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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 Net2Phones
fully managed end-to-end IP telephony service over LCVs 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.
Net2Phones 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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