MPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Quarter Report: 2006 March (Form 10-Q)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934.
FOR THE QUARTER ENDED March 31, 2006
COMMISSION FILE NO. 000-24969
mPhase Technologies, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
NEW JERSEY |
22-2287503 |
(State or other jurisdiction of |
(I.R.S. Employer |
incorporation or organization) |
Identification Number) |
587 CONNECTICUT AVE., NORWALK, CT |
06854-1711 |
(Address of principal executive offices) |
(Zip Code) |
ISSUER'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, (203) 838-2741
INDICATE BY CHECK MARK WHETHER THE REGISTRANT (1) HAS FILED ALL REPORTS REQUIRED TO BE FILED BY SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934, DURING THE PRECEDING 12 MONTHS (OR FOR SHORTER PERIOD THAT THE REGISTRANT WAS REQUIRED TO FILE SUCH REPORT), AND (2) HAS BEEN SUBJECT TO SUCH FILING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PAST 90 DAYS.
YES x NO
THE NUMBER OF SHARES OUTSTANDING OF EACH OF THE REGISTRANT'S CLASSES OF COMMON STOCK AS OF May 12, 2006 IS 277,477,880 SHARES, ALL OF ONE CLASS OF $.01 STATED VALUE COMMON STOCK.
mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
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PART I |
FINANCIAL INFORMATION |
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ITEM 1 |
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Unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets-June 30, 2005 and March 31, 2005 |
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Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations-Three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006 and from October 2, 1996 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2006 |
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Unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations-Nine Months ended March 31, 2006 and 2006 and from October 2, 1996 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2006 |
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Unaudited Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders Equity (Deficit) Nine months ended March 31, 2006 |
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Unaudited Consolidated Statement of Cash Flow-Nine Months Ended March 31, 2005 and 2006 and from October 2, 1997 (Date of Inception) to March 31, 2006 |
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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements |
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ITEM 2 |
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Condition and Results of Operations |
15 |
ITEM 3 |
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about market risk |
28 |
ITEM 4 |
CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES |
28 |
PART II |
OTHER INFORMATION |
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Item 1. |
Legal Proceedings |
29 |
Item 2. |
Changes in Securities |
29 |
Item 3. |
Defaults Upon Senior Securities |
29 |
Item 4. |
Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders |
29 |
Item 5. |
Other Information |
29 |
Item 6. |
Exhibits and Reports on Form 8-K |
30 |
Signature Page |
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31 |
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A Development Stage Company)
Consolidated Balance Sheets
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June 30, |
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March 31, |
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2005 |
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2006 |
ASSETS |
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(Unaudited) |
CURRENT ASSETS |
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Cash and cash equivalents |
$ |
351,185 |
$ |
4,319,754 |
Accounts receivable, net of bad debt reserve of $0 for each period |
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533,841 |
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176,158 |
Stock subscription receivable |
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460,000 |
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- |
Inventories, net |
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490,142 |
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453,095 |
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
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25,622 |
72,754 | |
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS |
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1,860,790 |
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5,021,761 |
Property and equipment, net |
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162,692 |
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338,419 |
Patents and licensing rights, net |
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141,451 |
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96,797 |
Other Assets |
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67,250 |
50,000 | |
TOTAL ASSETS |
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2,232,183 |
5,506,977 | |
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY |
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CURRENT LIABILITIES |
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Accounts payable |
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1,691,338 |
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727,050 |
Accrued expenses |
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431,765 |
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1,237,790 |
Due to related parties |
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721,569 |
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108,616 |
Notes payable, related parties |
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277,000 |
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- |
Current portion of long term debt |
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413,537 |
338,618 | |
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES |
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3,535,208 |
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2,412,074 |
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Long-term debt, net of current portion |
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100,000 |
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- |
Other Liabilities |
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214,709 |
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360,410 |
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COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Note 10) |
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- |
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- |
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) |
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Common stock, stated value $.01, 500,000,000 shares authorized; 145,048,832 and 275,115,391 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2005 and March 31, 2006, respectively |
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1,450,489 |
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2,751,154 |
Additional paid in capital |
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123,949,156 |
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146,004,971 |
Deficit accumulated during development stage |
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(127,009,407) |
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(146,013,659) |
Less-Treasury stock, 13,750 shares at cost |
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(7,973) |
(7,973) | |
TOTAL STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) |
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(1,617,735) |
2,734,493 | |
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY (DEFICIT) |
$ |
2,232,183 |
$ |
5,506,977 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A Development Stage Company)
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
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Three Months Ended |
October 2, 1996 (Date of Inception) to March 31 | |||
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2006 |
REVENUES |
$ |
564,316 |
$ |
284,197 |
$ |
22,153,124 |
COSTS AND EXPENSES |
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Cost of Sales (including $110,989 and $144,742 incurred with related parties in 2005 and 2006 respectively) |
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448,312 |
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256,404 |
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16,088,833 |
Research and development (including non-cash stock related charges of $0, $65,300 and $2,315,519, respectively) |
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1,710,866 |
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2,298,183 |
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49,664,491 |
General and Administrative (including non-cash stock related charges of $1,636,028, $3,335,275 and $54,885,575, respectively) |
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2,455,345 |
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4,819,598 |
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91,643,130 |
Depreciation and amortization |
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18,245 |
16,880 |
3,010,230 | ||
TOTAL COSTS AND EXPENSES |
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4,627,768 |
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7,391,065 |
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160,406,684 |
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LOSS FROM OPERATIONS |
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(4,063,452) |
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(7,106,868) |
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(138,253,560) |
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OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) |
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Gain (Loss) on extinguishments and settlements |
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(244,614) |
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(498,116) |
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(6,123,893) |
Minority interest loss in consolidated subsidiary |
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- |
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- |
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20,000 |
Capital losses |
(1,447) |
- |
(48,669) | |||
Loss from unconsolidated subsidiary |
- |
- |
(1,466,467) | |||
Interest Income (expense), net |
(36,935) |
(5,214) |
(141,070) | |||
TOTAL OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE) |
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(282,996) |
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(503,330) |
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(7,760,099) |
NET LOSS |
$ |
(4,346,448) |
$ |
(7,610,198) |
$ |
(146,013,659) |
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LOSS PER COMMON SHARE, basic and diluted |
$ |
(.04) |
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(.03) |
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON |
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SHARES OUTSTANDING, basic and diluted |
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120,015,504 |
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262,539,165 |
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The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A Development Stage Company)
Consolidated Statements of Operations
(Unaudited)
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
5
mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A Development Stage Company)
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders' Equity (Deficit)
(Unaudited)
Additional |
Total | ||||||||||
$.01 Stated |
Treasury |
Paid-in |
Accumulated |
Stockholders | |||||||
Shares |
Value |
Stock |
Capital |
Deficit |
Equity (Deficit) | ||||||
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Balance June 30, 2005 |
145,048,832 |
$ |
1,450,489 |
$ |
(7,973) |
$ |
123,949,156 |
$ |
(127,009,407) |
$ |
(1,617,735) |
Issuance of common stock pursuant to the exercise of warrants, net of cash expenses of $108,000 |
15,807,006 |
158,070 |
- |
2,599,654 |
- |
2,757,724 | |||||
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Issuance of common stock with warrants in private placements, net of cash expenses of $674,567 |
72,506,191 |
725,061 |
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9,320,755 |
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10,045,816 | |||||
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Issuance of common stock for services |
10,350,000 |
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103,500 |
- |
2,074,500 |
- |
2,178,000 | ||||
Conversion of related party and strategic vendor debts to common stock and warrants |
3,277,778 |
32,778 |
- |
557,222 |
- |
590,000 | |||||
Stock options awarded to consultants, employees and officers |
- |
- |
- |
2,617,200 |
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- |
2,617,200 | ||||
Issuance of additional shares and warrants to effect revised pricing on previous private offering charged to expense |
28,125,584 |
281,256 |
- |
4,886,484 |
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5,167,740 | |||||
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Net loss |
- |
- |
- |
- |
(19,004,252) |
(19,004,252) | |||||
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Balance, March 31, 2006 |
275,115,391 |
$ |
2,751,154 |
$ |
(7,973) |
$ |
146,004,971 |
$ |
(146,013,659) |
$ |
2,734,493 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A Development Stage Company)
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
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Nine Months Ended March 31, |
October 2, 1996 (Date of Inception) to March 31, | |||
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2005 |
2006 |
2006 | ||
Cash Flow From Operating Activities: |
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Net Loss |
$ |
(9,484,240) |
$ |
(19,004,252) |
$ |
(146,013,659) |
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating |
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activities: |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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193,650 |
140,862 |
6,751,691 | ||
Book Value of fixed assets disposed |
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- |
- |
74,272 | ||
Provision for doubtful accounts |
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- |
- |
32,124 | ||
Gain on debt extinguishments |
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99,393 |
(265,468) |
(1,037,654) | ||
Loss on unconsolidated subsidiary |
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- |
- |
1,466,467 | ||
Impairment of note receivable |
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17,250 |
17,250 |
250,000 | ||
Loss on securities |
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38,358 |
- |
48,669 | ||
Non-cash charges relating to issuance of common stock, common stock options and warrants |
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2,763,661 |
9,962,940 |
62,757,894 | ||
Changes in assets and liabilities: |
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Accounts receivable |
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(290,803) |
357,683 |
(208,282) | ||
Inventories |
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160,209 |
37,047 |
(457,656) | ||
Prepaid expenses and other current assets |
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(88,442) |
(47,132) |
8,307 | ||
Other non-current assets |
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- |
- |
(627,182) | ||
Accounts payable |
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539,344 |
(914,257) |
3,329,241 | ||
Accrued expenses |
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395,892 |
806,025 |
2,474,305 | ||
Due to/from related parties |
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Microphase |
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92,083 |
(150,034) |
2,487,025 | ||
Janifast |
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(234,166) |
(231,698) |
2,725,270 | ||
Officers |
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(86,169) |
(73,600) |
429,356 | ||
Lintel |
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- |
- |
477,000 | ||
Others |
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(179,472) |
- |
179,472 | ||
Receivables from Subsidiary |
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- |
- |
(150,000) | ||
Deferred revenue |
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(214,180) |
- |
- | ||
Net cash used in operating activities |
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(6,277,632) |
(9,364,634) |
(65,003,340) | ||
Cash Flow from Investing Activities: |
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Payments related to patents and licensing rights |
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(50,836) |
- |
(450,780) | ||
Purchase of fixed assets |
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(107,481) |
(271,535) |
(3,034,557) | ||
Net Cash used in investing activities |
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(158,317) |
(271,535) |
(3,485,337) | ||
Cash Flow from Financing Activities: |
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Proceeds from issuance of common stock and exercises of options and warrants |
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6,938,033 |
13,877,057 |
72,743,250 | ||
Payments of notes payable |
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(129,301) |
(174,919) |
(462,726) | ||
Advances from Microphase Corporation |
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- |
- |
347,840 | ||
Proceeds from notes payable-officers |
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600,000 |
- |
868,000 | ||
Repayments of notes payable-officers |
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(825,000) |
(97,000) |
(680,000) | ||
Repurchase of treasury stock at cost |
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- |
- |
(7,973) | ||
Net cash provided by financing activities |
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6,583,732 |
13,605,138 |
72,808,391 | ||
Net increase in cash and equivalents |
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147,783 |
3,968,969 |
4,319,754 | ||
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, beginning of period |
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90,045 |
351,185 |
- | ||
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS, end of period |
$ |
237,828 |
$ |
4,319,754 |
$ |
4,319,754 |
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
NATURE OF OPERATIONS
mPhase Technologies, Inc. (the "Company") was organized on October 2, 1996. On February 17, 1997, the Company acquired Tecma Laboratories, Inc. ("Tecma") in a transaction accounted for as a reverse merger. On June 25, 1998, the Company acquired Microphase Telecommunications, Inc. ("MicroTel"), through the issuance of 2,500,000 shares of its common stock in exchange for all the issued and outstanding shares of MicroTel. The assets acquired in this acquisition were patents related to the mPhase line of DSL component products (e.g., POTS Splitters) and patent applications utilized in the Company's legacy Traverser(TM) Digital Video Data Delivery System ("Traverser"). The primary business of the company is to design, develop, manufacture and market its software/middleware solution that enables telephone service providers to deliver feature rich broadcast television, high-speed internet and voice over any infrastructure that utilizes internet protocol (the IPTV solution.). Additionally, the Company sells digital subscriber line (DSL) component products that include its new Broadband Loop Watch product that enables telephone service providers to perform loop diagnostic testing of its system for deployment and maintenance of DSL data as well as microfilters and pots splitters. Since February of 2004, the Company has also engaged Lucent Technologies Inc. to develop a new generation of power cells with an extremely long shelf life using the science of nanotechnology. In March of 2005 the Company engaged Lucent Technologies to develop a magnetometer or electronic sensor using the science of nanotechnology. The Company believes that both products being developed using the science of nanotechnology will initially have military applications.
The Company is in the development stage, as defined by Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS") No. 7, "Accounting and Reporting by Development Stage Enterprises." and its present activities are focused on the commercial deployment of its proprietary IPTV or TV+ solution and DSL component products. The Company is also engaged in exploratory research though the Bell Labs division of Lucent technologies Inc. of electronic sensors and power cells. Since mPhase is in the development stage, the accompanying consolidated financial statements should not be regarded as typical for normal operating periods.
BASIS OF PRESENTATION - The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and pursuant to the regulations of the Securities Exchange Commission. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. Operating results for the six months ending March 31, 2006 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for a full fiscal year. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June 30, 2005.
Through March 31, 2006, the Company had incurred cumulative (a) development stage losses totaling approximately $146,013,659, (b) stockholders equity of $2,734,493, and (c) negative cash flow from operations equal to $65,003,340. At March 31, 2006, the Company had $4,319,754 of cash, cash equivalents and $176,158 of trade receivables to fund short-term working capital requirements. The Company's ability to continue as a going concern and its future success is dependent upon its ability to raise capital in the near term to: (1) satisfy its current obligations, (2) continue its research and development efforts, and (3) allow the successful wide scale development, deployment and marketing of its products.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
USE OF ESTIMATES - The preparation of financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
RECLASSIFICATIONS - Certain reclassifications have been made in the prior period consolidated financial statements to conform to the current period presentation. The most substantial reclassification in these financial statements is for charges for reparation expenses for equity issued to investors for market value adjustments previously included in general and administrative expenses which are now included in the other income and expense category entitled "Gains (Losses) on extinguishments and settlements."
LOSS PER COMMON SHARE, BASIC AND DILUTED - The Company accounts for net loss per common share in accordance with the provisions of SFAS No. 128, "EARNINGS PER SHARE" ("EPS"). SFAS No. 128 requires the disclosure of the potential dilution that could occur if securities or other contracts to issue common stock were exercised or converted into common stock or resulted in the issuance of common stock that then shared in the earnings of the entity. Common equivalent shares have been excluded from the computation of diluted EPS for all periods presented since their affect is antidilutive.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT - Research and development costs are charged to operations as incurred.
REVENUE RECOGNITION - All revenue included in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented relates to sales of mPhase's line of POTS Splitter products and other related DSL component products. As required, the Company adopted the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 101, REVENUE RECOGNITION IN FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, which provides guidance on applying generally accepted accounting principles to revenue recognition based on the interpretations and practices of the SEC. The Company recognizes revenue for its line of POTS Splitter products and other DSL component products at the time of shipment, at which time, no other significant obligations of the Company exist, other than normal warranty support. In addition, the Company includes costs of shipping and handling billed to customers in revenue and the related expenses of shipping and handling costs is included in cost of sales.
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION: On July 1, 2005, the Company adopted the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 123R, "Share-Based Payment" (SFAS 123R). SFAS 123R revised SFAS 123, "Accounting for Stock Based Compensation" and supersedes APB Opinion No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees." SFAS 123R requires companies to measure and recognize compensation expense for all employee stock-based payments at fair value over the service period underlying the arrangement. Therefore, the Company is now required to record the grant-date fair value of its stock-based payments (i.e., stock options and other equity-based compensation) in the statement of operations. The Company adopted FAS 123R using the "modified prospective" method, whereby fair value of all previously-granted employee stock-based arrangements that remained unvested at July 1, 2005 and all grants made on or after July 1, 2005 have been included in the Company's determination of stock-based compensation expense for the three and Nine months ended March 31, 2005. The Company has not restated its operating results for the three and six months ended March 31, 2004 to reflect charges for the fair value of employee stock-based arrangements.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
RECENT ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS
FASB 150 - Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity
In May 2003, the FASB issues SFAS statement No. 150, "Accounting for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and Equity". This Statement establishes standards for how an issuer classifies and measures certain financial instruments with characteristics of both liabilities and equity. It requires that an issuer classify a financial instrument that is within its scope as a liability (or an asset in some circumstances). This statement is effective for financial instruments entered into or modified after May 31, 2003, and otherwise is effective at the beginning of the first interim period beginning after June 15, 2003, except for mandatory redeemable financial instruments of nonpublic entities, if applicable. It is to be implemented by reporting the cumulative effect of a change in an accounting principle for financial instruments created before the issuance date of the Statement and still existing at the beginning of the interim period of adoption. The adoption of this statement beginning with the quarter commencing August 1, 2003 did not have a significant impact of the Company's results of operations or financial position.
FASB 151 - Inventory Costs
In November 2004, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 151, which revised ARB No. 43, relating to inventory costs. This revision is to clarify the accounting for abnormal amounts of idle facility expense, freight, handling costs and wasted material (spoilage). This Statement requires that these items be recognized as a current period charge regardless of whether they meet the criterion specified in ARB 43. In addition, this Statement requires the allocation of fixed production overheads to the costs of conversion be based on normal capacity of the production facilities. This Statement is effective for financial statements for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005. Earlier application is permitted for inventory costs incurred during fiscal years beginning after the date of this Statement is issued. Management believes this Statement will have no impact on the financial statements of the Company once adopted.
FASB 152 - Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions
In December 2004, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 152, which amends FASB Statement No. 66, Accounting for Sales of Real Estate, to reference the financial accounting and reporting guidance for real estate time-sharing transactions that is provided in AICPA Statement of Position (SOP) 04-2, Accounting for Real Estate Time-Sharing Transactions. This Statement also amends FASB Statement No. 67, Accounting for Costs and Initial Rental Operations of Real Estate Projects, to state that the guidance for (a) incidental operations and (b) costs incurred to sell real estate projects does not apply to real-estate time sharing transactions. The accounting for those operations and costs is subject to the guidance in SOP 04-2. This Statement is effective for financial statements for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005. Management believes this Statement will have no impact on the fiscal statements of the Company once adopted.
FASB 153 - Exchange of Nonmonetary Assets
In December 2004, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 153. This Statement addresses the measurement of exchanges of nonmonetary assets. The guidance in APB Opinion No. 29, Accounting for Nonmonetary Transactions, is based on the principle that exchanges of nonmonetary assets should be measured based on the fair value of the assets exchanged. The guidance in that Opinion, however, included certain exceptions to that principle. This Statement amends Opinion 29 to eliminate the exception for nonmonetary exchanges of similar productive assets and replaces it with a general exception for exchanges of nonmonetary assets that do not have commercial substance. A nonmonetary exchange has commercial substance if the future cash flows of the entity are expected to change significantly as a result of the exchange. This Statement is effective for financial statements for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2005. Earlier application is permitted for nonmonetary asset exchanges incurred during fiscal years beginning after the date of this Statement is issued. Management believes this Statement will have no impact on the financial statements of the Company once adopted.
FASB 123 (revised 2004) - Share-Based Payments
In December, 2004, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued SFAS No. 123(R), "Share-Based Payment". Among other things, SFAS No. 123 (R) requires all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, to be recognized in the income statements based on their fair values. The Company is required to adopt the provisions of Statement No. 123(R) in its interim period beginning February 1, 2006. The Company elected early adoption of Standard No. 123(R).
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
STATEMENT OF CASH FLOW SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
2. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
MICROPHASE CORPORATION
mPhase's President, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Company are also officers of Microphase and mPhase's president and chairman of the board are shareholders of Microphase. On May 1, 1997, the Company entered into an agreement with Microphase, whereby it will use office space as well as the administrative services of Microphase, including the use of accounting personnel. This agreement was for $5,000 per month and was on a month-to-month basis. In July 1998, the office space agreement was revised to $10,000, in January 2000 to $11,050 per month, in July 2001 to $11,340 per month, in July 2002 to $12,200 per month, in January 2003 to $10,000 per month, and in July 2003 to $18,000 per month. Additionally, in July 1998, mPhase entered into an agreement with Microphase, whereby mPhase reimburses Microphase $40,000 per month for technical research and development. In January 2003 the technical research and development agreement was revised to $20,000 per month, and in July 2003 it was further revised to $5,000 per month for technical and research development, $5,000 per month for administrative services and $5,000 per month under the office space agreement.
Microphase also charges fees for specific projects on a project-by-project basis. During the Nine months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006 and from inception (October 2, 1996) to March 31, 2006 $135,000, $261,583 and $7,406,210 respectively, have been charged to expense or inventory under these Agreements and is included in operating expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
The Company is obligated to pay a 3% royalty to Microphase on revenues from its proprietary Traverser™ Digital Video and Data Delivery System and DSL component products. For the Nine months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, mPhase recorded royalties to Microphase totaling $129,679 and $25,759, respectively.
As a result of the foregoing transactions as of March 31, 2006, the Company had a $2,865 payable to Microphase. Additionally, at March 31, 2006, there are no undelivered purchase orders that remain outstanding to Microphase.
JANIFAST LTD.
The Company purchases products and incurs certain research and development expenses with Janifast Ltd., which is owned by U.S. Janifast Holdings, Ltd., a company in which three directors of mPhase are significant shareholders and one is an officer, in connection with the manufacturing of POTS Splitter shelves and component products including cards and filters sold by the Company.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
During the Nine months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006 and the period from inception (October 2, 1996) to March 31, 2006, $448,208, $241,472 (net of offset charges) and $15,755,841, respectively have been charged by Janifast to inventory or expense and is included in operating expenses in the accompanying statements of operations.
As a result of the foregoing transactions as of March 31, 2006, the Company had $84,400 payable to Janifast, which is included in amounts due to related parties in the accompanying balance sheet. Additionally, at March 31, 2006, there were no undelivered purchase orders outstanding to Janifast Ltd.
OTHER RELATED PARTIES
On August 30, 2004, the Company paid $100,000 in cash to Piper Rudnick LLP, outside legal counsel to the Company as part of a renegotiated settlement agreement that was originally effective as of March 31, 2002. The Company was in arrears with respect to payments due under the original settlement agreement and as part of the renegotiated agreement agreed to make the following payments:
a. $25,000 on each of December 1, 2004, March 1, 2005, June 1,2005, September 1, 2005 and a $50,000 payment on December 1, 2005. Thereafter the Company is obligated to pay $25,000 on each of March 1, 2006, June 1, 2006, and September 1, 2006 with a final payment of $75,000 on December 1, 2006.
b. The Company also delivered a 5 year cashless warrant to purchase $150,000 worth of common stock at $.25 per share.
The warrant was valued pursuant to EITF 96-18, the ascribed value of the warrant minus the debt cancelled resulting loss of $40,500.
As of March 31, 2006, the Company made each payment owed to Piper Rudnick LLP.
Mr. Abraham Biderman was employed until September 30, 2003 by our former investment-banking firm Lipper & Company. During the three months and nine months ended March 31, 2006, Mr. Biderman's current firm Eagle Advisers, Inc. has acted as a finder of money in connection with finder's fees of $470,500 and $782,567 respectively. In addition the Board of Directors compensated Mr. Durando and Mr. Dotoli with 5,000,000 shares of common stock and 2,500,000 shares of common stock, respectively, during the third quarter of fiscal year 2006 as additional compensation for the performance of their duties as officers and directors of the Company. Mr. Smiley, was authorized by the Board, to exercise a financing warrant at $.18 issued in connection with his participation in prior private placements of the Company and received certain reparation shares on the same terms and conditions as other investors in said private placements except that Mr. Smiley was permitted to tender free-trading shares in lieu of cash in connection with the exercise of such warrant. Pursuant to such transaction, Mr. Smiley tendered a net total of 906,332 free trading shares and received a total net share increase of 1,577,206 shares in the form of restricted shares. In addition, consistent with the terms given to other investors participating in the January 2006 Private Placement, Mr. Smiley received a replacement 5 year warrant to purchase 1,647,877 additional shares of the Companys common stock at $.21 per share. All shares of such Related Parties have recently been registered as part of the Companys S-1 Registration Statement effective May 15, 2006.
3. INVENTORIES
Inventory is stated at the lower of cost, determined on a first-in, first-out basis, or market. Inventory consists mainly of the Company's POTS Splitter shelves and cards. At March 31, 2006 inventory is comprised of the following:
Raw materials |
$ |
58,570 |
Work in progress |
|
21,250 |
Finished goods |
|
578,917 |
Total |
|
658,737 |
Less: Reserve for Obsolescence |
|
(205,642) |
Net Inventory |
$ |
453,095 |
4. INCOME TAXES
The Company accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method in accordance with SFAS No. 109 "ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME TAXES". Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases and operating loss and tax credit carry-forwards. Because of the uncertainty as to their future realizability, net deferred tax assets, consisting primarily of net operating loss carry-forwards, have been fully reserved for. Accordingly, no income tax benefit for the net operating loss has been recorded in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
Utilization of net operating losses generated through March 31, 2006 may be limited due to changes in ownership that have occurred.
5. ACCRUED EXPENSES
Accrued expenses representing accrued general and administrative expenditures were $1,237,790 at March 31, 2006. At March 31, 2006 unpaid invoices for expenses for research and development expenses incurred with Lucent Technologies, Inc. totaling $883,400 were included in accounts payable.
6. JOINT VENTURE
In March 2000, mPhase acquired a 50% interest in mPhaseTelevision.Net pursuant to a Joint Venture Agreement (the "Agreement") for $20,000. The agreement stipulates for mPhase's joint venture partner, AlphaStar International, Inc., ("AlphaStar"), to provide mPhaseTelevision.Net right of first transmission for its transmissions including MPEG-2 digital satellite television. In addition, in March 2000, mPhase loaned the joint venture $1,000,000 at 8% interest per annum. The loan is repayable to the Company from equity infusions to the subsidiary, no later than such time that mPhaseTelevision.Net qualifies for a NASDAQ Small Cap Market Listing. During April 2000, the Company acquired an additional 6.5% interest in mPhaseTelevision.Net for $1,500,000 and presently the Company owns 56.5% of this venture.
During the three months ended March 31, 2005 and ended March 31, 2006, mPhaseTelevision.Net, Inc., was charged $0 and $0, respectively for fees and costs by its joint venture partner and its affiliates. Pursuant to an agreement dated as of June 18, 2002, mPhaseTelevision.Net has terminated its lease of the earth station and AlphaStar and its affiliated entity have converted certain accounts payable into shares of the Company's common stock. Additionally, under this Agreement, mPhase is obligated to pay AlphaStar and its affiliates $35,000, which is included in amounts due to related parties in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet.
7. EQUITY TRANSACTIONS
During the quarter ended March 31, 2006, the Company issued 35,460,784 shares of its common stock together with a like amount of 5 year warrants to purchase one share each of the Company's common stock, with an exercise price of $.18 per share and $.18 per share respectively in private placements generating net proceeds of $5,103,488 which was collected during the three month period ended on March 31, 2006. The Company also issued 3,487,840 shares of its common stock together with a like amount of warrants to affect revised pricing on previous private offerings.
Also during the quarter ended March 31, 2006, the Company issued 13,892,720 shares of its common stock pursuant to the exercise of warrants, generating net proceeds of $2,417,867 to the Company. On January 1, 2006, the Company issued stock options to employees and officers for the right to purchase 9,762,500 shares. Pursuant to the adoption of FAS 123(R), the Company recognized an expense in the amount of $1,405,575, of which $65,300 has been included in research and development expense. The fair value of options granted in 2006 were estimated as of the date of grant using the Black-Scholes stock option pricing model, based on the following weighted average assumptions: annual expected return of 0%, annual volatility of 108.5%, based on a risk-free interest rate of 4.4% and expected option life of 3 years.
During the quarter ended March 31, 2006, the Board of Directors compensated Mr. Durando and Mr. Dotoli with 5,000,000 shares of common stock and additional options to purchase 1,000,000 shares of common stock and 2,500,000 shares of common stock and additional options to purchase 750,000 shares of common stock, respectively, as additional compensation for the performance of their duties as officers and directors of the Company. The Board also authorized the issuance of 2,000,000 to certain employees and 400,000 to a consultant. The stock was valued at $.21 per share, the fair value on the date of the awards.
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mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)
8. SHARE BASED COMPENSATION
Prior to July 1, 2005, the Company accounted for employee stock-based grants under the recognition and measurement principles of APB Opinion No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees" and related Interpretations. The following table illustrates the effect on net loss and net loss per share if the Company had applied the fair value recognition provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation" for the quarter and nine months ended March 31, 2005:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Three Months Ended |
Nine Months Ended | |
|
|
March 31, 2005 |
March 31, 2005 | |
|
|
|
|
|
Net loss, as reported |
$ |
(4,346,269) |
$ |
(9,484,240) |
Add: Stock-based employee compensation expense |
|
|
|
|
included in reported net income, net of related tax effects |
|
131,750 |
|
131,750 |
Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation |
|
|
|
|
expense determined under fair value based method |
|
|
|
|
for all awards, net of related tax effects |
|
(131,750) |
|
444,396 |
Pro forma net loss |
$ |
(4,346,268) |
$ |
(9,786,886) |
|
|
|
|
|
Loss per share: |
|
|
|
|
Basic and diluted-as reported |
$ |
(.04) |
$ |
(.09) |
Basic and diluted-pro forma |
$ |
(.04) |
$ |
(.09) |
|
|
|
9. DEBT CONVERSIONS AND EXTENSIONS
During the nine months ending March 31, 2006, accounts payable in the amount of $189,061 and a note payable in the amount of $180,000 owed by mPhase to Microphase Corporation were cancelled in exchange for the 2,050,000 shares of common stock and a 5 year warrant to purchase a like amount of shares at $.18. In addition for such period, Janifast Ltd. cancelled $171,000 of accounts payable owed by mPhase in exchange for 950,000 shares of common stock and a 5 year warrant to purchase a like amount of shares at $.18 per share. Additionally, a strategic vendor converted $50,000 of accounts payable into 277,778 shares with a like amount of warrants.
10. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
The Company has entered into various agreements with Georgia Tech Research Corporation ("GTRC"), pursuant to which the Company receives technical assistance in developing the commercialization of its Digital Video and Data Delivery System (DVDDS). The amounts incurred by the Company for GTRC technical assistance with respect to its research and development activities and included in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations for the six months ending March 31, 2005 and 2006 and for the period from inception through March 31, 2006 totaled approximately $0, $0 and $13,539,952 respectively.
If and when sales commence utilizing this particular technology, the Company will be obligated to pay to GTRC a royalty of up to 5% of sales of the Traverser™ DVDDS.
As of March of 2006, the Company is negotiating an additional 12 month extension of a Development Agreement with Lucent Technologies, Inc. relating to Micro-Power Source Arrays Fabricated Using Nanotextured, Superhydrophobic Materials. The first product expected to be completed through this exploratory research effort is a battery with a very long shelf life for military field applications. Under such contract the Company will be obligated to pay Lucent a total of $1.2 million payable in installments of $100,000 per month through February of 2007. In addition in March of 2005 the Company is also negotiating an extension of a second 12 month Development Agreement with Lucent for the development of a magnetometer using the science of nanotechnology at a total cost of $1.2 million payable through February of 2007.
In July of 2005, the Company entered into a 4 month extension of a Development Agreement with Lucent Technologies, Inc. dated September 15, 2003 to complete development of Version 3.0 of its IPTV or TV+ product requiring 4 payments each of $156,000 per month for work to be completed in the months of September through December of 2005. Such payments are payable 60 days in arrears of completion of each of the 4 milestones set forth for such period.
11. CONCENTRATIONS
During the nine months ended March 31, 2006, 74% of reserves were derived from two customers.
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ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION OF FINANCIAL CONDITIONS AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following is management's discussion and analysis of certain significant factors, which have affected mPhase's financial position and should be read in conjunction with the accompanying financial statements, financial data, and the related notes.
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT PURSUANT TO SAFE HARBOR PROVISIONS OF THE PRIVATE LITIGATION REFORM ACT OF 1995:
Some of the statements contained in or incorporated by reference in this Form 10-Q discuss the Company's plans and strategies for its business or state other forward-looking statements, as this term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The words "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "expect," "plan," "intend," "should," "seek," "will," and similar expressions are intended to identify these forward-looking statements, but are not the exclusive means of identifying them. These forward-looking statements include, among others, statements concerning the Company's expectations regarding its working capital requirements, gross margin, results of operations, business, growth prospects, competition and other statements of expectations, beliefs, future plans and strategies, anticipated events or trends, and similar expressions concerning matters that are not historical facts. Any forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those results expressed in or implied by the statements contained herein.
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RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
OVERVIEW
mPhase, a New Jersey corporation, founded in 1996 is a publicly-held company with over 15,000 shareholders and approximately 277 million shares of common stock outstanding. The Company's common stock is traded on the Over the Counter Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol XDSL. We are headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut with offices in Little Falls, NJ and New York, N.Y. mPhase shares common office space with Microphase Corporation, a privately held company. Microphase is a leader in the field of radio frequency and filtering technologies within the defense and telecommunications industry. It has been in operation for over 50 years and supports mPhase with both engineering and administrative and financial resources as needed.
mPhase is a developer of broadband communications products, specifically, IP TV plus a digital subscriber line (DSL) products for telecommunications service providers around the world. In February of 2004 mPhase has entered into the new and emerging area of NanoTechnology. Since our inception in 1996 we have been a development-stage company and operating activities have related primarily to research and development, establishing third-party manufacturing relationships and developing product brand recognition among telecommunications service providers. We are headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut with offices in Little Falls, New Jersey and New York, New York. mPhase shares common office space and common management with Microphase Corporation, a privately-held company. Microphase is a seller of radio frequency and filtering technologies to the defense industry. Microphase has been in operation for almost 50 years and supports mPhase with engineering, administrative and financial resources, as needed.
Description of Operations
Since our inception in 1996 our primary activities through fiscal year 2003 consisted of designing, manufacturing and testing our flagship products designed to enable telephone service providers to deliver digital broadcast television over DSL. Fiscal years 2004 and 2005 marked a significant shift of the Company's focus, in response to technology advancements with respect to the delivery of video data using internet protocol. The Company has shifted it telecommunications solution focus from technology for the delivery of broadcast television high speed internet and voice over DSL to the development of middleware/software for carrier class delivery of IP TV over copper, fiber, coax or any infrastructure representing a combination of the foregoing that is used by a telecommunications service provider. This shift has taken place over the past two years and has culminated in our flagship product namely Release 3.0 of our TV+ solution. This product is scheduled for final testing in the third quarter of fiscal year 2006 as part of an initial deployment of 1000 ports with a major telecommunications service provider in Russia. We have not, as yet, derived any significant revenue from our TV+ solution, which is the culmination of several earlier versions that have been changed to accommodate the latest in technological innovation and market demand for IPTV. The Company's recent entry into the field of nanotechnology is focused upon exploratory development of batteries with significantly longer shelf lives and enhanced capabilities and magnetometer sensor devices with potentially wide applicability for both military and commercial security applications. The Company believes that such development is consistent with its strategy of being a pioneer of high growth technology products and potentially diversifies its product mix. mPhase introduced its first TV over DSL platform, the Traverser™ Digital Video and Data Delivery System ("DVDDS"), in 1998. The DVDDS is a patented end to end system that enables a telecommunications service provider to deliver up to several hundred channels of motion picture experts group two ("MPEG-2") standard broadcast digital television, high speed internet and voice over copper telephone lines between a central office facility of the provider and a customer's premise.
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mPhase has not, as yet, derived any material revenues from sales of the DVDDS. The DVDDS is a proprietary technology developed in conjunction with Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) and is one of the first systems of its kind developed. The system is the only system on the market that utilizes non- Internet Protocol ("IP") transmission over ADSL. The DVDDS is installed at Hart Telephone Company in Hartwell, Georgia, where a limited user system of approximately 80 customers was tested. A DVDDS™ system is also installed at the BMW manufacturing plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina for use as a television broadcast system in a commercial setting. The new mPhase TV+ system, developed in conjunction with Bell Laboratories division of Lucent Technologies, Inc., is also designed to allow for the simultaneous delivery of voice, high speed data, and broadcast TV over copper telephone lines between a telephone service provider's central office (CO) and the customer premises and has replaced the legacy DVDDS platform.
For mPhase the alliance with Lucent marks a change in strategy from selling a complete proprietary platform to providing an industry-standards solution The Company believes that the demand for the TV+ system will be greatest in markets primarily outside of the United States that do not have a hybrid fiber coaxial cable ("HFC") infrastructure necessary for cable TV or fiber to the curb necessary for very fast DSL (VDSL).
In December of 2004, the Company announced that a major telecommunications service provider in Russia had chosen to deploy to 1,000 of its customers mPhase's TV+ platform. The Russian service provider has over 1 million customers and is part of a holding company with 15 million customers.
Release 3.0 of the TV+ solution, utilizes a communications framework based upon Internet Protocol (IP) instead of Asynchornous Transfer Mode (ATM) that is utilized by Releases 1.0 and 2.1. ATM is an industry standard for transportation of data based upon a packaging of information into a fixed-size cell format for transportation across networks. Many telecommunications service providers currently deploy equipment that handles this protocol because it can support voice, video, data and multimedia applications simultaneously with a high degree of reliability. IP is another transport protocol that maintains network information and routes packets across networks. IP packets are larger and can hold more data than ATM cells. Historically, there have been concerns that service providers would be unable to provide the same quality of service with IP because it is not optimized for time-sensitive signals such as broadcast television and voice. Nevertheless, there is a greater demand by telecommunication service providers for IP systems for delivery of television, voice and high-speed data because such systems are significantly more cost effective to deploy based upon greater scalability.
Release 3.0 of the TV+ solution is a system management software/middleware product that will operate with both the Lucent Stinger as well as the DSLAM's of other major vendors. Release 3.0 of the TV system will also be able to send multiple TV channels over both fiber, coax as well as down a single DSL line over copper using ADSL2 supported DSLAM's and be capable of delivery of Video on Demand. Our TV+ solution is an open standards-based, carrier class technology with tremendous scalability and enables a telecommunications service provider to custom tailor the deployment of feature rich IP television, high speed internet and voice. Such solution enables a telecommunications service provider to significantly enhance revenue, margins with a very high rate of return as compared to the traditional economics for delivery of telephone voice services only. In addition, Teleco's around the world are under increased pressure to delivery multiple converged services in order to retain their traditional telephone voice customers. The TV+ solution may be used in combination with any vendors set top box designed for the delivery of IP TV and the DSLAM's of all major vendors. The solution allows a service provider to start small and test its take rate among customers with a maximum of flexibility of design, features and cost allowing it to enter the market for converged services to its customers on an optimal basis.
mPhase has transformed itself from a developer of closed end proprietary technology for the delivery of TV over DSL to a Company that has developed a carrier class middleware/software solution for the delivery of IP TV using a standards-based platform designed to provide telecommunications with maximum flexibility in system configuration with components from all major vendors. mPhase is continuing in the development of a next generation set top box designed to further enhance its IP TV+ solution and to be used as a stand alone product. mPhase's current IPTV solution is designed to be used over fiber, coax and copper or any combination thereof currently deployed by a telecommunications service provider. In addition our IPTV solution may be used with other telecommunications transport technology such as Multicast Routers instead of DSLAM's for the delivery of voice, data and IPTV.
mPhase DSL Component Products. mPhase continues to design and market a line of DSL component products ranging from commodity items such as POTS splitters to innovative loop management products. Most notable in the suite of DSL component products is the recently introducediPOTS3 (recently renamed the "Broadband Loop Watch") or Intelligent POTS Splitter product. The newly developed version of the Broadband Loop Watch product is compatible with the Lucent Stinger as well as DSLAM's manufactured by other vendors. This product marks a significant advancement in automating loop management. The Broadband Loop Watch allows service providers to perform full loop testing for DSL deployment and maintenance from a central office without having to deploy a more costly deployment of personnel to the field. This is accomplished by allowing service providers to temporarily bypass the POTS Splitter and have a comprehensive view of their DSL networks. Prior to the introduction of this product in order to perform full testing, service providers would have to manually intervene so that so that test signals could be passed through the network. As DSL deployments scale, it is becoming increasingly more important for telecommunications service providers to streamline the process for provisioning and troubleshooting DSL services. Additionally, as competition for high speed Internet expands, the market is witnessing a reduction in price. Therefore, it has become imperative that telecommunications service providers lower the operational costs involved with supporting DSL services.
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Nanotechnology
Effective February 3, 2004, mPhase has entered into a Development Agreement with Lucent Technologies, Inc. to commercialize the use of nano power cell technology. The initial agreement was for a 12 month period of exploratory development at the cost of $100,000 per month of a new form of power cell having a shelf life far in excess of conventional battery technology. In March of 2005 the Company extended such Agreement for another 12 months at the cost of $100,000 per month to continue development of the nano power cell product. We believe that this arrangement with the Bell Labs division of Lucent will give mPhase the opportunity to develop and offer breakthrough battery technology and other potential applications, initially to the government market for defense and homeland security and ultimately to the commercial market. It is anticipated that the initial applications for nano power cells will address the need to supply emergency and reserve power to a broad range of products for the defense department.
The Company believes that its entry into this new field of high technology growth will provide product diversification without negatively affecting its focus upon its traditional products aimed at delivery of Television over DSL. The Company developed a lab prototype of its first nano power cell product that was completed in the second quarter of fiscal year 2005. The Company is unable, at this time, to predict when significant commercialization and material revenues will be derived from its entry into the NanoTechnology business.
On March 10, 2005 the Company announced and agreement with the Bell Labs research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, Inc. to co develop using the science of nanotechnology and commercialize uncooled magnetic ultra-sensitive sensors for a host of defense and civilian applications. The sensors, technically referred to as magnetometers, are based upon Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) using designs based upon fundamental breakthroughs made in the past few years at Bell Labs as part of the New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium. Initial tests of theses MEMS magnetometers indicate sensitivities 1000 times those achieved in presently available uncooled magnetometers. Such devices are designed to create a new generation of ultra sensitive magnetic field sensors that will enable military combatants to detect with greater accuracy and range hostile military forces. Commercial applications may include inexpensive navigational components for mobile phones to sensing devices for identification used in homeland security products, as well as sensors used in diagnostic systems for detection of metal fatigue for numerous industrial applications.
Nano Battery:
mPhase Technologies along with its partner Lucent/Bell Labs, has been jointly conducting research since February 2004 that demonstrates control and manipulation of fluids on superhydrophobic surfaces to create power cells by controlling wetting behavior of electrolyte on nanostructured electrode surfaces. The scientific research conducted this year has set the groundwork for continued exploration in the development of intelligent nanotechnology power cells (nano-batteries), and forms a path to commercialization of the technology for a broad range of market opportunities. During the first half of 2005 the battery team has been testing modifications and enhancements to the internal design of the battery to optimize its power and energy density characteristics, as well as making engineering improvements that will assist in making the battery easier to manufacture when the project research that level of maturity.
In June of 2005 the battery project was expanded to include a joint technical development effort through December 2005 between mPhase and Rutgers University to potentially incorporate a Lithium based design. This work program has initial started as a modest technology effort to help characterize and test the nano battery design using Lithium chemistry and determine if the current design is capable of supporting the lithium based chemistry. Based on the results of the testing with Rutgers University, mPhase may decide to accelerate the work effort.
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Magnetometer:
In February 2005 mPhase and Lucent Technologies' Bell Laboratories entered into a joint effort to develop an extremely sensitive magnetometer. Magnetometers can be used in a wide range of applications that include military surveillance, securing the retail environment, automotive sensors and actuators, industrial processing, medical imaging, scientific measurements, detection of mineral deposits and even air and space exploration. In sensor networks ultra-sensitive magnetometers can be used, for example, to detect and accurately pinpoint battlefield objects or they might also be used to study the workings of the human brain.
Magnetometers work by sensing changes in magnetic fields due to the motion of magnetic objects or changes in electrical currents generated by those objects. The magnetometer detects these objects by measuring time-varying magnetic signals that are superimposed on the combination of earth's background field (used to orient compasses) and static magnetic fields due to nearby magnetic objects.
Highly Sensitive Magnetometers - The enhanced sensitivity of these devices results from two scientific advances recently made researchers at Lucent Bell Labs. Presently, the highest sensitivity magnetometers commercially available require cooling to cryogenic temperatures. Called SQUIDs (for Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices) these devices only work at the temperature where liquid helium boils, -455 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, making such magnetometers expensive and bulky and therefore ill-suited for remote-sensing applications. Room temperature magnetometers, on the other hand, are less sensitive, and use technology that was developed in World War II for detecting submarines.
The new technology being developed by Bell Labs and mPhase employs a number of different designs based on Micro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS). These designs use the very high "Quality Factor (Q)" of the mechanical resonance in single crystals of silicon. A resonance is similar to the fundamental frequency of a tuning fork. When tapped, a tuning fork will vibrate for a length of time inversely proportional to the internal friction of vibration within the metal of the tuning fork. A comparable tuning fork made from single crystal silicon, which has less internal friction than the hardest metal, will vibrate almost a thousand times longer. Based on this principal, a device employing a high Q resonator will have enhanced amplitude of vibration at the resonance frequency, and hence will display a greater sensitivity to external perturbations that affect its resonance frequency. By coupling the mechanical motion of a bar or a paddle constructed from silicon to the ambient magnetic field, this high mechanical sensitivity can be converted to high magnetic field sensitivity. The technical approach that the team is developing can be achieved either statically with an integrated magnetic film, or dynamically through motion of the silicon bar or paddle.
The Benefits of MEMS - Commercial magnetometers using purely electronic detection, such as Hall, magneto-resistance or flux-gate devices, have sensitivities limited by their electronic Q-factor. This Q-factor depends on the natural electrical resistance, or electronic friction, of the metal in the circuit. For room-temperature operations it is therefore difficult to reduce the electrical Q-factor. Mechanical resonators made from semiconductor-grade silicon, on the other hand, exhibit mechanical Q-factors, approaching 100,000 at room temperature. In all, these new, smaller and less costly magnetometers should be 100-1000 times more sensitive than existing commercial devices, thus enabling a new class of sensor systems that mPhase plans on commercializing.
The mPhase and Lucent magnetometer team has successfully reached an early milestone and have produced a number MEM based sensor samples from the clean room facilities and are working on integrating them into the surrounding electronic circuitry so that measurement, characterization and sensitivity testing can be conducted.
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Revenues. To date, all material revenues have been generated from sales of the POTS Splitter Shelves and other DSL component products to a small number of telecommunications companies. mPhase believes that future revenues are difficult to predict because of "the length and variability of the commercial roll-out of the IPTV to various telecommunications service providers and (ii) the Company's recent entry into the NanoTechnology business. Since the Company believes that there may be a significant international market for its TV+ IPTV solution involving many different countries, with different regulations, certifications and commercial practices than the United States, future revenues are highly subject to the changing variables and uncertainties. Additionally, the recent instability of the telecommunications market evidenced by reduction in capital spending across the whole in the telecom sector contributes to our difficulty in accurately predicting future revenues.
Cost of revenues. The costs necessary to generate revenues from the sale of POTS Splitter Shelves and other related DSL component products include direct material, labor and manufacturing. mPhase paid these costs to Janifast Ltd., which has facilities in the People's Republic of China and is owned by and managed by certain senior executives of the Company. The cost of revenues also includes certain royalties paid to Microphase Corporation, a privately held corporation organized in 1955, which shares certain common management with the Company and is majority-owned by a director of mPhase. Costs for future production of the TV + Platform will consist primarily of payments to manufacturers to acquire the necessary components and assemble the product including Lucent Technologies Inc., Espiral Group and Magpie Telecom Insiders, Inc.
Research and development. Research and development expenses consist principally of the payments made to Microphase and Lucent, respectively, for development of the Broadband Loop Watch, the TV+ IPTV solution and nanotechnology products respectively. The IPTV+ solution consists primarily of middleware/software designed for the delivery of feature rich, carrier class, broadcast TV, high speed internet and voice by telecommunications service providers open using standards based equipment and transport configurations. All research and development costs are expensed as incurred.
General and administrative. Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses for personnel engaged in direct marketing of the TV+ solution for IPTV, POTS Splitter Shelves, the Broadband Loop Watch "intelligent pots splitter" diagnostic product and other DSL component products, as well as support functions including executive, legal and accounting personnel. Certain administrative activities are outsourced on a monthly fee basis to Microphase and mPhase leases its principal office in Norwalk, Connecticut from Microphase.
Non-Cash compensation charges. The Company makes extensive use of stock options and warrants as a form of compensation to employees, directors and outside consultants. We incurred non-cash compensation charges totaling $57,201,094 from inception (October 2, 1996) through March 31, 2006, of which $2,315,519 was included in research and development expenses and $54,885,575 was included in general and administrative expenses.
General and administrative. Selling, general and administrative expenses consist primarily of salaries and related expenses for personnel engaged in direct marketing of the TV+, the POTS Splitter Shelves and other DSL component products and Nanotechnology battery product, as well as support functions including executive, legal and accounting personnel. Certain administrative activities are outsourced on a monthly fee basis to Microphase Corporation. Finally, mPhase leases the principal office from Microphase Corporation. Non-cash compensation charge. The Company makes extensive use of stock options and warrants as a form of compensation to employees, directors and outside consultants. From inception (October 2, 1996) through March 31, 2006 the Company has incurred cumulative (a) development stage losses of $146,013,659, (b) an accumulated deficit of $146,004,971, and (c) negative cash flow from operations of $65,003,340. The auditors report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005 includes the statement that "there is substantial doubt of the Company's ability to continue as a going concern". Management estimates that the Company needs to raise approximately $5,000,000-$10,000,000 during the next 12 months to continue its present level of operations. As of March 31, 2006, the Company had a net worth of $2,734,493 compared to a negative net worth of $1,617,735 as of June 30, 2005 as a result of continuing net losses incurred after June 30, 2005.
The Company believes that significant deployments and resulting revenues from the deployment of the TV+ are not expected until fiscal year 2007.. The Company further believes that an increase in capital expenditures in the telecommunications industry will also increase sales and improve the Company's margins as well as increase the probability that the Company will attain profitability. The Company does not expect to derive any material revenue from its Nanotechnology product development until fiscal year 2008
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THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2006 VS. March 31, 2005
REVENUE
Total revenues were $284,197 for the three months ended March 31, 2006 compared to $564,316 for the three months ended March 31, 2005. The decrease was primarily attributable to a decreased demand of the Company's POTS Splitter product line. The Company continues to believe that its line of POTS Splitter products is positioned to be competitively priced with high reliability and connectivity, and as such has the potential to be a part of continuing DSL deployment worldwide. The Company cannot predict when a new upturn in sales of its POTS Splitter product might begin. The revenue was primarily from one customer, Covad Communications.
COST OF REVENUES
Cost of sales were $256,404 for the three months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to $448,312 in the comparable prior period in 2004, representing 80% of gross revenues for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 and 83% for the quarter ended March 31, 2005, respectively. Our margins have contracted dramatically over the past three years as spending among the telecommunications providers has contracted, coupled with downward pressures related to the supply and demand of telecommunications products. Margins for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, decreased by 11% over the margins for the same period ended March 31, 2005 due primarily due to continued weak demand for POTS Splitters and global commodity price pressure on telecommunications equipment products in general.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Research and development expenses were $2,298,183 for the three months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to $1,710,866 during the comparable period in 2005 or an increase of $587,317. This consists of increased spending in development and testing of Release 3.0 of the TV+ product testing and deployment for a Russia telecommunications provider and exploratory development activity of the new magnetometer as well as the power cell products using the science of Nanotechnology. Both areas represent activities contracted though Lucent Technologies and other vendors such as Magpie, Latens, Velonkani, and Espial and managed by mPhase. Also spending for continued development of the Company's Broadband Loop Watch product account for expenditures of $46,684 with Microphase Corporation and $522,400 with Lucent Technologies, Inc.
The Company expects continued increases in research and development costs throughout fiscal year 2006 as the Company continues and expands its development through Lucent Technologies, Inc of the TV+ and Nanotechnology product lines.. In order to broaden and diversify its current line of business into additional high growth technology areas, the Company plans to continue its development efforts with the Bell labs division of Lucent Technologies, Inc. to commercialize the use of nano power cell technology. Lucent/ Bell Labs is developing for mPhase micro-power source arrays fabricated using nanotextured, superhydrophobic materials. This new business arrangement with Lucent Bell Labs will give mPhase the opportunity to develop and offer breakthrough battery technology applications, initially to government market segments including defense and homeland security, and ultimately to the commercial market. The initial applications for the nano power cell technology will address the need to supply emergency and reserved power to a wide range of electronic devices for the defense department. In addition the Company plans to continue its research and development efforts with respect to the magnetometer product line using the science of Nanotechnology.
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Research expenditures incurred with Microphase were related to the continuing development of the company's DSL component products, including the Company's line of pots splitters and microfilters and the company's newest products, the ipots(tm) and the mPhase stretch. We believe the Broadband Watch product that enables telcos to remotely and cost-effectively perform loop management and maintenance including line testing, qualification and troubleshooting provides a much needed solution to achieve greater cost efficiencies for the deployment of telecommunications products.. Prior to the introduction of such product, loop management could not be remotely performed through a conventional pots splitter without manual intervention.. The unique (patent pending) Broadband Watch circuit allows most test heads to
perform both narrow and wideband testing of the local loop through the central office pots splitter without having to physically disconnect the pots splitter, thereby eliminating the need to dispatch personnel and a truckroll.
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $4,819,598 for the three months ending March 31, 2006 up from $2,455,345 or an increase of $2,364,253 from the comparable period in 2005. The increase in the selling, general and administrative costs includes non-cash charges relating to the issues of common stock and options to employees and consultants, which totaled $3,335,275 for the three months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to $1,636,028 for the comparable period ended March 31, 2005 resulting in an increase of $1,699,247. Additionally travel expenses decreased by $183,576 and decreased spending in advertising, trade shows and marketing and resulting expenses amounted to an aggregate of approximately $58,946. The balance of decreased spending in selling salaries and payroll fringes of approximately $564,023 in the three months ended March 31 2006 account for the major components of the increases in the general and administrative expenses. We expect sales and travel expenses to grow as the Company approaches the deployment of its TV+ products in the future.
Other Income and Expenses
Included in other income and expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2006 were losses on extinguishments and settlements of $498,116 as compared to $244,614 for the same period in the prior year. Of this amount, $733,446 represented a charge for the issuance of approximately 3.5 million shares of Common Stock to certain investors for a corrective market value adjustment and $275,330 represented an offset for gains on the extinguishment of liabilities.
In the three months ended March 31, 2006 a total of 3,487,840 additional shares were issued in order to cause the average price of prior private placement units to be "marked down" to $.18 per share have been accounted for as "reparation" shares and 1,494,840 of the additional shares were recorded as "Additional Paid in Capital" in proportion with a reasonable allocation for incentive costs of new investment dollar amounts in connection with private placements of the Companies common stock and warrants to purchase common stock.
DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION
Total Depreciation for the three months ended March 31, 2006 was $101,463 as compared to $63,779 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 or an increase of $60,785. A total of $83,218 and $46,899 of such depreciation was allocated to research and development for the three months ended March 31, 2006 and 2005 respectively. The remaining $18,245 and $16,880 was included in depreciation and amortization expense, respectively. The increase is a result of increased outlays for capital expenditures previously shown for the period ended March 31, 2005. We expect to increase capital expenditures in connection with the deployment of equipment at test sites with various telecommunications service providers globally as deployment of our TV+ product progresses.
NET LOSS
The Company recorded a net loss of $7,610,198 for the three months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to a loss of $4,346,488 for the three months ended March 31, 2005. This represents a loss per common share of $.03 for the three month period ended March 31, 2006 as compared to a loss per common share of $.01 for the three months ending March 31, 2005; based upon weighted average common shares outstanding of 262,539,165 and 120,015,504 during the periods ending March 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. Approximately $733,500 of the increase in the Company's net loss was the result of a one time reparation payment in connection with the reduction in the strike price of certain warrants and issuance of additional shares in connection with private placements during the months of January and February of 2006 that raised a total of $3,062,200 for the Company and 3,400,575 represent non cash equity compensation.
The Company believes the initial major deployments and the resultant revenues of its Flagship product, the TV+ platform, are not expected until the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2006, which along with any upturn of spending in the telephone industry will also increase sales and improve the Company's margins and provide the Company with the opportunity to attain profitability.
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NINE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2006 VS. MARCH 31, 2005
REVENUE
Total revenues were $832,999 for the nine months ended March 31, 2006 compared to $1,039,003 for the nine months ended March 31, 2006. The increase was attributable primarily to weak sales of the Company's POTS Splitter product line offset, in part, by sales of the Companys IPOTS-1 product as compared to such quarters in fiscal year 2005. There remains continued volatility in capital spending in the telecommunications market, including customers that order component products from the Company. The Company is in the process of reevaluating its line of POTS Splitter products to ensure that such products will continue to be competitively priced with high reliability and connectivity, and as such has the potential to be a significant part of DSL deployment worldwide. The Company cannot predict future demand for such product line.
COST OF REVENUES
Cost of sales was $729,475 for the Nine months ended March 31, 2006 as a result of a decrease in sales for the third quarter of 2006 as compared to $823,217 in the period ended March 31, 2005. and constituted 12% and 21% of gross revenues, for the Nine months ended March 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. The margins have decreased during the current period as spending among the telecommunications service providers continues to be volatile together with an increase in competition from global providers of such products resulting in commodity pricing.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Research and development expenses were $6,120,253 for the nine months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to $3,977,251 during the comparable period in 2005; or an increase of $2,143,002 from the comparable period in 2005. The Company incurred all of its research and development expenses with unrelated third party vendors including Lucent, Magpie Insiders, Inc., Espial, Velankani and other strategic vendors for the nine months ended March 31, 2006 which totaled $4,530,681 as compared to $2,944,595 incurred with vendors other than Microphase during the comparable period in 2005. The increase in the research and development expenses includes non-cash charges relating to the issuance of common stock and options to employees and consultants, which totaled $2,315,519 for the nine months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to $200,850 for the comparable period ended March 31, 2005 resulting in an increase of $2,114,669.
Such decreases are the result primarily of elimination of further development of the TRAVERSER DVDDS product by GTRC as the Company focuses its efforts on research and development and expenditures associated therewith on the TV+ product with Lucent, which has been comparatively, to date, less expense to develop.
The Company does, however, expects an increase in research and development costs beginning in the third quarter of fiscal year 2006 due to continuing development of new features for its IPTV solution as well as continued development with Bell Labs of our nanotechnology line of products..
Research expenditures incurred with Microphase were related to the continuing development of the company's DSL component products, including the company's line of pots splitters and microfilters and the company's newest product, the Broadband Loop Watch. We believe the mPhase Broadband Loop Watch offers a much-needed solution for the DSL industry; the product enables telecommunications service providers to remotely and cost-effectively perform loop management and maintenance including line testing, qualification and troubleshooting. Prior to the introduction of the Broadband Loop Watch, loop management could not be remotely performed through a conventional pots splitter without dispatching personnel to the field. The unique Broadband Loop Watch circuit allows most test heads to perform both narrow and wideband testing of the local loop through the central office pots splitter without having to physically disconnect the pots splitter, thereby eliminating the need to dispatch personnel and a truck roll. The Company anticipates future demand for this product, as it significantly reduces the cost of deploying and maintaining DSL services.
The changes in Research and Development expenses for the Nine-month period ended March 31, 2006 as compared to the nine month period ended March 31, 2005 included the following significant items:
1. An increase of charges from Lucent Technologies of $1,134,549
2. An increase of depreciation related to research and development of $73,078 from $156,296 to $83,218.
3. An increase of expenses with Microphase and other strategic vendors of $1,396,132
Charges from Lucent Technologies Inc. totaled $3,740,949 for the Nine months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to $2,606,400 for the same period ended March 31, 2005. Such charges consisted of $1,620,000 for development of the TV+ product and $2,000,000 incurred with respect to the Company's new Nanotechnology product line.
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Operations of the Company's joint venture, mPhase Television.net. Costs incurred by the joint venture during the nine months ending March 31, 2006 were $0 as compared to $0 for the Nine months ending March 31, 2005. 23
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
Selling, general and administrative expenses were $8,002,079 for the Nine months ended March 31, 2006 up from $5,416,357, an increase of $2,585,722 from the comparable period in 2005. The increase in the selling, general and administrative costs includes non-cash charges relating to the issues of common stock and options to employees and consultants, which totaled $4,510,350 for the Nine months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to $2,763,861 for the comparable period ended March 31, 2005 resulting in an increase of $1,746,489. Additionally travel expenses increased by $118,000 and increased spending in advertising, trade shows and marketing and resulting expenses amounted to an aggregate of $125,000. The balance of increased spending in selling salaries and payroll fringes of approximately $511,000 in the Nine months ended March 2006 account for the major components of the increases in the general and administrative expenses. We expect sales and travel expenses to grow as the Company approaches the deployment of its TV+ products in the future.
DEPRECIATION AND AMORTIZATION
Total Depreciation for the Nine months ended March 31, 2006 was $140,862 of as compared to $193,650 for the Nine months ended March 31, 2005.or an increase of $52,788. A total of $83,218 and $157,213 of such depreciation was allocated to research and development for the nine months ended March 31, 2006 and 2005 respectively. The remaining $57,644 and $36,527 was included in depreciation and amortization expense respectively. The increase is a result of the expansion of the Company's marketing efforts and signals the end of reduced outlays for capital expenditures previously shown in its two most recent fiscal years. We expect to increase capital expenditures in connection with the deployment of equipment at test sites with various telecommunications service providers globally as deployment of our TV+ product progresses.
OTHER INCOME AND EXPENSES
Included in other income and expenses for the nine months ended March 31, 2006 were losses on extinguishments and settlements of $4,902,302 as compared to $99,393 for the same period in the prior year. For the period ending March 31, 2006 included in this amount is approximately $5.2 million for a charge for the issuance of approximately 28 million shares of Common Stock to certain investors for a corrective market value adjustment offset by $265,438 of gains from extinguishments.
A total of 28,125,584 additional shares were issued in order to cause the average price of prior private placement units to be "market down" to $.18 per share have been accounted for as "reparation" shares and 12,053,822 of the additional shares were recorded as "Additional Paid in Capital" in proportion with a reasonable allocation for incentive costs of new investment dollar amounts.
NET LOSS
The Company recorded a net loss of $19,004,252 for the Nine months ended March 31, 2006 as compared to a loss of $9,484,240 for the Nine months ended March 31, 2005. This represents a loss per common share of $.09 for the Nine month period ended March 31, 2006 as compared to a loss per common share of $.09 for the Nine months ending March 31, 2005; based upon weighted average common shares outstanding of 211,186,500 and 101,062,839 during the periods ending March 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
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CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
REVENUE RECOGNITION
All revenue included in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations for all periods presented relates to sales of mPhase's POTS Splitter Shelves and DSL component products.
As required, mPhase has adopted the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") Staff Accounting Bulletin ("SAB") No. 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements", which provides guidelines on applying generally accepted accounting principals to revenue recognition based upon the interpretations and practices of the SEC. The Company recognizes revenue for its POTS Splitter Shelf and Other DSL component products at the time of shipment, at which time, no other significant obligations of the Company exist, other than normal warranty support.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
Research and development costs are charged to operations as incurred in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS"), No.2, "Accounting for Research and Development Cost."
INCOME TAXES
mPhase accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method in accordance with SFAS No.109 "Accounting for Income Taxes." Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using currently enacted tax rates. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in results of operations in the period that includes the enactment date. Because of the uncertainty as to their future realizability, net deferred tax assets, consisting primarily of net operating loss carryforwards, have been fully reserved for. Accordingly, no income tax benefit for the net operating loss has been recorded in the accompanying financial statements.
Utilization of net operating losses generated through June 30, 2005 may be limited due to "changes in control" of our common stock that occurred.
STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
On July 1, 2005, the Company adopted the provisions of Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 123R, "Share-Based Payment" (SFAS 123R). SFAS 123R revised SFAS 123, "Accounting for Stock Based Compensation" and supersedes APB Opinion No. 25, "Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees." SFAS 123R requires companies to measure and recognize compensation expense for all employee stock-based payments at fair value over the service period underlying the arrangement. Therefore, the Company is now required to record the grant-date fair value of its stock-based payments (i.e., stock options and other equity-based compensation) in the statement of operations. The Company adopted FAS 123R using the "modified prospective" method, whereby fair value of all previously-granted employee stock-based arrangements that remained unvested at July 1, 2005 and all grants made on or after July 1, 2005 have been included in the Company's determination of stock-based compensation expense for the three and Nine months ended March 31, 2006. The Company has not restated its operating results for the three and Nine months ended March 31, 2005 to reflect charges for the fair value of employee stock-based arrangements.
INVENTORY RESERVE AND VALUATION ALLOWANCE
The Company carries its inventory at the lower of cost, determined on a first in, first out basis, or market. Inventory consists mainly of the Company's POTS Splitter Shelf and Filters. In determining the lower of cost or market, the Company periodically reviews and estimates a valuation allowance to reserve for technical obsolescence and marketability. The allowance represents management's assessment and reserve for the technical obsolescence based upon the inter-operability of its component products, primarily filters and splitters, with presently deployed and next generation DSL infrastructures as well as a reserve for marketability based upon current prices and the overall demand for the individual inventory items. Material changes in either the technical standards of future DSL deployments or further erosion in the demand for deployments of DSL infrastructures could affect the estimates and assumptions resulting in the amounts reported.
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MATERIAL RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
MICROPHASE CORPORATION
mPhase's President, Chief Operating Officer and Chairman of the Board of the Company are also officers of Microphase and mPhase's president and chairman of the board are shareholders of Microphase. On May 1, 1997, the Company entered into an agreement with Microphase, whereby it will use office space as well as the administrative services of Microphase, including the use of accounting personnel. This agreement was for $5,000 per month and was on a month-to-month basis. In July 1998, the office space agreement was revised to $10,000, in January 2000 to $11,050 per month, in July 2001 to $11,340 per month, in July 2002 to $12,200 per month, in January 2003 to $10,000 per month, and in July 2003 to $18,000 per month. Additionally, in July 1998, mPhase entered into an agreement with Microphase, whereby mPhase reimburses Microphase $40,000 per month for technical research and development. In January 2003 the technical research and development agreement was revised to $20,000 per month, in July 2003 it was further revised to $5,000 per month for technical research and development, $5,000 per month for administrative services and $5,000 per month under the office space agreement.
Microphase also charges fees for specific projects on a project-by-project basis. During the nine months ended March 30, 2005 and 2006 and from inception (October 2, 1996) to March 31, 2006, $135,000, $261,583 and $7,406,210 respectively, have been charged to expense or inventory under these Agreements and is included in operating expenses in the accompanying consolidated statements of operations.
The Company is obligated to pay a 3% royalty to Microphase on revenues from its proprietary Traverser(TM) Digital Video and Data Delivery System and DSL component products. For the nine months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, mPhase recorded royalties to Microphase totaling $129,679 and $108,266, respectively.
As a result of the foregoing transactions as of March 31, 2006, the Company had a $2,865 payable to Microphase. Additionally, at March 31, 2006, there are no undelivered purchase orders that remain outstanding to Microphase.
JANIFAST LTD.
The Company purchases products and incurs certain research and development expenses with Janifast Ltd., which is owned by U.S. Janifast Holdings, Ltd., a company in which three directors of mPhase are significant shareholders and one is an officer, in connection with the manufacturing of POTS Splitter shelves and component products including cards and filters sold by the Company.
During the nine months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006 and the period from inception (October 2, 1996) to March 31, 2006, $448,208, $241,472 (net of offset charges) and $15,755,841, respectively have been charged by Janifast to The Company for components of inventory or cost of sales expense that is included in operating expenses in the accompanying statements of operations.
As a result of the foregoing transactions as of March 31, 2006, the Company had $84,400 payable to Janifast, which is included in amounts due to related parties in the accompanying balance sheet. Additionally, at March 31, 2006, approximately $788,891 of undelivered purchase orders remain outstanding to Janifast ltd.
OTHER RELATED PARTIES
On August 30, 2004, the Company paid $100,000 in cash to Piper Rudnick LLP, outside legal counsel to the Company as part of a renegotiated settlement agreement that was originally effective as of March 31, 2002. The Company was in arrears with respect to payments due under the original settlement agreement and as part of the renegotiated agreement agreed to make the following payments:
a. $25,000 on each of December 1, 2004, March 1, 2005, June 1, 2005, September 1, 2005 and a $50,000 payment on December 1, 2005. Thereafter the Company is obligated to pay $25,000 on each of March 1, 2006, June 1, 2006, and September 1, 2006 with a final payment of $75,000 on December 1, 2006.
b. The Company also delivered a 5 year cashless warrant to purchase $150,000 worth of common stock at $.25 per share.
As of March 31, 2006, the Company made each payment owed to Piper Rudnick LLP.
Mr. Abraham Biderman was employed until September 30, 2003 by our former investment-banking firm Lipper & Company. During the three months and nine months ended March 31, 2006, Mr. Biderman's current firm Eagle Advisers, Inc. has acted as a finder of money in connection with finder's fees of $470,500 and $782,567 respectively. In addition Mr. Bidderman, was compensated by the Board of Directors of the Company during the third quarter ended March 31, 2005 with 500,000 shares of common stock.
During the Nine month period ended December 31, 2006, Mr. Durando, Mr. Dotoli and Mr. Smiley made bridge loans to the Company in the aggregate amounts of $50,000, $100,000 and $150,000. All of the loans have been repaid as of March 31, 2006. During the nine month period ended March 31, 2006, the Board of the Directors of the Company authorized additional compensation as follows:
1. Mr. Durando received 5,000,000 shares of common stock, a 5 year stock option at $.18 per share for 4,000,000 shares of common stock and a 5 year stock option at $.21 per share for 1,800,000 shares.
2. Mr. Dotoli received 2,500,000 shares of common stock, a 5 year stock option at $.18 per share for 1,800,000 shares of common stock and a 5 year stock option at $.21 per share for 1,800,000 shares.
3. Mr. Smiley received a 5 year stock option at $.18 per share for 550,000 shares of common stock and a 5 year stock option at $.21 per share for 500,000 shares of common stock. In addition Mr. Smiley, was authorized by the Board, to exercise a financing warrant at $.18 issued in connection with his participation in prior private placements of the Company and received certain reparation shares on the same terms and conditions as other investors in said private placements except that Mr. Smiley was permitted to tender free-trading shares in lieu of cash in connection with the exercise of such warrant. Pursuant to such transaction, Mr. Smiley tendered a net total of 906,332 free trading shares and received a total net share increase of 1,577,206 shares in the form of restricted shares. In addition, consistent with the terms given to other investors participating in the January 2006 Private Placement, Mr. Smiley received a replacement 5 year warrant to purchase 1,647,877 additional shares of the Company's common stock at $.21 per share. All shares of such Related Parties have recently been registered as part of the Company's S-1 Registration Statement effective May 15, 2006.
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Charges and Expenses with Related Parties: |
Nine months ended March 31, | |
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2005 |
2006 |
Charges incurred with Janifast Ltd. included in: |
398,715 |
241,472 |
Cost of sales and ending inventory |
398,715 | 241,742 |
Total Janifast Ltd. |
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Charges incurred with Microphase Corp. included in: |
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Cost of sales and ending inventory (Including Royalties) |
11,784 | 132,168 |
Research and development |
44,000 | 171,583 |
General and administrative |
147,213 | 136,234 |
Total Microphase Corp. |
199,997 | 439,986 |
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Total Charges and Expenses with Related Parties |
598,712 | 681,458 |
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Statements of Operations (including changes in inventory): |
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Janifast Ltd. |
398,715 | 557,023 |
Microphase (including royalties) |
28,194 | 132,168 |
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Total Related Party Expenses Included In Cost of Sales |
426,909 | 689,191 |
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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
At March 31, 2006 mPhase had working capital of $2,609,687 as compared to working capital deficit of $1,674,418 at March 31, 2005. Through March 31, 2006, the Company had incurred development stage losses totaling approximately $145,542,171. At March 31, 2006, the Company had $4,319,754 of cash, cash equivalents and $176,158 of trade receivables to fund short-term working capital requirements. The Company's ability to continue as a going concern and its future success is dependent upon its ability to raise capital in the near term to: (1) satisfy its current obligations, (2) continue its research and development efforts, and (3) the successful wide scale development, deployment and marketing of its products.
Historically, mPhase has funded its operations and capital expenditures primarily through private placements of common stock. Management expects that its ongoing financial needs will be provided by financing activities and believes that the sales of its line of POTS Splitter products and other related DSL component products will provide some offset to cash flow used in operations, although there can be no assurance as to the level and growth rate of such sales in future periods as seen with quarter to quarter fluctuations in component sales. At March 31, 2006, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $4,319,754 compared to $351,185 at June 30, 2005, accounts receivable of $176,158 and inventory of $453,095. This compared to $533,841 of accounts receivable and $490,142 of inventory at June 30, 2006.
Cash used in operating activities was $9,113,725 during the nine months ending March 31, 2006. The cash used by operating activities principally consists of the net loss, and significant changes in assets and liabilities, including additional cash used by decreasing accounts payable by $863,378 offset by increased accrued expenses by approximately $1,006,025 and by depreciation and amortization of $140,832, and by non-cash charges of $9,962,940for common stock options and warrants issued for services and reparations. The Company does not expect decreases of inventory to be as significant in upcoming quarters, yet we will not need to increase inventory until the roll out of our TV+ platform.
The Company has entered into various agreements with GTARC, pursuant to which the Company receives technical assistance in developing the Digital Video and Data Delivery System. The Company has incurred expenses in connection with technical assistance from GTARC totaling approximately $0, $0, for the three month periods ended March 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively, and $13,539,932 from the period from inception through March 31, 2006. GTRC may receive a royalty of up to 5% from any future sales by the Company of its legacy TraverserTM DVDDS product.
As of March 31, 2006, mPhase is obligated to pay Lucent Technologies, Inc., the sum of $313.6 in 2 payments of $156.8 each against project milestones under its current Development Agreement for development of Version 3.0 of its TV+ product. In addition, the Company is obligated to make payments of $100,000 per month through February of 2006 under a separate Development Agreement with Lucent covering development of its new battery developed through the science of Nanotechnology as well as $100,000 per month through March of 2006 to Lucent in connection with development of its magnetometer product line using the science of Nanotechnology. All amounts due under such Nanotechnology contracts have been paid and each of the nanotechnology contracts are expected to be renewed fo2 another 12 months through March of 2007 at a monthly cost of $100,000 each.
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Effective June 30, 2001 the Company converted $2,420,039 of liabilities due to directors and related parties into 4,840,077 shares of the Company's common stock pursuant to debt conversion agreements.
During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2002 certain strategic vendors and related parties converted approximately $2.7 million of accounts payable and accrued expenses into 7,492,996 shares of the Company's common stock and 5,953,490 warrants. Such vendors include Microphase Corporation, Janifast, Ltd., and Piper Rudnick LLP, mPhase's outside counsel.
During the twelve months ending June 30, 2003, certain strategic vendors and related parties converted approximately $1.9 million of accounts payable and accrued expenses into 5,923,333 shares of the Company's common stock and warrants to purchase 3,706,800 shares of common stock of mPhase.
During the twelve months ending June 30, 2004, certain strategic vendors and related parties converted approximately $1.9 million of accounts payable and accrued expenses into 110,467 shares of the Company's common stock and warrants to purchase 5,069,242 shares of common stock of mPhase.
During the twelve months ending June 30, 2005, certain strategic vendors and related parties converted approximately $1.2 million of accounts payable and accrued expenses into 3,895,171 shares of the Company's common stock and warrants to purchase 4,616,571shares of the Company's common stock.
During the nine months ended March 31, 2006 certain strategic vendors and related parties converted approximately $590,000 of accounts payable and accrued expenses into 3,336,864 shares of the Company's common stock and warrants to purchase 3,277,778 shares of common stock of mPhase.
As of March 31, 2006, mPhase is obligated to pay Lucent Technologies, Inc., the sum of $313,600 in 2 payments of $156,800 each against project milestones under its current Development Agreement for development of Version 3.0 of its TV+ product In addition, the Company is obligated to make payments of $100,000 per month through February 1, 2006 under a separate Development Agreement with Lucent covering development of its new battery developed through the science of NanoTechnology.
The Company also has 3 remaining payments of $100,000 per month as of March 31, 2006 through March of 2006 with the expansion of its research and development efforts with Lucent Technologies Inc in the science of Nanotechnology entering of a second Research and Development Agreement in March of 2005 to develop a Magnetometer product through the science of Nanotechnology.
The Company is currently negotiating with Bell Labs division of Lucent Technologies, Inc. to extend its Development Agreements described above for the TV+ solution and both the Magnetometer and power cell Nanotechnology product lines.
In order to broaden and diversify its current line of business into additional high growth technology areas, the Company had previously renewed in February of 2005 its Development Agreement, originally executed in February 3, 2004, with the Bell labs division of Lucent Technologies, Inc. to commercialize the use of nano power cell technology. Under the terms of the $1.2 million contract, Lucent/ Bell Labs will develop for mPhase micro-power source arrays fabricated using nanotextured, superhydrophobic materials. This new business arrangement with Lucent Bell Labs will give mPhase the opportunity to develop and offer breakthrough battery technology applications, initially to government market segments including defense and homeland security, and ultimately to the commercial market. The initial applications for the nano power cell technology will address the need to supply emergency and reserved power to a wide range of electronic devices for the defense department.
The Company has no commitments from affiliates or related parties to provide additional financing. The Company has, from time to time, been able to obtain financing from affiliates when conditions in the capital markets make third party financing difficult to obtain or when external financing is available only upon very unattractive terms to the Company, and when such capital has been available from the affiliates. As a result, conversions of Debt with related parties and strategic vendors during the periods enumerated is a follows:
(Unaudited) | ||
|
For the Nine Months | |
|
Ended March 31, | |
2005 |
2006 | |
Equity Conversions of Debt With Related |
||
Parties and Strategic Vendors |
||
Related Party Conversions |
||
Number of shares |
3,337,271 |
3,000,000 |
Number of warrants |
3,337,271 |
3,000,000 |
Amount converted to equity |
$861,424 |
$540,000 |
Strategic Vendor Conversions |
|
|
Number of shares |
100,000 |
331,864 |
Number of warrants |
700,000 |
277,778 |
Amount converted to equity |
$20,000 |
$50,000 |
Total Related Party and Strategic Vendor Conversions |
|
|
Number of shares |
3,437,271 |
3,336,864 |
Number of warrants |
4,037,271 |
3,277,778 |
Amount converted to equity |
$881,424 |
$590,000 |
Gain (Loss) on Extinguishment of Debt |
($99,393) |
$30,608 |
|
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LOSSES DURING THE DEVELOPMENT STAGE AND MANAGEMENT'S PLANS
From inception (October 2, 1996) through March 31, 2006 the Company had incurred development stage losses and has an accumulated deficit of approximately $146,013,659 and a stockholders' equity of $2,734,493. For the Nine months ended March 31, 2006, and from inception through March 31, 2006 respectively, the Company had negative cash flow from operations of $9,364,634 and $65,003,340 respectively. The report of the Company's outside auditors, Rosenberg, Rich, Baker, Berman and Company with respect to its latest audited 10K/A for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005 stated that "there is substantial doubt of the Company's ability to continue as a going concern". Management estimates that the Company will need to raise approximately $5 million during the next 12 months to continue its present level of operations.
We continue our efforts to raise additional funds through private placements of our common stock and strategic alliances, the proceeds of which are required to fund continuing expenditures and the controlled development stage rollout of our TV+. However, there can be no assurance that mPhase will generate sufficient revenues to provide positive cash flows from operations or that sufficient capital will be available, when needed or at terms that we deem to be reasonable.
We have evaluated our cash requirements for the remainder of fiscal year 2006 based upon certain assumptions, including our ability to raise additional financing and increased sales of our POTS Splitter, Broadband Watch and TV+ products . The Company anticipates that it will need to raise, at a minimum, approximately $5 primarily in private placement of its common stock with accredited investors, during the next 12 months, or alternatively we will need to curtail certain expenses as incurred at the present levels including marketing and research and development expenses. Additional investments in development of the TV+ and Nanotechnology battery products will be required in the next 12 months.
Management believes that the up to $5 million to be raised, in new Private Placements in the capital markets, will be sufficient to cover its current operating expenses and permit the company to maintain its present operational levels. This amount may be supplemented with additional funds that could be received from investors, currently holding warrants to purchase up to a total of approximately 108 million shares of common stock at exercise prices of approximately $.18 - $.30 per share which are presently "in the money" and can be exercised during the next 12 months.
Should these cash flows not be available to us, we believe we would have the ability to revise our operating plan and make certain further reductions in expenses, so that our resources which were available at March 31, 2006, plus financing to be secured during the balance of fiscal year 2006, and expected POTS splitter revenues, will be sufficient to meet our obligations through the end of fiscal year 2006. We have continued to experience operating losses and negative cash flows. To date, we have funded our operations with a combination of component sales debt conversions with related parties and strategic vendors, and private equity offerings. Management believes that we will be able to secure the necessary financing in the short-term to fund our operations into our next fiscal year. However, failure to raise additional funds, or generate significant cash flows through revenues, could have a material adverse effect on our ability to achieve our intended business objectives.
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ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
The Company is not exposed to changes in interest rates as the Company has no debt arrangements and no investments in certain held-to-maturity securities. Under our current policies, we do not use interest rate derivative instruments to manage exposure to interest rate changes. A hypothetical 100 basis point adverse move in interest rates along the entire interest rate yield curve would not materially affect the fair value of any financial instruments at March 31, 2006.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Under the supervision and with the participation of management including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, we have evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 13a-14c and of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that these disclosure controls and procedures are effective. There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended March 31, 2006 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal controls over financial reporting.
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PART II OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
mPhase was advised in April 2002 that following an investigation by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the staff intended to recommend that the Commission file a civil injunctive action against Packetport.com, Inc. ("Packetport") and its Officer's and Directors. Such recommendation related to alleged civil violations by Packetport and such Officers and Directors of various sections of the Federal Securities Laws. The staff has alleged civil violations of Sections 5 and 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Sections 10(b) and 13(d) of the Securities Exchanges Act of 1034. mPhase also serve as Directors and Officers of Packetport. On November 15, 2005, a civil enforcement action was filed in Federal District Court against Microphase Corporation and the CEO and COO of mPhase corporation. mPhase is not named as a party in connection with this matter. As noted in other public filings of mPhase, the CEO and COO of mPhase as well as Microphase continue to deny any wrongdoing in connection with the Civil Action filed and intend to vigorously defend any and all counts set forth in such action.
From time to time mPhase may be involved in various legal proceedings and other matters arising in the normal course of business.
ITEM 2. CHANGES IN SECURITIES
Effective for the three-month period ended March 31, 2006 the Company issued the following unregistered securities:
The Company issued 35,460,784 shares together with of 5 year warrants to purchase 35,460,784 shares of the Company's common stock to accredited investors at $.18 per share in a private placement generating pursuant to Rule 506 of Regulation D of the Securities Act of 1933 generating $5,452,132 of gross proceeds available to the Company to be used for general corporate purposes.
The Company also issued 3,487,840 shares of its common stock together with a like amount of warrants to affect revised pricing on previous private offerings.
The Company issued 13,892,720 shares of its common stock pursuant to the exercise of warrants, generating net proceeds of $2,525,867 to the Company.
Also during the quarter ended March 31, 2006, the Company issued 13,892,720 shares of its common stock pursuant to the exercise of warrants, generating net proceeds of $2,417,867 to the Company. On January 1, 2006, the Company issued stock options to employees and officers for the right to purchase 9,762,500 shares. Pursuant to the adoption of FAS 123(R), the Company recognized an expense in the amount of $1,365,075, all of which has been included in general and administrative expense. The fair value of options granted in 2006 were estimated as of the date of grant using the Black-Scholes stock option pricing model, based on the following weighted average assumptions: annual expected return of 0%, annual volatility of 108.5%, based on a risk-free interest rate of 4.4% and expected option life of 3 years.
During the quarter ended March 31, 2006, the Company issued 9,900,000 shares of common stock as additional compensation to officers and directors of the Company. The stock was valued at $.21 per share, the fair value on the date of the award.
ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
None.
ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
None.
ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION
None.
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ITEM 6. EXHIBITS AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
EXHIBITS.
31.1 Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002. 31.2 Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002. 32.1 Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002. 32.2 Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes - Oxley Act of 2002.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant, has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| mPHASE TECHNOLOGIES, INC. |
Dated: May 22, 2006 | By: /s/ Martin S. Smiley |
| Martin S. Smiley |
| Executive Vice President |
| Chief Financial Officer and |
| General Counsel |
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Exhibit 31.1
CERTIFICATIONS
I, Ronald A. Durando, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of mPhase Technologies, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant's other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant's and have:
a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
c. Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrants' ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ Ronald A. Durando
Ronald A. Durando
Chief Executive Officer
May 22, 2006
Exhibit 31.2
CERTIFICATIONS
I, Martin S. Smiley, certify that:
1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of mPhase Technologies, Inc.;
2. Based on my knowledge, this report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;
3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;
4. The registrant's other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) for the registrant's and have:
a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this report is being prepared;
b. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and
c. Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting; and
5. The registrant's other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the audit committee of registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):
a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrants' ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and
b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ Martin S. Smiley
Martin S. Smiley
Chief Financial Officer
May 22, 2006
Exhibit 32.1
MPHASE TECHNOLGIES, INC.
CERTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
(18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350)
In connection with the Quarterly Report of mPhase Technologies, Inc., a New Jersey corporation (the "Company"), on Form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Report"), I, Ronald A. Durando, Chief Executive Officer of the Company certify, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C. Section 1350), that to his knowledge:
1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
2. The information contained in the Report fairly presents, I all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
/s/ Ronald A. Durando
Ronald A. Durando
Chief Executive Officer
May 22, 2006
Exhibit 32.2
MPHASE TECHNOLGIES, INC.
CERTIFICATIONS PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
(18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350)
In connection with the Quarterly Report of mPhase Technologies, Inc., a New Jersey corporation (the "Company"), on Form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Report"), I, Martin S. Smiley, Chief Financial Officer of the Company certify, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (18 U.S.C. Section 1350), that to his knowledge:
1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
2. The information contained in the Report fairly presents, I all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
/s/ Martin S. Smiley
Martin S. Smiley
Chief Financial Officer
May 22, 2006