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Net2Phone
to Provide Telephony Services for Third Caribbean Service Provider
The Cable of St. Kitts Selects Net2Phone to deliver VoIP services
island-wide
Newark, NJ and St. Kitts - March 8, 2004 - Net2Phone (NASDAQ: NTOP),
and The Cable of St. Kitts today announced a memorandum of understanding
to deploy a suite of Net2Phones VoIP services, including Net2Phone
VoiceLine, throughout the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
The Cable, the only cable operator in St. Kitts, will offer its
customers in St. Kitts Net2Phones VoiceLine residential broadband
telephony service over its cable network. Net2Phone VoiceLine is
the companys SIP-based broadband telephony service, enabling
service providers to offer competitive local, long distance and
international inbound and outbound phone services with advanced
features utilizing their existing infrastructure (See Net2Phone
Unveils SIP Solutions for Broadband Providers released earlier
today). The Cable will also market prefix dial international services
to customers without broadband allowing them to benefit from the
cost savings associated with Net2Phone powered VoIP services. Consumers
and businesses federation-wide will be able to access The Cables
competitively priced international service by dialing a three digit
access code in a similar manner to the 10-10-xxx dial around services
in the United States.
All of these services draw on Net2Phones SIP (Session Initiated
Protocol) hosted services platform that allows the development and
support of multiple voice applications and back office integration
tools all using the same infrastructure. The result is that service
providers are able to maximize their telephony revenue by offering
more services.
We could not be more pleased with our relationship with The
Cable to deliver affordable quality communications solutions for
the people of St. Kitts and Nevis, said Stephen Greenberg,
CEO of Net2Phone. While it is our third agreement in the region
- after Liberty Cablevision of Puerto Rico and C&W-owned TSTT
- this is far from the last, as we are continuing our Caribbean
strategy to empower service providers with value-added VoIP services.
Under the brand The Cable Powered by Net2Phone, Net2Phone
VoiceLine will offer The Cables customers features such as
call waiting, caller ID, voice mail and online account management
tools as well as competitive international calling plans.
With the help of Net2Phone, we can now give our customers
the triple play of voice, video and data, said W.R. Ewing,
CEO of The Cable. Employing Net2Phones technology and
expertise in our telephony deployment provides us with both speed
to market and the ability to deliver multiple affordable telephony
services throughout St. Kitts and Nevis.
Following the execution of the definitive agreement, The Cable
expects to deploy the VoIP telephony service and offer prefix dial
services by the second half of 2004 throughout the Federation of
St. Kitts and Nevis.
About Net2Phone
Founded in 1995, Net2Phone is a leading provider of retail VoIP
services globally, comprised of two wholly owned subsidiaries. Net2Phone
Global Services ("NGS") provides consumers and small businesses
globally with bundled voice and enhanced services either directly
or via partners. Its robust hosted services platform enables service
providers, including high speed data providers, wireless providers
and telecommunications operators, with a host of VoIP solutions
- including residential broadband telephony, calling cards, prefix
dialing and enterprise services globally. The same platform supports
Net2Phones more than 100,000 consumer and corporate users
in the US as well as hundreds of thousands more overseas. Net2Phone
Cable Telephony ("NCT") provides cable operators with
a turn-key solution to deliver residential phone service to their
subscribers. While the opportunities for each unit differ, each
division relies on quality partners for distribution and each utilizes
a centralized platform to deliver retail services at a low incremental
cost. 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
<http://www.net2phone.com>.
About The Cable
Founded in 1983 The Cable has offered Cable Television Services
on the island of St. Kitts for more than twenty years with its cable
TV network passing more than 98% of homes and businesses on the
island. Its Network has recently undergone substantial rebuilding
and upgrading, including the provision of a fiber optic ring around
the island bringing high speed IP Services within reach of all Cable
Television Customers.
The Cable was recently awarded a Telecommunications License allowing
it to provide a full range of telecommunications services in The
Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in competition with the incumbent
monopoly operator Cable & Wireless St. Kitts and Nevis Ltd.
Consequently The Cable has entered into an Interconnection Agreement
with the incumbent to enable provision of seamless telephone service
between customers of both networks.
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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