Business Segment Information

6 Months Ended

Jan. 31, 2016

Business Segment Information [Abstract]

Business Segment Information

Note 11—Business Segment Information

The Company has two reportable business segments, Telecom Platform Services and Consumer Phone Services. Operating segments that are not reportable individually are included in All Other. 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.

The Telecom Platform Services segment provides retail telecommunications and payment offerings as well as wholesale international long distance traffic termination. The Consumer Phone Services segment provides consumer local and long distance services in certain U.S. states. Telecom Platform Services and Consumer Phone Services comprise the IDT Telecom division. All Other includes Zedge, which provides a content platform that enables consumers to personalize their mobile devices with free, high quality ringtones, wallpapers, home screen app icons and notification sounds. All Other also includes the Company’s real estate holdings and other, smaller, businesses. Until the sale of Fabrix in October 2014, All Other included Fabrix, a software development company offering a cloud-based scale-out storage and computing platform optimized for big data, virtualization and media storage, processing and delivery. 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 Consumer Phone Services 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		Consumer Phone Services		All Other			Corporate			Total
Three Months Ended January 31, 2016
Revenues	$	376,692	$	1,766	$	3,996		$	—		$	382,454
Income (loss) from operations		6,302		289		1,845			(2,059	)		6,377
Three Months Ended January 31, 2015
Revenues	$	388,970	$	2,243	$	2,960		$	—		$	394,173
Income (loss) from operations		6,870		306		(602	)		(2,839	)		3,735
Gain on sale of interest in Fabrix Systems Ltd.		—		—		484			—			484
Six Months Ended January 31, 2016
Revenues	$	762,380	$	3,595	$	7,057		$	—		$	773,032
Income (loss) from operations		16,027		629		2,275			(4,628	)		14,303
Six Months Ended January 31, 2015
Revenues	$	792,758	$	4,554	$	9,739		$	—		$	807,051
Income (loss) from operations		12,540		662		75,936			(5,794	)		83,344
Gain on sale of interest in Fabrix Systems Ltd.		—		—		75,629			—			75,629