Northland Cable Television Launches Digital Phone Service With Net2Pho

Northland Cable Television Launches Digital Phone Service With Net2Phone

    Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

    SEATTLE & NEWARK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 15, 2005--Northland Cable Television today announced that it has launched its "Northland VoiceLine, Powered by Net2Phone" digital phone service, offering consumers premium full-featured voice service.
    With plans starting at $18.99, Northland VoiceLine is designed to offer consumers a new feature rich low cost local and long distance choice in voice service. Its all-inclusive monthly package for $37.99 delivers unlimited calls within the United States and Canada.

    Included in all Northland VoiceLine packages are features such as:

--	Local number portability plus phone number selection, enabling customers to transfer their current local phone number to their VoiceLine service, or to choose new local phone numbers.
--	Access to Emergency Services and local directory assistance (411)
--	Enhanced features come standard, such as voicemail, caller ID, call waiting, call blocking, call forwarding and three-way calling.
--	Home Custom Installation - A professional Northland technician will come to the customer's home in order to install the Northland VoiceLine service.

    Added enhanced features include:

    -- Online Account Management - Customers can manage calling
    features online (including call waiting, caller ID display, or
    change features), and view account balances and call detail
    records in real time.

    -- Email Notification of Voicemail - Customers can receive an
    email notification of new voicemail messages and then listen
    to the voicemail on the Internet.

    -- Virtual Phone Number - Customers may add an out-of-area phone
    number as a second phone number to their account. Out-of-area
    numbers save friends and family from having to pay for long
    distance call charges by allowing them to place a 'local' call
    to reach a VoiceLine customer. When dialed, the second phone
    number will ring the same phone as the primary VoiceLine
    number.

    "Northland is very excited to offer our customers a competitively priced, full featured telephony service," said Jack Dyste, Senior Vice President/Technical Services of Northland. "Our commitment to personal customer service combined with the flexibility and reliability of Net2Phone's VoIP bring our markets the first truly competitive broadband telephony offering providing local customer service and support."
    Northland, a top-25 US cable operator, has contracted with Net2Phone (NASDAQ: NTOP) to roll out telephony throughout its footprint. By outsourcing its telephony implementation to Net2Phone, Northland's customers benefit from cost-efficient full-featured competitive phone service in addition to receiving one bill for all of Northland's services. Northland maintains ownership of its telephony subscribers, and provides customer service and technical support. Net2Phone provides, among other things, auto-provisioning and a real-time billing feed to enable Northland to deliver a unified invoice, full featured network switching platform, advanced network capabilities, access to the public switched telephone network, operator services/directory assistance, and service level commitments.
    Customers interested in learning more about Northland VoiceLine can visit www.northlandcabletv.com.

    About Northland Cable Television

    Northland Cable Television operates cable television systems in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Washington, California, and Idaho. Northland strives to provide these communities with the highest quality broadband services at the best possible price.

    About Net2Phone

    Net2Phone (NTOP) provides VoIP PacketCable, SIP and wireless solutions around the world. As a leader in turn-key hosted VoIP telephony services, Net2Phone has routed billions of VoIP minutes globally, servicing more than 100,000 users in the US as well as hundreds of thousands of more overseas. Net2Phone provides partners with a SIP-based broadband telephony solution, calling cards, prefix dialing and enterprise services in over 100 countries. Net2Phone's PacketCable platform provides cable operators with the ability to deliver a primary line replacement service with guaranteed QoS and features such as E911. 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 press release and in the Company's 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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CONTACT: Net2Phone Corporate Communications Dawn Orlinsky, 973-438-3508 dorlinsky@net2phone.com

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