Howard Jonas, IDT's CEO and Founder came up with a way of providing the world with cheap international long distance calling rates. His tiny International Discount Telecommunications Corp. pioneered what is now a multi-billion dollar a year industry, international "callback" telephone service. This technology allows anyone around the world to bypass the high costs of placing international calls from countries outside of the US. Callback gives the caller the ability to make the international call as if he/she was calling from the US. Today, IDT offers telephone service to customers in over 225 countries worldwide.
One of the main divisions if IDT is Net2phone. Excite has recently signed a two year agreement with Net2phone to bring internet phone to various counties in Europe and Japan. Net2Phone enables
Internet users to place calls to any telephone in the world via the Internet, the company said.
Excite said that the Net2Phone icon will be integrated through many of its channels, giving customers a one-click access to download the service, subscribe, and make calls anywhere in the world.
Recipients of the call need not be online, as calls are routed directly to traditional telephones.
Because calls are placed through the Internet, phone rates are not based on the country of origin, but on the pricing structure set by IDT, which, according to Excite, is low-cost.
Excite said it is also planning to offer a click to dial service, by fully incorporating Net2Phone into Excite's personalized directory.
IDT has also emerged as one of the nation's fastest growing Internet access providers, offering dial-up access to over 80,000 customers nationwide as well as dedicated access to hundreds of corporate ...