Elephant Talk Communications Announces Increased Revenues for First Quarter 2012
Implementation With a Leading Global Bank for SIM-Swap Fraud Solution Gone Live Contract With Telekom Deutschland to Provide Mobile Services in Germany
(firmenpresse) - SCHIPHOL, THE NETHERLANDS -- (Marketwire) -- 05/10/12 -- Elephant Talk Communications, Corp. (NYSE Amex: ETAK) (), an international provider of business software and services to the telecommunications and financial services industries, today announced total revenue of $8.6 million for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Revenue in the higher margin mobile and security solutions business increased 105.4% to $2.4 million in this first quarter of 2012.
"We recently went live with the first large-scale commercial contract with one of the world's largest banks for the utilization of ValidSoft's authentication and verification transaction solution," said Steven van der Velden, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "We began to generate revenue from this contract through our partner relationship with Adeptra during the first quarter and it will positively impact our revenues in the second quarter and beyond. We are pleased that this first contract is with one of the most recognizable banks in the world and believe this agreement provides strong validation of our antifraud technology. We are confident that this contract combined with our partnership with Utiba, a global leader in mobile payments that processes over 12 billion transactions annually, will lead to additional contracts in financial services, as well as additional growth in the high volume mobile money industry."
Mr. van der Velden continued, "We believe our newly implemented banking contract, the additional planned SIM migrations with Vodafone in Spain and our recently signed MVNO contract in Germany will, including revenues for network usage, double our mobile and security revenue by the third quarter in comparison to our first quarter this year. We can realize such immediate growth in Germany due to the MVNE acquisition of Ensercom, and the integration we therefore have with Deutsche Telekom, which allows us to immediately begin providing mobile services to our clients. The addition of these new contracts materially impacts our financial results and enhances our shareholder value."
Secured first large-scale commercial implementation with one of the world's largest banks for the utilization of ValidSoft's authentication and verification transaction solution.
Announced a new, global partnership with Utiba (), a global leader in mobile payments and mobile financial services solutions.
This partnership stands to impact more than 40 Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and banking customers and 500 million subscribers, worldwide.
Completed the acquisition of the assets of Ensercom, a German based Mobile Virtual Network Enabling (MVNE) company.
Ensercom hosts Mobile Services in the network of Telekom Deutschland and the contract between Telekom Deutschland and Elephant Talk has recently been renewed.
Total revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2012 was $8,580,968, an increase of $72,954 or 0.9%, compared to $8,508,014 for the three months ending March 31, 2011. The rise in revenues was led by an increase of $1,245,539 (or 105.4%) in revenues in the higher margin mobile and security solutions business, including revenues derived from the commencement of the operation phase of our agreement with Adeptra and one of the ten largest financials institutions' implementation of Validsoft's SIM Swap solution. We expect that revenue from this contract will continue. This rise in revenues was off-set by the expected continued decrease in our low margin legacy landline business by $1,172,585 (or 16.0%). The increase in higher margin mobile and security solutions business is mainly due to the increasing revenues of already existing customers and a customer with a large consumer base with monthly recurring revenues coming on to the mobile platform at the end of the 4th quarter 2011.
Cost of service for the three months ended March 31, 2012 was $6,889,217, a decrease of $668,268 or 8.8%, compared to $7,557,485 for the three months ending March 31, 2011. This decrease is fully related to the decline in landline revenue. Cost of service as a percent of the total revenue was 80.3% and 88.8% for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively.
Selling, general and administrative ("SG&A") expense for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 were $4,569,958 and $3,416,357, respectively. SG&A expenses increased by $1,153,601, or 33.8%, in the first three months 2012 compared to the same period 2011. This was led by an increase of 31.6% in staffing levels on March 31, 2012 compared to March 31, 2011, largely in sales force and European hires, as well as by higher investor relation and marketing & communication related expenses. The increases in staffing levels and higher marketing and selling costs are mainly related to the expected future revenues.
Negative adjusted EBITDA (a non-GAAP measure) slightly increased from ($2,465,828) in the three months ended 2011 to ($2,878,207) for the three months ended 2012. Adjusted EBITDA improved with $682,578 when compared to the $3,560,785 negative adjusted EBITDA of the fourth quarter 2011.
Net Loss was ($6,005,189) and ($4,713,224) for the three months ended March 31, 2012 and 2011 respectively. The increase in loss of ($1,291,965) was the result of a ($949,856) increase in loss from operations and a higher other expense of ($342,109). Net Loss improved with $599,792 when compared to the $6,604,981 Net Loss of the fourth quarter 2011.
As a reminder, Elephant Talk Communications will host a Shareholder Update Conference Call on May 10, 2012 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT). Anyone interested in participating should dial 1-480-629-9665 approximately 5 to 10 minutes prior to 11:00 a.m. Participants should ask for the Elephant Talk Shareholder Update conference call. To listen to the playback please utilize the webcast by visiting the company's website at .
This call is being webcast by ViaVid Broadcasting and can be accessed at either Elephant Talk's website at or ViaVid's website at . To access the webcast, you will need to have the Windows Media Player on your desktop. For the free download of the Media Player, please visit:
Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (NYSE Amex: ETAK) () is an international provider of business software and services to the telecommunications and financial services industry. The company enables both mobile carriers and virtual operators to offer a full suite of products, delivery platforms, support services, superior industry expertise and high quality customer service without substantial upfront investments from clients. Elephant Talk provides global telecommunication companies, mobile network operators, banks, supermarkets, consumer product companies, media firms, and other businesses a full suite of products and services that enables them to fully provide telecom services as part of their business offerings. The company offers various dynamic products that include remote health care, credit card fraud prevention, mobile internet ID security, multi-country discounted phone services, loyalty management services, and a whole range of other emerging customized mobile services. For more information, visit ().
ValidSoft is a subsidiary of Elephant Talk Communications Corp. (NYSE Amex: ETAK) () and is a market leader in providing solutions to counter electronic fraud relating to card, the internet, and telephone channels. ValidSoft's solutions are at the cutting edge of the market and are used to verify the authenticity of both parties to a transaction (Mutual Authentication), and the integrity of the transaction itself (Transaction Verification) for the mass market, in a highly cost effective and secure manner, yet easy to use and intuitive. For more information, please visit ().
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