phone
phone calls easier than ever.
Net2Phone Direct and Pennytalk are rechargeable calling cards.
Net2Phone Direct offers calls as low as 3.9 cents per minute to
almost every country in the world without any connection fees, and
can be purchased at www.net2phonedirect.com. Pennytalk offers calls
for 1 cent per minute in the United States and as low as 2 cents
per minute internationally with a 49-cent connection fee. Pennytalk
is available for purchase at www.pennytalk.net. All calls on both
cards are routed over Net2Phones award winning managed IP
network, which provides toll quality service and significant cost
savings over traditional service providers.
About Net2Phone
Founded in 1995, Net2Phone is a leading provider of voice services
over IP networks worldwide, enabling toll-quality calls between
computers, telephones, and broadband devices. 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 are (1) Net2Phone
Global Services, which sells retail VoIP solutions globally and (2)
Net2Phone Cable Telephony, 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) and
IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT; IDT.C). 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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