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 IDT Consummates Tender Offer and Secures $150 Million in Financing
Positions Company to Pursue Financing for Net2Phone
Hackensack, NJ - May 11, 1999 - IDT Corporation (NASDAQ: IDTC)
announced today that it has consummated the tender offer for its
8.75% Senior Notes due 2006 (the "Notes"), having repurchased $99,620,000
of $100,000,000 principal amount of the Notes originally issued
in February 1998.
With 99% participation by the Note holders in the Tender Offer,
the supplemental indenture relating to the remaining Notes outstanding
has become operative, enabling the Company to effect one or more
possible financing transactions involving Net2Phone.
As previously reported, Net2Phone has executed a term sheet with
more than one significant strategic investor relating to an investment
in Net2Phone's equity securities, and Net2Phone is negotiating with
other significant investors.
IDT secured a $150 million credit facility to repurchase the tendered
Notes, and may use the balance of funds to fund capital expenditures
and for general working capital purposes.
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, pre-paid calling cards, Internet access
and, through its Net2Phone product offerings, Internet telephony
services including Net2Phone Direct, Net2Fax, and Click2Talk.
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