Net2Phone aims to provide the software core for all voice services on the Net.
Net2Phone aims to earn licensing fees for its software or take a cut of transactions.
Next up: Cisco, which is close to a deal to market Net2Phone software with its Internet routers.
Yahoo, which owns 5% of Net2Phone, lets its People Search users jump to Net2Phone to make calls.
AOL, also a 5% owner, will infuse Net2Phone into the next versions of its Netscape browser and ICQ messaging.
On July 20 Microsoft began offering Net2Phone calls to 18 million instant-messaging customers.
If a glitch pops up in Poland, a Net2Phone technician can work a fix from his console in New Jersey.
Net2Phone will roll out features in the coming months that will wrap voice around other Internet media and make conventional calls look primitive.
The result, Net2Phone's Gateway, lets the company monitor and tweak its own global network, including 60 Internet on-ramps in 35 countries, from a single location.
Late last year the big onliner offered to buy a major interest in Net2Phone, but Jonas feared it would thwart Net2Phone's bid to become a de facto standard.
Now Balter, 38, is chief executive, and publicly held Net2Phone is at the center of what could become the next big thing on the Web--talk--just as e-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging were before it.
Now Balter, 38, is CEO, and the publicly held Net2Phone is at the center of what could become the next big thing on the web--talk--just as e-mail, chat rooms and instant messaging were before it.
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