Contractual Commitments

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Commitments and Contingencies

Note 11. Contractual Commitments

The Company incurred total rent expense of $16,000 and $21,000, respectively, for the three month periods ended March 31, 2016 and 2015.

Minimum contractual commitments, as of March 31, 2016, is as follows:

	Operating		Long-term
	leases		Financing
2016	$	16,000	$	2,000

Legal Proceedings

In 2012, we sold certain former subsidiaries engaged in provision of satellite service in 2012 to Broadband Satellite Services (“BSS”), a company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales. Horizon Globex, a company incorporated in Switzerland and a subsidiary of us, had provided these subsidiary companies with software and IT services. In connection with its acquisition of our former subsidiary companies, BSS entered into three agreements with Horizon Globex pursuant to which BSS continued to use Horizon Globex to supply software and IT services. Notwithstanding the fact that Horizon Globex has provided such ongoing software and IT services, BSS has failed to pay our fees pursuant to the agreements. As a result, on December 23, 2014, we initiated legal proceedings in the High Court, Queen’s Bench Division, Commercial Court No. 2014 folio 1560 against BSS in the United Kingdom to collect such fees in the amount of $640,000. Subsequently, BSS asserted counter-claims in the amount of $5.8 million, alleging among other claims, civil fraud in connection with the sale of subsidiary companies. Based on the timing of these claims, which were never raised until we filed our action against BSS, it is our position that these claims are specious and represent nothing more than an attempt to improve BSS’s negotiating position with regard to our legitimate claims against it. As a result, we plan to carry out our claims against BSS to the fullest extent possible and to defend BSS’s counter-claims vigorously. We note further that several BSS counter-claims may be time barred by applicable sections of the contracts and plan to assert the same as an affirmative defense to such counter-claim. Notwithstanding our views with regard to our claims against BSS and BSS’s counter-claims, litigation is by its nature unpredictable and therefore we cannot guarantee with certainty the outcome of our dispute with BSS.