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SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2023
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 NOTE 12 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

The Company has evaluated subsequent events through the date of this filing, and except for the following, no material subsequent events have occurred:

 

Excess Telecom Sale of IM Telecom

 

On January 22, 2024 (the “Effective Date”), the Company and IM Telecom entered into a Membership Interest Purchase Agreement (the “Excess Purchase Agreement”) with Excess Telecom, Inc., a Nevada corporation (“Excess”), pursuant to which we conveyed 49% of our Membership Interest in IM Telecom to Excess on the “Initial Closing Date” in consideration of the sum of $10,000,000, and will convey the remaining 51% of the Membership Interest in IM Telecom to Excess for the sum of $100.00 on the Final Closing. The Final Closing is conditioned upon obtaining the necessary federal and state governmental approvals for a change in control of IM Telecom (the “Approvals”), among other customary closing conditions. If on or before December 31, 2024, the ACP Connectivity Program is renewed by the United States Congress for a duration of greater than four (4) months (the “ACP Renewal Condition”), Excess will pay the Company an additional sum of $5,000,000 (the “ACP Renewal Earnout). The parties also entered into a Management Services Agreement governing the management of the business of IM Telecom to be effective until the earlier of the Final Closing or ninety-nine (99) years, and whereby IM Telecom and Excess will be managing IM Telecom until final regulatory approval; and a Master Distribution Agreement whereby the Company, doing business as “Infiniti Mobile,” a tradename of IM Telecom that was excluded from the Excess Purchase Agreement, will be a master distributor of IM Telecom’s wireless services, products, Lifeline services, ACP services to potential customers and such other ancillary services relating to Lifeline and ACP services offered to the Company’s customers under the Licenses held by IM Telecom (the “Services”), the term of which will commence upon the Final Closing and continue for a period of not less than ten (10) years. The current employees of IM Telecom will novate to employees of Company under these agreements.

 

The CCUR Loan and the total liability of Company under the ACP Financing Installment Sale Agreement, which are referenced above in NOTE 3, were paid in full on the Initial Closing Date of the Excess Purchase Agreement. The total payoff amount for the CCUR Loan was $3,681,660, inclusive of unpaid interest and legal fees. The total payoff amount under the ACP Finance

 

Installment Sale Agreement was $1,462,345. These respective payments eliminated all of the Company’s long-term debt. Additional information about the Excess Purchase Agreement and related agreements is contained in the Company’s 8-K Current Report dated April 6, 2023, and filed with the SEC on April 17, 2023.

 

Extension of Agreement to Acquire Wireless Carrier

 

On January 24, 2023, the Company entered into a non-material purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the membership interest of Tempo Telecom, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company and Eligible Telecommunications Carrier (“ETC”), pending FCC approval. Additionally, the Company has assigned its rights under the purchase agreement to Insight Mobile, Inc., a Delaware corporation, subject to various conditions of closing. If all conditions are timely satisfied, including the required FCC approval, this transaction will be materially beneficial to the Company and will not involve any dilution to the Company’s shareholders. Additional information about this assignment of the Company’s rights to the referenced purchase agreement is contained in the 8-K Current Report of the Company dated April 6, 2023, and filed with the SEC on April 17, 2023.

 

On January 23, 2024, the Company exercised its rights under the aforementioned assigned agreement, seeking an extension of 180 days for closing or such longer period as may be required to satisfy the required Governmental Approvals to closing.

 

Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) Wind Down

 

On February 7, 2024 the FCC announced that the Affordable Connectivity Program would stop accepting new enrollments and stated the last fully funded month for the program is April, 2024. All consumers in the program as of this enrollment freeze date will receive their benefit until the program ends unless Congress votes to extend the program.

 

Under IM Telecom’s national ETC license, the Company will continue to enroll and provide services to qualifying consumers in the FCC Lifeline program. The Lifeline program is a separate program under the FCC, and remains committed and viable in support of providing affordable communication services for low-income consumers.

 

Non-Compensatory Stock Option Grant

 

On March 15, 2024, Mr. McEwen exercised his fifth tranche of 187,500 non-compensatory stock options for 187,500 shares of common stock at a price of $0.22 per share or an aggregate price of $41,250, which shares were issued on March 15, 2024.

 

Stock Option Grant

 

On March 27, 2024, we granted 100,000 incentive stock options to an employee who will serve as the Director of Sales for Apeiron Systems at an exercise price of $0.626. These options vest as follows, and they expire on the earlier of March 27, 2029, or ninety (90) days from resignation or termination of employment: 33,333 on March 27, 2024; 33,333 on March 27, 2025; and 33,334 on March 27, 2026.

Change of Tax Year

 

The Company petitioned the IRS to change our tax period to a calendar tax year to coincide with our financial year.

 

Additions to our State ETC Designations

 

As of this date, we have filed for multiple state ETC designations, and have received additional ETC designations in Alabama, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wyoming.