NEWARK, NJ – May 11, 2014: IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT), a leading
supplier of wholesale voice and payment services to telecommunications
providers around the world, announced today that it is offering mobile
operators IDT Messaging, a white label OTT messaging service that combines IP
and SMS messaging.
Speaking at the International Telecoms Week trade show in
Chicago, Ben Hirsch, Chief Marketing Officer for IDT Telecom, said that IDT Messaging
provides a robust feature set that will help mobile operators retain and win
customers. “Mobile operators continue to lose customers and revenues to OTT
messaging services. IDT Messaging gets
operators back in the game by providing a more robust experience that integrates
IP messaging and SMS, thus outperforming both OTT and SMS competitors. IDT Messaging joins our robust portfolio of white
label value added services including IDT Beyond Voice Apps.”
IDT Messaging’s offering includes ‘MagicWords’ a technology which
dynamically analyzes the context of a conversation and adds links to particular
words to supplement and enhance the conversation. MagicWords brings content
discovery and distribution back into the operator domain while creating mobile
advertising and monetization opportunities.
Additional features of IDT Messaging include:
- iOS, Android, J2ME and Web
clients
- IP messaging
- Cloud storage of contacts,
messages and media
- Group conversations
- Video + Photo sharing
- Location sharing
- SMS integration &
connectivity
- Stickers, Emoji and other
personalization content
IDT Messaging offers white-label applications for Android,
iOS, Windows8, web and mobile web, plus extensive SMS functionality.
Rob Lawson, COO of IDT Messaging said, “We can deploy IDT
Messaging white label solutions very quickly, at minimum cost and with no need
to install anything in the operator network.”
For more information on IDT Messaging or other IDT solutions
for mobile operators, please contact Rob Lawson at 917-774-1233.
In this press release,
all statements that are not purely about historical facts and those in which
the words “believe,” “anticipate,” “expect,” “plan,” “intend,” “estimate,
“target” and similar expressions are used, are forward-looking statements within
the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. While these forward-looking statements
represent IDT’s current judgment of what may happen in the future, actual
results may differ materially from the results expressed or implied by these
statements due to numerous important factors, including, but not limited to,
those described in our most recent report on SEC Form 10-K (under the headings
“Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations”), which may be revised or supplemented in subsequent
reports on SEC Forms 10-Q and 8-K. We
are under no obligation, and expressly disclaim any obligation, to update the
forward-looking statements in this press release, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise.
About IDT Corporation:
IDT
Corporation (NYSE: IDT), through its IDT Telecom division, provides retail
telecommunications and payment services to help immigrants and the under-banked
to conveniently and inexpensively communicate and share resources around the
world. IDT Telecom’s wholesale business
is a leading global carrier of international long distance voice calls. IDT also holds majority interests in two
early-stage technology companies focused on high growth industries: Zedge (www.zedge.net),
a mobile content discovery and acquisition platform, includes one of the most
popular Apps for Android and iOS; Fabrix
Systems (www.fabrixsystems.com), a
cloud based scale out storage and computing platform, provides a scalable
solution optimized for media and big data processing and delivery. For more information, visit www.idt.net.
Media Contacts: Stephen
Mills Carrier
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