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 Net2Phone to Offer Internet Telephony Services in Two Additional
Countries
New Deal Will Allow Phone-to-Phone and Real-Time Fax Communications
at Drastically Reduced Rates
Hackensack, NJ.--- Feb. 22, 1999 -- IDT's Net2Phone (Nasdaq:
IDTC - news) today announced that it will begin offering Internet
telephony services in Brazil and Russia.
Through an agreement with multinational telemarketing company TVB
International, Net2Phone gateways will be installed in two developing
markets to offer direct dialing, calling cards, and real-time fax
using
Internet telephony from a person's home or business without the
need for a
computer. Net2Phone's products and services enable direct low cost
phone-to-phone and fax-to-fax communications over the Internet.
All calls will be routed over dedicated IP lines using Net2Phone's
gateways,
and will enable users to place telephone calls and send faxes to
any
telephone or fax machine in the world. TVB Communications has set
an
aggressive target for installing additional Net2Phone gateways in
a new
country every few months.
"For the last three years, TVB has been searching for the
right business to
strengthen our foray into Internet telephony," said David Home,
president
and managing director of TVB Communications International. "After
fully
exploring our options, we decided that Net2Phone is the perfect
company to
supply all our equipment and services in the IP telephony arena."
This agreement enables Net2Phone to expand its phone-to-phone and
fax-to-fax IP service to more countries around the world. By creating
a worldwide IP telephony network, Net2Phone is able to capitalize
on deregulating markets and begin offering more low-cost and value-added
services in countries that become open to competition.
"TVB's international status makes it a perfect choice for
us to expand our
product offerings to a more global market," said David Greenblatt,
chief
operating officer of Net2Phone. "We are aggressively working
with TVB to
market IP Telephony to both business clients and the general population
in
developing countries."
IDT is a leading emerging multinational carrier that combines its
position
as an international telecommunications operator, its experience
as an
Internet service provider and its leading position in Internet telephony
to
provide a broad range of telecommunications services to its wholesale
and
retail customers worldwide. The company provides its customers with
integrated and competitively priced international and domestic long
distance, pre-paid calling cards, Internet access and, through its
Net2Phone product offerings, Internet telephony services including
Net2Phone Direct, Net2Fax, Click2Talk, and easysurf.com. For more
information about IDT's Internet telephony services, please visit
www.net2phone.com.
TVB Communications International was established in 1991 to operate
independent telemarketing for five star hotel chains. Over the last
eight
years, TVB's operation has expanded to represent 50 International
hotels in
more than 15 countries. TVB also owns a 20% share of Bulgaria's
largest ISP server company BlsOnline that is in the process of linking
nine of
Bulgaria's largest cities to the Internet by satellite. TVB currently
has 22
offices and more than 400 employees in offices in Brazil, Morocco,
Egypt,
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Zimbabwe, Turkey, Russia, Yemen,
Oman,
Bulgaria, Dubai and Australia. New offices are planned to open in
South
Africa, Uganda, Croatia and the Republic of Georgia.
Except for historical information, all of the expectations and assumptions
contained in the foregoing are forward-looking statements involving
risks
and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results
to
differ materially from such forward-looking statements, include,
but are not
limited to, the competitive environment for Internet telephony,
changes of
rates of all related telco rates and services, legislation that
may affect
the Internet telephony industry, IDT's ability to operate the services
described on a large scale commercial level. For additional information
regarding these and other risks associated with the company's business
refer to the company's reports filed with the SEC.
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