Team will be led by John van Vianen as CEO; Paul Floyd, formerly SVP of Products, Operations, and Network, has been named COO

December 22, 2009

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BURLINGTON, Mass., and THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- KPN NV (“KPN”) today announced that, following its successful tender offer, which enabled the company to execute a short-form merger with iBasis, a new management team has been appointed to help guide and support the growth strategy of iBasis, now a wholly owned subsidiary of KPN.

The new team will be led by John van Vianen as CEO of iBasis. Paul Floyd, formerly Sr. VP of Products, Operations, and Network, has been named Chief Operating Officer; Edwin van Ierland, formerly Sr. VP of Global Sales and Purchase, has been named Global Sales Officer. Chief Financial Officer Dick Tennant, Chief Legal Officer Mark Flynn, and Vice President of Global Human Resources Tamah Rosker remain in their current roles.

In addition, the iBasis Board of Directors has been changed as a result of the merger and iBasis’ becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of KPN. The Board consists of Eelco Blok, chairman, Joost Farwerck, director and John van Vianen, director. Blok and Farwerck were members of the iBasis Board of Directors since the completion of the original transaction between iBasis and KPN in October 2007.

“I am very pleased to have John as CEO and I look forward to working with him and his proven executive team to make sure that they have all the necessary resources that iBasis needs to continue to be successful,” said Eelco Blok, member of the KPN management board and chairman of the iBasis board of directors. “I would also like to thank Ofer Gneezy and Gordon VanderBrug for their hard work and commitment at the helm of iBasis. Their legacy is a business that is robust and poised for growth, and we wish them all the best in their new endeavours.”

John van Vianen added: “I am excited to work with the iBasis executive team on accelerating the growth of the company, and I am confident that we can bring iBasis to its natural next level as the global leader in international voice, mobile data and prepaid services. Our team, combined with the talented and dedicated employees of iBasis will be working together to unlock the potential inherent in iBasis’ business.”

KPN reiterated its commitment to keeping iBasis’ operations intact as a separate entity and to remaining headquartered in Burlington, Mass.

iBasis Inc. (Nasdaq: IBAS)

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