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Net2Phone Empowers Easysurf.com Portal Through Agreements With CoolSavings, Val-Pak Coupons On-Line, And WebCentric

New relationships enhance users' ability to shop online with more confidence and savings

Hackensack, NJ. -- April 15, 1999 -- IDT's (NASDAQ: IDTC) Net2Phone today announced enhancements to easysurf.com (www.easysurf.com or www.ezsurf.com), the first shopping portal powered by Internet telephony to make shopping on the web easier. New customer focused enhancements include:

  • Price comparisons
  • Special discounts to easysurf.com users through agreements with
    CoolSavings (www.coolsavings.com) and Val-Pak Coupons On-Line
  • Daily giveaways from many e-tailers through exclusive merchant
    relationships with easysurf.com
  • Hundreds of additional e-tailer listings

Through easysurf.com, visitors can learn about online merchants' services
and communicate with them through direct voice interaction. By providing
vital information about multiple merchants without the need to visit each
vendor's site, easysurf.com has emerged as a user-friendly shopping portal
for users worldwide. For example, easysurf.com lets users know if a site
offers secure transactions, whether it is multi-lingual and what sort of
return policy it honors. By incorporating Net2Phone's services, visitors are
able to contact retailers free of charge via voice interaction without
having to visit a company's web site. Easysurf.com allows web shoppers to
reach a sales or customer service representative through (1) Click2Talk,
Net2Phone's one-click web-to-phone dialing solution; (2) Click2CallMe,
Net2Phone's web-based callback system; and (3) Click2Mail, letting customers send an e-mail message to any e-tailer directly from easysurf.com.

Price Comparisons
Easysurf.com shoppers will now be able to compare prices between vendors through an affiliate relationship with WebCentric's Bottom Dollar Shopping Agent, which offers a comprehensive, easy to use, and secure way for consumers to compare price and availability on an extensive selection of products from top Internet merchants.

Discounts
Easysurf.com will now offer discounts and coupons from over 30,000
advertisers across North America. Online coupon offers are now fully
integrated into easysurf.com merchant listings through agreements with
CoolSavings (www.coolsavings.com) and Val-Pak Coupons On-Line
(www.valpak.com). For example, a user looking up information about either a brand-name online or in-store retailer on the easysurf.com web site will be
able to download an electronic or printed coupon giving them discounts from
coolsavings.com

"This relationship is consistent with CoolSavings' philosophy of using
technology to deliver value and convenience for consumers and retailers,"
said Steven Golden, chairman and CEO of coolsavings.com inc.

Val-Pak Coupons On-Line will provide easysurf.com users with customized
local coupons targeted directly to each user's zip code.

Daily Prizes
As an added incentive, visitors to easysurf.com can enter to win one of 20
daily prizes, including computer sound cards, Internet Telephony peripherals and Net2Phone calling time.
Merchant Listings
Easysurf.com has expanded its categories as well as added hundreds of new e-tailer listings.

New Marketing Initiatives
Net2Phone also announced today that it has unveiled its latest version of
its PC-to-phone software, Net2Phone 9.44, which includes a button directly
on the software that links users to easysurf.com (www.easysurf.com). Through this integration, now those who download the latest version of Net2Phone at www.net2phone.com will be able to link directly to easysurf.com and shop for goods and services around the world. Net2Phone is also marketing easysurf.com directly to its customer base using various online marketing campaigns. Additionally, through expanded online advertising and direct marketing campaigns, easysurf.com will be marketed to millions of web surfers who can take advantage of value-added information needed to buy products online.

"We're proud to be offering such enhanced services to both our current
customer base as well as new users," said David Greenblatt, Chief Operating Officer at Net2Phone. "This is the first of many anticipated continued improvements and additions to easysurf.com."

For more information about easysurf.com, please call 888-872-1230 or send
e-mail to sales@click2talk.com.

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, and Click2Talk. For more information about IDT's Internet telephony services, please visit www.net2phone.com.

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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