IDT
Corporation Board of Directors Authorizes New Stock Buyback
Program
NEWARK,
N.J. – June 15, 2006 – IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT, IDT.C) today announced
that
its
Board of Directors has authorized a stock repurchase program providing for
the
repurchase of up to twenty-five million (25,000,000) shares of Class B Common
Stock and Common Stock without regard to class. IDT's Class B Common Stock
and
Common Stock trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbols "IDT"
and
"IDT.C', respectively. There are currently 70,980,070 shares of IDT Class
B
Common Stock outstanding and 15,453,073 shares of IDT Common Stock
outstanding.
The
Board
of Directors also authorized the termination of IDT's previous stock repurchase
program, under which IDT had authority to purchase an additional 1.9 million
of
shares of Common Stock and 11.7 million of shares of Class B Common
Stock.
About
IDT
IDT
Corporation, through its IDT Telecom subsidiary, is a facilities-based,
multinational carrier that provides a broad range of telecommunications services
to retail and wholesale customers worldwide. IDT Telecom, by means of its
own
international telecommunications backbone and fiber optic network
infrastructure, provides its customers with integrated and competitively
priced
international and domestic long distance and domestic all-distance telephony
and
prepaid calling cards. IDT Entertainment is the IDT subsidiary focused on
developing, acquiring, producing and distributing computer-generated and
traditionally animated productions and other productions for the film, broadcast
and direct-to-consumer markets. IDT Capital is the IDT division principally
responsible for the Company's initiatives in brochure distribution, retail
energy and new technologies. Net2Phone, Inc., a subsidiary of IDT Corporation,
is a provider of high-quality global retail Voice over IP services and offers
a
fully outsourced cable telephony service to cable operators allowing cable
operators to provide residential phone service to their subscribers.
IDT
Corporation’s Class B Common Stock and Common Stock trade on the New York Stock
Exchange under the ticker symbols IDT and IDT.C respectively.
Important
Note: In this press release, all statements that are not purely about historical
facts, including, but not limited to, those include the words “believe,”
“anticipate,” “expect,” “plan,” “intend,” “estimate,” “target” and similar
expressions, 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 IDT’s most recent report on SEC Form 10-K (under the heading
“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 and other filings IDT may make with the SEC.
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Contact:
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Gil
Nielsen, VP Corporate Communications
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Yossi
Cohn, Investor Relations
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IDT
Corporation
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IDT
Corporation
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973-438-3553
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973-438-3858
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