IDTC HACKENSACK, N.J. (Jan. 27) BUSINESS WIRE -Jan. 27,
1999--In an Internet first, IP telephony pioneer Net2Phone (Nasdaq:
IDTC) has linked with free email provider CommTouch to offer
low-cost PC-to-phone service directly to free web-based email
subscribers. Consumers with free email accounts at CommTouch
partner web-sites can now simply click on a Net2Phone link from
inside their email user interface to make inexpensive telephone calls
through the Internet to any telephone number in the world from their
free web email account.
A single, unified address book in the email inbox contains both email
and telephone contact information. The user can conveniently choose
the most appropriate communication option whenever they log-on to
their email account.
"We have always viewed the web email account as a user's 'home' on
the Internet," said CommTouch President Isabel Maxwell. "For the
first time, users have a home telephone that lets them call anyone on
the planet -- and for a lot less than Ma Bell charges."
Net2Phone, a division of leading multi-national telecom carrier IDT,
is a pioneering provider of Internet phone services. Substantial
savings are available to CommTouch email users who click on the
Net2Phone link. Net2Phone charges just 4.9(cent) per minute for
domestic calls, 10(cent) per minute for calls to Europe and Australia,
and only 20(cent) per minute for calls to Japan.
"Not only is Net2Phone the inexpensive way to make a phone call, it is
now more convenient than ever," explained Jonathan Reich, Senior
Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Net2Phone.
"Whenever people send a message from their free email account, they
can also choose to dial a low-rate phone call. With an integrated email
address/phone book, the user has all their options a single click
away."
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.
CommTouch is the leading provider of partner-branded email
services, offered exclusively through the web-sites of major online
consumer brand marketers and media outlets. The CommTouch email
interface is totally customizable to enhance brand awareness and
customer affinity relationships.
The company partners with internationally recognized
consumer-driven organizations, including Excite (Nasdaq: XCIT),
Ziff-Davis (NYSE: ZD), McGraw Hill's Business Week Magazine
(NYSE: MHP), Discovery Channel Online, Nippon Telephone &
Telegraph (NYSE: NTT), LookSmart, Netopia (Nasdaq: NTPA),
Hachette Multimedia, Universal Studio's animalhouse.com , the
McClatchy Group's Nando.net (NYSE: MNI), The Headbone Zone,
News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) and People's Daily Joint Venture
ChinaByte, and the Hollinger Group's Jerusalem Post. With more than
seven years of delivering intuitive, award-winning email software,
CommTouch offers its partners a truly comprehensive turn-key email
service.
Additional information about CommTouch can be obtained at its
web-site (http://www.commtouch.com). Founded in 1991,
CommTouch is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, and has a
major research & development center in Ein Vered, Israel. 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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CONTACT: Spencer Horowitz
CommTouch Software Inc.
Tel: 408 245 8682
Email: spencer@commtouch.com
or
Sarah Hofstetter
IDT/ Net2Phone
Tel: 201 928 2882
Email: sarah@net2phone.com
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