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 AT&T Completes Net2Phone Investment
Hackensack, NJ - August 11, 2000 --- Net2Phone Inc. (NASDAQ: NTOP)
today announced that AT&T (NYSE: T) has completed its investment
of $1.4 billion in Net2Phone, a leading provider of voice enhanced
services on the Internet.
AT&T purchased four million newly-issued Class A shares from Net2Phone
at a price of $75 per share. In addition, AT&T has purchased 14.9
million Class A Net2Phone shares from IDT Corporation (NASDAQ: IDTC)
for $75 per share, giving AT&T a 39 percent voting stake and a 32
percent economic stake in Net2Phone for a total cash investment
of approximately $1.4 billion.
Net2Phone also announced today that John C. Petrillo, Executive
Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for
AT&T, and Richard R. Roscitt, President of AT&T Business Services,
will join Net2Phone’s Board of Directors.
"We are excited about the many opportunities that lay ahead for
this relationship," said Howie Balter, CEO of Net2Phone. "We plan
on working together to create standards for voice enabling the Internet
as well as pursuing multiple synergies between the companies."
"Working together, AT&T and Net2Phone can develop an exciting
new generation of communications services," says John Petrillo,
executive vice president, AT&T Corporate Strategy and Development.
"We’re confident that businesses and consumers will find new Internet
voice applications quite valuable."
Net2Phone is a leading provider of voice-enhanced Internet communications
services to individuals and businesses worldwide. Net2Phone enables
people to place low-cost high quality calls from their computer,
telephone, or fax machine to any telephone or fax machine in the
world. Net2Phone develops and markets technology and services for
IP voice and e-commerce solutions for the web and other IP networks.
For more information about Net2Phone’s products and services, please
visit www.net2phone.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section
21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such forward-looking
statements include, among other things, Net2Phone's expected operating
performance for the three months ending October 31, 2000 and thereafter.
Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking
statements due to numerous factors. Such factors include, among
others, the inherent uncertainty of financial estimates and projections,
the competitive environment for Internet telephony, changes of rates
of all related telco rates and services, legislation that may affect
the Internet telephony industry, and Net2Phone's ability to operate
the services described on a large scale commercial level.The forward-looking
statements are made as of the date of this press release, and Net2Phone
assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements,
or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those
projected in the forward-looking statements. Investors should consult
all of the information set forth herein and the other information
set forth from time to time in Net2Phone's reports filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act
of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
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