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iLocus Names Net2Phone India VoIP Service
Market Leader
Newark, NJ - April 15, 2003 - Net2Phone Inc. (Nasdaq: NTOP), a
leading provider of retail Voice over IP (VoIP) services, today
announced that iLocus, a leading industry research group, has named
Net2Phone the leading provider of Internet telephony service in
India in a recent study of the VoIP market. Net2Phone leads the
Internet telephony market with a 62 percent market share of traffic
over VoIP gateways in India, according to iLocus.
According to the iLocus report, released last week, approximately
six million minutes of Internet telephony traffic are being originated
per month by the Indian ISPs. iLocus forecasts Internet telephony
traffic to grow to 211 million minutes by the year 2007. The regulatory
environment for Internet telephony services in India is primarily
limited to international calling using PCs via services offered
by Indian ISPs. PC-and-device-to-phone services are a compelling
alternative to traditional phone service in India, where there are
only 3-4 telephones per 100 people.
Net2Phone has leveraged its technical experience in Internet
telephony and global brand awareness to establish potentially fruitful
relationships in India by teaming up with the right companies,
said Jahangir Raina, Analyst at iLocus.
The Indian VoIP marketplace serves as an example of Net2Phones
strategy to voice-enable service providers in newly deregulating
markets. Net2Phone works with telecommunications operators and licensed
service providers to quickly roll out cost-effective quality services.
In India, Net2Phone has secured partnerships with numerous service
providers.
Being named as the leader in Internet telephony services
is a true reinforcement of the Net2Phone strategy of focusing on
emerging markets, said Bryan Wiener, General Manager of Communications
Services at Net2hone. Since the deregulation of Indias
telecommunications markets last year, we have steadily increases
our minute usage and market share each quarter and become the leader
in the market. We look forward to replicating our market share in
other newly liberalizing markets in the future.
About Net2Phone
Founded in 1995, Net2Phone is a leading provider of voice services
over IP networks to consumers, businesses and carriers worldwide.
With millions of users around the world, Net2Phone enables toll-quality
calls between computers, telephones, and broadband devices utilizing
IP networks. Recognized as the first company to bridge the Internet
with the public switched telephone network, Net2Phone has routed
billions of minutes of traffic over its award-winning network. Traded
on the NASDAQ under the symbol NTOP, Net2Phone's strategic partners
and investors include Liberty Media Corporation (NYSE: LMC.A; LMC.B),
AT&T (NYSE: T), and IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT; IDT.B). 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, 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 Report and
in the Company's other 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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