IDT Stock Discussion

IDT Corporation Description

IDT Corporation operates as a telecommunications company. The company operates in two segments, Telecom Platform Services and Consumer Phone Services. The Telecom Platform Services segment provides prepaid and rechargeable calling products and international long distance traffic termination, as well as various payment services. It sells calling cards under the La Leyenda, Boss, Playball, GOOOL, RED, Feliz, PT-1, and PennyTalk names primarily to the ethnic and immigrant communities in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa through a network of sub-distributors that sell to retail outlets, and through internal sales force. This segment also provides private label and IDT-branded prepaid cards to retail chains, such as supermarkets, drug stores, and convenience stores. The Consumer Phone Services segment offers consumer local/long distance phone service comprising unlimited local, regional toll, and domestic long distance calling services primarily to residential customers. As of July 31, 2012, IDT Corporation had approximately 10,500 bundled local/long distance plans and 45,200 long distance-only plans customers. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Newark, New Jersey.

Sector: Communication Services
Industry: Telecom Services
Keywords: Telecommunications Eye Retail Outlets Payment Services Phone Services Retail Chain