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Net2Phone
to Provide VoIP Services in Vietnam with largest ISP
Newark, NJ, Chicago, Ill. and Hanoi, Vietnam - April 01, 2004 -
Net2Phone Global Services (NGS), LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Net2Phone, Inc. (Nasdaq: NTOP), the leading provider of retail
Voice over IP (VoIP) services, today announced that state-owned
Vietnam Datacommunications Company (VDC), the largest provider of
data services in Vietnam, has today launched a campaign to market
Net2Phone's VoIP services to its corporate and residential customers
throughout Vietnam.
Net2Phone provides a suite of SIP-based hosted telecommunications
solutions to telcos and ISPs globally facilitating quick roll out
of cost effective quality VoIP solutions. For Vietnam, Net2Phone
has partnered with VITC, a U.S.-based communications firm with operations
in Asia, to secure relationships with top Vietnamese ISPs, including
VDC, to deliver services to both small-to-mid sized businesses and
consumers. VDC is the largest data services provider in Vietnam
with 65% market share, servicing 1.6 million customers nationwide.
"Net2Phone brings about true convergence of voice on data
networks, empowering us to provide a bridge for Vietnamese customers
to access quality affordable telecommunications services,"
said Thomas O'Connor, CEO of VITC. "We are excited to deliver
best-of-breed technology throughout Vietnam, drawing on Net2Phone's
expertise combined with our ability to target effective solutions
for the Vietnamese marketplace."
The companies jointly designed these solutions to cater to the
needs of the Vietnamese marketplace, including billing in Dong,
the local currency, and providing customer support in Vietnamese
with web-based account-management tools and software.
"Net2Phone's services deliver added value to our customers,
providing affordable communications while giving us a 'sticky' application
to retain customers," said Mr.Hoang Minh Cuong - Deputy Director
at VDC. "Their ability to customize solutions by offering solutions
in our currency and language while giving us flexibility of products
to offer to our different customers has been exceptional."
According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Vietnam
is the second fastest-growing telecommunications marketplace in
the world. With more than 80 million people in the country, Vietnam
represents a large market of customers looking for cost-effective
communication solutions.
"With their tremendous distribution networks within both the
corporate and residential sectors, both VDC and VITC are well positioned
to accelerate the adoption of VoIP services throughout Vietnam,"
said Jonathan Reich, CEO of Net2Phone Global Services. "As
the market leader with the support of the Vietnamese government,
VDC is an ideal channel partner for Net2Phone, enabling us to provide
value-added telecommunications services leveraging their footprint
and our platform."
This arrangement builds on Net2Phone' strategy to offer hosted
telecommunications solutions to partners globally, enabling them
to offer low-cost VoIP services to their customers quickly, easily
and at a low incremental cost. As a hosted provider, Net2Phone uses
its centrally managed platform to empower its partners with the
tools they need to offer consumer and corporate customers a full
suite of telecommunications services, including residential broadband
telephony, calling cards, corporate solutions, VoIP services for
Internet cafes and public call centers, and prefix code dialing
services.
About Net2Phone
Net2Phone is the only provider of PacketCable, SIP and wireless
VoIP solutions in the world. As leaders in enabling telecom service
providers and cable operators with turn-key hosted VoIP telephony
services, Net2Phone has routed billions of retail VoIP minutes globally,
servicing more than 100,000 users in the US as well as hundreds
of thousands of more overseas. Net2Phone's hosted SIP platform provides
partners with residential broadband telephony, calling cards, prefix
dialing and enterprise services in over 100 countries. Net2Phone's
PacketCable platform provides cable operators with the ability to
deliver a primary line replacement service with guaranteed QoS and
features such as E911. 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.
About VDC
VDC, a subsidiary under VNPT (Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications
Corporation), is a leading company in the IT industry in Vietnam.
VDC is one of the larger IXP/ISPs and occupies approximately 65%
of the market share of Internet service providers in Vietnam with
growth of 200% annually. VDC is the only ISP with Internet network
coverage in 63 provinces and cities throughout Vietnam. Some of
the main products and services provided by VDC include: Internet,
Frame relay, online services, training and consulting services and
IT Integrated solutions. Some recent projects include: Design and
set-up of the accounting system WAN for Post Offices in the cities
and provinces all over the country; and Designing and set-up of
the Internet network in all provinces and cities of Vietnam. For
more information about VDC's products and services, please visit
http://vdc.com.vn
About VITC
VITC is a next-generation, leading telecommunications carrier with
international network operations focused on serving the needs of
rapidly growing markets in Asia. As a U.S.-based carrier with extensive
operations there and other rapidly developing telecommunication
markets around the world, VITC provides a bridge for its customers
to access markets for voice, data, and other networking services
using the latest technologies. For more information about VITC services,
please visit http://www.vitcnet.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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