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Northland
Selects Net2Phone for Cable Telephony Deployment
New Orleans, LA May 3, 2004 -- Net2Phone (NASDAQ: NTOP)
today announced that it will provide cable voice services to Northland
Cable Television, passing more than 315,000 homes in the United
States. Net2Phones hosted telephony platform empowers Northland
to offer their customers phone service bundled with its current
cable TV and high-speed Internet products. The companies made the
announcement today at The 2004 National Show hosted by the National
Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA).
Northland, the 18th largest US cable operator expects to begin
to deploy cable telephony service beginning this summer. By outsourcing
its telephony rollout and implementation to Net2Phone, Northlands
customers benefit from cost-efficient full-featured competitive
phone service in addition to receiving one bill for all of Northlands
services.
Net2Phone brings telephony solutions geared for various sized
markets in the cable industry, making them an ideal partner for
us, said Jack Dyste, Senior Vice President/Technical Services
of Northland. With Net2Phone, we can provide our customers
with a comprehensive bundle of voice, video and data, giving them
choices in all forms of communications.
Northland is a model customer for us a cable operator
looking for a robust telephony solution that can accelerate their
time to market while keeping costs in line, clearly demonstrating
increased demand for outsourced telephony, said Stephen Greenberg,
CEO of Net2Phone. We look forward to delivering Northlands
customers feature-rich affordable quality phone service over their
HFC network.
Northland will maintain ownership of its telephony subscribers
and brand, and will provide customer service and technical support.
Net2Phone will provide provisioning and billing integration to deliver
a unified Northland invoice, CLASS 5 switching platform, advanced
features, network surveillance tools, local and long distance interconnects,
operator services/directory assistance, and service level agreements.
Northlands customers will benefit from savings compared to
the cost of their current phone service, in addition to receiving
a bundled offer of cable TV, high-speed Internet access and telephony
services.
About Net2Phone
Net2Phone provides PacketCable, SIP and wireless VoIP solutions
around 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
more overseas. Net2Phones hosted SIP platform provides partners
with residential broadband telephony, calling cards, prefix dialing
and enterprise services in over 100 countries. Net2Phones
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 Northland Cable Television
Northland Cable Television operates smaller-market cable television
systems in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi,
Alabama, Texas, Washington, California, and Idaho. Northland strives
to provide these communities with the highest quality broadband
services at the best possible price.
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 press release
and in the Company's 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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