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To: kathyh who wrote (31722)	11/22/1999 10:42:00 PM
From: hoffy	Respond to of 108040

NTOP might see a big pop tomorrow with the below news released late in the day. With only 5 million shares in the float and over 2 million short we might get a huge squeeze. I think it could be fun for the longs. We'll know tomrrow. Here's the news: ================================= AOL to offer online phone calls Online giant inks deal on Net2Phone service By Steve Gelsi, CBS MarketWatch Last Update: 4:16 PM ET Nov 22, 1999 Also: NewsWatch DULLES, Va. (CBS.MW) -- America Online is pushing deeper into online telephone calls in a deal with Net2Phone. The world's largest Internet service (AOL: news, msgs) will offer its roughly 20 million members the ability to use its Instant Messaging service to click and then talk to each other over phones and PCs. Net2Phone (NTOP: news, msgs) will also co-brand a prepaid phone-to-phone calling card with the AOL messaging service, according to a Monday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Users of AOL's Instant Messaging will be able to make PC-to-phone and phone-to-PC calls, plus use Net2Phone's PC-to-fax and conference-call services. "It's a natural iteration of their model -- moving from text-based to audio communications," said Rob Martin of Friedman Billings Ramsey. "As bandwidth increases, you'll have the opportunity to contact users through multiple channels. It's creating a seamless communications mechanism."