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 IDT Receives Approval on InterExchange Acquisition Bandwidth
Acquired to South America; New Switches Purchased in US and UK
IDT Corporation (NASDAQ: IDTC - news) today announced that it is
completing its acquisition of the InterExchange family of companies
on receiving notification of the required Hart-Scott-Rodino approval.
InterExchange provides satellite frame relay networking to over
20 international destinations and also operates the nation's largest
international debit card platform. Continuing its rapid network
deployment, IDT also announced that it will deploy two new super-node
DMS 250 switches from Nortel (Northern Telecom) in Piscataway, NJ
and London, UK. The Company plans to turn the switches on in June,
which will enable it to route more traffic over its own telecom
network, resulting in reduced costs and overall top line and bottom
line growth. Additionally, the Company has completed an agreement
to provide IDT with greater capacity to South America via new fiber
routes and satellite capacity, giving IDT the backup bandwidth that
it had been hoping to procure in another transaction. ``Now that
we've increased our capacity to South America and can use InterExchange
to manage it, we no longer need to chase overpriced acquisitions
just to keep pace with our bandwidth requirements. Thank G-d for
unanswered prayers,'' said Howard Jonas, CEO of IDT. IDT is a leading
emerging multinational carrier that combines its position as an
international telecommunications operator, its experience as an
Internet service provider and its leading position in Internet telephony
to provide a broad range of telecommunications services to its wholesale
and retail customers worldwide. The company provides its customers
with integrated and competitively priced international and domestic
long distance, Internet access and, through its Net2Phone product
offerings, Internet telephony services including Net2Phone Direct
and Net2Fax. Except for historical information, all of the expectations
and assumptions contained in the foregoing are forward-looking statements
involving risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could
cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking
statements, include, but are not limited to, the competitive environment
for Internet telephony, changes of rates of all related telco rates
and services, legislation that may affect the Internet Telephony
industry, IDT 's ability to operate the services described on a
large scale commercial level. For additional information regarding
these and other risks associated with the Company's business refer
to the Company's reports filed with the SEC.
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