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iBasis Announces Date for Third Quarter 2005 Results Release

BURLINGTON, MA— October 4, 2005 — iBasis, Inc. (OTCBB: IBAS), a leading provider of international long distance service, VoIP, and prepaid calling cards, today announced that it will report third quarter 2005 financial results on Thursday, October 27, 2005, before the opening of the stock market.

The company will host a conference call to discuss the results, led by Ofer Gneezy, iBasis president & CEO, on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 11:00 a.m. ET. The public is invited to listen to the simultaneous webcast by logging in through the iBasis investor relations website at http://investor.ibasis.com.

About iBasis

Founded in 1996, iBasis (OTCBB: IBAS) is a leading provider of international long distance telephone service and a provider of retail prepaid calling services, including the Pingo™ web-based offering (www.pingo.com) and disposable calling cards, which are sold through major distributors and available at retail stores throughout the U.S. iBasis customers include many of the largest telecommunications carriers in the world, including AT&T, Cable & Wireless, China Mobile, China Unicom, MCI, Sprint, Skype, Telefonica, Telenor, and Telstra. iBasis is one of the ten largest carriers of international voice traffic in the world1. For four consecutive years service providers named iBasis the best international wholesale carrier in ATLANTIC-ACM's annual International Wholesale Carrier Report Card2. iBasis was also ranked among the fastest-growing technology companies in New England in the 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Technology Fast 50 programs sponsored by Deloitte & Touche. The Company can be reached at its worldwide headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA at 781-505-7500 or on the Internet at www.ibasis.com.

   
 
 
     

 

 


1 Telegeography 2005 data compared with iBasis 2004 traffic volume.

2 ATLANTIC-ACM International Wholesale Carrier Report Card - 2002, 2003, 2004, & 2005.

iBasis is a registered mark and Pingo is a trademark of iBasis, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Except for historical information, all of the expectations, projections and assumptions contained in the foregoing press release, including those relating to the company's current expectations regarding revenue growth, sources of revenue, margin improvement and future capital expenditures constitute forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and involve risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, (i) the extent of adoption of the company's services and the timing and amount of revenue generated by these services; (ii) fluctuations in the market for and pricing of these services; and (iii) the other considerations described as "Risk Factors" in iBasis' most recent Forms 10-K and 10-Q, and the company's other SEC filings. We have no current intention to update any forward-looking statements.

Use of Non-GAAP Financial Data
The Company provides certain financial data in addition to providing financial results in accordance with GAAP. This data is not in accordance with, or an alternative to GAAP, and may be different from Non-GAAP financial data used by other companies. This Non-GAAP financial data includes average revenue per minute, which the Company believes provides useful information, to both its management and investors about the Company's current performance.