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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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