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8×8 Reports Revenue Increase

Santa Clara, Calif. — 8×8 announced its financial operating results last week for the fiscal fourth quarter and year, ended March 31.

Total revenue for the fiscal year was $64.7 million, compared with $61.6 million for fiscal 2008, a 5 percent year-over-year increase. 8×8 business services revenue grew 38 percent year over year, from $29.1 million in fiscal 2008 to $40.2 million in fiscal 2009, and accounted for 62 percent of the company’s overall revenue in fiscal 2009, the company said.

A GAAP net loss of $2.5 million, or 4 cents per share, was reported for fiscal 2009, compared with GAAP net income of $30,000, or 0 cents per share, in fiscal 2008. 8×8 said the loss for fiscal 2009 resulted from a series of write-offs and charges incurred in the company’s fourth fiscal quarter.

8×8 reported a GAAP net loss for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 of $3.9 million or ($0.06) per share, compared with net income of $691,000 or $0.01 per share for the same period of fiscal 2008 and net income of $180,000 or $0.00 per share for the previous quarter.

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, 8×8 said it increased its business communications services subscriber base by 1,307 net new business customers, compared with 838 in the same period last year and 962 in the third quarter. This increase resulted from the combination of 2,792 gross new business customer additions, and an improvement in business customer churn to 2.7 percent, compared with 3.6 percent in the same period last year and 2.9 percent in the prior quarter.

8×8 said it ended the fourth quarter with a total of 16,013 business customers.

Revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 was $15.8 million, compared with $16.3 million for the same period of fiscal 2008 and $16.2 million for the previous quarter. The decrease in overall revenue for the quarter was attributable, 8×8 said, to the continued decline of residential service revenue, a reduction in revenue due to uncollected licensing revenue from one large customer, and an increase in upfront equipment subsidies to new business customers which resulted in the addition of a record number of business customers during the quarter.

8×8 business service revenue grew to 68 percent of total revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009, compared with 50 percent of total revenue in the same period of fiscal 2008 and 66 percent of total revenue in the previous quarter. Residential and video service revenue declined 6 percent in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2009 to $5.2 million, from $5.6 million in the prior quarter.

8×8 also announced it had partnered with Aastra, a provider of communications products, to debut co-branded Virtual Office business IP phones. The phones will be bundled with 8×8’s services and will be sold at Office Depot locations.

Aastra will supply the co-branded 8×8/Aastra 6755i Virtual Office IP phone, while 8×8 provisions and manages the 8×8 Virtual Office hosted IP PBX service.

The 8×8/Aastra 6755i Virtual Office IP phone replaces the Virtual Office ST2118 analog business phone. The plug-and-play IP telephones are designed to serve as endpoints for the 8×8 Virtual Office hosted IP PBX business phone service.

The 6755i features 8×8’s network address translation (NAT) traversal technologies to facilitate use from any high-speed Internet connection worldwide, 8×8 said in a release. The phone reportedly plugs into any broadband Internet connection to allow users to make or receive calls without performing any network configuration or firewall manipulation. Features include corporate directory display and lookup, extension dialing and transfers, intercom paging, shared line appearance, LCD display screens, full duplex speakerphones functionality, programmable softkey appearances and an embedded XML browser.

All models are said to support “Power over Ethernet” and come equipped with dual auto-sensing switched Ethernet ports to eliminate additional wiring for a computer and simplify installations.

It is currently available for a $199 suggested retail. Additional models are available online at www.officedepot.com.

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