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Net2Phone
Closes Public Offering, Including Exercise of Over-allotment Option
An Additional 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock at $4.50 per share
Newark, NJ -November 25, 2003 - Net2Phone, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTOP)
today announced that the underwriters of its public offering of
10.5 million shares of common stock have exercised, in part, their
over-allotment option and purchased an additional 1 million shares
of Net2Phones common stock at $4.50 per share. The sale of
the additional 1 million shares was consummated earlier today with
the consummation of the sale of the 10.5 million shares. In total,
the public offering, plus an additional 2.5 million shares purchased
by IDT Corporation and Liberty Media at $4.50 per share, generated
gross proceeds to Net2Phone of approximately $63 million. Net2Phone
intends to use the proceeds from the offerings for general corporate
purposes, capital expenditures, and working capital, including funding
its cable telephony business.
JPMorgan Securities Inc. acted as sole book running manager of
the offering and Jefferies & Company acted as joint lead manager.
Blaylock & Partners LLP acted as co-manager. Copies of the final
prospectus related to the common stock offering may be obtained
from J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., 277 Park Avenue, New York, NY
10172; Jefferies & Company, Inc., 520 Madison Avenue, New York,
NY 10022; and Blaylock & Partners LLP, 399 Park Avenue, New
York, NY 10022
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: L; 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 factor.
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