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Business Segment Information
3 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2017
Business Segment Information [Abstract]  
Business Segment Information

Note 10—Business Segment Information

 

The Company has two reportable business segments, Telecom Platform Services and net2phone-Unified Communications as a Service (“net2phone-UCaaS”) (formerly known as UCaaS). The Company’s reportable segments are distinguished by types of service, customers and methods used to provide their services. The operating results of these business segments are regularly reviewed by the Company’s chief operating decision maker.

 

Telecom Platform Services and net2phone-UCaaS comprise the IDT Telecom division. The Telecom Platform Services segment provides retail telecommunications and payment offerings as well as wholesale international long distance traffic termination. The net2phone-UCaaS segment is comprised of (1) cable telephony, (2) cloud-based private branch exchange, or PBX, services offered to enterprise customers exclusively through value-added resellers, service providers, telecom agents and managed service providers, (3) Session Initiation Protocol, or SIP, trunking, which supports inbound and outbound domestic and international calling from an IP PBX, and (4) PicuP, a highly-automated business phone service that answers, routes and manages voice calls.

 

Beginning in the first quarter of fiscal 2018, the Telecom Platform Services segment includes Consumer Phone Services, which was previously reported as a separate segment. Consumer Phone Services provides consumer local and long distance services in certain U.S. states. Comparative results have been reclassified and restated as if Consumer Phone Services was included in Telecom Platform Services in all periods presented.

 

Operating segments not reportable individually are included in All Other. All Other includes the Company’s real estate holdings and other smaller businesses. Corporate costs include certain services, such as compensation, consulting fees, treasury and accounts payable, tax and accounting services, human resources and payroll, corporate purchasing, corporate governance including Board of Directors’ fees, internal and external audit, investor relations, corporate insurance, corporate legal, business development, and other corporate-related general and administrative expenses including, among others, facilities costs, charitable contributions and travel, as well as depreciation expense on corporate assets. Corporate does not generate any revenues, nor does it incur any direct cost of revenues.

 

The accounting policies of the segments are the same as the accounting policies of the Company as a whole. The Company evaluates the performance of its business segments based primarily on income (loss) from operations. IDT Telecom depreciation and amortization are allocated to Telecom Platform Services and net2phone-UCaaS because the related assets are not tracked separately by segment. There are no other significant asymmetrical allocations to segments.

 

Operating results for the business segments of the Company are as follows:

 

(in thousands) Telecom
Platform
Services
  net2phone-UCaaS  All Other  Corporate  Total 
Three Months Ended October 31, 2017               
Revenues $385,063  $7,788  $704  $  $393,555 
Income (loss) from operations  4,561   (674)  (631)  (3,173)  83 
Severance  409         30   439 
Other operating expense           (779)  (779)
                     
Three Months Ended October 31, 2016                    
Revenues $361,511  $7,136  $504  $  $369,151 
Income (loss) from operations  6,544   (174)  90   (1,274)  5,186 
Other operating expense           (199)  (199)