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Net2Phone and Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico Route Millionth Cable Telephony Minute
Cable Voice over IP (VoIP) performance in Puerto Rico is in line with primary line usage

Newark, NJ - August 13, 2003 - Net2Phone, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTOP) and Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico (LCV) today announced the one millionth minute of cumulative talk time using Net2Phone’s fully managed end-to-end IP telephony service over LCV’s HFC cable network.

After an initial trial period in 2002, LCV began rolling out a paid local and long distance phone service earlier this year through an outsourcing relationship with Net2Phone. Dubbed “Liberty Voice Links,” LCV has started offering select customers two billing plan options: a variable per minute ‘Every Day’ plan or a flat monthly rate ‘Celebrity’ plan. Both options include all available features, such as call waiting, caller ID, directory assistance, e911, as well as unlimited local calling. On average, customers have been generating about 1,100 minutes of use per month.

“Delivering integrated services over a converged network is clearly the future of cable,” said Jose Alegria, General Manager of Liberty Cablevision Puerto Rico. “The successful initial rollout of Liberty Voice Links indicates that Net2Phone offers both a cost-effective and high-quality replacement telephony offering over an HFC network.”

Net2Phone’s cable voice platform permits cable operators to deploy telephony services easily via a fully outsourced solution, thereby enabling them to offer quality telephony services to their customers, reduce churn, generate incremental revenue and keep CapEx and operating expenses at a minimum.

The cable operator maintains ownership of the customer, service brand, and Tier I customer and technical support, while Net2Phone supports the back office platform, switching and transport, ongoing operations and Tier II+ technical support to deliver a fully managed QoS IP solution. Net2Phone tracks and monitors voice quality and network performance metrics from start to finish and provides cable operators with a full view into telephone calls routed over their network. Consumers benefit from savings compared to the cost of their current phone service, in addition to receiving an aggregating offering of cable TV, high-speed Internet access and telephone services.

Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico is a wholly-owned subsidiary ofLiberty Media Corporation. The 125,000 subscriber cable system provides cable services to 37 municipalities of the east, central and northern regions of the island of Puerto Rico. In the second quarter of 2002, the company launched the first full interactive television service on the island, as well as high-speed data access through cable modems. Liberty Cablevision's target is to reach its entire subscriber base with these innovative services by the first quarter of 2004.

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, using components from companies such as Arris, Motorola, Gallery iPT, Mind CTI, Nuera and CoreOS. 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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