TPT GLOBAL TECH, INC. - Annual Report: 2020 (Form 10-K)
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
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ANNUAL
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
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fiscal year ended December 31,
2020
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TRANSITION
REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE
ACT OF 1934
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333-222094
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TPT Global Tech, Inc.
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Florida
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81-3903357
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(I.R.S.
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501 West Broadway, Suite 800
San Diego, CA
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92101
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(Address
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(619) 301-4200
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telephone number, including area code
Securities
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an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting
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“emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange
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attestation to its management’s assessment of the
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The
aggregate market value of our common shares of voting stock held by
non-affiliates of our Company at June 30, 2020, computed by
reference to the price at which the common equity was last sold
($0.0290), as of the last business day of the registrant’s
most recently completed second quarter (June 30, 2020), was
$23,336,618.
As of
March 31, 2021, there were approximately 873,064,371 common shares,
$0.001 par value, issued and outstanding.
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the Part of the Form 10-K into which the document is
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PART I
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This
Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking
statements are projections of events, revenues, income, future
economic performance or management’s plans and objectives for
our future operations. In some cases, you can identify
forward-looking statements by terminology such as
“may,” “should,” “expects,”
“plans,” “anticipates,”
“believes,” “estimates,”
“predicts,” “potential,” or
“continue,” or the negative of these terms or other
comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions and
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors,
including the risks in the section entitled “Risk
Factors” and the risks set out below, any of which may cause
our or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity,
performance or achievements to be materially different from any
future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These
risks include, by way of example and not in
limitation:
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uncertainty of profitability based upon our history of
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related to failure to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis
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risks and uncertainties related to our business plan and business
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This
list is not an exhaustive list of the factors that may affect any
of our forward-looking statements. These and other factors should
be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue
reliance on our forward-looking statements. Forward looking
statements are made based on management’s beliefs, estimates
and opinions on the date the statements are made, and we undertake
no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these
beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should
change. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the
forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee
future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.
Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws
of the United States, we do not intend to update any of the
forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual
results.
Our
financial statements are stated in United States dollars (US$) and
are prepared in accordance with United States Generally Accepted
Accounting Principles. All references to “common stock”
refer to the common shares in our capital stock.
ITEM 1. BUSINESS.
GENERAL
The
following is a summary of some of the information contained in this
document. Unless the context requires otherwise, references in this
document to “our Company,” “us,”
“we,” “our,” “TPT Global,” or
the “Company” are to TPT Global Tech, Inc.
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
We are based in San Diego, California, and operate
as a technology-based company with
divisions providing telecommunications, medical technology and
product distribution, media content for domestic and international
syndication as well as technology solutions. We operate as a Media Content Hub for
Domestic and International syndication,
Technology/Telecommunications company using our own proprietary Global Digital Media TV and
Telecommunications infrastructure platform and also provide
technology solutions to businesses domestically and worldwide. We
offer Software as a Service (SaaS), Technology Platform as a
Service (PAAS), Cloud-based Unified Communication as a Service
(UCaaS) and carrier-grade performance and support for businesses
over our private IP MPLS fiber and wireless network in the United
States. Our cloud-based UCaaS services allow businesses of any size
to enjoy all the latest voice, data, media and collaboration
features in today's global technology markets. We also operate as a
Master Distributor for Nationwide Mobile Virtual Network Operators
(MVNO) and Independent Sales Organization (ISO) as a Master
Distributor for Pre-Paid Cellphone services, Mobile phones,
Cellphone Accessories and Global Roaming
Cellphones.
Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act
We
qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in
Section 101 of the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (“JOBS
Act”) as we did not have more than $1,000,000,000 in annual
gross revenue and did not have such amount as of December 31, 2019,
our last fiscal year.
We may
lose our status as an emerging growth company on the last day of
our fiscal year during which (i) our annual gross revenue exceeds
$1,000,000,000 or (ii) we issue more than $1,000,000,000 in
non-convertible debt in a three-year period. We will lose our
status as an emerging growth company if at any time we are deemed
to be a large accelerated filer. We will lose our status as an
emerging growth company on the last day of our fiscal year
following the fifth anniversary of the date of the first sale of
common equity securities pursuant to an effective registration
statement.
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As an
emerging growth company, we may take advantage of specified reduced
reporting and other burdens that are otherwise applicable to
generally reporting companies. These provisions
include:
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A
requirement to have only two years of audited financial statement
and only two years of related Management Discussion and Analysis
Disclosures;
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Reduced
disclosure about the emerging growth company’s executive
compensation arrangements; and
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No
non-binding advisory votes on executive compensation or golden
parachute arrangements.
As an
emerging growth company, we are exempt from Section 404(b) of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Section 14A(a) and (b) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such sections are provided
below:
Section
404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires a public
company’s auditor to attest to, and report on,
management’s assessment of its internal
controls.
Sections
14A(a) and (b) of the Securities and Exchange Act, implemented by
Section 951 of the Dodd-Frank Act, require companies to hold
shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation and golden
parachute compensation.
We have
already taken advantage of these reduced reporting burdens in this
Form 10-K, which are also available to us as a smaller reporting
company as defined under Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act
of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”).
As long
as we qualify as an emerging growth company, we will not be
required to comply with the requirements of Section 404(b) of the
Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Section 14A(a) and (b) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
In
addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act also provides that an
emerging growth company can take advantage of the extended
transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) for
complying with new or revised accounting standards. We are
choosing to irrevocably opt into the extended transition period for
complying with new or revised accounting standards under Section
102(b)(2) of the JOBS Act.
HISTORY
We were
originally incorporated in 1988 in the state of Florida. TPT
Global, Inc., a Nevada corporation formed in June 2014, merged with
Ally Pharma US, Inc., a Florida corporation, (“Ally
Pharma,” formerly known as Gold Royalty Corporation) in a
“reverse merger” wherein Ally Pharma issued 110,000,000
shares of Common Stock, or 80% ownership, to the owners of TPT
Global, Inc. and Ally Pharma changed its name to TPT Global Tech,
Inc. In 2014, we acquired all the assets of K Telecom and Wireless
LLC (“K Telecom”) and Global Telecom International, LLC
(“Global Telecom”). Effective January 31, 2015, we
completed our acquisition of 100% of the outstanding stock of
Copperhead Digital Holdings, Inc. (“Copperhead
Digital”) and Subsidiaries, TruCom, LLC
(“TruCom”), Nevada Utilities, Inc. (“Nevada
Utilities”) and CityNet Arizona, LLC (“CityNet”).
In October 2015, we acquired the assets of both Port2Port, Inc.
(“Port2Port”) and Digithrive, Inc.
(“Digithrive”). Effective September 30, 2016, we
acquired 100% ownership in San Diego Media, Inc.
(“SDM”). In December 2016, we acquired the Lion Phone
technology. In October and November 2017, we entered into
agreements to acquire Blue Collar, Inc. (“Blue
Collar”), and certain assets of Matrixsites, Inc.
(“Matrixsites”) which we have completed. On May 7, 2019
we completed the acquisition of a majority of the assets of
SpeedConnect, LLC, which assets were conveyed into our wholly owned
subsidiary TPT SpeedConnect, LLC (“TPT SC” or
“TPT SpeedConnect”) which was formed on April 16, 2019.
On January 8, 2020 we formed TPT Federal, LLC (“TPT
Federal”), on March 7, 2020 we acquired 75% interest in
Bridge Internet, LLC, which was later terminated on December 23,
2020 (“Bridge Internet” or “BIC”). On March
30, 2020, we formed TPT MedTech, LLC (“TPT MedTech”)
and on June 6, 2020, we formed InnovaQor, Inc
(“InnovaQor”). In July and August 2020, the Company
formed Quiklab 1 LLC, QuikLAB 2, LLC, QuikLAB 3, LLC and QuikLAB 4,
LLC where the Company owns 80% (as agreed per the operating
agreement) of all outside equity investments. Effective August 1,
2020 we closed on the acquisition of 75% of The Fitness Container,
LLC (“Air Fitness”). In July 2020, we invested in a
Hong Kong company called TPT Global Tech Asia Limited of which we
own 78%., and during 2020, InnovaQor did a reverse merger with
Southern Plains of which there ended up being a non-controlling
interest of 6% as of December 31, 2020. The name of InnovaQor
remained for the merged entities but was changed to TPT Strategic,
Inc. on March 21, 2021.
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In July and August 2020, the Company formed Quiklab 1 LLC, QuikLAB
2, LLC, QuikLAB 3, LLC and QuikLAB 4, LLC where the Company owns
80% (as agreed per the operating agreement) of all outside equity
investments. Effective August 1, 2020, we closed on the acquisition
of 75% of The Fitness Container, LLC (“Aire Fitness”).
In July 2020, we invested in a Hong Kong company called TPT Global
Tech Asia Limited of which we own 78%.
We are based in San Diego, California, and operate
as a technology-based company with
divisions providing telecommunications, medical technology and
product distribution, media content for domestic and international
syndication as well as technology solutions. We operate as a Media Content Hub for
Domestic and International syndication,
Technology/Telecommunications company using our own proprietary Global Digital Media TV and
Telecommunications infrastructure platform and also provide
technology solutions to businesses domestically and worldwide. We
offer Software as a Service (SaaS), Technology Platform as a
Service (PAAS), Cloud-based Unified Communication as a Service
(UCaaS) and carrier-grade performance and support for businesses
over our private IP MPLS fiber and wireless network in the United
States. Our cloud-based UCaaS services allow businesses of any size
to enjoy all the latest voice, data, media and collaboration
features in today's global technology markets. We also operate as a
Master Distributor for Nationwide Mobile Virtual Network Operators
(MVNO) and Independent Sales Organization (ISO) as a Master
Distributor for Pre-Paid Cellphone services, Mobile phones,
Cellphone Accessories and Global Roaming
Cellphones.
We
anticipate needing an estimated $38,000,000 in capital to continue
our business operations and expansion. We do not have committed
sources for these additional funds and will need to be obtained
through debt or equity placements or a combination of those. As
part of this $38,000,000, we will use approximately $7,000,000 in
debt restructuring, approximately $14,000,000 in equipment
purchases and approximately $11,000,000 for working capital. We are
in negotiations for certain sources to provide funding but at this
time do not have a committed source of these funds.
Our
executive offices are located at 501 West Broadway, Suite 800, San
Diego, CA 92101 and the telephone number is (619) 400-4996. We
maintain a website at www.tptglobaltech.com, and such website is
not incorporated into or a part of this filing.
CORPORATE STRUCTURE
Our
corporate structure is as follows:
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CURRENT BUSINESS
Company Overview
Through
key acquisitions in 2015, we launched wholesale and retail
operations in the United States and Internationally. These first
acquisitions with their customer bases, Distribution Channels and
Technology are the base for our organic growth strategy
opportunities to cross pollinate or sell our planned New
Generation, New Media Technology products and services,
Domestically and Internationally.
We, and
our related companies and acquisitions, are seeking to be an
innovative Telecom/CUBS (Cloud Unified Businesses Services) as one
of the first to combine recurring Telecom, Mobile Banking, Media and Data/Cloud
Services revenue under one roof, and then bring all relevant
data from those services into a proprietary information matrix
platform capable of delivering a “Daily and Intelligent
Dashboard” to our Domestic and International customers. Such
a cohesive combination of services and information from a single
provider has been heretofore nonexistent. We intend to pioneer an
integrated communication services and information technology suite,
to empower companies with vital communications services technology,
and highly relevant diagnostic information.
To date
we have generated revenues primarily through operating as a
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (“CLEC”) in Arizona
and starting in 2019, as an Internet Service Provider. Our primary
revenues in 2020 and 2019 are primarily from telecommunications
services and products including internet sales, and from film
production.
Our
operating divisions historically have been those that sell
telecommunications services and those that sale telecommunications
products, including internet sales starting in 2019. Cloud based
services assets were acquired in 2016 and are intended to be more
of a contributing factor to revenues in 2020 and forward. During
2020, we initiated our medical services division which we
anticipate to also play a larger contributing factor to overall
revenues in coming years from not only medical testing services but
the use of our cloud based technologies.
Our Key Divisions:
TPT SpeedConnect: ISP and Telecom
The
Company completed the acquisition of substantially all of the
assets of SpeedConnect LLC (“SpeedConnect”) for $1.75
million, including the assumption of all contracts and liabilities
pertinent to operations and conveyed them into a wholly-owned
subsidiary TPT SpeedConnect. SpeedConnect was founded in 2002 and
operates as a national, predominantly rural, wireless
telecommunications residential and commercial Internet Service
Provider (ISP). TPT SpeedConnect’s primary business model is
subscription based, monthly reoccurring revenues, from wireless
delivered, high-speed Internet connections utilizing its company
built and owned national network. SpeedConnect also resells
third-party satellite Internet, DSL Internet, IP telephony and DISH
TV products. This Acquisition closed on May 7, 2019.
SpeedConnect was a privately-held Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)
provider. Today, TPT SpeedConnect is one of the nation’s
largest rural wireless broadband Internet providers which serves
approximately 12,000 residential and commercial wireless broadband
Internet customers, in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan,
Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas.
SpeedConnect
is a full-service ISP. The company’s Frankenmuth Michigan
back office is run by company employees, and includes, network
management, network monitoring and maintenance, significant
allocations of registered address in public IP4 and IP6 space,
employee based customer service, installation services, automated
resources and application based scheduling and tracking, paper,
ACH, credit card, and email billing, warehousing, fulfillment,
integrated customer premise provisioning, walled garden collections
and customer self-restarts, bandwidth usage tracking, integrated,
secure, and deep financial and operations dash board reporting,
collections, accounting, payables, owned and licensed backhaul,
intelligent bandwidth management, consumption rated billing,
customer payment portals, and all wrapped in a mature, first hit on
all search engines, Internet Brand. The company today services
residential and commercial Internet customers over its 220-cellular
tower foot-print across 10 Midwestern States.
Today’s
urban ISP landscape is highly competitive and dominated by some of
the world’s largest going concerns. Names like Comcast,
AT&T, Cox, Charter and DISH are household words. Home Internet
service has become synonymous with Cable. However, this is limited
to the high-density top 100 markets. Beyond that the competition
becomes more small licensed free wireless providers and satellite.
Wire-line providers, unless backed with government subsidies, do
not build beyond 15 homes per street mile. SpeedConnect services
both rural and non-rural areas, and historically has done well in
both marketplaces, however the margins are improved in the more
rural areas due to reduced voluntary and involuntary customer
attrition.
TPT
SpeedConnect’s key suppliers include but are not limited to;
Great Lakes Data Systems, Juniper, ZTE, Huawei, Cisco, Sandvine,
American Tower, SBA Tower, Crown Castle, CenturyLink, SuddenLink,
South Dakota Networks, 123 dot net, Genesee Telephone, Air
Advantage Fiber, Iron Mountain, ConVergence, CDW, Talley, Tessco,
Bursma Electronics, DragonWave, Ceragon Networks, Telrad, Arris,
AP, APD, Plante Morran, Fifth Third, Sprint and
others.
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Blue Collar Production Division
Our
production division, Blue Collar Productions (formerly Blue Collar,
Inc.), creates original live action and animated content
productions and has produced hundreds of hours of material for the
television, theatrical, home entertainment and new media markets.
Mr. Rowen, our CEO of Blue Collar, works closely with major
television networks, cable channels and film studios to produce
home entertainment products.
The
Documentary film group at Blue Collar recently completed a film on
the cultural impact of Goodfellas: 20 Years Later that featured Martin
Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Lorraine Bracco, Leonardo DiCaprio and
many others. They have also produced a series of film anthologies
for Turner Classic Movies. Blue Collar is currently in production
on Built To Fail, which is
a look at the history of street wear. The film features Tommy
Hilfiger, Russell Simmons and a host of notable street wear
designers. They are also in pre-production on The 29 Club, a look at notable
musicians who all tragically died at age 29; Memories in Music, which is an in-depth
study of the impact of memory through music on Alzheimer’s
patients and Faces of
Vegas, an exploration into the culture of Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Blue
Collar Productions currently has the feature film Looking For Alaska, based on the John
Green novel, producing for Paramount Pictures. The company produced
for a pilot for MTV for a possible series, “My Jam”
aired in the Fall of 2016. Blue Collar has also produced two
seasons of “Caribbean’s Next Top Model
Season.”
Blue
Collar Productions designs branding and marketing campaigns and has
had contracts with some of the world’s largest companies
including PepsiCo, Intel, HP, WalMart and many other Fortune 500
companies. Additionally, they create motion picture, television and
home entertainment marketing campaigns for studios including Sony,
DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount
Studios, and Warner Brothers.
The CEO
of this division, Mr. Rowen, has worked with filmmakers including
Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brett Ratner and James Cameron. Mr.
Rowen also has very close working relationships with actors
including Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Robert Downey, Jr.,
Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Sofia Vergara, Mariska Hargitay
and many others.
Prior
to starting Blue Collar Productions, Mr. Rowen functioned as the
head of home entertainment production for DreamWorks SKG from 1997
to 2000. He also serves as the President of Long Leash
Entertainment, an aggregator of entertainment based intellectual
property and creator of high-end entertainment
content.
TPT MedTech, LLC – Medical Division
TPT
MedTech believes it is strategically positioned to take advantage
of the current trend in Point of Care Testing (“POCT”)
by aligning itself with the exponential growth of smart devices
equipped with mobile healthcare (mH), which may revolutionize
personalized healthcare monitoring and management, thereby paving
the way for next-generation POCT.
The
rapid turnaround times, improved decision times, and time-critical
decision-making of TPT MedTech QuikLAB can result in total savings
between 8-20% of laboratory costs for facilities that implement POC
testing. The savings realized due to the decreased cost of waiting
for results can be as much as $260 USD per patient. For those that
use and implement POC testing, waiting can improve by as much as 46
minutes per patient real-time scenarios—and days in standard
laboratory settings. Management believes TPT MedTech
QuikLAB is uniquely positioned to serve this growing
market.
SANIQuik is
a decontamination and sanitizing unit that TPT MedTech
intends to co-market with the QuikLAB
mobile laboratory as an integrated solution to certain issues
arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. SANIQuik uses
hypochlorous acid as a spray mist. This chemical has been safely
used on many food products for decades. Hypochlorous acid does not
cause irritation to eyes and skin. Even if it were ingested it
causes no harm. Because it is so safe, it is the ideal sanitizer
for direct food sanitation and food contact surfaces. It is also
ideal in healthcare where it is used for wound cleansing, eye
drops, and patient room disinfection replacing toxic chemicals such
as bleach and quaternary ammonium salts. Hypochlorous acid is FDA,
USDA, and EPA approved to minimize microbial food safety hazards of
fresh-cut fruits and vegetables. (See https://www.hypochlorousacid.com/about.)
TPT
MedTech believes the SANIQuik external sanitation is safe,
effective and flexible for its utilization with options for users.
TPT MedTech intends to provide optional masks to users as they
approach the SANIQuik. The mask provides a cover around inhalation
of the mist. External sanitation is safe and effective, providing
an additional routine to hand washing and facial
coverings.
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TPT
MedTech has developed a business model which markets SANIQuik as a
novel product within the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
industry. This PPE distribution model is focused in the Federal
procurement space (Veteran’s Administration, Department of
Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Centers for Disease
Control, National Guard) as well as vendor to the top 20 National
Hospital Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO).
TPT MedTech will be requesting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
from the FDA for SANIQuik during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has
been granted to other sanitizing units. SANIQuik already has the
European CE mark. For attorney fees and consultants, we
are estimating $50,000 for the EUA.
TPT
MedTech developed its
"QuikPASS™" Check and Verify passport system and Covid
19/vaccination monitoring platform for corporations, governmental
organizations, schools, airlines, hospitals, sports venues &
arenas, restaurants, hotels, and nightclubs. The all-in-one mobile
system checks and verifies that an individual has been tested for
Covid-19 or vaccinated, providing proof individuals are able to
travel or gain access to venues with the idea that everyone inside
that venue would be Covid free. The "QuikPASS" "Check and Verify"
passport-style platform works with third-party testing labs and
organizations that participate on the "QuikPASS" Network and will
be offered FREE to US domestic and international business commerce
and governmental organizations around the
world.
K Telecom and Global Telecom- GSM Distribution
K
Telecom and Global Telecom are located in the Northwest of the
United States and sell and distribute GSM Cell Phone and Prepaid
GSM Services for MVNO’s (Mobile Virtual Network Operators)
through approximately 100 brick and mortar retail store-front
locations in Washington and Oregon.
San Diego Media Division
San
Diego Media, Inc. (“SDM”) is an established Southern
California based software engineering and Internet e-commerce
marketing services company that provides enterprise-class
integrated solutions for manufacturers, retailers, and distributors
focused on developing solutions for companies seeking online growth
and profitability.
TruCom, LLC– CLEC–Phoenix, Arizona
Our
TruCom division, a subsidiary of Copperhead Digital Holdings, LLC,
is a Facilities Based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
headquartered in Phoenix, AZ. Founded in 2006 (as Copperhead
Digital Carrier) for the purpose of operating a state-of-the-art
Fiber Optic Network constructed by and acquired from Adelphia
Communications, TruCom operated its own carrier class Fiber Optic
Network, state-of-the-art Wireless Point-to-Point network, and
Patent Pending proprietary “Bulletproof”™ technology
seamlessly integrating the two. Currently Trucom has no customers,
however, with little but prioritized capital and time we believe it
could be operating and generating revenue again for the
Company.
TruCom
offered Phone, Internet, Fiber Optic, Wireless, Hosted PBX, Wi-Fi,
Wi-Max, Engineering, Cabling, Wiring and Cloud services. With a
penchant for pushing the envelope, TruCom has pioneered innovative,
hosted firewall and managed MPLS service technologies (SuperCore
MPLS™) and was the Industry first to engineer patent-pending
failover services utilizing our own fiber optic and wireless
networks to guarantee business continuity and service uptime.
Located in multiple Local Serving Offices and Points of Presence
(POP’s) in the primary Data Centers in the market,
TruCom’s extensive Fiber Optic Network runs through the heart
of the most densely populated corridors of the Greater Phoenix
Metro Area. Their Wireless Point to Point and Point to Multipoint
Network is fed by the infinitely scalable capacity of the Fiber
Optic Network and consists of more than 16 Major Access Points.
This footprint not only provides coverage throughout the metro
area, but also spans into outlying Cities, often providing the only
carrier grade solution available in the region.
Technology Company Overview
Our Company was formed as the successor of two US Corporations,
Ally Pharma US, a Pharmaceutical technology research company
founded in 1988 and TPT Global Inc. a Media Content, Voice and
Data, Interconnect and International gateway provider. TPT Global
Tech is headquartered in San Diego, California and operates as a
holding company for its Media, Smartphone, Network, Content and
SaaS (Software as a Services) domestic and international
businesses.
Historically
and through key acquisitions we launched Telecommunications
wholesale and retail operations in the United States and
Internationally. These first acquisitions with their Customer
Bases, Distribution Channels and Technology are the base for our
organic growth strategy and provide opportunities to cross sell our
platforms and New Media Technology products and services
Domestically and Internationally.
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We are based in San Diego, California and operate as a
technology-based company with divisions providing
telecommunications, medical technology and product distribution,
media content for domestic and international syndication as well as
technology solutions. We operate as a Media Content Hub for
Domestic and International syndication,
Technology/Telecommunications company using on our own proprietary
Global Digital Media TV and Telecommunications infrastructure
platform and we also provide technology solutions to businesses
worldwide. We offer Software as a Service (SaaS), Technology
Platform as a Service (PAAS), Cloud-based Unified Communication as
a Service (UCaaS) and carrier-grade performance and support for
businesses over our private IP MPLS fiber and wireless network in
the United States. Our cloud-based UCaaS services allow businesses
of any size to enjoy all the latest voice, data, media and
collaboration features in today's global technology markets. We
also operate as a Master Distributor for Nationwide Mobile Virtual
Network Operators (MVNO) and Independent Sales Organization (ISO)
as a Master Distributor for Pre-Paid Cellphone services, Mobile
phones, Cellphone Accessories and Global Roaming
Cellphones.
Our
technologies “Gathers Big Data” to predict our
customers’ viewing and spending habits. We then deliver
Products and Services to support that estimated demand and share
advertising revenues with our Content, Digital Media and Linear
Broadcast Partners worldwide.
Each of
our four divisions contributes to the launch of our global Content
delivery platform “ViewMe Live” and creates cross
pollinating revenue opportunities and a closed Global E-commerce
Eco environment which we believe will help us execute our short and
long-term corporate objectives. Our Content Division which consists
of Blue Collar Productions (our TV and Film content Production
company) creates original content and in some cases third party
content. Once Content has been produced we will then broadcast and
delivered that content over our proprietary Mobile TV Platform on
our proprietary Telecommunication Network infrastructure
domestically and internationally.
Our
corporate goal is to work within our four in house divisions
(Smartphone, Network, Content and SaaS) to launch hardware sales
and build a viewer subscriber base domestically and
internationally. This edge device deployment would deliver free
Content, free Linear Broadcast feeds and Social Media features on
our Free proprietary Mobile app platform with the anticipation to
aggregate and showcase our original and third-party Content,
Digital Media and Linear broadcast feeds from and too the four
corners of the Globe.
All of
the back technology or features for ViewMe Live have been developed
and are currently supporting revenue generating activities within
our medical division. We anticipate spending an additional
$2,000,000 USD to complete all the front-end features which we
believe, depending on a funding event, will be in the next six to
eighteen months.
We have
generated revenues in 2020 and 2019, primarily by selling
telecommunications services, including operating as a Broadband
Internet provider and film production. We had previously operated
as a Facilities Based Telecommunications Competitive Local Exchange
Carrier (“CLEC”) in Arizona. The company operated an
approximate 58 miles Fiber optic ring throughout the greater
Phoenix valley offering such services as Basic Residential Phone
service, Basic Business phone service, POT’s lines, Basic
Fiber Broadband Internet services, Wireless Internet Services, Toll
Free 800 services, EFax, Erate, Dedicated T-1 Services, Auto
Attendant, SIP Trunks, Mobile and Voip services. These services
will continue, as capital permits, weighted heavily towards
offering more Wireless Internet services and the Fiber Ring will be
transformed into a Private Test facility to be offered for rent to
businesses needing a private network to test new products for proof
of concept purposes. Since the
acquisition of the assets of SpeedConnect in 2019, we operate as a
Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) provider and are considered one of
the nation’s largest rural wireless broadband Internet
providers serving approximately 12,000 residential and commercial
wireless broadband Internet customers, in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois,
Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and
Texas.
We, and
our related acquired companies are seeking to be an innovative
Media-Telecom/CUBS (Cloud Unified Businesses Services) company and
one of the first to combine recurring Telecom, Media and
Data/Cloud Services revenue under one roof, then bring all
relevant data from those services into a proprietary telecom
infrastructure and information matrix platform capable of
delivering a “Daily and Intelligent Dashboard” to our
Domestic and International customers. Such a planned cohesive
combination of services and information from a single provider has
been heretofore nonexistent. We intend to pioneer an integrate
communication services and information technology suites to empower
individuals and companies with vital communications, Smartphone,
Network, Content, SaaS (Software as A Service), New Media
Technology products and services, and valuable relevant diagnostic
information both Domestically and
Internationally.
We are
currently able to deliver a live Global TV Broadcast and Social
Media Platform utilizing a Mobile App technology on our proprietary
Content Delivery Network. We plan to expand our Cloud Unified
Business Services (CUBS) technology-based business services
unifying multiple services from the cloud including applications
developed for our medical division.
CUBS (Cloud Unified Business Services) - We are a CUBS
provider, acquiring customers and then cross selling additional
products and services through our proprietary Wrap Around
Relationship Marketing (WARM) system, intending to make the
customers very sticky.
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Planned Activities
Big Data & Predictive Analytics - Our capability to
utilize our proprietary aggregation platform to gather data from
our hardware and software edge device (End Users) deployments
positions the Company to be a leader in predictive
analytics.
Cross-Sales – Our growth strategy through
complimentary acquisitions may create opportunities to cross and
sell its New Generation, New Media technology products and services
to a growing customer base across multiple distribution channels,
both domestically and internationally.
Market Launch - Through our acquisition of View-me Live from
Matrixsites, we have acquired the live backend broadcast Network
technology for our Global Mobile TV and Social Media platform.
These assets also, in large part, allowed us to develop technology
and applications being used in our medical division. Subject to
raising capital ($2,000,000) from our fund-raising activities we
believe we can continue to market and enhance our medical division
operations, as well as, complete within six to eighteen months the
frontend development component to launch our “View-me
Live” Mobile APP delivery platform.
Liquidity and Capital Resource Needs
We
anticipate needing an estimated $38,000,000 in capital to continue
our business operations and expansion. We do not have committed
sources for these additional funds and will need to be obtained
through debt or equity placements or a combination of
those.
Estimate of Liquidity and Capital Resource Needs
Equipment purchase
and manufacturing
|
$14,000,000
|
Product
advancement
|
2,250,000
|
Acquisitions
|
500,000
|
Debt
Restructuring
|
7,300,000
|
Working capital,
including marketing
|
10,710,000
|
Brokerage
commissions
|
3,040,000
|
Offering
expenses
|
200,000
|
|
$38,000,000
|
Although
the items set forth above indicate management’s present
estimate of our liquidity and capital resource needs, we may have difference needs or utilize
corporate liquidity and capital resources for other corporate
purposes. Our actual use of liquidity and capital resources
may vary from these estimates because of a number of factors,
including whether we are successful in completing future
acquisitions, whether we obtain additional funding, what other
obligations have been incurred by us, the operating results of our
initial acquisition activities, and whether we are able to operate
profitably. If our need for liquidity and capital resources
increases, we may seek additional funds through any financing
opportunity available to us. There are no current commitments for
any such financing opportunity, and there can be no assurance that
these funds may be obtained in the future if the need
arises.
RECENT
ACQUISITIONS OF OPERATING DIVISIONS/SUBSIDIARIES
The Fitness Container, LLC Acquisition
On June
1, 2020, the Company signed an agreement for the acquisition of a
majority interest in San Diego based manufacturing company, The
Fitness Container, LLC dba “Aire Fitness” (www.airefitness.com), for
500,000 shares of common stock in TPTW, vesting and issuable after
the common stock reaches at least a $1.00 per share closing price
in trading, a $500,000 promissory note payable primarily out of
future capital raising and a 10% of gross profit royalty from sales
of drive through lab operations for the first year. Aire Fitness,
in which TPTW will own 75%, will operate under TPTW‘s Medical
division, TPT MedTech. Aire Fitness is a California LLC founded in
2014 focused on custom designing, manufacturing, and selling
high-end turnkey outdoor fitness studios. Aire Fitness has
contracted with YMCAs, Parks and Recreation departments,
Universities and Country Clubs which are currently using its mobile
gyms. Aire Fitness’ existing and future clients will be
able to take advantage of TPTW’s upcoming Broadband, TV and
Social Media platform to offer virtual classes utilizing the
company’s mobile gyms. The agreement included an employment
agreement for Mario Garcia, former principal owner, which annual
employment is to be at $120,000 plus customary employee benefits.
This agreement was closed August 1, 2020.
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InnovaQor Merger with Southern Plains
On
August 1, 2020, InnovaQor,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Merger
Agreement with the publicly traded company Southern Plains Oil
Corp. (OTC PINK: SPLN prior to Merger Agreement). The SPLN Merger
moves the Company’s subsidiary InnovaQor one step closer to
completing a recently executed Asset Purchase Agreement with
Rennova Health, Inc. The Merger also positions InnovaQor to trade
on the OTC Market, which InnovaQor is now traded under INOQ. The
Company was to receive 6,000,000 common shares as part of the
Merger Agreement out of a total of 6,400,667 common shares
outstanding.
During August, InnovaQor authorized a Series A Super Majority
Preferred Stock valued at $350,000 by management and issued to a
third party in exchange for legal services. Effective September 30,
2020, the Series A Super Majority Preferred Stock was exchanged
with TPT for a note payable of $350,000 payable in cash or common
stock (see Note 5(2)). As such, as of September 30, 2020, the
Company, for accounting purposes, took control of the merged
InnovaQor and reflected in it’s consolidated balance the
consolidated balance sheet of InnovaQor which assets and
liabilities were di minimus. A License Agreement that was
originally signed between the Company and InnovaQor for software
development was rescinded March 30, 2021.
Rennova Acquisition Agreement
Effective
December 31, 2020, the Company completed its
acquisition agreement (“Rennova Acquisition Agreement”)
with Rennova Health, Inc. (“Rennova”), an owner
and operator of rural hospitals in Tennessee, and InnovaQor, to
merge Rennova’s software and genetic testing interpretation
divisions, Health Technology Solutions, Inc. (HTS) and Advanced
Molecular Services Group, Inc., (AMSG) and their subsidiaries into
InnovaQor. After closing, these entities were to operate as wholly
owned subsidiaries of InnovaQor which then would have been
controlled by Rennova. Closing was subject to a number of customary
conditions for a transaction of this nature and was intended to
happen on or before January 31, 2020.
InnovaQor
had previously completed a license agreement giving it certain
rights to assets and technology from the Company’s
proprietary live streaming communication technology. As part of the
license agreement InnovaQor and TPT had agreed on a development
project to create a next generation telehealth type platform. It
was intended to combine the TPT and Rennova assets and technology
into a smart phone and computer accessible healthcare platform to
facilitate a patient’s immediate access to healthcare and
their local hospital or doctor’s office, for initial
consultation, scheduling of appointments and follow on care and
other added value services that may be one off or
recurring.
Rennova
had agreed to complete the necessary steps and SEC filings with the
intent to facilitate TPT shareholders receiving approximately
2,500,000 shares in InnovaQor, and Rennova’s shareholders
receiving approximately $5M of Preference shares which were be
converted to common shares. As described in the Rennova Acquisition
Agreement, TPT, or its assigns, was to retain direct ownership of a
further 3,500,000 shares and Rennova and retain ownership of an
additional $17.5M of preference shares with certain conversion
rights and restrictions, making it the contolling entity of
InnovaQor.
Rennova
terminated the Rennova Acquisition Agreement effective March 5,
2021, and the Company agreed to this termination with both parties
not able to come to agreement of final terms.
EPIC Reference Labs, Inc. Acquisition
On August 6, 2020, TPT MedTech signed a binding letter of intent
with Rennova to acquire EPIC Reference Labs, Inc.
(“EPIC”), wholly owned subsidiary of Rennova, for
$750,000, comprised of a deposit of $25,000 within five days of
signing and the remainder due either from 20% of net proceeds
received from fund raising that the Company had initiated and as
evidenced by SEC Filings or a minimum payment of $25,000 per month
until paid in full. The first $25,000 payment was made and was
accounted for as a deposit in the consolidated balance sheet. All
defined laboratory equipment and a $100,000 lease deposit were to
be excluded from the sales price. All liabilities incurred up to
signing were to be discharged. Receivables existing at signing were
to be 100% ownership of Rennova. There were no other significant
assets. This acquisition would allow TPT MedTech to own a license
to operate medical testing facilities.
TPT MedTech and Rennova subsequently agreed that the acquisition
would be of an asset acquisition of substantially all of the assets
of EPIC instead of acquiring the stock of EPIC, but that all other
terms were to be consistent with the binding letter of
intent. Until the change of
ownership of the assets was complete, Rennova started operating the
laboratory under a management agreement dated August 6, 2020
between TPT MedTech, LLC and Rennova. There are approximately
$19,000 of expenses in our consolidated statement of operations
under the management agreement.
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Subsequently, TPT MedTech decided that it would not acquire the
assets of EPIC and terminated its relationship with EPIC. The
$25,000 deposit was then expensed to the statement of operations
for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Bridge Internet, LLC Acquisition
On
March 6, 2020, the Company executed an Acquisition and Purchase
Agreement (“Agreement”) dated March 6, 2020 with Bridge
Internet, LLC (“Bridge Internet”), a Delaware Limited
Liability Company. On December 23, 2020, the Company and prior
owner agreed to terminate the agreement.
The
Agreement stated that the Company had acquired 75% of Bridge
Internet for 8,000,000 shares of common stock of TPT Global Tech,
Inc., 4,000,000 common shares issued to Sydney “Trip”
Camper immediately and 4,000,000 common shares would vest equally
over two years. As sufficient funding was raised by the Company,
defined as approximately $3,000,000, marketing funds of up to
$200,000 per quarter for the next year were to be provided. Sydney
“Trip” Camper, would retain the remaining 25% of Bridge
Internet and stay on as the CEO. This Agreement was terminated as
if there were no agreement. Any monies paid as contractor payments
by the Company are to be maintained and the Company is to have no
liabilities related to Bridge Internet of any sort.
QuikLAB Mobile Laboratories
In July and August 2020, the Company formed Quiklab 1 LLC, QuikLAB
2, LLC, QuikLAB 3, LLC and QuikLAB 4, LLC. It is the intent to use
these entities as vehicles into which third parties would invest
and participate in owning QuikLAB Mobile Laboratories. As of
December 31, 2020, Quiklab 1 LLC, QuikLAB 2, LLC and QuikLAB 3, LLC
have received an investment of $460,000, of which Stephen Thomas
and Rick Eberhardt, CEO and EVP of the Company, have invested
$100,000 in QuikLAB 2, LLC. The third party investors and Mr.
Thomas and Mr. Eberhart, will benefit from owning 20% of QuikLAB
Mobile Laboratories specific to their investments.
Our Business Methods
Centralized Platform and New Generation Network
We are
now operating a next-generation broadband network reselling other
companies’ networks on a wholesale arbitrage basis (buying
and reselling other companies’ capacity) on our centralized
VIVO Platform. We are interconnected to U.S. and International
carriers to date. Once funded, we intend to deploy our own
in-country networks in the targeted emerging markets. This will
enable us to be able to provide better quality termination and
increase our operating margins. We believe our platform will
produce substantial operational cost savings. Because of our
pricing advantage, we are able to offer our clients products and
services at an attractive pricing structure, creating a strong
competitive advantage. Based on our low network operating costs and
low-cost infrastructure, we believe we may penetrate emerging
markets with little network build-out and at a reasonable price.
Management believes that our service offerings will be well
received in emerging markets based on existing relationships and
pricing structure, which will enable us to set the industry
standard with little competition.
Once we
establish in-country networks, we will be able to market Phones,
Networks, Content and SaaS products targeted to specific subgroups
that coincide with the country/region where we have a network in
place or a strategic partnership network in place.
Use of Incumbent Networks
Under
formal agreements we can privately brand and resell incumbent
carriers’ underlying broadband networks, while deploying our
own Wimax/Wi-Fi/GSM service plans and mobile handsets.
As a
true value add, our VIVO billing platform allows us to manage the
billing and routing, offering our customers a seamless, branded
network from anywhere we maintain a relationship. By way of
incumbent operator networks, we can sell and market to retail and
wholesale customers without the high infrastructure costs
associated with deploying our own network. If and when the revenues
justify the cost of constructing our own network, we plan to
investigate adding a wireless Broadband/ GSM network, and transfer
our customer base in a final step to reduce costs of goods sold
long-term.
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Wholesale Termination
Wholesale
termination is the reselling of excess network capacity on a
reciprocal basis to other telecom carriers both domestically and
internationally. Due to the large number of carrier relationships
we have in the US and abroad, we believe we can immediately
increase our wholesale termination in each country in which we have
a license to operate. This wholesale activity generates additional
cash flow immediately if successfully implemented. Wholesale
termination is a low risk, low margin business.
Service Description
Our
next-generation wireless Broadband/GSM network relies on
non-line-of-sight technology. This will provide a level of
performance comparable to that delivered by evolving Worldwide
Interoperability of Microwave Access (WiMAX) standards. The cost
advantage equates to substantial reductions of fixed costs as
compared to building traditional, legacy, and switched
networks.
Our
products and marketing strategy unifies the various features
available in today’s telecommunication environment
including:
●
Significant
international broadband capacity
●
High quality VoIP
communication
●
Cellular/GSM and
Wi-Fi wireless convergence
●
IPTV, Content
Applications and Financial Services Products
●
Remote network
management
●
Sophisticated
Prepaid, Wholesale and Retail billing
●
CRM management; and
Intranet Build-out, back office management and
reporting.
Our Business Segments
Our
business segment consists generally of providing strategic, legacy
and data integration products and services to small, medium and
enterprise business, wholesale and governmental customers,
including other communication providers. Our strategic products and
services offered to these customers include our collocation,
hosting, broadband, VoIP, information technology and other
ancillary services. Our services offered to these customers
primarily include local and long-distance voice, inducing the sale
of unbundled network elements (“UNEs”), switched access
and other ancillary services. Our product offerings include the
sale of telecommunications equipment located on customers’
premises and related products and professional services, all of
which are described further below.
Our
products and services include local and long-distance voice,
broadband, Ethernet, collocation, hosting (including cloud hosting
and managed hosting), data integration, video, network, public
access, VoIP, information technology and other ancillary
services.
We
offer our customers the ability to bundle together several products
and services. For example, we offer integrated and unlimited local
and long-distance voice services. Our customers can also bundle two
or more services such as broadband, video (including through our
strategic partnerships), voice services. We believe our customers
value the convenience and price discounts associated with receiving
multiple services through a single company.
Most of
our products and services are provided using our telecommunications
network, which consists of voice and data switches, copper cables,
fiber-optic cables and other equipment.
Described
in greater detail previously are our key products and services are
as follows.
TPT SpeedConnect: ISP and Telecom
The
Company completed the acquisition of substantially all of the
assets of SpeedConnect LLC (“SpeedConnect”) for $1.75
million, including the assumption of all contracts and liabilities
pertinent to operations and conveyed them into a wholly-owned
subsidiary TPT SpeedConnect. SpeedConnect was founded in 2002 and
operates as a national, predominantly rural, wireless
telecommunications residential and commercial Internet Service
Provider (ISP). TPT SpeedConnect’s primary business model is
subscription based, monthly reoccurring revenues, from wireless
delivered, high-speed Internet connections utilizing its company
built and owned national network. SpeedConnect also resells
third-party satellite Internet, DSL Internet, IP telephony and DISH
TV products. This Acquisition closed on May 7, 2019.
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SpeedConnect was a privately-held Broadband Wireless Access (BWA)
provider. Today, TPT SpeedConnect is one of the nation’s
largest rural wireless broadband Internet providers which serves
approximately 12,000 residential and commercial wireless broadband
Internet customers, in Arizona, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan,
Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota and Texas.
SpeedConnect
is a full-service ISP. The company’s back office is run by
company employees, and includes, network management, network
monitoring and maintenance, significant allocations of registered
address in public IP4 and IP6 space, employee based customer
service, installation services, automated resources and application
based scheduling and tracking, paper, ACH, credit card, and email
billing, warehousing, fulfillment, integrated customer premise
provisioning, walled garden collections and customer self-restarts,
bandwidth usage tracking, integrated, secure, and deep financial
and operations dash board reporting, collections, accounting,
payables, owned and licensed backhaul, intelligent bandwidth
management, consumption rated billing, customer payment portals,
and all wrapped in a mature, first hit on all search engines,
Internet Brand. The company today services residential and
commercial Internet customers over its 220-cellular tower
foot-print across 10 Midwestern States.
Today’s
urban ISP landscape is highly competitive and dominated by some of
the world’s largest going concerns. Names like Comcast,
AT&T, Cox, Charter and DISH are household words. Home Internet
service has become synonymous with Cable. However, this is limited
to the high-density top 100 markets. Beyond that the competition
becomes more small licensed free wireless providers and satellite.
Wire-line providers, unless backed with government subsidies, do
not build beyond 15 homes per street mile. SpeedConnect services
both rural and non-rural areas, and historically has done well in
both marketplaces, however the margins are improved in the more
rural areas due to reduced voluntary and involuntary customer
attrition.
TPT
SpeedConnect’s key suppliers include but are not limited to;
Great Lakes Data Systems, Juniper, ZTE, Huawei, Cisco, Sandvine,
American Tower, SBA Tower, Crown Castle, CenturyLink, SuddenLink,
South Dakota Networks, 123 dot net, Genesee Telephone, Air
Advantage Fiber, Iron Mountain, ConVergence, CDW, Talley, Tessco,
Bursma Electronics, DragonWave, Ceragon Networks, Telrad, Arris,
AP, APD, Plante Morran, Fifth Third, Sprint and
others.
Blue Collar Production Division
Our
production division, Blue Collar Productions (formerly Blue Collar,
Inc.), creates original live action and animated content
productions and has produced hundreds of hours of material for the
television, theatrical, home entertainment and new media markets.
Mr. Rowen, our CEO of Blue Collar, works closely with major
television networks, cable channels and film studios to produce
home entertainment products.
The
Documentary film group at Blue Collar recently completed a film on
the cultural impact of Goodfellas: 20 Years Later that featured Martin
Scorsese, Robert DeNiro, Lorraine Bracco, Leonardo DiCaprio and
many others. They have also produced a series of film anthologies
for Turner Classic Movies. Blue Collar is currently in production
on Built To Fail, which is
a look at the history of street wear. The film features Tommy
Hilfiger, Russell Simmons and a host of notable street wear
designers. They are also in pre-production on The 29 Club, a look at notable
musicians who all tragically died at age 29; Memories in Music, which is an in-depth
study of the impact of memory through music on Alzheimer’s
patients and Faces of
Vegas, an exploration into the culture of Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Blue
Collar Productions currently has the feature film Looking For Alaska, based on the John
Green novel, producing for Paramount Pictures. The company produced
for a pilot for MTV for a possible series, “My Jam”
aired in the Fall of 2016. Blue Collar has also produced two
seasons of “Caribbean’s Next Top Model
Season.”
Blue
Collar Productions designs branding and marketing campaigns and has
had contracts with some of the world’s largest companies
including PepsiCo, Intel, HP, WalMart and many other Fortune 500
companies. Additionally, they create motion picture, television and
home entertainment marketing campaigns for studios including Sony,
DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount
Studios, and Warner Brothers.
The CEO
of this division, Mr. Rowen, has worked with filmmakers including
Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brett Ratner and James Cameron. Mr.
Rowen also has very close working relationships with actors
including Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Robert Downey, Jr.,
Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Sofia Vergara, Mariska Hargitay
and many others.
Prior
to starting Blue Collar Productions, Mr. Rowen functioned as the
head of home entertainment production for DreamWorks SKG from 1997
to 2000. He also serves as the President of Long Leash
Entertainment, an aggregator of entertainment based intellectual
property and creator of high-end entertainment
content.
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TPT MedTech, LLC – Medical Division
TPT
MedTech believes it is strategically positioned to take advantage
of the current trend in Point of Care Testing (“POCT”)
by aligning itself with the exponential growth of smart devices
equipped with mobile healthcare (mH), which may revolutionize
personalized healthcare monitoring and management, thereby paving
the way for next-generation POCT.
The
rapid turnaround times, improved decision times, and time-critical
decision-making of TPT MedTech QuikLAB can result in total savings
between 8-20% of laboratory costs for facilities that implement POC
testing. The savings realized due to the decreased cost of waiting
for results can be as much as $260 USD per patient. For those that
use and implement POC testing, waiting can improve by as much as 46
minutes per patient real-time scenarios—and days in standard
laboratory settings. Management believes TPT MedTech
QuikLAB is uniquely positioned to serve this growing
market.
SANIQuik is
a decontamination and sanitizing unit that TPT MedTech
intends to co-market with the QuikLAB
mobile laboratory as an integrated solution to certain issues
arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. SANIQuik uses
hypochlorous acid as a spray mist. This chemical has been safely
used on many food products for decades. Hypochlorous acid does not
cause irritation to eyes and skin. Even if it were ingested it
causes no harm. Because it is so safe, it is the ideal sanitizer
for direct food sanitation and food contact surfaces. It is also
ideal in healthcare where it is used for wound cleansing, eye
drops, and patient room disinfection replacing toxic chemicals such
as bleach and quaternary ammonium salts. Hypochlorous acid is FDA,
USDA, and EPA approved to minimize microbial food safety hazards of
fresh-cut fruits and vegetables. (See https://www.hypochlorousacid.com/about.)
TPT
MedTech believes the SANIQuik external sanitation is safe,
effective and flexible for its utilization with options for users.
TPT MedTech intends to provide optional masks to users as they
approach the SANIQuik. The mask provides a cover around inhalation
of the mist. External sanitation is safe and effective, providing
an additional routine to hand washing and facial
coverings.
TPT
MedTech has developed a business model which markets SANIQuik as a
novel product within the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
industry. This PPE distribution model is focused in the Federal
procurement space (Veteran’s Administration, Department of
Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Centers for Disease
Control, National Guard) as well as vendor to the top 20 National
Hospital Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO).
TPT MedTech will be requesting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)
from the FDA for SANIQuik during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has
been granted to other sanitizing units. SANIQuik already has the
European CE mark. For attorney fees and consultants, we
are estimating $50,000 for the EUA.
TPT
MedTech developed its
"QuikPASS™" Check and Verify passport system and Covid
19/vaccination monitoring platform for corporations, governmental
organizations, schools, airlines, hospitals, sports venues &
arenas, restaurants, hotels, and nightclubs. The all-in-one mobile
system checks and verifies that an individual has been tested for
Covid-19 or vaccinated, providing proof individuals are able to
travel or gain access to venues with the idea that everyone inside
that venue would be Covid free. The "QuikPASS" "Check and Verify"
passport-style platform works with third-party testing labs and
organizations that participate on the "QuikPASS" Network and will
be offered FREE to US domestic and international business commerce
and governmental organizations around the
world.
K Telecom and Global Telecom- GSM Distribution
K
Telecom and Global Telecom are located in the Northwest of the
United States and sell and distribute GSM Cell Phone and Prepaid
GSM Services for MVNO’s (Mobile Virtual Network Operators)
through approximately 100 brick and mortar retail store-front
locations in Washington and Oregon.
San Diego Media Division
San
Diego Media, Inc. (“SDM”) is an established Southern
California based software engineering and Internet e-commerce
marketing services company that provides enterprise-class
integrated solutions for manufacturers, retailers, and distributors
focused on developing solutions for companies seeking online growth
and profitability.
TruCom, LLC– CLEC–Phoenix, Arizona
Our
TruCom division, a subsidiary of Copperhead Digital Holdings, LLC,
is a Facilities Based Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC)
headquartered in Phoenix, AZ. Founded in 2006 (as Copperhead
Digital Carrier) for the purpose of operating a state-of-the-art
Fiber Optic Network constructed by and acquired from Adelphia
Communications, TruCom operated its own carrier class Fiber Optic
Network, state-of-the-art Wireless Point-to-Point network, and
Patent Pending proprietary “Bulletproof”™ technology
seamlessly integrating the two. Currently Trucom has no customers,
however, with little but prioritized capital and time we believe it
could be operating and generating revenue again for the
Company.
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TruCom
offered Phone, Internet, Fiber Optic, Wireless, Hosted PBX, Wi-Fi,
Wi-Max, Engineering, Cabling, Wiring and Cloud services. With a
penchant for pushing the envelope, TruCom has pioneered innovative,
hosted firewall and managed MPLS service technologies (SuperCore
MPLS™) and was the Industry first to engineer patent-pending
failover services utilizing our own fiber optic and wireless
networks to guarantee business continuity and service uptime.
Located in multiple Local Serving Offices and Points of Presence
(POP’s) in the primary Data Centers in the market,
TruCom’s extensive Fiber Optic Network runs through the heart
of the most densely populated corridors of the Greater Phoenix
Metro Area. Their Wireless Point to Point and Point to Multipoint
Network is fed by the infinitely scalable capacity of the Fiber
Optic Network and consists of more than 16 Major Access Points.
This footprint not only provides coverage throughout the metro
area, but also spans into outlying Cities, often providing the only
carrier grade solution available in the region.
Media Content
We operate as a Media Content Hub for Domestic and International
syndication, Technology/Telecommunications company using on our own
proprietary Global Digital Media TV and Telecommunications
infrastructure platform and we also provides technology solutions
to businesses worldwide. We offer Software as a Service (SaaS),
Technology Platform as a Service (PAAS), Cloud-based Unified
Communication as a Service (UCaaS) and carrier-grade performance
and support for businesses over our private IP MPLS fiber and
wireless network in the United States. Our cloud-based UCaaS
services allow businesses of any size to enjoy all the latest
voice, data, media and collaboration features in today's global
technology markets. We also operate as a Master Distributor for
Nationwide Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) and Independent
Sales Organization (ISO) as a Master Distributor for Pre-Paid
Cellphone services, Mobile phones, Cellphone Accessories and Global
Roaming Cellphones.
Our
technologies “Gathers Big Data” to predict our
customers’ viewing and spending habits. We then deliver
Products and Services to support that estimated demand and share
advertising revenues with our Content, Digital Media and Linear
Broadcast Partners worldwide.
Each of
our four divisions contributes to the launch of our global Content
delivery platform “ViewMe Live” and creates cross
pollinating revenue opportunities and a closed Global E-commerce
Eco environment which we believe will help us execute our short and
long term corporate objectives. Our Content Division which consists
of Blue Collar Productions (our TV and Film content Production
company) creates original content and in some cases third party
content. Once Content has been produced we will then broadcast and
delivered that content over our proprietary Mobile TV Platform on
our proprietary Trucom Telecommunication Network infrastructure
domestically and internationally.
CUBS (Cloud Unified Business Services)
We are a CUBS provider (Cloud Unified Businesses Services) company and
one of the first to combine recurring Telecom, Media and
Data/Cloud Services revenue under one roof, then bring all
relevant data from those services into a proprietary telecom
infrastructure and information matrix platform capable of
delivering a “Daily and Intelligent Dashboard” to our
Domestic and International customers. Such a planned cohesive
combination of services and information from a single provider has
been heretofore nonexistent. We intend to pioneer an integrate
communication services and information technology suites to empower
individuals and companies with vital communications, Smartphone,
Network, Content, SaaS (Software as A Service), New Media
Technology products and services, and valuable relevant diagnostic
information both Domestically and
Internationally.
We are
currently able to deliver a live Global TV Broadcast and Social
Media Platform utilizing a Mobile App technology on our proprietary
Content Delivery Network. We plan to expand our Cloud Unified
Business Services (CUBS) technology-based business services
unifying multiple services from the cloud.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
None
not disclosed in the main body of this Form 10-K.
CORPORATE MARKETING STRATEGY
Our
corporate strategy in expanding our operations and potential
product and service streams is as follows.
MARKETING
OBJECTIVE:
Establish
our brand as a competitive service and product provider in the
communications industry.
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ADVERTISING
OBJECTIVE:
To
create top of mind brand awareness and emotional relevance
resulting: TPT Global Tech, Inc. being the preferred and requested
product line of products in the industry.
SALES
& MERCHANDISING OBJECTIVES:
Our
distributor will use direct selling efforts. Their efforts will be
supported with our marketing, advertising, and merchandising
programs. The primary task will be to increase the sales through
retail channels.
PURSUE
BRAND RECOGNITION THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES
The
first marketing objective must be to refine our brand and secure
our place in the minds of the consumers. This will be accomplished
through the execution of an integrated branding, identity and
services marketing programs. The goals for this segment will be an
enhanced brand identity, a brand applications and a digital assets
suite.
MARKETING STRATEGY
Our
plan includes a direct sales program targeting businesses, small
business and home office users of communications. The direct sales
efforts will be supported with third party marketing integration.
To further enhance the sales process, we will offer an offering
program including services and product sheets, coupons, point of
sale materials (banners, shelf talkers, and end cap displays and
danglers) and internet marketing programs.
Based
on the above benefit scenarios, we plan to seize the following
opportunities:
●
Build superior
brand recognition and become recognized as a category
leader.
●
Expand the US
distribution into all states.
●
Establish
distribution internationally.
●
Establish and
manage a knowledgeable team of account executives with industry
experience.
●
Create a retail
merchandising program that will build a strong market
share.
The
purpose of our marketing efforts is to move the product sales from
their current position into the rapid growing
“popularity” stage. Our strategy includes the following
marketing programs: Branding; Merchandising; Direct; Display
Advertising; Media; Public Relations; Publicity; Events; Investor
Relations; Metrics Dashboard; and, Personal Sales. Our objective is
to gain the sales momentum required to reach the “brand
preference” stage of product growth as soon as possible. This
is the stage where we plan sales grow at a steady and stabilized
pace.
THE DIRECT MARKETING PROGRAM
A
complete direct marketing program including direct mail, blast
email and URLs may be used to introduce the products to new
customers and secure leads for the sales team. We plan to employ
the services of a database marketing company to leverage techniques
to target prospective clients and reinforce product messages
throughout the selling process. This process will commence with the
modeling of our existing customer data and the analysis of the
results using sophisticated analytic tools. Cross-channel marketing
will be utilized in conjunction with the direct marketing including
social marketing. Our focus of this marketing medium will be
relevance and timing, which only this medium can provide full
control over and the ability to fully quantify the
results.
THE MEDIA MARKETING PROGRAM
We
intend to test several media options to determine which, if any,
effectively drive sales and sales leads. The mediums being consider
include outdoor advertising, both static and mobile, magazine ads,
and radio spots. Other media to be explored are direct mail post
cards and emails to opt in viewers.
THE PUBLIC RELATIONS/PUBLICITY PROGRAM
We plan
to employ the services of a public relations firm to build a
corporate profile to keep the name and the services and products in
front of consumers. A third-party PR firm will be responsible for
writing and publishing press releases, coordinating event marketing
and managing investor relations.
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We
employ marketing, sales and customer service personnel on an as
needed basis for specific events to build brand awareness. We use a
range of marketing strategies and tactics to build our brand and
increase sales, including point-of-sale materials, event
sponsorship, in-store and on-premise promotions, public relations,
and a variety of other traditional and non-traditional marketing
techniques to support the sales of all of our
products.
We
believe that a marketing mix of event promotions, social media,
print advertising in local media and internet advertising providing
information and samples of our products at social events is a
strategy that may help increase sales.
TARGET CUSTOMER
We plan
to profile our existing customers and create a sophisticated data
model to mathematically and statistically identify our
“ideal” customer. Further the model will be used to
learn exactly how the target customer wishes to be communicated
with and marketed to.
THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET
We plan
to market our product internationally. Many of the current products
offered by us have features for the international community. This
will be a secondary but strong focus by our marketing
team.
CORPORATE STRATEGY
Our Goals
Our
primary goal is to continue to grow our business by improving value
to our current customers and vendors. In providing a high-quality
network we intend to continue to grow our business. Additionally,
we intend to purchase established telecommunications and technology
companies that will immediately generate and increase traffic
(revenue) to our Company’s retail and wholesale network.
Companies that we are strategically aligned with have in their core
business synergistic retail products and services that include, but
are not limited to, Telecom Cloud Services Media, Merchant
Services/Mobile Banking, Cloud Services and Media (e.g.
credit/debit card processing, check/ACH payment processing,
ecommerce/merchant processing, web hosting, voice, data, GSM/Wi-Fi
Mobile, Mobile Money Transfers, IPTV, VOD and Live Mobile
Broadcasting, Prepaid Calling Card and PIN-less Prepaid services).
If we acquire a strategic partner as a subsidiary, we believe we
will have the ability to aggregate their analogous technology
platforms onto our proprietary Software Access System operating
platform for integration and efficiency.
We
intend to work our media to accelerate cohesively in the mobile
technology sectors: LIVE Broadcast, Video on Demand (VOD) Apps, and
Digital Video Magazine (DVM) Apps. While “white
labeling” our technologies as SaaS, our primary focus is what
we believe is the first Global Cyber LIVE Mobile TV broadcast
network, ViewMe Live. The ViewMe Live Network™ is a 24-hour
LIVE worldwide mobile TV network, delivered via iOS and Android
apps. The ViewMe Live Network™ presents a diversity of Linear
Broadcast Channels (Domestically and International), coupled with
Social Media Platforms with combined functions that compete with
some of the largest and most powerful Digital Media platforms, to
connected audiences who live a mobile-centric life.
DEVELOPMENT
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Network Services
Domestic
and Global Telecommunications offerings include: Mobile TV, Phone,
Internet, Fiber Optic, Wireless, Hosted PBX, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max,
Engineering, Cabling, Wiring and Cloud services. Our
telecommunications division has pioneered innovative, hosted
firewall and managed MPLS service technologies (SuperCore MPLS) and
was the Industry first to engineer patent-pending
Bulletproof™ failover services utilizing our own fiber optic
and wireless networks to guarantee business continuity and service
uptime.
As a retail and business media and telecommunications
provider operating a high-speed Fiber Optic Network and Wireless
Network in the USA at a cost competitive rate for new technologies,
we are growing our operations through sales of our core voice &
data connectivity products to small and midsized business clients.
We have a growth strategy through acquisitions in order to increase
regional operations and deploy more technologies to niche &
underserved markets. Unified Cloud Services, Unified Communications
(UC) or Unified Communications/Collaboration (UCC) has been a topic
of interest to users looking to evolve from a disorderly
combination of media, voice, email and message communications to
something more structured. Our goal is to target existing and new
small and medium businesses (“SMBs”) to transition
their older voice system businesses, expand their software collaboration
offerings, and most recently build cloud service offerings.
Cloud solution gives our customers the flexibility to support a
myriad of mobile devices as part of their hardware strategy,
whether it's launching a bring-your-own-device initiative,
implementing a one-to-one program or equipping SMBs with mobile
computing carts full of tablets, netbooks, or notebooks in a
secured environment.
Scalability and Cost Efficiency
Our
proprietary Software Access System platform currently runs our
global operations. In short, it does this by connecting our
customer base with the most profitable vendor route while
calculating least cost routing, analyzing route quality, and
respecting “dipping” protocols. Based on the demand, we
have the ability to scale to meet the needs of our customers.
Comparable “off the shelf” software systems in the
marketplace can cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars just
to purchase, not to mention expensive service contracts, which may
continue in perpetuity after the original purchase. Our proprietary
platform, in which we have invested and have developed over several
years, allows us to operate a global network with better efficiency
which we believe differentiates us from other competitors in the
marketplace.
We believe our competitive advantages are:
●
We believe our
ViewMe Live products and services are with six to eighteen months
from being ready to launch globally
●
We offer 3-15
seconds latency Cellular – 1-5 on Wi-Fi
●
We offer
Proprietary Optimizing / Stabilizing software
●
We offer
Multi-Channel LIVE and Video on Demand worldwide
●
We offer Patent
Pending real time dynamic failover solution called
Bulletproof™
●
We offer our own
proprietary voice switching and management platform running least
cost routing and real time financial analytics
●
We have over 175
existing USA and International Telephone companies already
interconnected to our telecom switches. These customers and vendors
are ready made strategic technology distribution partners for our
Telecom, Media, and Cloud Services products
Our Strategy
Our
business, marketing, and sales strategy is structured
around:
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Pursuing selective,
strategic, distribution relationships combined with cash positive
acquisitions to build immediate revenue streams and increase our
Company’s network footprint.
●
Utilize the
expanded network to offer our Company’s service thereby
increasing marginal revenues through the low risk offering of
wholesale termination and prepaid services through existing
distribution channels, retail stores and E-Commerce both
domestically and internationally.
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Pursuing markets
within countries where there is a lower concentration of
communications services that will result in initial higher pricing
and potential for gross profit.
●
Providing low cost,
pricing leading VoIP/GSM value added services through our
Company’s next-generation centralized software platform and
network.
●
Partnering and
developing joint ventures with incumbent networks or government
agencies to penetrate local emerging markets in order to build and
operate Intranet Network Infrastructures that would move data over
a secured network servicing government buildings and agencies,
including police, military, hospitals and schools.
Our Intended Marketing Plan and Product Roll Out for 2021 and
2022
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Satellite radio
syndication simulcast with over 25 million domestic U.S.
listeners
●
Connected TV
partner with over 18 million viewers worldwide.
●
Airline
entertainment partnership with over 12 million international
viewers.
●
Supported by an
international public relations firm.
●
Comprehensive
social media marketing campaign involving popular bloggers and
podcasters
Our
sales and marketing approach to our business and consumer customers
emphasizes customer-oriented sales, marketing and service. Our
marketing plans include marketing our products and services
primarily through direct sales representatives, inbound call
centers, local retail stores, telemarketing and third parties,
including retailers, satellite television providers, door to door
sales agents and digital marketing firms. We support our
distribution with digital marketing, direct mail, bill inserts,
newspaper and television advertising, website promotions, public
relations activities and sponsorship of community events and sports
venues.
Similarly,
our sales and marketing approach to our business customers includes
a commitment to provide comprehensive communications and IT
solutions for business, wholesale and governmental customers of all
sizes, ranging from small offices to select enterprise customers.
We strive to offer our business customers stable, reliable, secure
and trusted solutions. Our marketing plans include marketing our
products and services primarily through digital advertising, direct
sales representatives, inbound call centers, telemarketing and
third parties, including telecommunications agents, system
integrators, value-added resellers and other telecommunications
firms. We support our distribution through digital advertising,
events, television advertising, website promotions and public
relations.
Marketing Designs
We have
designed our services and products offered to be:
●
Portable. We offer the ability to
access our network from anywhere within our coverage area without
being restricted to a specific location.
●
Simple. Our services are easy to
install. After connecting our modem to an ATA or computer and a
power source, our wireless broadband service is immediately
available and requires no software installation.
●
Fast. We offer speeds that typically
exceed legacy cellular networks and are competitive with fixed
broadband offerings.
●
A Good Value. We generally price our
services competitively because our costs to build and operate our
network are significantly lower than the networks operated by many
of our competitors.
With
the popularity of social media, people are demanding fast broadband
connectivity on an increasingly mobile basis. We believe that our
services meet this demand and will market this in our efforts to
increase our subscriber growth rate.
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OUR COMPANY STRENGTHS
We
believe the following competitive strengths enable us to meet the
demand for simple, reliable and portable wireless broadband
connectivity:
●
First mover. We are the first company we
are aware of to launch a Global Cyber Mobile TV and Social Media
Network that incorporates functional feature of the largest Digital
Media companies in the world.
●
High barriers to entry. Our issued and
pending patents, as well as our proprietary Media platforms and
Naked Eye 3D technology trade secrets give us a strong intellectual
property position that we believe creates a significant barrier to
entry for potential competitors.
●
Broad range of applications for our
platform. This allows us to build a deep new product
pipeline that creates multiple paths to build a large and
profitable business.
●
Multi-billion-dollar addressable market.
U.S. digital advertising revenues rose to $26.2 billion in the
third quarter of 2018, solidifying 2018’s claim as the
highest-spending first three quarters on record, according to the
latest IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report released today by
IAB and prepared by PwC US. Digital spend for Q3 2018 estimates
increased 20.6 percent over Q3 2017. In total, marketers spent
$75.8 billion during 2018’s first three quarters—22
percent more than they had spent during the same period a year ago.
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Diverse revenue streams including Digital Media
partnerships. We anticipate generating significant revenue
from our Digital Media platforms. Our Linear Broadcast partners
will play a large part in generating revenues from the sale of
mobile and social media advertising.
●
Strong senior leadership team. Our
founders and senior leaders have experience in building and
operating several companies in our business areas. We have phone,
network, content, SaaS, product development, and commercialization
experience that has enabled us to establish market leadership
positions for the companies where we previously were employed.
●
Differentiated Services. We believe our service is
unique because of our combination of our Worldwide Operational
Platform, Worldwide Affiliates, Cutting Edge Technology,
Portability, Simplicity and Speed to Market with a competitive
domestic and International Price Structure. We believe this
combination of factors differentiates our subscriber’s
experience when compared to broadband services provided by DSL,
cable modem, wireless third-generation or 3G, networks.
●
Strong Spectrum Position. We use unlicensed and
licensed spectrum (in Arizona), which avoids radio frequency
interference that hinders competitors using non-licensed spectrum,
such as WiFi network operators. Access to spectrum is a fundamental
barrier to entry for the delivery of high-quality wireless
communications. Through our partnerships, we believe that we have
access to the second largest spectrum position in our band within
the United States.
●
Advanced, Scalable Technology. Because we intend
to design our own software and equipment, we can refine our product
development roadmap to meet our subscriber’s needs. We
believe our NLOS, IP-based Ethernet architecture and compression
technology confers competitive advantages since it simplifies both
network deployment and customer use while supporting a broad range
of potential premium services.
●
Efficient Economic Model. We believe our
individual market economic model is characterized by low fixed
capital and operating expenditures relative to other wireless and
wire line broadband service providers. We believe our individual
market model is highly scalable and replicable across our markets.
As our capabilities evolve, we expect to generate incremental
revenue streams from our subscriber base by developing and offering
premium products and services.
●
Experienced Management Team. Stephen J. Thomas, our
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, has been an active
entrepreneur, operator and investor in the industry for more than
17 years in VoIP and wireless communications industry. He
previously served as Director of Network Optimization/Validation for WorldxChange,
Inc. and CEO and President of New Orbit Communications, Inc., which
focused on International Operator Services in United States,
Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala.
FUTURE and DEVELOPING PLANS
TPT MedTech
The
point-of-care diagnostics or testing (POCD or POCT) market is
projected to reach USD $46.7 billion by 2024 from USD $28.5 billion
in 2019, at a CAGR of 10.4%. Factors such as the high prevalence of
infectious diseases in developing countries, increasing incidence
of target conditions, growing government support, and rising
preference for home healthcare across the globe are driving the
growth of the market. However, product recalls, a lack of alignment
with test results obtained from laboratories, stringent &
time-consuming approval policies, and a reluctance to change
existing diagnostic practices are expected to restrain market
growth. https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/point-of-care-diagnostic-market-106829185.html
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The
global COVID-19 diagnostics market size was valued at USD $5.2
billion in 2020 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth
rate (CAGR) of 5.96% from 2021 to 2027. The COVID-19 diagnostic
tests are critical in the management of the current pandemic for
accurate diagnosis as well as to tackle the spread of the
infection. As a result, with the growing demand, these tests are
being made available with over 600 SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests
either approved or in the development phase for clinical use.
Therefore, an increase in need for developing diagnostic tests is
anticipated to drive the market growth. For efficient and accurate
COVID-19 diagnosis, clinicians need a portable or an on-site
diagnostic test for real-time management of patients in minimal
time. This has encouraged the adoption of Point-of-Care testing
(POCT) for diagnosis, primarily aimed at reducing the assay
duration from hours to a few minutes. https://www.grandviewresearch.com/industry-analysis/covid-19-diagnostics-market.https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/covid-19-diagnostics-market-by-development-trends-investigation-2020-and-forecast-to-2027-2020-06-17
TPT
MedTech believes it is strategically positioned to take advantage
of the current trend in POCT by aligning itself with the
exponential growth of smart devices equipped with mobile healthcare
(mH), which may revolutionize personalized healthcare monitoring
and management, thereby paving the way for next-generation
POCT.
The
rapid turnaround times, improved decision times, and time-critical
decision-making of TPT MedTech QuikLAB can result in total savings
between 8-20% of laboratory costs for facilities that implement POC
testing. The savings realized due to the decreased cost of waiting
for results can be as much as $260 USD per patient. For those that
use and implement POC testing, waiting can improve by as much as 46
minutes per patient real-time scenarios—and days in standard
laboratory settings. Management believes TPT MedTech
QuikLAB is uniquely positioned to serve this growing
market.
SANIQuik
is a decontamination and sanitizing unit that TPT MedTech intends
to co-market with the QuikLAB mobile laboratory as an integrated
solution to certain issues arising in the COVID-19 pandemic.
SANIQuik uses hypochlorous acid as a spray mist. This chemical has
been safely used on many food products for decades. Hypochlorous
acid does not cause irritation to eyes and skin. Even if it were
ingested it causes no harm. Because it is so safe, it is the ideal
sanitizer for direct food sanitation and food contact surfaces. It
is also ideal in healthcare where it is used for wound cleansing,
eye drops, and patient room disinfection replacing toxic chemicals
such as bleach and quaternary ammonium salts. Hypochlorous acid is
FDA, USDA, and EPA approved to minimize microbial food safety
hazards of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables.
(See https://www.hypochlorousacid.com/about.)
TPT
MedTech believes the SANIQuik external sanitation is safe,
effective and flexible for its utilization with options for users.
TPT MedTech intends to provide optional masks to users as they
approach the SANIQuik. The mask provides a cover around inhalation
of the mist. External sanitation is safe and effective, providing
an additional routine to hand washing and facial
coverings.
TPT
MedTech has developed a business model which markets SANIQuik as a
novel product within the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
industry. This PPE distribution model is focused in the Federal
procurement space (Veteran’s Administration, Department of
Defense, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Centers for Disease
Control, National Guard) as well as vendor to the top 20 National
Hospital Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO).
TPT
MedTech will be requesting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from
the FDA for SANIQuik during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been
granted to other sanitizing units. SANIQuik already has the
European CE mark. For
attorney fees and consultants, we are estimating $50,000 for the
EUA.
TPT
MedTech developed its
"QuikPASS™" Check and Verify passport system and Covid
19/vaccination monitoring platform for corporations, governmental
organizations, schools, airlines, hospitals, sports venues &
arenas, restaurants, hotels, and nightclubs. The all-in-one mobile
system checks and verifies that an individual has been tested for
Covid-19 or vaccinated, providing proof individuals are able to
travel or gain access to venues with the idea that everyone inside
that venue would be Covid free. The "QuikPASS" "Check and Verify"
passport-style platform works with third-party testing labs and
organizations that participate on the "QuikPASS" Network and will
be offered FREE to US domestic and international business commerce
and governmental organizations around the
world.
Lion Smart Phone Product
We are
currently seeking a manufacturer for our Lion Smart Phone. Our
Management believes our patent pending Lion smart phone is the
first Full HD Naked Eye 3D
smart phone ever launched in the United States. Lion
Universe’s mobile 3D technology is patent pending. The smart
phone will be distributed through our wholly-owned subsidiary
K-TEL, in their existing brick and mortar distribution channel in
the Northwest expanding into other areas. It is anticipated that a
national and international roll out will soon follow. TPTW is
building industry leading personal cellular phones designed for a
wide appeal. With a business model built on innovation and progress
starting with the Lion Phone technology, we intend to produce
high-quality and easy-to-use cellular phones. Our Lion Phone was
designed for consumers looking for portable and affordable
cutting-edge technology. Our first-generation phones come equipped
with full high definition resolution screen for better viewing. We
believe this Full HD Naked Eye 3D smart Phone is perfect for
watching movies, playing games, even editing photos or
videos.
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Whether
that is looking at photos, playing music, emailing or surfing the
web, our management believes consumers want more from their phones.
We believe our Lion Phone raises the bar for cellular phones. For
the first time ever, cellular users can enjoy quality 3D viewing
with the naked eyes no glasses required enjoying full high
definition video with smooth playback.
Our
Management believes consumers have been waiting for a way to watch
their favorite movies in 3D, with the convenience of their phone
and gamers can have the leisure of playing their games without
taking head gear with them. Our Lion Universe Technology strives to
give customers the best possible experience with our Full HD Naked
Eye 3D smart phone in the US and Global markets.
We
understand the longer we wait the less advantage we might have in
our efforts to market this phone as the marketplace moves very
quickly. We intend to begin marketing this phone in
2021.
Mobile Device Viewer Market Expansion
In
general, viewers are consuming more content via mobile TV
distribution, while rapidly abandoning expensive subscriptions from
standard satellite TV and cable networks. The rise of high-quality
content on low-cost platforms, such as mobile devices, continues to
negatively impact the standard TV industry. The media business is
being forced to evolve and adjust to massive disruptions in content
distribution methods. Traditional media models are functionally
broken and will continue to be disrupted by technology, which is
driven by the needs of the younger generation. The future of media
is dependent on new technology platforms. These platform models
(e.g. smart TV, connected TV boxes, mobile TV devices) are the
future of content distribution. Google, through YouTube, has
changed the face of video content distribution. Amazon continues to
disrupt the book industry. Apple has redefined music and
application distribution. And Microsoft is continuing to change the
engagement model and distribution of content through its Xbox TV
game console.
We
believe mobile delivery has a growing appeal to advertisers and
subscribers. As brands continue to shift budgets to mobile
advertising, they must reassess their approach to
customer acquisition to ensure they continue to reach
potential customers effectively. It is predicted that mobile
advertising will account for 30.5% of global advertising
expenditure in 2020, up from 19.2% in 2017. Expenditure on
mobile advertising will total US$187bn in 2020, more than
twice the US$88bn spent on desktop advertising, and just
US$5bn behind the US$192bn spent on television advertising. At
the current rate of growth, mobile advertising will
comfortably overtake television in 2021.
As
internet users switch from desktop to mobile devices
– and new users go straight to mobile – online
advertising is making the same switch. Advertising on mobile
devices is rising at a meteoric rate and is taking market
share from most other media. Mobile ad spend grew 35% in 2017,
and we expect it to grow at an average rate of 21% a year
to 2020. https://www.zenithmedia.com/insights/global-intelligence-issue-06-2018/mobile-share-of-advertising-market-to-exceed-30-in-2020/
Content Mining Plan
Once
our planned SaaS media applications, smart phones and tablets are
launched into the domestic and international markets, content
analytics or marketing data will be gathered from these devices.
The data generated from these applications and devices will give us
an advantage insight into our subscribers viewing and buying
habits. Once data has been scrubbed of personally identifying
information, we plan to be able to create original or lease content
from broadcast partners to service what our analytics are telling
us to produce (or license), with the intent on moving us closer
towards predictive analytics. Predictive analytics is being able to
predict what our customer likes based on their viewing habits and
then produce that content targeted to our subscriber and then
“push” that new (or licensed) content to
them.
Our ViewMe Live Technology Plan
We
offer VML technology for which we plan to expand marketing. We
believe SaaS ViewMe Live (VML) could become a leading Digital Media
Mobile TV technology platform in the business-to-business and
business-to-consumer markets. Our proprietary software platform can
reach a worldwide audience of approximately one billion mobile
viewers. VML addresses global mobile distribution of LIVE and Video
on Demand (“VOD”) content as a white label Software as
a Service (“SaaS”).
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VML OTT
live streaming technology is similar to what you see with satellite
TV such as Dish Network and DirecTV, as well as cable companies.
Almost all currently existing live streaming cannot do live
broadcast streaming at this level and usually has anywhere from 1
minute to 10 minute delays or continuous buffering, never loading
the video. With VML, there is the ability to have
“worldwide” access for a live streaming event equal to
standard television broadcasting with tens of millions of
simultaneous users. We believe that VML is the first technology to
be able to achieve this level of live streaming. In emerging
countries that do not have fiber, cable and satellite TV, access to
VML is simple and cost effective, as long as there is a cellular
connection on a 3G network or higher (regardless of provider)[1].
VML aims to provide uninterrupted live streaming on mobile devices
without buffering, crashes, pixilation, or audio and video syncing
issues. One practical application of this technology is that a
viewer can move from a Wi--Fi connection to a 3G connection without
interruption. VML has a unique user interface with multi-channel
access and built-in social media, and we believe it is unlike
anything currently on the market. VML also has the capability to do
a Live Linear Broadcast with VOD.VML’s technology has the
potential to reduce web content pirating since high quality TV
broadcast is now easily accessed worldwide on mobile
devices.
Currently,
we believe we are the only company that does all the above in the
industry and we believe VML has the potential to expand our
technologies and applications even further.
The
hottest technology in the over the top (“OTT”) market
and the biggest challenge in the OTT market is “Live Linear
Channel Broadcasting” and “Live Event
Broadcasting” to equal standard television broadcasting on
cable and satellite TV. This type of technology is superior to
video on demand (VOD) streaming technology in both acquisition and
delivery. The growth of OTT video delivery has been significant. In
the past year alone, OTT has grown to $35 billion in global
revenue, with $17 billion coming from emerging markets source
Digital TV Research. ViewMe Live (“VML”) has many
technology advantages including: Artificial Intelligence
(“AI”); the ability to simultaneously access millions
of users simultaneously with virtually no latency equivalent to
standard television broadcasting; global distribution (without
interruption) on cellular and Wi-Fi; and a fully interactive menu
user interface and worldwide advertising brokers in
place.
VML’s
content delivery network (“CDN”) can potentially reach
tens of millions of mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) and
has the potential to scale to one billion video streams globally.
It loads content within seconds, not only for Wi-Fi, but also more
importantly, on cellular networks that are 3G and higher.
VML’s core technology is fully developed and is able to
support clients on a turnkey native mobile app in less than 60
days. We have already achieved major milestones as the
world’s largest private conduit build out for global
deployment of LIVE and VOD streaming content. Our OTT live
streaming technology is unique and proprietary. Here are some
highlights on how VML can help from telecommunication companies to
TV station broadcasters to digital film libraries.
VML has
the ability to create a “Master Network Mobile App”
that can allow for a multiple channel build out, each with its own
unique Pay Per View charge (optional). This means a company can
have a live event channel per country with a different price per
user based on the economics of that country. VML has unlimited
channel build out (e.g. a company could have 50 channels or 1000
channels). Any telecommunications company can have professional
looking displays and user interfaces for mobile with VML, similar
to what the large telecommunications companies provide. A Master
Network App also allows a network to expand into other categories
by country (e.g. additional sports categories for various sports by
country). Expansion can focus on audience aggregation for sports
and other forms of entertainment categories. Pay-Per View is an
option for these expanded categories as well. We have built-in
worldwide ad brokers for pre---roll commercial ads so that revenue
can be generated as soon as possible. There is also potential to
upsell to existing advertisers and sponsors and it can be brand
specific by country.
Our differentiation from web streaming
We are
not a website-based video streaming technology. VML is strictly a
native mobile app focused on video streaming technology for mobile
platforms. We are not a dashboard-based video content company where
users upload content; we are a complete turnkey SaaS application. A
survey released in May 2015, sponsored by Level 3 Communications,
stated, “Offering both VOD and Live Linear channels will be
critical for OTT providers to entice new prospects and gain market
share. This trend is a critical one. For existing OTT providers,
offering a VOD service may not be enough to maintain, much less
grow, market share.” The trend towards adding live linear
channel content has the potential to become “table
stakes” in the OTT game over the next several years, with
both breaking news and live sports content leading the way in terms
of interest for OTT service providers adding live linear
channels.
SaaS White Label
We plan
to white label our suite of SaaS technologies for yearly licensing
and monthly maintenance fees. The prospective user base for the
SaaS White Label Suite is extensive as there are more than 200,000
TV broadcasters worldwide alone, and many of them are seeking to
migrate to the vast mobile video streaming market space. The
sizeable population of potential SaaS clients includes standard
television broadcasters in every country, direct marketing
companies, low-powered antenna broadcasters (such as universities
and churches), IPTV broadcasters, and large content (film and TV)
providers that are seeking to further monetize their properties for
worldwide syndication.
The
SaaS suite includes full app development on Apple iOS, Google
Android and Roku connected boxes, user interface (menu system),
advertising broker network for pre---roll commercial ads (from date
of launch), 24/7 LIVE monitoring of inbound and outbound signals,
data analytics, seamless updating to all platforms, Amazon web
service (AWS) blade servers, and coverage up to the first 20
million streams. The white label product is offered to
stand--alone.
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Subject to the laws and regulations of each country.
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User Interface
In a
preprogrammed live linear broadcast application, viewers have free
access via a playlist by category and have the ability to
“catch--up” with what they may have missed in the LIVE
broadcast, regardless of its original airdate. The video-on-demand
(VOD) feature provides the opportunity to access additional viewers
and monetize past content. After several years in development, we
believe that VML has a significant first to market advantage and that no
other companies currently have a comparable commercialized
offering.
Our Plan for Strategic Partnering with Telecommunication &
Media Companies
Currently
in the world, viewers usually need to have a contract with a cable
provider (e.g. AT&T, Cox, Xfinity, Spectrum, or Cablevision in
the U.S.) or satellite TV provider (e.g. DirecTV and DISH Network
in the U.S.) and be in range of a residential or business Wi-Fi to
be able to watch over the top (OTT) content on a connected TV
device, website or mobile access. VML is capable of offering a
nearly unlimited number of channels to mobile users virtually
anywhere and everywhere, with global reach, far exceeding two U.S.
satellite companies (DirecTV and DISH Network), which have 500+
channels each and are only available in the U.S.
We
believe VML will immediately appeal to any channel that is
currently on DirecTV and DISH Network for global mobile linear
broadcast participation, simply because these platforms are only
available in the U.S. market.
VML can
provide low--powered TV stations (after found in churches and
universities), along with high--powered stations, the ability to
reach the entire global market. Other potential users are owners of
libraries of digitized content, and LIVE event venues such as music
concerts, sporting events, festivals, beauty pageants, summer and
winter Olympic Games, award shows, red carpet events, trade shows
and conventions. Enthusiasts can produce their own show in any area
and could launch their own channels for travel, food, spirits,
sports, outdoor recreation, retro TV shows, children, cartoons,
comedy, drama, reality, education, automobiles, health,
corporations, shopping, soap opera, game shows, dating, religion,
etc., providing extensive possibilities for media expansion.
Content providers will not be limited by the major TV networks and
film studios for distribution rights.
We
have targeted Telecommunication and Media Company Opportunities to
offer:
●
Turn key mobile app
for telecommunication and media companies for immediate
distribution of TV broadcasts on terrestrial, cable and satellite
for free or as subscription.
●
Turn key mobile app
for free or pay per view live events.
●
Turn key mobile app
for digital libraries of content providers.
●
Reseller program
with territorial rights.
●
Worldwide analytics
on mobile TV content provided to help with target marketing for
products and services.
●
Transitions to the
automotive industry car play systems.
●
Option to
pre---load Master Network App on telecommunication company’s
mobile devices such as smart phones and tablets.
●
Pre-load the SaaS
white label clients on telecommunication company mobile
devices.
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Geo
Fencing Available (The ability to offer broadcast territories by
region or regional Networks)
Our Plan to Act as
a Reseller with Territorial Rights –
●
Value Added
Reseller (VAR) to telecommunication and media
companies.
●
Exclusive rights
for a country or region for reselling the white label
opportunity.
●
Offer to
Telecommunication and media companies OTT digital content as a
channel or network.
●
Offer 1 to 1000
channels by territory.
●
Approach emerging
markets as capital resources permit.
Our
business is subject to a number of risks of which you should be
aware before making an investment decision. These risks are
discussed more fully in the “Risk Factors” section of
this prospectus immediately following this the
summary.
Our Corporate Information
We are
a Florida corporation. Our principal executive offices are located
at 501 W. Broadway, Suite 800, San Diego, CA 92101, and our
telephone number is (619) 400-4996. Our website address is
http://www.tptglobaltech.com. Information on or accessed through
our website is not incorporated into this prospectus and is not a
part of this prospectus.
CYBER RISKS
Like
other large telecommunications companies, we are a constant target
of cyber-attacks of varying degrees, which has caused us to spend
increasingly more time and money to deal with increasingly
sophisticated attacks. Some of the attacks may result in security
breaches, and we periodically notify our customers, our employees
or the public of these breaches when necessary or appropriate. None
of these resulting security breaches to date have materially
adversely affected our business, results of operations or financial
condition.
We rely
on several other communications companies to provide services or
products for our offerings. We may lease a significant portion of
our core fiber network from our competitors and other third
parties. Many of these leases will lapse in future years. Our
future ability to provide services on the terms of our current
offerings will depend in part upon our ability to renew or replace
these leases, agreements and arrangements on terms substantially
similar to those currently in effect.
For
additional information regarding our systems, network, cyber risks,
capital expenditure requirements and reliance upon third parties,
see "Risk Factors."
COMPETITION, COMPETITORS, REGULATION AND TAXATION
Competition
General
We
compete in a rapidly evolving and highly competitive market, and we
expect intense competition to continue. In addition to competition
from larger national telecommunications providers, we are facing
increasing competition from several other sources, including cable
and satellite companies, wireless providers, technology companies,
cloud companies, broadband providers, device providers, resellers,
sales agents and facilities-based providers using their own
networks as well as those leasing parts of our network.
Technological advances and regulatory and legislative changes have
increased opportunities for a wide range of alternative
communications service providers, which in turn have increased
competitive pressures on our business. These alternate providers
often face fewer regulations and have lower cost structures than we
do. In addition, the communications industry has, in recent years,
experienced substantial consolidation, and some of our competitors
in one or more lines of our business are generally larger, have
stronger brand names, have more financial and business resources
and have broader service offerings than we currently
do.
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Wireless
telephone services are a significant source of competition with our
legacy carrier services. It is increasingly common for customers to
completely forego use of traditional wireline phone service and
instead rely solely on wireless service for voice services. We
anticipate this trend will continue, particularly as our older
customers are replaced over time with younger customers who are
less accustomed to using traditional wireline voice services.
Technological and regulatory developments in wireless services,
Wi-Fi, and other wired and wireless technologies have contributed
to the development of alternatives to traditional landline voice
services. Moreover, the growing prevalence of electronic mail, text
messaging, social networking and similar digital non-voice
communications services continues to reduce the demand for
traditional landline voice services. These factors have led to a
long-term systemic decline in the number of our wireline voice
service customers.
The
Telecommunications Act of 1996, which obligates carriers to permit
competitors to interconnect their facilities to the carrier's
network and to take various other steps that are designed to
promote competition, imposes several duties on a carrier if it
receives a specific request from another entity which seeks to
connect with or provide services using the carrier's network. In
addition, each carrier is obligated to (i) negotiate
interconnection agreements in good faith, (ii) provide
nondiscriminatory "unbundled" access to all aspects of the
carrier's network, (iii) offer resale of its
telecommunications services at wholesale rates and (iv) permit
competitors, on terms and conditions (including rates) that are
just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory, to colocate their physical
plant on the carrier's property, or provide virtual colocation if
physical colocation is not practicable. Current FCC rules require
carriers to lease a network element only in those situations where
competing carriers genuinely would be impaired without access to
such network elements, and where the unbundling would not interfere
with the development of facilities-based competition.
As a
result of these regulatory, consumer and technological
developments, carriers also face competition from competitive local
exchange carriers, or CLECs, particularly in densely populated
areas. CLECs provide competing services through reselling a
carrier’s local services, through use of a carrier's
unbundled network elements or through their own
facilities.
Technological
developments have led to the development of new products and
services that have reduced the demand for our traditional services,
as noted above, or that compete with traditional carrier services.
Technological improvements have enabled cable television companies
to provide traditional circuit-switched telephone service over
their cable networks, and several national cable companies have
aggressively marketed these services. Similarly, companies
providing VoIP services provide voice communication services over
the Internet which compete with our traditional telephone service
and our own VoIP services. In addition, demand for our broadband
services could be adversely affected by advanced wireless data
transmission technologies being deployed by wireless providers and
by certain technologies permitting cable companies and other
competitors to deliver faster average broadband transmission speeds
than ours.
Similar
to us, many cable, technology or other communications companies
that previously offered a limited range of services are now
offering diversified bundles of services, either through their own
networks, reselling arrangements or joint ventures. As such, a
growing number of companies are competing to serve the
communications needs of the same customer base. Such activities
will continue to place downward pressure on the demand for and
pricing of our services.
As
customers increasingly demand high-speed connections for
entertainment, communications and productivity, we expect the
demands on our network will continue to increase over the next
several years. To succeed, we must continue to invest in our
networks or engage partners to ensure that they can deliver
competitive services that meet these increasing bandwidth and speed
requirements. In addition, network reliability and security are
increasingly important competitive factors in our
business.
Additional
information about competitive pressures is located under the
heading “Risk Factors.”
Competitors
In
connection with providing strategic services to our business
customers, which includes our small, medium and enterprise
business, wholesale and governmental customers, we compete against
other telecommunication providers, as well as other regional and
national carriers, other data transport providers, cable companies,
CLECs and other enterprises, some of whom are substantially larger
than us. Competition is based on price, bandwidth, quality and
speed of service, promotions and bundled offerings. In providing
broadband services, we compete primarily with cable companies,
wireless providers, technology companies and other broadband
service providers. We face competition in Ethernet based services
in the wholesale market from cable companies and fiber-based
providers. In regards to our medical division, we compete with
other medical testing facilities and other companies developing
SaaS technologies to test and monitor medical testing
activities.
Our
competitors for providing integrated data, broadband, voice
services and other data and SaaS services to our business customers
range from small to mid-sized businesses. Due to the size of some
of these companies, our competitors may be able to offer more
inexpensive solutions to our customers. To compete, we focus on
providing sophisticated, secure and performance-driven services to
our business customers through our infrastructure.
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The
number of companies providing business services has grown and
increased competition for these services, particularly with respect
to smaller business customers. Many of our competitors for
strategic services are not subject to the same regulatory
requirements as we are and therefore they are able to avoid
significant regulatory costs and obligations.
Government Regulation
Overview
As
discussed further below, our operations are subject to significant
local, state, federal and foreign laws and
regulations.
We are
subject to the significant regulations by the FCC, which regulates
interstate communications, and state utility commissions, which
regulate intrastate communications. These agencies (i) issue rules
to protect consumers and promote competition, (ii) set the rates
that telecommunication companies charge each other for exchanging
traffic, and (iii) have traditionally developed and administered
support programs designed to subsidize the provision of services to
high-cost rural areas. In most states, local voice service,
switched and special access services and interconnection services
are subject to price regulation, although the extent of regulation
varies by type of service and geographic region. In addition, we
are required to maintain licenses with the FCC and with state
utility commissions. Laws and regulations in many states restrict
the manner in which a licensed entity can interact with affiliates,
transfer assets, issue debt and engage in other business
activities. Many acquisitions and divestitures may require approval
by the FCC and some state commissions. These agencies typically
have the authority to withhold their approval, or to request or
impose substantial conditions upon the transacting parties in
connection with granting their approvals.
The
following description discusses some of the major industry
regulations that may affect our traditional operations, but
numerous other regulations not discussed below could also impact
us. Some legislation and regulations are currently the subject of
judicial, legislative and administrative proceedings which could
substantially change the manner in which the telecommunications
industry operates and the amount of revenues we receive for our
services.
Neither
the outcome of these proceedings, nor their potential impact on us,
can be predicted at this time. For additional information, see
"Risk Factors."
The
laws and regulations governing our affairs are quite complex and
occasionally in conflict with each other. From time to time, we are
fined for failing to meet applicable regulations or service
requirements.
Federal Regulation
General
We are
required to comply with the Communications Act of 1934. Among other
things, this law requires our local exchange carriers to offer
various of our legacy services at just and reasonable rates and on
non-discriminatory terms. The Telecommunications Act of 1996
materially amended the Communications Act of 1934, primarily to
promote competition.
The FCC
regulates interstate services we provide, including the special
access charges we bill for wholesale network transmission and the
interstate access charges that we bill to long-distance companies
and other communications companies in connection with the
origination and termination of interstate phone calls.
Additionally, the FCC regulates a number of aspects of our business
related to privacy, homeland security and network infrastructure,
including our access to and use of local telephone numbers and our
provision of emergency 911 services. The FCC has responsibility for
maintaining and administering support programs designed to expand
nationwide access to communications services (which are described
further below), as well as other programs supporting service to
low-income households, schools and libraries, and rural health care
providers. Changes in the composition of the five members of the
FCC or its Chairman can have significant impacts on the regulation
of our business.
In
recent years, our operations and those of other telecommunications
carriers have been further impacted by legislation and regulation
imposing additional obligations on us, particularly with regards to
providing voice and broadband service, bolstering homeland
security, increasing disaster recovery requirements, minimizing
environmental impacts and enhancing privacy. These laws include the
Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, and laws
governing local telephone number portability and customer
proprietary network information requirements. In addition, the FCC
has heightened its focus on the reliability of emergency 911
services. The FCC has imposed fines on us and other companies for
911 outages and has adopted new compliance requirements for
providing 911 service. We are incurring capital and operating
expenses designed to comply with the FCC's new requirements and
minimize future outages. All of these laws and regulations may
cause us to incur additional costs and could impact our ability to
compete effectively against companies not subject to the same
regulations.
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Over
the past several years, the FCC has taken various actions and
initiated certain proceedings designed to comprehensively evaluate
the proper regulation of the provisions of data services to
businesses. As part of its evaluation, the FCC has reviewed the
rates, terms and conditions under which these services are
provided. The FCC's proceedings remain pending, and their ultimate
impact on us is currently unknown.
We are
also regulated for our medical services activities. See discussion
below.
Telephony Services
We
operate traditional telecommunications services in our Arizona
subsidiary, and those services are largely governed under rules
established for CLECs under the Communications Act. The
Communications Act entitles our CLEC subsidiary to certain rights,
but as telecommunications carriers, it also subjects them to
regulation by the FCC and the states. Their designation as
telecommunications carriers also results in other regulations that
may affect them and the services they offer.
Interconnection and Intercarrier Compensation
The
Communications Act requires telecommunications carriers to
interconnect directly or indirectly with other telecommunications
carriers. Under the FCC's intercarrier compensation rules, we are
entitled, in some cases, to compensation from carriers when they
use our network to terminate or originate calls and in other cases
are required to compensate another carrier for using its network to
originate or terminate traffic. The FCC and state regulatory
commissions, including those in the states in which we operate,
have adopted limits on the amounts of compensation that may be
charged for certain types of traffic. As noted above, the FCC has
determined that intercarrier compensation for all terminating
traffic will be phased down over several years to a "bill-and-keep"
regime, with no compensation between carriers for most terminating
traffic by 2018 and is considering further reform that could reduce
or eliminate compensation for originating traffic as
well.
Universal Service
Our
CLEC subsidiary is required to contribute to the Universal Service
Fund (“USF”). The amount of universal service
contribution required of us is based on a percentage of revenues
earned from interstate and international services provided to end
users. We allocate our end user revenues and remit payments to the
universal service fund in accordance with FCC rules. The FCC has
ruled that states may impose state universal service fees on CLEC
telecommunications services.
State Regulation
Our
CLEC subsidiary telecommunications services are subject to
regulation by state commissions in each state where we provide
services. In order to provide our services, we must seek approval
from the state regulatory commission or be registered to provide
services in each state where we operate and may at times require
local approval to construct facilities. Regulatory obligations vary
from state to state and include some or all of the following
requirements: filing tariffs (rates, terms and conditions); filing
operational, financial, and customer service reports; seeking
approval to transfer the assets or capital stock of the broadband
communications company; seeking approval to issue stocks, bonds and
other forms of indebtedness of the broadband communications
company; reporting customer service and quality of service
requirements; outage reporting; making contributions to state
universal service support programs; paying regulatory and state
Telecommunications Relay Service and E911 fees; geographic
build-out; and other matters relating to competition.
Other Regulations
Our
CLEC subsidiary telecommunications services are subject to other
FCC requirements, including protecting the use and disclosure of
customer proprietary network information; meeting certain notice
requirements in the event of service termination; compliance with
disabilities access requirements; compliance with CALEA standards;
outage reporting; and the payment of fees to fund local number
portability administration and the North American Numbering Plan.
As noted above, the FCC and states are examining whether new
requirements are necessary to improve the resiliency of
communications networks. Communications with our customers are also
subject to FCC, FTC and state regulations on telemarketing and the
sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail and fax messages, as well
as additional privacy and data security requirements.
Broadband
Regulatory Classification. Broadband
Internet access services were traditionally classified by the FCC
as "information services" for regulatory purposes, a type of
service that is subject to a lesser degree of regulation than
"telecommunications services." In 2015, the FCC reversed this
determination and classified broadband Internet access services as
"telecommunications services." This reclassification has subjected
our broadband Internet access service to greater regulation,
although the FCC did not apply all telecommunications service
obligations to broadband Internet access service. The 2015 Order
could have a material adverse impact on our business as it may
justify additional FCC regulation or support efforts by States to
justify additional regulation of broadband Internet access
services. In December 2017, the FCC adopted an order that in large
part reverses the 2015 Order and reestablishes the "information
service" classification for broadband Internet access service. The
2017 Order has not yet gone into effect, however, and the 2015
Order will remain binding until the 2017 Order takes effect. The
2017 Order is expected to be subject to legal challenge that may
delay its effect or overturn it.
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Net Neutrality, and Current Status. The 2015 Order also
established a new "Open Internet" framework that expanded
disclosure requirements on Internet service providers ("ISPs") such
as cable companies, prohibited blocking, throttling, and paid
prioritization of Internet traffic on the basis of the content, and
imposed a "general conduct standard" that prohibits unreasonable
interference with the ability of end users and edge providers to
reach each other. The FCC's 2017 Order eliminates these rules
except for certain disclosure requirements (see the official
release summary from the FCC below). Additionally, Congress and
some states are considering legislation that may codify "network
neutrality" rules.
The
Federal Communications Commission has made the following official
release about the Restoring Internet Freedom Order:
"The
FCC's Restoring Internet Freedom Order, which took effect on June
11, (2018) provides a framework for protecting an open Internet
while paving the way for better, faster and cheaper Internet access
for consumers. It replaces unnecessary, heavy-handed regulations
that were developed way back in 1934 with strong consumer
protections, increased transparency, and common-sense rules that
will promote investment and broadband deployment. The FCC's
framework for protecting Internet freedom has the following key
parts:
1. Consumer Protection
The
Federal Trade Commission will police and take action against
Internet service providers for anticompetitive acts or unfair and
deceptive practices. The FTC is the nation's premier consumer
protection agency, and until the FCC stripped it of jurisdiction
over Internet service providers in 2015, the FTC protected
consumers consistently across the Internet economy.
2. Transparency
A
critical part of Internet openness involves Internet service
providers being transparent about their business practices. That's
why the FCC has imposed enhanced transparency requirements.
Internet service providers must publicly disclose information
regarding their network management practices, performance, and
commercial terms of service. These disclosures must be made via a
publicly available, easily accessible company website or through
the FCC's website. This will discourage harmful practices and help
regulators target any problematic conduct. These disclosures also
support innovation, investment, and competition by ensuring that
entrepreneurs and other small businesses have the technical
information necessary to create and maintain online content,
applications, services, and devices.
Internet
Service Providers must clearly disclose their network management
practices on their own web sites or with the FCC. For more
information about these disclosures, you can visit
https://www.fcc.gov/isp- disclosures.
Removes Unnecessary Regulations to Promote Broadband
Investment
The
Internet wasn't broken in 2015, when the previous FCC imposed
1930s-era regulations (known as "Title II") on Internet service
providers. And ironically, these regulations made things worse by
limiting investment in high-speed networks and slowing broadband
deployment. Under Title II, broadband network investment dropped
more than 5.6% -- the first time a decline has happened outside of
a recession. The effect was particularly serious for smaller
Internet service providers (fixed wireless companies, small-town
cable operators, municipal broadband providers, electric
cooperatives, and others) that don't have the resources or lawyers
to navigate a thicket of complex rules "
The
items listed in this internet Order are for carriers such as
Century Link, which is our contract internet provider, and we are
in compliance with the areas that we are responsible for which are
few. We generate the last mile of internet service but we are
actually a reseller of Century Link services as they provide the
bandwidth to us.
Access for Persons
with Disabilities. The FCC's rules
require us to ensure that persons with disabilities have access to
"advanced communications services" ("ACS"), such as electronic
messaging and interoperable video conferencing. They also require
that certain pay television programming delivered via Internet
Protocol include closed captioning and require entities
distributing such programming to end users to pass through such
captions and identify programming that should be
captioned.
Other
Regulation. The 2015 Order also
subjected broadband providers' Internet traffic exchange rates and
practices to potential FCC oversight and created a mechanism for
third parties to file complaints regarding these matters. In
addition, our provision of Internet services also subjects us to
the limitations on use and disclosure of user communications and
records contained in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of
1986. Broadband Internet access service is also subject to other
federal and state privacy laws applicable to electronic
communications.
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Additionally,
providers of broadband Internet access services must comply with
CALEA, which requires providers to make their services and
facilities accessible for law enforcement intercept requests.
Various other federal and state laws apply to providers of services
that are accessible through broadband Internet access service,
including copyright laws, telemarketing laws, prohibitions on
obscenity, and a ban on unsolicited commercial e-mail, and privacy
and data security laws. Online content we provide is also subject
to some of these laws.
Other
forms of regulation of broadband Internet access service currently
being considered by the FCC, Congress or state legislatures include
consumer protection requirements, cyber security requirements,
consumer service standards, requirements to contribute to universal
service programs and requirements to protect personally
identifiable customer data from theft. Pending and future
legislation in this area could adversely affect our operations as
an Internet service provider and our relationship with our Internet
customers.
Additionally,
from time to time the FCC and Congress have considered whether to
subject broadband Internet access services to the federal Universal
Service Fund ("USF") contribution requirements. Any contribution
requirements adopted for Internet access services would impose
significant new costs on our broadband Internet service. At the
same time, the FCC is changing the manner in which Universal
Service funds are distributed. By focusing on broadband and
wireless deployment, rather than traditional telephone service, the
changes could assist some of our competitors in more effectively
competing with our service offerings.
VoIP Services
We
provide telephony services using VoIP technology ("interconnected
VoIP"). The FCC has adopted several regulations for interconnected
VoIP services, as have several states, especially as it relates to
core customer and safety issues such as e911, local number
portability, disability access, outage reporting, universal service
contributions, and regulatory reporting requirements. The FCC has
not, however, formally classified interconnected VoIP services as
either information services or telecommunications services. In this
vacuum, some states have asserted more expansive rights to regulate
interconnected VoIP services, while others have adopted laws that
bar the state commission from regulating VoIP service.
Universal
Service. Interconnected VoIP services
must contribute to the USF used to subsidize communication services
provided to low income households, to customers in rural and high
cost areas, and to schools, libraries, and rural health care
providers. The amount of universal service contribution required of
interconnected VoIP service providers is based on a percentage of
revenues earned from interstate and international services provided
to end users. We allocate our end user revenues and remit payments
to the universal service fund in accordance with FCC rules. The FCC
has ruled that states may impose state universal service fees on
interconnected VoIP providers.
Local Number
Portability. The FCC requires
interconnected VoIP service providers and their "numbering
partners" to ensure that their customers have the ability to port
their telephone numbers when changing providers. We also contribute
to federal funds to meet the shared costs of local number
portability and the costs of North American Numbering Plan
Administration.
Intercarrier
Compensation. In an October 2011
reform order and subsequent clarifying orders, the FCC revised the
regime governing payments among providers of telephony services for
the exchange of calls between and among different networks
("intercarrier compensation") to, among other things, explicitly
include interconnected VoIP. In that Order, the FCC determined that
intercarrier compensation for all terminating traffic, including
VoIP traffic exchanged in TDM format, will be phased down over
several years to a "bill-and-keep" regime, with no compensation
between carriers for most terminating traffic by 2018. The FCC is
considering further reform in this area, which could reduce or
eliminate compensation for originating traffic as
well.
Other
Regulation. Interconnected VoIP
service providers are required to provide enhanced 911 emergency
services to their customers; protect customer proprietary network
information from unauthorized disclosure to third parties; report
to the FCC on service outages; comply with telemarketing
regulations and other privacy and data security requirements;
comply with disabilities access requirements and service
discontinuance obligations; comply with call signaling
requirements; and comply with CALEA standards. In August 2015, the
FCC adopted new rules to improve the resiliency of the
communications network. Under the new rules, providers of telephony
services, including interconnected VoIP service providers, must
make available eight hours of standby backup power for consumers to
purchase at the point of sale. The rules also require that
providers inform new and current customers about service
limitations during power outages and steps that consumers can take
to address those risks.
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Medical Division
The
Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”)
regulates all of our mobile laboratory testing activities performed
on humans in the United States through Clinical Laboratory
Improvement Amendments (‘CLIA’) which covers
approximately 260,000 laboratory entities. We obtain CLIA licenses
where necessary to operate our mobile laboratories. We also hire
staffing agencies that work the health care industry with the
appropriate health care workers to operate the mobile laboratories,
which agencies and workers are regulated by state and local
agencies like the agency for Health Care Administration in Florida
(“AHCA”). Each state and local jurisdiction has their
own agency or regulatory organization that we follow and adhere to
their laws and guidelines in relation operating our mobile testing
facilities.
For
additional information about these matters, see “Risk
Factors.”
LICENSES
Arizona
CLEC license in Phoenix area. License #20090393 which expires 2023
and is renewable every seven years.
TITLE TO PROPERTIES
None.
BACKLOG OF ORDERS
We
currently have no backlogs of orders for sales, at this
time.
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS
We have
no government contracts.
COMPANY SPONSORED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
We are
not conducting any research.
NUMBER OF PERSONS EMPLOYED
We have
approximately 50 employees who work approximately 45 hours per
week. All officers work approximately 60 hours per week. Directors
work as needed.
DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY
DESCRIPTION
OF PROPERTIES/ASSETS
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Estate.
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Title
to properties.
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Patents,
Trade Names, Trademarks and Copyrights
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See
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Our
executive offices are located in San Diego, California. We do not
own any real property, but lease and office space consisting of
approximately 5,000 sq. ft. among all of our corporate and
subsidiary locations. We believe that substantially all of our
property and equipment is in good condition, subject to normal wear
and tear, and that our facilities have sufficient capacity to meet
the current needs of our business.
PATENTS,
TRADE NAMES, TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
Either
directly or through our subsidiaries, we have rights in various
patents, trade names, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual
property necessary to conduct our business. Our services often use
the intellectual property of others, including licensed software.
We also occasionally license our intellectual property to others as
we deem appropriate.
We
periodically receive offers from third parties to purchase or
obtain licenses for patents and other intellectual property rights
in exchange for royalties or other payments. We also periodically
receive notices, or are named in lawsuits, alleging that our
products or services infringe on patents or other intellectual
property rights of third parties. In certain instances, these
matters can potentially adversely impact our operations, operating
results or financial position. For additional information, see
“Risk Factors”.
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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS.
FORWARD
LOOKING STATEMENTS
THIS
DOCUMENT INCLUDES FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS, INCLUDING, WITHOUT
LIMITATION, STATEMENTS RELATING TO TPT GLOBAL’S PLANS,
STRATEGIES, OBJECTIVES, EXPECTATIONS, INTENTIONS AND ADEQUACY OF
RESOURCES. THESE FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS INVOLVE KNOWN AND
UNKNOWN RISKS, UNCERTAINTIES, AND OTHER FACTORS THAT MAY CAUSE OUR
COMPANY’S ACTUAL RESULTS, PERFORMANCE OR ACHIEVEMENTS TO BE
MATERIALLY DIFFERENT FROM ANY FUTURE RESULTS, PERFORMANCE OR
ACHIEVEMENTS EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED BY THE FORWARD-LOOKING
STATEMENTS. THESE FACTORS INCLUDE, AMONG OTHERS, THE FOLLOWING: OUR
ABILITY OF TO IMPLEMENT OUR BUSINESS STRATEGY; ABILITY TO OBTAIN
ADDITIONAL FINANCING; TPT GLOBAL’S LIMITED OPERATING HISTORY;
UNKNOWN LIABILITIES ASSOCIATED WITH FUTURE ACQUISITIONS; ABILITY TO
MANAGE GROWTH; SIGNIFICANT COMPETITION; ABILITY TO ATTRACT AND
RETAIN TALENTED EMPLOYEES; AND FUTURE GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS; AND
OTHER FACTORS DESCRIBED IN THIS FILING OR IN OTHER OF TPT
GLOBAL’S FILINGS WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION.
TPT GLOBAL IS UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO PUBLICLY UPDATE OR REVISE ANY
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS, WHETHER AS A RESULT OF NEW INFORMATION,
FUTURE EVENTS OR OTHERWISE.
RISK FACTORS RELATED TO OUR BUSINESS
Many of our competitors are better established and have resources
significantly greater than we have, which may make it difficult to
attract and retain subscribers.
We will
compete with other providers of telephony service, many of which
have substantially greater financial, technical and marketing
resources, larger customer bases, longer operating histories,
greater name recognition and more established relationships in the
industry. In addition, a number of these competitors may combine or
form strategic partnerships. As a result, our competitors may be
able to offer, or bring to market earlier, products and services
that are superior to our own in terms of features, quality, pricing
or other factors. Our failure to compete successfully with any of
these companies would have a material adverse effect on our
business and the trading price of our common stock.
The
market for broadband and VoIP services is highly competitive, and
we compete with several other companies within a single
market:
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cable
operators offering high-speed Internet connectivity services and
voice communications;
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incumbent
and competitive local exchange carriers providing DSL services over
their existing wide, metropolitan and local area
networks;
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3G
cellular, PCS and other wireless providers offering wireless
broadband services and capabilities, including developments in
existing cellular and PCS technology that may increase network
speeds or have other advantages over our services;
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internet
service providers offering dial-up Internet
connectivity;
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and other entities operating free or subsidized WiFi
networks;
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of VoIP telephony services;
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Internet service providers using licensed or unlicensed
spectrum;
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and fixed wireless service providers offering or developing
broadband Internet connectivity and VoIP telephony;
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utilities and other providers offering or planning to offer
broadband Internet connectivity over power
lines; and
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resellers
providing wireless Internet service by “piggy-backing”
on DSL or WiFi networks operated by others.
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Moreover,
we expect other existing and prospective competitors, particularly
if our services are successful; to adopt technologies or business
plans similar to ours or seek other means to develop a product
competitive with our services. Many of our competitors are
well-established and have larger and better developed networks and
systems, longer-standing relationships with customers and
suppliers, greater name recognition and greater financial,
technical and marketing resources than we have. These competitors
can often subsidize competing services with revenues from other
sources, such as advertising, and thus may offer their products and
services at lower prices than ours. These or other competitors may
also reduce the prices of their services significantly or may offer
broadband connectivity packaged with other products or services. We
may not be able to reduce our prices or otherwise alter our
services correspondingly, which would make it more difficult to
attract and retain subscribers.
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Our Acquisitions could result in operating difficulties, dilution
and distractions from our core business.
We have
evaluated, and expect to continue to evaluate, potential strategic
transactions, including larger acquisitions. The process of
acquiring and integrating a company, business or technology is
risky, may require a disproportionate amount of our management or
financial resources and may create unforeseen operating
difficulties or expenditures, including:
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in integrating acquired technologies and operations into our
business while maintaining uniform standards, controls, policies
and procedures;
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increasing
cost and complexity of assuring the implementation and maintenance
of adequate internal control and disclosure controls and
procedures, and of obtaining the reports and attestations that are
required of a company filing reports under the Securities Exchange
Act;
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in consolidating and preparing our financial statements due to poor
accounting records, weak financial controls and, in some cases,
procedures at acquired entities based on accounting principles not
generally accepted in the United States, particularly those
entities in which we lack control; and
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inability to predict or anticipate market developments and capital
commitments relating to the acquired company, business or
technology.
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the United States often involve additional risks,
including:
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as a result of distance, language or culture differences, in
developing, staffing and managing foreign operations;
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control over our joint ventures and other business
relationships;
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exchange rate fluctuations;
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payment cycles;
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risk and higher levels of payment fraud;
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foreign
exchange controls that might limit our control over, or prevent us
from repatriating, cash generated outside the United
States;
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adverse tax consequences;
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or nationalization of assets;
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differences
in regulatory requirements that may make it difficult to offer all
of our services;
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changes in regulatory requirements;
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barriers and import and export restrictions; and
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The
anticipated benefit of any of our acquisitions or investments may
never materialize. Future investments, acquisitions or dispositions
could result in potentially dilutive issuances of our equity
securities, the incurrence of debt, contingent liabilities or
amortization expenses, or write-offs of goodwill, any of which
could harm our financial condition. Future investments and
acquisitions may require us to obtain additional equity or debt
financing, which may not be available on favorable terms, or at
all.
Our substantial indebtedness and our current default status and any
restrictive debt covenants could limit our financing options and
liquidity position and may limit our ability to grow our
business.
Our
indebtedness could have important consequences to the holders of
our common stock, such as:
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not be able to obtain additional financing to fund working capital,
operating losses, capital expenditures or acquisitions on terms
acceptable to us or at all;
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be unable to refinance our indebtedness on terms acceptable to us
or at all;
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if
substantial indebtedness continues it could make us more vulnerable
to economic downturns and limit our ability to withstand
competitive pressures; and
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cash
flows from operations are currently negative and may continue to be
so, and our remaining cash, if any, may be insufficient to operate
our business.
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dividends to our stockholders;
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or cause certain of our subsidiaries to incur, additional
indebtedness;
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liens on or conduct sales of any assets pledged as
collateral;
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all or substantially all of our assets or consolidate or merge with
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As of
December 31, 2020, the total debt or financing arrangements was
$16,345,705, of which approximately $7,934,617 or 24% of total
current liabilities is past due. As of December 31, 2020, the
Company had financing lease liability-related amounts of $839,572.
During the fourth quarter of 2020, the related party holders of
approximately $4,700,000 of existing financing arrangements agreed
to exchange their debt and accrued interest for Series D Preferred
Stock through a separate $12 Million Private Placement, conditioned
on the Company raising at least $12,000,000 in a separate Form 1-A
Offering. Our inability to renegotiate our indebtedness may cause
lien holders to obtain possession of a good portion of our assets
which would significantly alter our ability to generate revenues
and obtain any additional financing.
We may experience difficulties in constructing, upgrading and
maintaining our network, which could adversely affect customer
satisfaction, increase subscriber turnover and reduce our
revenues.
Our
success depends on developing and providing products and services
that give subscribers a high-quality internet connectivity and VoIP
experience. If the number of subscribers using our network and the
complexity of our products and services increase, we will require
more infrastructure and network resources to maintain the quality
of our services. Consequently, we expect to make substantial
investments to construct and improve our facilities and equipment
and to upgrade our technology and network infrastructure. If we do
not implement these developments successfully, or if we experience
inefficiencies, operational failures or unforeseen costs during
implementation, the quality of our products and services could
decline.
We may
experience quality deficiencies, cost overruns and delays on
construction, maintenance and upgrade projects, including the
portions of those projects not within our control or the control of
our contractors. The construction of our network requires the
receipt of permits and approvals from numerous governmental bodies,
including municipalities and zoning boards. Such bodies often limit
the expansion of transmission towers and other construction
necessary for our business. Failure to receive approvals in a
timely fashion can delay system rollouts and raise the cost of
completing construction projects. In addition, we typically are
required to obtain rights from land, building and tower owners to
install our antennas and other equipment to provide service to our
subscribers. We may not be able to obtain, on terms acceptable to
us, or at all, the rights necessary to construct our network and
expand our services.
We also
face challenges in managing and operating our network. These
challenges include operating, maintaining and upgrading network and
customer premises equipment to accommodate increased traffic or
technological advances, and managing the sales, advertising,
customer support, billing and collection functions of our business
while providing reliable network service at expected speeds and
VoIP telephony at expected levels of quality. Our failure in any of
these areas could adversely affect customer satisfaction, increase
subscriber turnover, increase our costs, decrease our revenues and
otherwise have a material adverse effect on our business,
prospects, financial condition and results of
operations.
If we do not obtain and maintain rights to use licensed spectrum in
one or more markets, we may be unable to operate in these markets,
which could adversely affect our ability to execute our business
strategy.
Even
though we have established license agreements, growth requires that
we plan to provide our services obtaining additional licensed
spectrum both in the United States and internationally, we depend
on our ability to acquire and maintain sufficient rights to use
licensed spectrum by obtaining our own licenses or long-term
spectrum leases, in each of the markets in which we operate or
intend to operate. Licensing is the short-term solution to
obtaining the necessary spectrum as building out spectrum is a long
and difficult process that can be costly and require a
disproportionate amount of our management resources. We may not be
able to acquire, lease or maintain the spectrum necessary to
execute our business strategy.
Using
licensed spectrum, whether owned or leased, poses additional risks
to us, including:
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to satisfy build-out or service deployment requirements upon which
our spectrum licenses or leases are, or may be,
conditioned;
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in spectrum acquisition costs;
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changes to regulations governing our spectrum rights;
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risk that spectrum we have acquired or leased will not be
commercially usable or free of harmful interference from licensed
or unlicensed operators in our or adjacent bands;
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with
respect to spectrum we will lease in the United States, contractual
disputes with or the bankruptcy or other reorganization of the
license holders, which could adversely affect our control over the
spectrum subject to such license;
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of the FCC or other regulators to renew our spectrum licenses as
they expire; and
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invalidation
of our authorization to use all or a significant portion of our
spectrum, resulting in, among other things, impairment charges
related to assets recorded for such spectrum.
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If we fail to establish and maintain an effective system of
internal control, we may not be able to report our financial
results accurately or to prevent fraud. Any inability to report and
file our financial results accurately and timely could harm our
business and adversely impact the trading price of our common
stock.
Effective
internal control is necessary for us to provide reliable financial
reports and prevent fraud. If we cannot provide reliable financial
reports or prevent fraud, we may not be able to manage our business
as effectively as we would if an effective control environment
existed, and our business, brand and reputation with investors may
be harmed.
In
addition, reporting a material weakness may negatively impact
investors’ perception of us. We have allocated, and will
continue to allocate, significant additional resources to remedy
any deficiencies in our internal control. There can be no
assurances that our remedial measures will be successful in curing
the any material weakness or that other significant deficiencies or
material weaknesses will not arise in the future.
Interruption or failure of our information technology and
communications systems could impair our ability to provide our
products and services, which could damage our reputation and harm
our operating results.
We have
experienced service interruptions in some markets in the past and
may experience service interruptions or system failures in the
future. Any unscheduled service interruption adversely affects our
ability to operate our business and could result in an immediate
loss of revenues. If we experience frequent or persistent system or
network failures, our reputation and brand could be permanently
harmed. We may make significant capital expenditures to increase
the reliability of our systems, but these capital expenditures may
not achieve the results we expect.
Our
products and services depend on the continuing operation of our
information technology and communications systems. Any damage to or
failure of our systems could result in interruptions in our
service. Interruptions in our service could reduce our revenues and
profits, and our brand could be damaged if people believe our
network is unreliable. Our systems are vulnerable to damage or
interruption from earthquakes, terrorist attacks, floods, fires,
power loss, telecommunications failures, computer viruses, computer
denial of service attacks or other attempts to harm our systems,
and similar events. Some of our systems are not fully redundant,
and our disaster recovery planning may not be adequate. The
occurrence of a natural disaster or unanticipated problems at our
network centers could result in lengthy interruptions in our
service and adversely affect our operating results.
The industries in which we operate are continually evolving, which
makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and increases
the risk of your investment. Our products and services may become
obsolete, and we may not be able to develop competitive products or
services on a timely basis or at all.
The
markets in which we and our customers compete are characterized by
rapidly changing technology, evolving industry standards and
communications protocols, and continuous improvements in products
and services. Our future success depends on our ability to enhance
current products and to develop and introduce in a timely manner
new products that keep pace with technological developments,
industry standards and communications protocols, compete
effectively on the basis of price, performance and quality,
adequately address end-user customer requirements and achieve
market acceptance. There can be no assurance that the deployment of
wireless networks will not be delayed or that our products will
achieve widespread market acceptance or be capable of providing
service at competitive prices in sufficient volumes. In the event
that our products are not timely and economically developed or do
not gain widespread market acceptance, our business, results of
operations and financial condition would be materially adversely
affected. There can also be no assurance that our products will not
be rendered obsolete by the introduction and acceptance of new
communications protocols.
The
broadband services industry is characterized by rapid technological
change, competitive pricing, frequent new service introductions and
evolving industry standards and regulatory requirements. We believe
that our success depends on our ability to anticipate and adapt to
these challenges and to offer competitive services on a timely
basis. We face a number of difficulties and uncertainties
associated with our reliance on technological development, such
as:
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from service providers using more traditional and commercially
proven means to deliver similar or alternative
services;
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from new service providers using more efficient, less expensive
technologies, including products not yet invented or
developed;
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consumer acceptance;
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realizing
economies of scale;
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successfully to advances in competing technologies in a timely and
cost-effective manner;
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toward standards-based technology, requiring substantial capital
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existing,
proposed or undeveloped technologies that may render our wireless
broadband and VoIP telephony services less profitable or
obsolete.
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As the
products and services offered by us and our competitors develop,
businesses and consumers may not accept our services as a
commercially viable alternative to other means of delivering
wireless broadband and VoIP telephony services.
If we are unable to successfully develop and market additional
services and/or new generations of our services offerings or market
our services and product offerings to a broad number of customers,
we may not remain competitive.
Our
future success and our ability to increase net revenue and earnings
depend, in part, on our ability to develop and market new
additional services and/or new generations of our current services
offerings and market our existing services offerings to a broad
number of customers. However, we may not be able to, among other
things:
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develop or market new services or product offerings or enhance
existing services offerings;
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third-party sales organizations adequately for them to promote and
sell our services offerings;
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market and distribute existing and future services offerings in a
cost-effective manner; or
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the facilities needed to provide our services
offerings.
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If we
fail to develop new service offerings, or if we incur unexpected
expenses or delays in product development or integration, we may
lose our competitive position and incur substantial additional
expenses or may be required to curtail or terminate all or part of
our present planned business operations.
Our
failure to do any of the foregoing could have a material adverse
effect on our business, financial condition and results of
operations. In addition, if any of our current or future services
offerings contain undetected errors or design defects or do not
work as expected for our customers, our ability to market these
services offerings could be substantially impeded, resulting in
lost sales, potential reputation damage and delays in obtaining
market acceptance of these services offerings. We cannot assure you
that we will continue to successfully develop and market new or
enhanced applications for our services offerings. If we do not
continue to expand our services offerings portfolio on a timely
basis or if those products and applications do not receive market
acceptance, become regulatory restricted, or become obsolete, we
will not grow our business as currently expected.
We operate in a very competitive environment.
There
are three types of competitors for our service
offerings.
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The
value-added resellers and other vendors of hardware and software
for on-site installation do not typically have an offering similar
to our cloud-based services. However, they are the primary historic
service suppliers to our targeted customers and will actively work
to defend their customer base.
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There
are a number of providers offering services, but they typically
offer only one or two applications of their choosing instead of our
offering which bundles customer’s chosen
services.
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There
are a few providers that offer more than two applications from the
cloud. However currently, these providers typically offer only
those applications they have chosen.
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Our
industry is characterized by rapid change resulting from
technological advances and new services offerings. Certain
competitors have substantially greater capital resources, larger
customer bases, larger sales forces, greater marketing and
management resources, larger research and development staffs and
larger facilities than our and have more established reputations
with our target customers, as well as distribution channels that
are entrenched and may be more effective than ours. Competitors may
develop and offer technologies and products that are more
effective, have better features, are easier to use, are less
expensive and/or are more readily accepted by the marketplace than
our offerings. Their products could make our technology and service
offerings obsolete or noncompetitive. Competitors may also be able
to achieve more efficient operations and distribution than ours may
be able to and may offer lower prices than we could offer
profitably. We may decide to alter or discontinue aspects of our
business and may adopt different strategies due to business or
competitive factors or factors currently unforeseen, such as the
introduction by competitors of new products or services
technologies that would make part or all of our service offerings
obsolete or uncompetitive.
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In
addition, the industry could experience some consolidation. There
is also a risk that larger companies will enter our
markets.
If we fail to maintain effective relationships with our major
vendors, our services offerings and profitability could
suffer.
We use
third party providers for services. In addition, we purchase
hardware, software and services from external suppliers.
Accordingly, we must maintain effective relationships with our
vendor base to source our needs, maintain continuity of supply, and
achieve reasonable costs. If we fail to maintain effective
relationships with our vendor base, this may adversely affect our
ability to deliver the best products and services to our customers
and our profitability could suffer.
Any failure of the physical or electronic security that resulted in
unauthorized parties gaining access to customer data could
adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of
operations.
We use
commercial data networks to service customers cloud based services
and the associated customer data. Any data is subject to the risk
of physical or electronic intrusion by unauthorized parties. We
have a multi-homed firewalls and Intrusion Detection / Prevention
systems to protect against electronic intrusion and two physical
security levels in our networks. Our policy is to close all
external ports as a default. Robust anti-virus software runs on all
client servers. Systems have automated monitoring and alerting for
unusual activity. We also have a Security Officer who monitors
these systems. We have better security systems and expertise than
our clients can afford separately but any failure of these systems
could adversely affect our business growth and financial
condition.
Demand for our service offerings may decrease if new government
regulations substantially increase costs, limit delivery or change
the use of Internet access and other products on which our service
offerings depend.
We are
dependent on Internet access to deliver our service offerings. If
new regulations are imposed that limit the use of the Internet or
impose significant taxes on services delivered via the Internet it
could change our cost structure and/or affect our business model.
The significant changes in regulatory costs or new limitations on
Internet use could impact our ability to operate as we anticipate,
could damage our reputation with our customers, disrupt our
business or result in, among other things, decreased net revenue
and increased overhead costs. As a result, any such failure could
harm our business, financial condition and results of
operations.
Our
securities, as offered hereby, are highly speculative and should be
purchased only by persons who can afford to lose their entire
investment in us. Each prospective investor should carefully
consider the following risk factors, as well as all other
information set forth elsewhere in this prospectus, before
purchasing any of the shares of our common stock.
Increasing regulation of our Internet-based products and services
could adversely affect our ability to provide new products and
services.
On
February 26, 2015, the FCC adopted a new "network neutrality"
or Open Internet order (the "2015 Order") that:
(1) reclassified broadband Internet access service as a Title
II common carrier service, (2) applied certain existing Title
II provisions and associated regulations; (3) forbore from
applying a range of other existing Title II provisions and
associated regulations, but to varying degrees indicated that this
forbearance may be only temporary and (4) issued new rules
expanding disclosure requirements and prohibiting blocking,
throttling, paid prioritization and unreasonable interference with
the ability of end users and edge providers to reach each other.
The 2015 Order also subjected broadband providers' Internet traffic
exchange rates and practices to potential FCC oversight and created
a mechanism for third parties to file complaints regarding these
matters. The 2015 Order could limit our ability to efficiently
manage our cable systems and respond to operational and competitive
challenges. In December 2017, the FCC adopted an order (the "2017
Order") that in large part reverses the 2015 Order. The 2017 Order
has not yet gone into effect, however, and the 2015 Order will
remain binding until the 2017 Order takes effect. The 2017 Order is
expected to be subject to legal challenge that may delay its effect
or overturn it. Additionally, Congress and some states are
considering legislation that may codify "network neutrality"
rules.
Offering telephone services may subject us to additional regulatory
burdens, causing us to incur additional costs.
We
offer telephone services over our broadband network and continue to
develop and deploy interconnected VoIP services. The FCC has ruled
that competitive telephone companies that support VoIP services,
such as those that we offer to our customers, are entitled to
interconnect with incumbent providers of traditional
telecommunications services, which ensures that our VoIP services
can operate in the market. However, the scope of these
interconnection rights are being reviewed in a current FCC
proceeding, which may affect our ability to compete in the
provision of telephony services or result in additional costs. It
remains unclear precisely to what extent federal and state
regulators will subject VoIP services to traditional telephone
service regulation. Expanding our offering of these services may
require us to obtain certain authorizations, including federal and
state licenses. We may not be able to obtain such authorizations in
a timely manner, or conditions could be imposed upon such licenses
or authorizations that may not be favorable to us. The FCC has
already extended certain traditional telecommunications
requirements, such as E911 capabilities, Universal Service Fund
contribution, Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
("CALEA"), measures to protect Customer Proprietary Network
Information, customer privacy, disability access, number porting,
battery back-up, network outage reporting, rural call completion
reporting and other regulatory requirements to many VoIP providers
such as us. If additional telecommunications regulations are
applied to our VoIP service, it could cause us to incur additional
costs and may otherwise materially adversely impact our operations.
In 2011, the FCC released an order significantly changing the rules
governing intercarrier compensation for the origination and
termination of telephone traffic between interconnected carriers.
These rules have resulted in a substantial decrease in interstate
compensation payments over a multi-year period. The FCC is
currently considering additional reforms that could further reduce
interstate compensation payments. Further, although the FCC
recently declined to impose additional regulatory burdens on
certain point to point transport ("special access") services
provided by cable companies, that FCC decision has been appealed by
multiple parties. If those appeals are successfully, there could be
additional regulatory burdens and additional costs placed on these
services.
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We may engage in acquisitions and other strategic transactions and
the integration of such acquisitions and other strategic
transactions could materially adversely affect our business,
financial condition and results of operations.
Our
business has grown significantly as a result of acquisitions,
including the Acquisitions, which entail numerous risks
including:
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distraction of our
management team in identifying potential acquisition targets,
conducting due diligence and negotiating acquisition
agreements;
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difficulties in
integrating the operations, personnel, products, technologies and
systems of acquired businesses;
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difficulties in
enhancing our customer support resources to adequately service our
existing customers and the customers of acquired
businesses;
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the
potential loss of key employees or customers of the acquired
businesses;
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unanticipated
liabilities or contingencies of acquired
businesses;
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unbudgeted costs
which we may incur in connection with pursuing potential
acquisitions which are not consummated;
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failure
to achieve projected cost savings or cash flow from acquired
businesses, which are based on projections that are inherently
uncertain;
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fluctuations in our
operating results caused by incurring considerable expenses to
acquire and integrate businesses before receiving the anticipated
revenues expected to result from the acquisitions;
and
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difficulties in
obtaining regulatory approvals required to consummate
acquisitions.
We also
participate in competitive bidding processes, some of which may
involve significant cable systems. If we are the winning bidder in
any such process involving significant cable systems or we
otherwise engage in acquisitions or other strategic transactions in
the future, we may incur additional debt, contingent liabilities
and amortization expenses, which could materially adversely affect
our business, financial condition and results of operations. We
could also issue substantial additional equity which could dilute
existing stockholders.
If our
acquisitions, including the Acquisitions and the integration of the
Optimum and Suddenlink businesses, do not result in the anticipated
operating efficiencies, are not effectively integrated, or result
in costs which exceed our expectations, our business, financial
condition and results of operations could be materially adversely
affected.
Significant unanticipated increases in the use of
bandwidth-intensive Internet-based services could increase our
costs.
The
rising popularity of bandwidth-intensive Internet-based services
poses risks for our broadband services. Examples of such services
include peer-to-peer file sharing services, gaming services and the
delivery of video via streaming technology and by download. If
heavy usage of bandwidth-intensive broadband services grows beyond
our current expectations, we may need to incur more expenses than
currently anticipated to expand the bandwidth capacity of our
systems or our customers could have a suboptimal experience when
using our broadband service. In order to continue to provide
quality service at attractive prices, we need the continued
flexibility to develop and refine business models that respond to
changing consumer uses and demands and to manage bandwidth usage
efficiently. Our ability to undertake such actions could be
restricted by regulatory and legislative efforts to impose
so-called "net neutrality" requirements on broadband communication
providers like us that provide broadband services. For more
information, see "Regulation—Broadband."
We operate in a highly competitive business environment which could
materially adversely affect our business, financial condition,
results of operations and liquidity.
We
operate in a highly competitive, consumer-driven industry and we
compete against a variety of broadband, pay television and
telephony providers and delivery systems, including broadband
communications companies, wireless data and telephony providers,
satellite-delivered video signals, Internet-delivered video content
and broadcast television signals available to residential and
business customers in our service areas. Some of our competitors
include AT&T and its DirecTV subsidiary, CenturyLink, DISH
Network, Frontier and Verizon. In addition, our pay television
services compete with all other sources of leisure, news,
information and entertainment, including movies, sporting or other
live events, radio broadcasts, home-video services, console games,
print media and the Internet.
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In some
instances, our competitors have fewer regulatory burdens, easier
access to financing, greater resources, greater operating
capabilities and efficiencies of scale, stronger brand-name
recognition, longstanding relationships with regulatory authorities
and customers, more subscribers, more flexibility to offer
promotional packages at prices lower than ours and greater access
to programming or other services. This competition creates pressure
on our pricing and has adversely affected, and may continue to
affect, our ability to add and retain customers, which in turn
adversely affects our business, financial condition and results of
operations. The effects of competition may also adversely affect
our liquidity and ability to service our debt. For example, we face
intense competition from Verizon and AT&T, which have network
infrastructure throughout our service areas. We estimate that
competitors are currently able to sell a fiber-based triple play,
including broadband, pay television and telephony services, and may
expand these and other service offerings to our potential
customers.
Our
competitive risks are heightened by the rapid technological change
inherent in our business, evolving consumer preferences and the
need to acquire, develop and adopt new technology to differentiate
our products and services from those of our competitors, and to
meet consumer demand. We may need to anticipate far in advance
which technology we should use for the development of new products
and services or the enhancement of existing products and services.
The failure to accurately anticipate such changes may adversely
affect our ability to attract and retain customers, which in turn
could adversely affect our business, financial condition and
results of operations. Consolidation and cooperation in our
industry may allow our competitors to acquire service capabilities
or offer products that are not available to us or offer similar
products and services at prices lower than ours. For example,
Comcast and Charter Communications have agreed to jointly explore
operational efficiencies to speed their respective entries into the
wireless market, including in the areas of creating common
operating platforms and emerging wireless technology platforms. In
addition, changes in the regulatory and legislative environments
may result in changes to the competitive landscape.
In
addition, certain of our competitors own directly or are affiliated
with companies that own programming content or have exclusive
arrangements with content providers that may enable them to obtain
lower programming costs or offer exclusive programming that may be
attractive to prospective subscribers. For example, DirecTV has
exclusive arrangements with the National Football League that give
it access to programming we cannot offer. AT&T also has an
agreement to acquire Time Warner, which owns a number of cable
networks, including TBS, CNN and HBO, as well as Warner Bros.
Entertainment, which produces television, film and home-video
content. AT&T's and DirecTV's potential access to Time Warner
programming could allow AT&T and DirecTV to offer competitive
and promotional packages that could negatively affect our ability
to maintain or increase our existing customers and revenues. DBS
operators such as DISH Network and DirecTV also have marketing
arrangements with certain phone companies in which the DBS
provider's pay television services are sold together with the phone
company's broadband and mobile and traditional phone
services.
Most
broadband communications companies, which already have wired
networks, an existing customer base and other operational functions
in place (such as billing and service personnel), offer DSL
services. We believe DSL service competes with our broadband
service and is often offered at prices lower than our Internet
services. However, DSL is often offered at speeds lower than the
speeds we offer. In addition, DSL providers may currently be in a
better position to offer Internet services to businesses since
their networks tend to be more complete in commercial areas. They
may also increasingly have the ability to combine video services
with telephone and Internet services offered to their customers,
particularly as broadband communications companies enter into
co-marketing agreements with other service providers. In addition,
current and future fixed and wireless Internet services, such as
3G, 4G and 5G fixed and wireless broadband services and Wi-Fi
networks, and devices such as wireless data cards, tablets and
smartphones, and mobile wireless routers that connect to such
devices, may compete with our broadband services.
Our
telephony services compete directly with established broadband
communications companies and other carriers, including wireless
providers, as increasing numbers of homes are replacing their
traditional telephone service with wireless telephone service. We
also compete against VoIP providers like Vonage, Skype, GoogleTalk,
Facetime, WhatsApp and magicJack that do not own networks but can
provide service to any person with a broadband connection, in some
cases free of charge. In addition, we compete against ILECs, other
CLECs and long-distance voice-service companies for large
commercial and enterprise customers. While we compete with the
ILECs, we also enter into interconnection agreements with ILECs so
that our customers can make and receive calls to and from customers
served by the ILECs and other telecommunications providers. Federal
and state law and regulations require ILECs to enter into such
agreements and provide facilities and services necessary for
connection, at prices subject to regulation. The specific price,
terms and conditions of each agreement, however, depend on the
outcome of negotiations between us and each ILEC. Interconnection
agreements are also subject to approval by the state regulatory
commissions, which may arbitrate negotiation impasses. These
agreements, like all interconnection agreements, are for limited
terms and upon expiration are subject to renegotiation, potential
arbitration and approval under the laws in effect at that
time.
We also
face competition for our advertising sales from traditional and
non-traditional media outlets, including television and radio
stations, traditional print media and the Internet.
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We face significant risks as a result of rapid changes in
technology, consumer expectations and behavior.
The
broadband communications industry has undergone significant
technological development over time and these changes continue to
affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Such changes have had, and will continue to have, a profound impact
on consumer expectations and behavior. Our video business faces
technological change risks as a result of the continuing
development of new and changing methods for delivery of programming
content such as Internet-based delivery of movies, shows and other
content which can be viewed on televisions, wireless devices and
other developing mobile devices. Consumers' video consumption
patterns are also evolving, for example, with more content being
downloaded for time-shifted consumption. A proliferation of
delivery systems for video content can adversely affect our ability
to attract and retain subscribers and the demand for our services
and it can also decrease advertising demand on our delivery
systems. Our broadband business faces technological challenges from
rapidly evolving wireless Internet solutions. Our telephony service
offerings face technological developments in the proliferation of
telephony delivery systems including those based on Internet and
wireless delivery. If we do not develop or acquire and successfully
implement new technologies, we will limit our ability to compete
effectively for subscribers, content and advertising. We cannot
provide any assurance that we will realize, in full or in part, the
anticipated benefits we expect from the introduction of new
technologies, or that any new technologies will be rolled out
across our footprint in the timeframe we anticipate. In addition,
we may be required to make material capital and other investments
to anticipate and to keep up with technological change. These
challenges could adversely affect our business, financial condition
and results of operations.
Our revenues and growth may be constrained due to demand exceeding
capacity of our systems or our inability to develop
solutions.
We
anticipate generating revenues in the future from broadband
connectivity, other Internet services, and broadband and in the
cloud services. Demand and market acceptance for these recently
introduced services and products delivered over the Internet is
uncertain. Critical issues concerning the use of the Internet, such
as ease of access, security, reliability, cost and quality of
service, exist and may affect the growth of Internet use or the
attractiveness of conducting commerce online. In addition, the
Internet and online services may not be accepted as viable for a
number of reasons, including potentially inadequate development of
the necessary network infrastructure or delayed development of
enabling technologies and performance improvements. To the extent
that the Internet and online services continue to experience
significant growth, there can be no assurance that the
infrastructure of the Internet and online services will prove
adequate to support increased user demands. In addition, the
Internet or online services could lose their viability due to
delays in the development or adoption of new standards and
protocols required to handle increased levels of Internet or online
service activity. Changes in, or insufficient availability of,
telecommunications services to support the Internet or online
services also could result in slower response times and adversely
affect usage of the Internet and online services generally and us
in particular. If use of the Internet and online services does not
continue to grow or grows more slowly than expected, if the
infrastructure for the Internet and online services does not
effectively support growth that may occur, or if the Internet and
online services do not become a viable commercial marketplace, our
business could be adversely affected.
Certain
aspects of our VoIP telephony services differ from traditional
telephone service. The factors that may have this effect
include:
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subscribers may experience lower call quality than they experience
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subscribers may experience higher dropped-call rates than they
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Additionally,
our VoIP emergency calling service is significantly more limited
than the emergency calling services offered by traditional
telephone companies. Our VoIP emergency calling service can only
transmit to a dispatcher at a public safety answering point, or
PSAP, the location information that the subscriber has registered
with us, which may at times be different from the actual location
at the time of the call. As a result, our emergency calling systems
may not assure that the appropriate PSAP is reached and may cause
significant delays, or even failures, in callers’ receipt of
emergency assistance. Our failure to develop or operate an adequate
emergency calling service could subject us to substantial
liabilities and may result in delays in subscriber adoption of our
VoIP telephony services or all of our services, abandonment of our
services by subscribers, and litigation costs, damage awards and
negative publicity, any of which could harm our business,
prospects, financial condition or results of
operations.
If our
subscribers do not accept the differences between our VoIP
telephony services and traditional telephone service, they may not
adopt or keep our VoIP telephony services or our other services, or
may choose to retain or return to service provided by traditional
telephone companies. Because VoIP telephony services represent an
important aspect of our business strategy, failure to achieve
subscribers’ acceptance of our VoIP telephony services may
adversely affect our prospects, results of operations and the
trading price of our shares.
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We rely on contract manufacturers and a limited number of
third-party suppliers to produce our network equipment and to
maintain our network sites. If these companies fail to perform, we
may have a shortage of components and may be required to suspend
our network deployment and our product and service
introduction.
We
depend on contract manufacturers, to produce and deliver
acceptable, high quality products on a timely basis. We also depend
on a limited number of third parties to maintain our network
facilities. If our contract manufacturer or other providers do not
satisfy our requirements, or if we lose our contract manufacturers
or any other significant provider, we may have an insufficient
network services for delivery to subscribers, we may be forced to
suspend portions of our wireless broadband network, enrollment of
new subscribers, and product sales and our business, prospects,
financial condition and operating results may be
harmed.
We rely on highly skilled executives and other personnel. If we
cannot retain and motivate key personnel, we may be unable to
implement our business strategy.
We will
be highly dependent on the scientific, technical, and managerial
skills of certain key employees, including technical, research and
development, sales, marketing, financial and executive personnel,
and on our ability to identify, hire and retain additional
personnel. To accommodate our current size and manage our
anticipated growth, we must expand our employee base. Competition
for key personnel, particularly persons having technical expertise,
is intense, and there can be no assurance that we will be able to
retain existing personnel or to identify or hire additional
personnel. The need for such personnel is particularly important
given the strains on our existing infrastructure and the need to
anticipate the demands of future growth. In particular, we are
highly dependent on the continued services of our senior management
team, which currently is composed of a small number of individuals.
We do not maintain key-man life insurance on the life of any
employee. The inability of us to attract, hire or retain the
necessary technical, sales, marketing, financial and executive
personnel, or the loss of the services of any member of our senior
management team, could have a material adverse effect on
us.
Our
future success depends largely on the expertise and reputation of
our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Stephen J.
Thomas, Richard Eberhardt, and the other members of our senior
management team. In addition, we intend to hire additional highly
skilled individuals to staff our operations. Loss of any of our key
personnel or the inability to recruit and retain qualified
individuals could adversely affect our ability to implement our
business strategy and operate our business.
We are
currently managed by a small number of key management and operating
personnel. Our future success depends, in part, on our ability to
recruit and retain qualified personnel. Failure to do so likely
would have an adverse impact on our business and the trading price
of our common stock.
If our data security measures are breached, subscribers may
perceive our network and services as not secure.
Our
network security and the authentication of the subscriber’s
credentials are designed to protect unauthorized access to data on
our network. Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access
to or to sabotage networks change frequently and may not be
recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to
anticipate or implement adequate preventive measures against
unauthorized access or sabotage. Consequently, unauthorized parties
may overcome our encryption and security systems and obtain access
to data on our network, including on a device connected to our
network. In addition, because we operate and control our network
and our subscribers’ Internet connectivity, unauthorized
access or sabotage of our network could result in damage to our
network and to the computers or other devices used by our
subscribers. An actual or perceived breach of network security,
regardless of whether the breach is our fault, could harm public
perception of the effectiveness of our security measures, adversely
affect our ability to attract and retain subscribers, expose us to
significant liability and adversely affect our business
prospects.
Our activities outside the United States could disrupt our
operations.
We
intend to invest in various international companies and spectrum
opportunities through acquisitions and strategic alliances as these
opportunities arise. Our activities outside the United States
operate in environments different from the one we face in the
United States, particularly with respect to competition and
regulation. Due to these differences, our activities outside the
United States may require a disproportionate amount of our
management and financial resources, which could disrupt our U.S.
operations and adversely affect our business.
In a
number of international markets, we face substantial competition
from local service providers that offer or may offer their own
wireless broadband or VoIP telephony services and from other
companies that provide Internet connectivity services. We may face
heightened challenges in gaining market share, particularly in
certain European countries, where a large portion of the population
already has broadband Internet connectivity and incumbent companies
already have a dominant market share in their service areas.
Furthermore, foreign providers of competing services may have a
substantial advantage over us in attracting subscribers due to a
more established brand, greater knowledge of local
subscribers’ preferences and access to significant financial
or strategic resources.
In
addition, foreign regulatory authorities frequently own or control
the incumbent telecommunications companies operating under their
jurisdiction. Established relationships between government-owned or
government-controlled telecommunications companies and their
traditional local providers of telecommunications services often
limit access of third parties to these markets. The successful
expansion of our international operations in some markets will
depend on our ability to locate, form and maintain strong
relationships with established local communication services and
equipment providers. Failure to establish these relationships or to
market or sell our products and services successfully could limit
our ability to attract subscribers to our services.
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We may be unable to protect our intellectual property, which could
reduce the value of our services and our brand.
Our
ability to compete effectively depends on our ability to protect
our proprietary technologies, system designs and manufacturing
processes. We may not be able to safeguard and maintain our
proprietary rights. We rely on patents, trademarks and policies and
procedures related to confidentiality to protect our intellectual
property. Some of our intellectual property, however, is not
covered by any of these protections.
We could be subject to claims that we have infringed on the
proprietary rights of others, which claims would likely be costly
to defend, could require us to pay damages and could limit our
ability to use necessary technologies in the
future.
Our
competitors may independently develop or patent technologies or
processes that are substantially equivalent or superior to ours.
These competitors may claim that our services and products infringe
on these patents or other proprietary rights. Defending against
infringement claims, even merit less ones, would be time consuming,
distracting and costly. If we are found to be infringing
proprietary rights of a third party, we could be enjoined from
using such third party’s rights and be required to pay
substantial royalties and damages and may no longer be able to use
the intellectual property on acceptable terms or at all. Failure to
obtain licenses to intellectual property could delay or prevent the
development, manufacture or sale of our products or services and
could cause us to expend significant resources to develop or
acquire non-infringing intellectual property.
Our business depends on our brand, and if we do not maintain and
enhance our brand, our ability to attract and retain subscribers
may be impaired and our business and operating results
harmed.
We
believe that our brand is a critical part of our business.
Maintaining and enhancing our brand may require us to make
substantial investments with no assurance that these investments
will be successful. If we fail to promote and maintain our brands,
or if we incur significant expenses in this effort, our business,
prospects, operating results and financial condition may be harmed.
We anticipate that maintaining and enhancing our brand will become
increasingly important, difficult and expensive.
We are subject to extensive regulation.
Our
acquisition, lease, maintenance and use of spectrum licenses are
extensively regulated by federal, state, local, and foreign
governmental entities. A number of other federal, state, local and
foreign privacy, security and consumer laws also apply to our
business. These regulations and their application are subject to
continual change as new legislation, regulations or amendments to
existing regulations are adopted from time to time by governmental
or regulatory authorities, including as a result of judicial
interpretations of such laws and regulations. Current regulations
directly affect the breadth of services we are able to offer and
may impact the rates, terms and conditions of our services.
Regulation of companies that offer competing services, such as
cable and DSL providers and incumbent telecommunications carriers,
also affects our business indirectly.
We are
also subject to regulation because we provide VoIP telephony
services. As an “interconnected” VoIP provider, we are
required under FCC rules, to comply with the Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, or CALEA, which requires
service providers to build certain capabilities into their networks
and to accommodate wiretap requests from law enforcement
agencies.
In
addition, the FCC or other regulatory authorities may in the future
restrict our ability to manage subscribers’ use of our
network, thereby limiting our ability to prevent or address
subscribers’ excessive bandwidth demands. To maintain the
quality of our network and user experience, we manage the bandwidth
used by our subscribers’ applications, in part by restricting
the types of applications that may be used over our network. Some
providers and users of these applications have objected to this
practice. If the FCC or other regulatory authorities were to adopt
regulations that constrain our ability to employ bandwidth
management practices, excessive use of bandwidth-intensive
applications would likely reduce the quality of our services for
all subscribers. Such decline in the quality of our services could
harm our business.
In
certain of our international markets, the services provided by our
business may require receipt of a license from national, provincial
or local regulatory authorities. Where required, regulatory
authorities may have significant discretion in granting the
licenses and in the term of the licenses and are often under no
obligation to renew the licenses when they expire.
The
breach of a license or applicable law, even if inadvertent, can
result in the revocation, suspension, cancellation or reduction in
the term of a license or the imposition of fines. In addition,
regulatory authorities may grant new licenses to third parties,
resulting in greater competition in territories where we already
have rights to licensed spectrum. In order to promote competition,
licenses may also require that third parties be granted access to
our bandwidth, frequency capacity, facilities or services. We may
not be able to obtain or retain any required license, and we may
not be able to renew a license on favorable terms, or at
all.
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Our
wireless broadband and VoIP telephony services may become subject
to greater state or federal regulation in the future. The scope of
the regulations that may apply to VoIP telephony services providers
and the impact of such regulations on providers’ competitive
position are presently unknown.
Our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is also our largest
stockholder, and as a result he can exert control over us and has
actual or potential interests that may diverge from
yours.
Mr. Thomas
may have interests that diverge from those of other holders of our
common stock and he owns our super majority voting Series A stock.
As a result, Mr. Thomas may vote the shares he owns or otherwise
cause us to take actions that may conflict with your best interests
as a stockholder, which could adversely affect our results of
operations and the trading price of our common stock.
Through
his control, Mr. Thomas can control our management, affairs
and all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the
approval of significant corporate transactions, a sale of our
company, decisions about our capital structure and, the composition
of our board of directors.
COVID-19 effects on the economy may negatively affect our Company
business.
In December 2019, COVID-19 emerged and has subsequently spread
worldwide. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a
pandemic resulting in federal, state and local governments and
private entities mandating various restrictions, including travel
restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home
orders and advisories and quarantining of people who may have been
exposed to the virus.
As the COVID-19 pandemic is complex and rapidly evolving, the
Company's business may be negatively affected for a sustained time
frame. At this point, we cannot reasonably estimate the duration
and severity of this pandemic, which could have a material adverse
impact on our business, results of operations, financial position
and cash flows.
Our officers and directors
may have conflicts of interests as to corporate opportunities which
we may not be able or allowed to participate
in.
Presently
there is no requirement contained in our Articles of Incorporation,
Bylaws, or minutes which requires officers and directors of our
business to disclose to us business opportunities which come to
their attention. Our officers and directors do, however, have a
fiduciary duty of loyalty to us to disclose to us any business
opportunities which come to their attention, in their capacity as
an officer and/or director or otherwise. Excluded from this duty
would be opportunities which the person learns about through his
involvement as an officer and director of another company. We have
no intention of merging with or acquiring business opportunity from
any affiliate or officer or director.
We have agreed to indemnification of officers and directors as is
provided by Florida Statutes.
Florida
Statutes provide for the indemnification of our directors,
officers, employees, and agents, under certain circumstances,
against attorney’s fees and other expenses incurred by them
in any litigation to which they become a party arising from their
association with or activities our behalf. We will also bear the
expenses of such litigation for any of our directors, officers,
employees, or agents, upon such person’s promise to repay us
therefore if it is ultimately determined that any such person shall
not have been entitled to indemnification. This indemnification
policy could result in substantial expenditures by us that we will
be unable to recoup.
Our directors’ liability to us and shareholders is
limited.
Florida
Statutes exclude personal liability of our directors and our
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty
except in certain specified circumstances. Accordingly, we will
have a much more limited right of action against our directors that
otherwise would be the case. This provision does not affect the
liability of any director under federal or applicable state
securities laws.
We may not be able to successfully implement our business strategy
without substantial additional capital. Any such failure may
adversely affect the business and results of
operations.
Unless
we can generate revenues sufficient to implement our Business Plan,
we will need to obtain additional financing through debt or bank
financing, or through the sale of shareholder interests to execute
our Business Plan. We expect to need at least $38,000,000 in the
next twelve months in capital or loans to complete our plans and
operations. We may not be able to obtain this financing at all. We
have not sought commitments for this financing, and we have no
terms for either debt or equity financing, and we realize that it
may be difficult to obtain on favorable terms. Moreover, if we
issue additional equity securities to support our operations,
Investor holdings may be diluted. Our business plans are at risk if
we cannot continually achieve additional capital raising to
complete our plans.
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We are reliant, in part, on third party sales organizations, which
may not perform as we expect.
We,
from time to time rely on the sales force of third-party sales
organizations with support from our own selling resources. The
third-party relationships and internal organization are not fully
developed at this time and must be developed. We may not be able to
hire effective inside salespeople to help our third-party sales
organizations close sales. There is no assurance that any
approaches will improve sales. Further, using only a direct sales
force would be less cost-effective than our plan to use third-party
sales organizations. In addition, a direct sales model may be
ineffective if we were unable to hire and retain qualified sales
people and if the sales force fails to complete sales. Moreover,
even if we successfully implement our business strategy, we may not
have positive operating results. We may decide to alter or
discontinue aspects of our business strategy and may adopt
different strategies due to business or competitive
factors.
Our growth may be affected adversely if our sales of products and
services are negatively affected by competition or other
factors.
The
growth of our business is dependent, in large part, upon the
development of sales for our services and product offerings. Market
opportunities that we expect to exist may not develop as expected,
or at all. For example, a substantial percentage of our service
offerings is oriented around data access. If lower cost
alternatives are developed, our sales would decrease and our
operating results would be negatively affected. Moreover, even if
market opportunities develop as expected, new technologies and
services offerings introduced by competitors may significantly
limit our ability to capitalize on any such market opportunity. Our
failure to capitalize on expected market opportunities would
adversely affect revenue growth.
The
lack of operating history and the rapidly changing nature of the
market in which we compete make it difficult to accurately forecast
revenues and operating results. We anticipate that revenues and
operating results might fluctuate in the future due to a number of
factors including the following:
●
the timing of sales
for current services and products offerings
●
the timing of new
product implementations
●
unexpected delays
in introducing new services and products offerings
●
increased expense
related to sales and marketing, product development or
administration
●
the mix of products
and our services offerings
●
costs related to
possible acquisitions of technology or business.
●
costs of providing
services
We may be unable to compete with larger, more established
competitors.
The
market for providing network delivered service solutions is
competitive. We expect competition to intensify in the future. Many
of our potential competitors have longer operating histories,
larger customer bases, greater recognition and significantly
greater resources. As a result, competitors may be able to respond
more quickly to emerging technologies and changes in customer
requirements than we can. The continuous and timely introduction of
competitively priced services offerings into the market is critical
to our success, and there can be no assurance that we will be able
to introduce such services offerings. We may not be able to compete
successfully against competitors, and the competitive pressures we
face may have an adverse effect on our business.
RISK FACTORS RELATED TO OUR STOCK
We can give no assurance of success or profitability to our
investors.
Cash
flows generated from operating activities were not enough to
support all working capital requirements for the years ended
December 31, 2020 and 2019. Financing activities described below
have helped with working capital and other capital requirements. We
incurred $8,119,268 and $14,028,165, respectively, in losses, and
we used $489,573 and $328,251, respectively, in cash for operations
for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. Net cash flows from
financing activities generated primarily from proceeds from notes,
loans and advances, net of payments for loans, advances and
factoring agreements, were $817,608 and $1,390,538 for the same
periods, while cash flows used in investing activities for
primarily acquisitions of property and equipment or business
acquisitions were $500,898 and $901,901, respectively. These
factors raise substantial doubt about the ability of the Company to
continue as a going concern for a period of one year from the
issuance of these financial statements. The financial statements do
not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of
this uncertainty.
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In December 2019, COVID-19 emerged and has subsequently spread
worldwide. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a
pandemic resulting in federal, state and local governments and
private entities mandating various restrictions, including travel
restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home
orders and advisories and quarantining of people who may have been
exposed to the virus. After close monitoring and responses and
guidance from federal, state and local governments, in an effort to
mitigate the spread of COVID-19, around March 18, 2020 for an
indefinite period of time, the Company closed its Blue Collar
office in Los Angeles, California and its TPT SpeedConnect offices
in Michigan, Idaho and Arizona. Most employees are working
remotely, however this is not possible with certain employees and
all subcontractors that work for Blue Collar. The Company continues
to monitor developments, including government requirements and
recommendations at the national, state, and local level to evaluate
possible extensions to all or part of such closures.
The Company has taken advantage of the stimulus offerings and
received $722,200 in April 2020 and $680,500 in February 2021 and
believes it has used these funds as is prescribed by the stimulus
offerings to have the entire amounts forgiven. The Company has
applied for forgiveness of the original stimulus of $722,200. The
forgiveness process for stimulus funded in February 2021 has not
begun. The Company will try and take advantage of additional
stimulus as it is available and is also in the process of trying to
raise debt and equity financing, some of which may have to be used
for working capital shortfalls if revenues continue to decline
because of the COVID-19 closures.
As the COVID-19 pandemic is complex and rapidly evolving, the
Company's plans as described above may change. At this point, we
cannot reasonably estimate the duration and severity of this
pandemic, which could have a material adverse impact on our
business, results of operations, financial position and cash
flows.
In
order for us to continue as a going concern for a period of one
year from the issuance of these financial statements, we will need
to obtain additional debt or equity financing and look for
companies with cash flow positive operations that we can acquire.
There can be no assurance that we will be able to secure additional
debt or equity financing, that we will be able to acquire cash flow
positive operations, or that, if we are successful in any of those
actions, those actions will produce adequate cash flow to enable us
to meet all our future obligations. Most of our existing financing
arrangements are short-term. If we are unable to obtain additional
debt or equity financing, we may be required to significantly
reduce or cease operations.
Sales of common stock resulting from issuances of common stock for
conversions by our convertible noteholders or Rule 144 sales in the
future will have a depressive effect on our common stock
price.
Most of
our convertible noteholders have rights to convert their notes at
significant discounts to the market prices as shown in the schedule
below, for sale under the requirements of Rule 144 or other
applicable exemptions from registration under the Act and perhaps
under registration statements which the company is preparing to
file in the next thirty days. Rule 144 provides in essence that a
person who has held restricted securities for six months or is
deemed to have held them due to the issuance by the Company of
convertible notes under certain conditions, may sell those shares
in brokerage transactions. There is no limit on the amount of
restricted securities that may be sold by a non-affiliate after the
owner has held the restricted securities for a period of six
months. A sale under Rule 144 or under any other exemption from the
Act, if available, or pursuant to subsequent registration of shares
of common stock of present stockholders underlying the convertible
notes, will have a depressive effect upon the price of the common
stock in the market, since they are issued at a discount to
market-often 50-60% of the lowest bid for differing periods, and
sales can be expected at some discounted prices, with larger than
normal volumes. We have also issued preferred stock and options and
warrants that allow for the purchase of shares at significant
discounts to the market prices, often 50% of the ten-day low bids,
or other highly discounted rates, which would allow the holders of
those warrants to sell shares into the market at a profit over
their discounted price, which could have the effect of depressing
the price of the shares in the market.
As of
December 31, 2020, we had the following convertible promissory
notes, preferred stock and options and warrants outstanding that
are convertible into common shares as follows:
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2020
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Convertible
Promissory Notes (2)(3)
|
175,316,748
|
Series A Preferred
Stock (1)
|
1,243,987,624
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Series B Preferred
Stock
|
2,588,693
|
Stock Options and
Warrants
|
4,333,333
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1,426,226,398
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(1)
Holder
of the Series A Preferred Stock which is Stephen J. Thomas, is
guaranteed 60% of outstanding common stock upon conversion,
including shares already owned. The Company would have to authorize
additional shares for this to occur as only 1,000,000,000 shares
are currently authorized.
(2)
The
conversion features of the various convertible debt provide for
conversion to common stock at discounts from the market prices
which will have, and has had, a seriously dilutive effect on stock
amounts and the prices reflected in the market.
(3)
There
are $678,500 of convertible promissory notes that convert into
5,194,070 shares of Series C Preferred Stock that then convert into
common shares at $0.15 share.
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During
the fourth quarter of 2020, the related party holders of
approximately $4,700,000 of existing financing arrangements agreed
to exchange their debt and accrued interest for Series D Preferred
Stock through a separate $12 Million Private Placement, conditioned
on the Company raising at least $12,000,000 in a separate Form 1-A
Offering. This would equate into approximately 940,800 shares of
Series D Preferred Stock.
Part of
the consideration in the acquisition of Aire Fitness was the
issuance of 500,000 restricted common shares of the Company vesting
and issuable after the common stock reaches at least a $1.00 per
share closing price in trading. To date, this has not occurred but
may happen in the future upon which the Company will issue 500,000
common shares to the non-controlling interest owners of Aire
Fitness.
Stock Options
|
Options
Outstanding
|
Vested
|
Vesting
Period
|
Exercise Price
Outstanding and Exercisable
|
Expiration
Date
|
December 31,
2018
|
3,093,120
|
1,954,230
|
100% at issue and
12 to 18 months
|
$0.05 to $0.22
|
12-31-19 to
3-21-21
|
Expired
|
(93,120)
|
|
|
$0.05 to $0.22
|
12-31-19
|
December 31,
2019
|
3,000,000
|
3,000,000
|
12 to 18
months
|
$0.10
|
3-1-20 to
3-21-21
|
Expired
|
(2,000,000)
|
|
|
|
|
December 31,
2020
|
1,000,000
|
1,000,000
|
12
months
|
$0.10
|
3-21-21
|
During
the year ended December 31, 2018, we entered into consulting
arrangements primarily for legal work and general business support
that included the issuance of stock options to purchase 3,000,000
options to purchase common shares at $0.10 per share. 2,000,000 of
these expired. The remaining 1,000,000 are fully vested as of
December 31, 2020.
On
October 14, 2017, the Board of Directors and majority stockholders
of TPT approved the 2017 TPT Global Tech, Inc. Stock Option and
Award Incentive Plan (“the 2017 Plan.”) There are
20,000,000 shares of our common stock reserved under the 2017
Plan.
Warrants
As of December 31, 2020, there were 3,333,333 warrants outstanding
that expire in five years or in the year ended December 31, 2024.
As part of the Convertible Promissory Notes payable – third
party issuance in Note 5, the Company issued 3,333,333 warrants to
purchase 3,333,333 common shares of the Company at 70% of the
current market price. Current market price means the average
of the three lowest trading prices for our common stock during the
ten-trading day period ending on the latest complete trading day
prior to the date of the respective exercise notice.
The
exercise of the options, warrants, convertible promissory notes and
Series A and B Series Preferred Stock into shares of our common
stock could have a dilutive effect to the holdings of our existing
shareholders.
We may in the future issue more shares which could cause a loss of
control by our present management and current
stockholders.
We may
issue further shares as consideration for the cash or assets or
services out of our authorized but unissued common stock that
would, upon issuance, represent a majority of the voting power and
equity of our Company. The result of such an issuance would be
those new stockholders and management would control our Company,
and persons unknown could replace our management at this time. Such
an occurrence would result in a greatly reduced percentage of
ownership of our Company by our current shareholders, which could
present significant risks to investors.
Our officers and directors
may have conflicts of interests as to corporate opportunities which
we may not be able or allowed to participate
in.
Presently
there is no requirement contained in our Articles of Incorporation,
Bylaws, or minutes which requires officers and directors of our
business to disclose to us business opportunities which come to
their attention. Our officers and directors do, however, have a
fiduciary duty of loyalty to us to disclose to us any business
opportunities which come to their attention, in their capacity as
an officer and/or director or otherwise. Excluded from this duty
would be opportunities which the person learns about through his
involvement as an officer and director of another company. We have
no intention of merging with or acquiring business opportunity from
any affiliate or officer or director.
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We have agreed to indemnification of officers and directors as is
provided by Florida Statutes.
Florida
Statutes provide for the indemnification of our directors,
officers, employees, and agents, under certain circumstances,
against attorney’s fees and other expenses incurred by them
in any litigation to which they become a party arising from their
association with or activities our behalf. We will also bear the
expenses of such litigation for any of our directors, officers,
employees, or agents, upon such person’s promise to repay us
therefore if it is ultimately determined that any such person shall
not have been entitled to indemnification. This indemnification
policy could result in substantial expenditures by us that we will
be unable to recoup.
Our directors’ liability to us and shareholders is
limited.
Florida
Statutes exclude personal liability of our directors and our
stockholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty
except in certain specified circumstances. Accordingly, we will
have a much more limited right of action against our directors that
otherwise would be the case. This provision does not affect the
liability of any director under federal or applicable state
securities laws.
Our Stock prices in the Market may be volatile.
The
value of our Common stock may be highly volatile and could be
subject to fluctuations in price in response to various factors,
some of which are beyond our control. These factors
include:
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quarterly
variations in our results of operations or those of our
competitors;
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announcements
by us or our competitors of acquisitions, new products, significant
contracts, commercial relationships or capital
commitments;
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disruption
to our operations or those of other sources critical to our network
operations;
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the
emergence of new competitors or new technologies;
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our
ability to develop and market new and enhanced products on a timely
basis;
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seasonal
or other variations in our subscriber base;
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commencement
of, or our involvement in, litigation;
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availability
of additional spectrum;
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dilutive
issuances of our stock or the stock of our subsidiaries, or the
incurrence of additional debt;
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changes
in our board or management;
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adoption
of new or different accounting standards;
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changes
in governmental regulations or in the status of our regulatory
approvals;
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changes
in earnings estimates or recommendations by securities
analysts;
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announcements
regarding WiMAX and other technical standards; and
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general
economic conditions and slow or negative growth of related
markets.
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In
addition, the stock market in general, and the market for shares of
technology companies in particular, has experienced price and
volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or
disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies.
We expect the value of our common stock will be subject to such
fluctuations.
We may not be able to successfully implement our business strategy
without substantial additional capital. Any such failure may
adversely affect the business and results of
operations.
Unless
we can generate revenues sufficient to implement our Business Plan,
we will need to obtain additional financing through debt or bank
financing, or through the sale of shareholder interests to execute
our Business Plan. We expect to need at least $38,000,000 in the
next twelve months in capital or loans to complete our plans and
operations. We may not be able to obtain this financing at all. We
have not sought commitments for this financing, and we have no
terms for either debt or equity financing, and we realize that it
may be difficult to obtain on favorable terms. Moreover, if we
issue additional equity securities to support our operations,
Investor holdings may be diluted. Our business plans are at risk if
we cannot continually achieve additional capital raising to
complete our plans.
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We are reliant, in part, on third party sales organizations, which
may not perform as we expect.
We,
from time to time rely on the sales force of third-party sales
organizations with support from our own selling resources. The
third-party relationships and internal organization are not fully
developed at this time and must be developed. We may not be able to
hire effective inside salespeople to help our third-party sales
organizations close sales. There is no assurance that any
approaches will improve sales. Further, using only a direct sales
force would be less cost-effective than our plan to use third-party
sales organizations. In addition, a direct sales model may be
ineffective if we were unable to hire and retain qualified
salespeople and if the sales force fails to complete sales.
Moreover, even if we successfully implement our business strategy,
we may not have positive operating results. We may decide to alter
or discontinue aspects of our business strategy and may adopt
different strategies due to business or competitive
factors.
Our growth may be affected adversely if our sales of products and
services are negatively affected by competition or other
factors.
The
growth of our business is dependent, in large part, upon the
development of sales for our services and product offerings. Market
opportunities that we expect to exist may not develop as expected,
or at all. For example, a substantial percentage of our service
offerings is oriented around data access. If lower cost
alternatives are developed, our sales would decrease and our
operating results would be negatively affected. Moreover, even if
market opportunities develop as expected, new technologies and
services offerings introduced by competitors may significantly
limit our ability to capitalize on any such market opportunity. Our
failure to capitalize on expected market opportunities would
adversely affect revenue growth.
The
lack of operating history and the rapidly changing nature of the
market in which we compete make it difficult to accurately forecast
revenues and operating results. We anticipate that revenues and
operating results might fluctuate in the future due to a number of
factors including the following:
●
the timing of sales
for current services and products offerings
●
the timing of new
product implementations
●
unexpected delays
in introducing new services and products offerings
●
increased expense
related to sales and marketing, product development or
administration
●
the mix of products
and our services offerings
●
costs related to
possible acquisitions of technology or business.
●
costs of providing
services
We may be unable to compete with larger, more established
competitors.
The
market for providing network delivered service solutions is
competitive. We expect competition to intensify in the future. Many
of our potential competitors have longer operating histories,
larger customer bases, greater recognition and significantly
greater resources. As a result, competitors may be able to respond
more quickly to emerging technologies and changes in customer
requirements than we can. The continuous and timely introduction of
competitively priced services offerings into the market is critical
to our success, and there can be no assurance that we will be able
to introduce such services offerings. We may not be able to compete
successfully against competitors, and the competitive pressures we
face may have an adverse effect on our business.
Our common stock will in all likelihood be thinly traded and as a
result you may be unable to sell at or near ask prices or at all if
you need to liquidate your shares, after any conversion from
Preferred Stock.
The
shares of our common stock may be thinly-traded on the OTC Market,
meaning that the number of persons interested in purchasing our
common shares at or near ask prices at any given time may be
relatively small or non-existent. This situation is attributable to
a number of factors, including the fact that we are a small company
which is relatively unknown to stock analysts, stock brokers,
institutional investors and others in the investment community that
generate or influence sales volume, and that even if we came to the
attention of such persons, they tend to be risk-averse and would be
reluctant to follow an unproven, early stage company such as ours
or purchase or recommend the purchase of any of our Securities
until such time as we became more seasoned and viable. As a
consequence, there may be periods of several days or more when
trading activity in our Securities is minimal or non-existent, as
compared to a seasoned issuer which has a large and steady volume
of trading activity that will generally support continuous sales
without an adverse effect on Securities price. We cannot give you
any assurance that a broader or more active public trading market
for our common Securities will develop or be sustained, or that any
trading levels will be sustained. Due to these conditions, we can
give investors no assurance that they will be able to sell their
shares at or near ask prices or at all if they need money or
otherwise desire to liquidate their securities of our
Company.
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The regulation of penny stocks by SEC and FINRA may discourage the
tradability of our common stock or other securities.
We are
a “penny stock” company. Our common stock currently
trades on the OTCQB under the symbol “TPTW” and will be
subject to a Securities and Exchange Commission rule that imposes
special sales practice requirements upon broker-dealers who sell
such securities to persons other than established customers or
accredited investors. For purposes of the rule, the phrase
“accredited investors” means, in general terms,
institutions with assets in excess of $5,000,000, or individuals
having a net worth in excess of $1,000,000 or having an annual
income that exceeds $200,000 (or that, when combined with a
spouse’s income, exceeds $300,000). For transactions covered
by the rule, the broker-dealer must make a special suitability
determination for the purchaser and receive the purchaser’s
written agreement to the transaction prior to the sale.
Effectively, this discourages broker-dealers from executing trades
in penny stocks. Consequently, the rule will affect the ability of
purchasers to sell their securities in any market that might
develop therefore because it imposes additional regulatory burdens
on penny stock transactions.
In
addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a
number of rules to regulate “penny stocks". Such rules
include Rules 3a51-1, 15g-1, 15g-2, 15g-3, 15g-4, 15g-5, 15g-6,
15g-7, and 15g-9 under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. Because our securities constitute “penny
stocks” within the meaning of the rules, the rules would
apply to us and to our securities. The rules will further affect
the ability of owners of shares to sell our securities in any
market that might develop for them because it imposes additional
regulatory burdens on penny stock transactions.
Shareholders
should be aware that, according to Securities and Exchange
Commission, the market for penny stocks has suffered in recent
years from patterns of fraud and abuse. Such patterns include (i)
control of the market for the security by one or a few
broker-dealers that are often related to the promoter or issuer;
(ii) manipulation of prices through prearranged matching of
purchases and sales and false and misleading press releases; (iii)
“boiler room” practices involving high-pressure sales
tactics and unrealistic price projections by inexperienced sales
persons; (iv) excessive and undisclosed bid-ask differentials and
markups by selling broker-dealers; and (v) the wholesale dumping of
the same securities by promoters and broker-dealers after prices
have been manipulated to a desired consequent investor losses. Our
management is aware of the abuses that have occurred historically
in the penny stock market. Although we do not expect to be in a
position to dictate the behavior of the market or of broker-dealers
who participate in the market, management will strive within the
confines of practical limitations to prevent the described patterns
from being established with respect to our securities.
Inventory
in penny stocks have limited remedies in the event of violations of
penny stock rules. While the courts are always available to seek
remedies for fraud against us, most, if not all, brokerages require
their customers to sign mandatory arbitration agreements in
conjunctions with opening trading accounts. Such arbitration may be
through an independent arbiter. Investors may file a complaint with
FINRA against the broker allegedly at fault, and FINRA may be the
arbiter, under FINRA rules. Arbitration rules generally limit
discovery and provide more expedient adjudication, but also provide
limited remedies in damages usually only the actual economic loss
in the account. Investors should understand that if a fraud case is
filed against a company in the courts it may be vigorously defended
and may take years and great legal expenses and costs to pursue,
which may not be economically feasible for small
investors.
That
absent arbitration agreements related to brokerage accounts,
specific legal remedies available to investors of penny stocks
include the following:
If a
penny stock is sold to the investor in violation of the
requirements listed above, or other federal or states securities
laws, the investor may be able to cancel the purchase and receive a
refund of the investment.
If a
penny stock is sold to the investor in a fraudulent manner, the
investor may be able to sue the persons and firms that committed
the fraud for damages.
The
fact that we are a penny stock company will cause many brokers to
refuse to handle transactions in the stocks, and may discourage
trading activity and volume, or result in wide disparities between
bid and ask prices. These may cause investors significant
illiquidity of the stock at a price at which they may wish to sell
or in the opportunity to complete a sale. Investors will have no
effective legal remedies for these illiquidity issues.
We will pay no dividends
in the foreseeable future on common stock.
We have
not paid dividends on our common stock and do not anticipate paying
such dividends in the foreseeable future. The Series D Preferred
Stock will be paid 6% per annum on a cumulative basis, in cash or
in registered common stock.
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Rule 144 sales of stock in the future may have a depressive effect
on our stock price.
All of
the outstanding shares of common stock held by our present
officers, directors, and affiliate stockholders are
“restricted securities” within the meaning of Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. As restricted Shares,
common shares may be resold only pursuant to an effective
registration statement or under the requirements of Rule 144 or
other applicable exemptions from registration under the Act and as
required under applicable state securities laws. Rule 144 provides
in essence that a person who has held restricted securities for six
months, under certain conditions, sell every three months, in
brokerage transactions, a number of shares that does not exceed the
greater of 1.0% of a company’s outstanding common stock or
the average weekly trading volume during the four calendar weeks
prior to the sale. There is no limit on the amount of restricted
securities that may be sold by a non-affiliate after the owner has
held the restricted securities for a period of six months. A sale
under Rule 144 or under any other exemption from the Act, if
available, or pursuant to subsequent registration of shares of
common stock of present stockholders, may have a depressive effect
upon the price of the common stock in any market that may
develop.
Any sales of our common stock, if in significant amounts, are
likely to depress the future market price of our
securities.
Assuming
all of the shares of common stock held by the selling security
holder registered in a Form S-1 and effective with the SEC on
January 27, 2021 are sold, we would have 7,500,000 new shares that
are freely tradable and therefor available for sale, in market or
private transactions.
Unrestricted
sales of 7,500,000 shares of stock by our selling stockholders
could have a huge negative impact on our share price, and the
market for our shares.
Any new potential investors will suffer a disproportionate risk and
there will be immediate dilution of existing investor’s
investments.
Our
present shareholders have acquired their securities at a cost
significantly less than that which the investors purchasing hereto
will pay for their stock holdings or at which future purchasers in
the market may pay. Therefore, any new potential investors will
bear most of the risk of loss.
We can issue future series of shares of preferred stock without
shareholder approval, which could adversely affect the rights of
common shareholders.
Our
Articles of Incorporation permit our Board of Directors to
establish the rights, privileges, preferences and restrictions,
including voting rights, of future series of stock and to issue
such stock without approval from our shareholders. The rights of
holders of common stock may suffer as a result of the rights
granted to holders of preferred stock that may be issued in the
future. In addition, we could issue preferred stock to prevent a
change in control of our Company, depriving common shareholders of
an opportunity to sell their stock at a price in excess of the
prevailing market price.
RISKS RELATING TO OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND POTENTIAL
LITIGATION
We may not be able to protect our intellectual property and
proprietary rights.
There
can be no assurances that we will be able to obtain intellectual
property protection that will effectively prevent any competitors
from developing or marketing the same or a competing technology. In
addition, we cannot predict whether we will be subject to
intellectual property litigation the outcome of which is subject to
uncertainty and which can be very costly to pursue or defend. We
will attempt to continue to protect our proprietary designs and to
avoid infringing on the intellectual property of third parties.
However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to protect
our intellectual property or avoid suits by third parties claiming
intellectual property infringement.
If our patents and other intellectual property rights do not
adequately protect our service offering, we may lose market share
to competitors and be unable to operate our business
profitably.
Patents
and other proprietary rights are anticipated to be of value to our
future business, and our ability to compete effectively with other
companies depends on the proprietary nature of our current or
future technologies. We also rely upon trade secrets, know-how,
continuing technological innovations and licensing opportunities to
develop, maintain, and strengthen our competitive position. We
cannot assure you that any future patent applications will result
in issued patents, that any patents issued or licensed to us will
not be challenged, invalidated or circumvented or that the rights
granted there under will provide a competitive advantage to us or
prevent competitors from entering markets which we currently serve.
Any required license may not be available to us on acceptable
terms, if at all or may become invalid if the licensee’s
right to such technology become challenged and/or revoked. In
addition, some licenses may be non-exclusive, and therefore
competitors may have access to the same technologies as we do.
Furthermore, we may have to take legal action in the future to
protect our trade secrets or know-how, or to defend them against
claimed infringement of the rights of others. Any legal action of
that type could be costly and time-consuming to us, and we cannot
assure you that such actions will be successful. The invalidation
of key patents or proprietary rights which we own or unsuccessful
outcomes in lawsuits to protect our intellectual property may have
a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and
results of operations.
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We may in the future become subject to claims that some, or the
entire service offering violates the patent or intellectual
property rights of others, which could be costly and disruptive to
us.
We
operate in an industry that is susceptible to patent litigation. As
a result, we or the parties we license technology from may become
subject to patent infringement claims or litigation. Further, one
or more of our future patents or applications may become subject to
interference proceedings declared by the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, (“USPTO”) or the foreign equivalents thereof to
determine the priority of claims to inventions. The defense of
intellectual property suits, USPTO interference proceedings or the
foreign equivalents thereof, as well as related legal and
administrative proceedings, are both costly and time consuming and
may divert management's attention from other business concerns. An
adverse determination in litigation or interference proceedings to
which we may become a party could, among other things:
●
subject us to
significant liabilities to third parties, including treble
damages;
●
require disputed
rights to be licensed from a third party for royalties that may be
substantial;
●
require us to cease
using such technology; or
●
prohibit us from
selling certain of our service offerings.
Any of
these outcomes could have a material adverse effect on our
business, financial condition and results of
operations.
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF
COMMENTS.
None.
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES.
REAL
ESTATE.
None.
OIL AND
GAS.
None.
PATENTS,
TRADE NAMES, TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS
Either
directly or through our subsidiaries, we have rights in various
patents, trade names, trademarks, copyrights and other intellectual
property necessary to conduct our business. Our services often use
the intellectual property of others, including licensed software.
We also occasionally license our intellectual property to others as
we deem appropriate.
We
periodically receive offers from third parties to purchase or
obtain licenses for patents and other intellectual property rights
in exchange for royalties or other payments. We also periodically
receive notices, or are named in lawsuits, alleging that our
products or services infringe on patents or other intellectual
property rights of third parties. In certain instances, these
matters can potentially adversely impact our operations, operating
results or financial position. For additional information, see
“Risk Factors”.
ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.
We have
been named in a lawsuit by EMA Financial, LLC (“EMA”)
for failing to comply with a Securities Purchase Agreement entered
into in June 2019. More specifically, EMA claims the Company failed
to honor notices of conversion, failed to establish and maintain
share reserves, failed to register EMA shares and by failed to
assure that EMA shares were Rule 144 eligible within 6 months. EMA
has claimed in excess of $7,614,967 in relief. The Company has
filed a motion in response for which EMA has filed a motion to
dismiss. The Company does not believe at this time that any
negative outcome would result in more than the $593,120 it has
recorded on its balance sheet as of December 31, 2020.
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A
lawsuit was filed in Michigan by the one of the former owners of
SpeedConnect, LLC, John Ogren. Mr. Ogren claims he is
owed back wages related to the acquisition agreement wherein the
Company acquired the assets of SpeedConnect, LLC and kept him on
through a consulting agreement. He ultimately resigned in
writing and now claims that even though he resigned he should still
have been paid. Mr. Ogren is claiming wages of $354,178 plus
interest, fees and costs. The consulting agreement called for
arbitration. We understand that Mr. Ogren is in the process
of dismissing the lawsuit and that he wants to pursue his claim
through arbitration. Management does not believe the Company
has any liability in this claim and will pursue its defenses
vigorously.
The
Company has been named in a lawsuit, Robert Serrett vs. TruCom,
Inc., by a former employee who was terminated by management in
2016. The employee was working under an employment agreement but
was terminated for breach of the agreement. The former employee is
suing for breach of contract and is seeking around $75,000 in back
pay and benefits. We recently learned that Mr. Serrett received a
default judgement in Texas on May 15, 2018 for $70,649.96, plus
$3,500 in attorney fees and 5% interest and court costs.
However, he has made no attempt that we are aware of to obtain a
sister state judgment in Arizona, where Trucom resides, or to try
and enforce the judgement and collect. Management believes it
has good and meritorious defenses and does not belief the outcome
of the lawsuit will have any material effect on the financial
position of the Company.
The
Company has collected $338,725 from one customer in excess of
amounts due from that customer in accordance with the
customer’s understanding of the appropriate billings
activity. The customer has filed a written demand for repayment by
the Company of these amounts. Management believes that the customer
agreement allows them to keep the amounts under dispute. Given the
dispute, the Company has reflected the amounts in dispute as a
customer liability on the consolidated balance sheet as of December
31, 2020 and 2019.
We are
not currently involved in any litigation that we believe could have
a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of
operations. There is no action, suite, proceeding, inquiry or
investigation before or by any court, public board, government
agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the
knowledge of the executive officers of our company or any of our
subsidiaries, threatened against or affecting our company, our
common stock, any of our subsidiaries or of our companies or our
subsidiaries’ officers or directors in their capacities as
such, in which an adverse decision could have a material adverse
effect. We anticipate that we (including current and any future
subsidiaries) will from time to time become subject to claims and
legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. It is
not feasible to predict the outcome of any such proceedings and we
cannot assure that their ultimate disposition will not have a
materially adverse effect on our business, financial condition,
cash flows or results of operations.
ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY
DISCLOSURE.
Not
applicable.
PART II
ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S
COMMON EQUITY, RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS AND ISSUER PURCHASES OF
EQUITY SECURITIES.
Our
common stock is currently quoted on the OTC QB under the symbol
“TPTW”. Because we are quoted on the OTC QB, our
securities may be less liquid, receive less coverage by security
analysts and news media, and generate lower prices than might
otherwise be obtained if they were listed on a national securities
exchange.
Holders.
As of
December 31, 2020, there are approximately 433 record holders of
865,564,371 shares of our common stock.
Dividends.
As of
the filing of this prospectus, we have not paid any dividends on
our common stock to shareholders. The Series D Preferred Stock will
be paid 6% per annum on a cumulative basis, in cash or in
registered common stock. There are no restrictions which would
limit our ability to pay dividends on common equity or that are
likely to do so in the future. The Florida Revised Statutes,
however, do prohibit us from declaring dividends where, after
giving effect to the distribution of the dividend; we would not be
able to pay our debts as they become due in the usual course of
business; or our total assets would be less than the sum of the
total liabilities plus the amount that would be needed to satisfy
the rights of shareholders who have preferential rights superior to
those receiving the distribution.
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Preferred shares.
As of
December 31, 2020, we had authorized 100,000,000 shares of
Preferred Stock, of which certain shares had been designated as
Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock, Series C
Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock.
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock.
The
Company designated 1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock as Series A
Preferred Stock. In February 2015, the Board of Directors
authorized the issuance of 1,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred
Stock to Stephen Thomas, Chairman, CEO and President of the
Company, valued at $3,117,000 for compensation expense. These
shares are outstanding as of December 31, 2020.
The
Series A Preferred Stock has a par value of $.001, is redeemable at
the Company’s option at $100 per share, is senior to any
other class or series of outstanding Preferred Stock or Common
Stock and does not bear dividends. The Series A Preferred Stock has
a liquidation preference immediately after any Senior Securities,
as defined and amended, of an amount equal to amounts payable
owing, including contingency amounts where Holders of the Series A
have personally guaranteed obligations of the Company. Holders of
the Series A Preferred Stock shall, collectively have the right to
convert all of their Series A Preferred Stock when conversion is
elected into that number of shares of Common Stock of the Company,
determined by the following formula: 60% of the issued and
outstanding Common Shares as computed immediately after the
transaction for conversion. For further clarification, the 60% of
the issued and outstanding common shares includes what the holders
of the Series A Preferred Stock may already hold in common shares
at the time of conversion. The Series A Preferred Stock,
collectively, shall have the right to vote as if converted prior to
the vote to a number of shares equal to 60% of the outstanding
Common Stock of the Company.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, the Series A Preferred Stock was
reclassified as mezzanine equity as a result of the Company not
having enough authorized common shares to be able to issue common
shares upon their conversion.
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
In
February 2015, the Company designated 3,000,000 shares of Preferred
Stock as Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
The
Series B Preferred Stock was designated in February 2015, has a par
value of $.001, is not redeemable, is senior to any other class or
series of outstanding Preferred Stock, except the Series A
Preferred Stock, or Common Stock and does not bear dividends. The
Series B Preferred Stock has a liquidation preference immediately
after any Senior Securities, as defined and currently the Series A
Preferred Stock, and of an amount equal to $2.00 per share. Holders
of the Series B Preferred Stock have a right to convert all or any
part of the Series B Preferred Shares and will receive and equal
number of common shares at the conversion price of $2.00 per share.
The Series B Preferred Stockholders have a right to vote on any
matter with holders of Common Stock and shall have a number of
votes equal to that number of Common Shares on a one-to-one
basis.
There
are 2,588,693 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
outstanding as of December 31, 2020. During the year ended December
31, 2020, the Series B Preferred Stock was reclassified as
mezzanine equity as a result of the Company not having enough
authorized common shares to be able to issue common shares upon
their conversion.
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock.
In May
2018, the Company designated 3,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock as
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock.
The
Series C Preferred Stock has a par value of $.001, is not
redeemable, is senior to any other class or series of outstanding
Preferred Stock, except the Series A and Series B Preferred Stock,
or Common Stock and does not bear dividends. The Series C Preferred
Stock has a liquidation preference immediately after any Senior
Securities, as defined and currently the Series A and B Preferred
Stock, and of an amount equal to $2.00 per share. Holders of the
Series C Preferred Stock have a right to convert all or any part of
the Series C Preferred Shares and will receive an equal number of
common shares at the conversion price of $0.15 per share. The
Series C Preferred Stockholders have a right to vote on any matter
with holders of Common Stock and shall have a number of votes equal
to that number of Common Shares on a one-to-one basis.
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There
are no shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding
as of December 31, 2020.
Series D Convertible Preferred Stock.
On June 15, 2020, the Company amended its Series D Designation from
January 14, 2020. This Amendment changed the number of shares to
10,000,000 shares of the authorized 100,000,000 shares of the
Company's $0.001 par value preferred stock as the Series D
Convertible Preferred Stock ("the Series D Preferred
Shares.").
Series
D Preferred shares have the following features: (i) 6% Cumulative
Annual Dividends payable on the purchase value in cash or common
stock of the Company at the discretion of the Board and payment is
also at the discretion of the Board, which may decide to cumulate
to future years; (ii) Any time after 18 months from issuance an
option to convert to common stock at the election of the holder @
80% of the 30 day average market closing price (for previous 30
business days) divided into $5.00. ; (iii) Automatic conversion of
the Series D Preferred Stock shall occur without consent of holders
upon any national exchange listing approval and the registration
effectiveness of common stock underlying the conversion rights. The
automatic conversion to common from Series D Preferred shall be on
a one for one basis, which shall be post-reverse split as may be
necessary for any Exchange listing (iv) Registration Rights –
the Company has granted Piggyback Registration Rights for common
stock underlying conversion rights in the event it files any other
Registration Statement (other than an S-1 that the Company may file
for certain conversion common shares for the convertible note
financing that was arranged and funded in 2019). Further, the
Company will file, and pursue to effectiveness, a Registration
Statement or offering statement for common stock underlying the
Automatic Conversion event triggered by an exchange listing. (v)
Liquidation Rights - $5.00 per share plus any accrued unpaid
dividends – subordinate to Series A, B, and C Preferred Stock
receiving full liquidation under the terms of such series. The
Company has redemption rights for the first year following the
Issuance Date to redeem all or part of the principal amount of the
Series D Preferred Stock at between 115% and 140%.
As of
December 31, 2020, there are no Series D Preferred shares
outstanding as amended.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, the related party holders of
approximately $4,700,000 of existing financing arrangements agreed
to exchange their debt and accrued interest for 940,800 Series D
Preferred Stock through a separate $12 Million Private Placement of
Series D Preferred Stock (“$12 Million Private
Placement”), conditioned on the Company raising at least
$12,000,000. To date, this condition has not been met.
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation
Plans.
None.
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Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities.
Aside
from what has been disclosed in our Registration Statement on Form
S-1/A dated February 13, 2019, amended December 10, 2019, September
14, 2020 and September 29, 2020, and Registration Statement on Form
S-8 dated September 25, 2020 and Registration Statement on Form
S-1/A dated October 28, 2020, amended on January 15, 2021, we have
issued the following pursuant to conversions of amounts due under
convertible promissory notes. Otherwise, we have not sold
unregistered securities in the past 2 years without registering the
securities under the Securities Act of 1933.
2019
Conversions
|
|
|
|
|
|
Accrued
|
|
Share
|
|
Price
|
||||||||
|
|
Date
|
|
Principal
|
|
Interest
|
|
Amounts
|
|
Per
Share
|
||||||||
Geneva
#1
|
|
|
9/19/2019
|
|
|
|
10,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
201,207
|
|
|
0.0497
|
|
|
|
9/24/2019
|
|
|
|
15,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
380,711
|
|
|
0.0394
|
|
|
|
9/27/2019
|
|
|
|
15,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
491,803
|
|
|
0.0305
|
|
|
|
10/10/2019
|
|
|
|
12,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
487,805
|
|
|
0.0246
|
|
|
|
11/7/2019
|
|
|
|
8,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,052,632
|
|
|
0.0076
|
|
|
|
11/11/2019
|
|
|
|
8,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,589,474
|
|
|
0.0050
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
68,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,203,632
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Geneva
#2
|
|
|
11/21/2019
|
|
|
|
12,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,578,947
|
|
|
0.0076
|
|
|
|
12/2/2019
|
|
|
|
13,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,756,757
|
|
|
0.0074
|
|
|
|
12/5/2019
|
|
|
|
20,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,702,703
|
|
|
0.0074
|
|
|
|
12/17/2019
|
|
|
|
12,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,181,818
|
|
|
0.0055
|
|
|
|
12/30/2019
|
|
|
|
8,000
|
|
|
|
3,900
|
|
|
|
5,409,091
|
|
|
0.0022
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
65,000
|
|
|
|
3,900
|
|
|
|
13,629,316
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Auctus
|
|
|
9/26/2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,350
|
|
|
|
1,000,000
|
|
|
0.0204
|
|
|
|
11/12/2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,930
|
|
|
|
1,500,000
|
|
|
0.0026
|
|
|
|
12/19/2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4,110
|
|
|
|
1,500,000
|
|
|
0.0027
|
|
|
|
12/30/2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,210
|
|
|
|
6,000,000
|
|
|
0.0030
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
46,600
|
|
|
|
10,000,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JSJ
|
|
|
12/12/2019
|
|
|
|
25,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,078,720
|
|
|
0.0049
|
|
|
|
12/31/2019
|
|
|
|
14,946
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,764,367
|
|
|
0.0019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
39,946
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
12,843,087
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
Conversions 2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
172,946
|
|
|
|
50,500
|
|
|
|
40,676,035
|
|
|
0.0055
|
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2020
Conversions
|
|
|
|
Accrued
|
|
Share
|
|
Price
|
||||||||||||
|
|
Date
|
|
Principal
|
|
Interest
|
|
Amounts
|
|
Per
Share
|
||||||||||
Geneva
#3
|
|
|
1/6/2020
|
|
|
|
15,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6,818,182
|
|
|
|
0.0022
|
|
|
|
|
1/21/2020
|
|
|
|
15,100
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,437,500
|
|
|
|
0.0016
|
|
|
|
|
1/27/2020
|
|
|
|
14,200
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,466,667
|
|
|
|
0.0015
|
|
|
|
|
1/30/2020
|
|
|
|
13,200
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,428,571
|
|
|
|
0.0014
|
|
|
|
|
2/3/2020
|
|
|
|
500
|
|
|
|
3,480
|
|
|
|
3,618,182
|
|
|
|
0.0011
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
58,000
|
|
|
|
3,480
|
|
|
|
38,769,102
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Geneva
#4
|
|
|
2/3/2020
|
|
|
|
6,400
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,818,182
|
|
|
|
0.0011
|
|
|
|
|
2/7/2020
|
|
|
|
8,900
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,710,526
|
|
|
|
0.0008
|
|
|
|
|
2/10/2020
|
|
|
|
8,900
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,710,526
|
|
|
|
0.0008
|
|
|
|
|
2/11/2020
|
|
|
|
8,900
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,710,526
|
|
|
|
0.0008
|
|
|
|
|
2/12/2020
|
|
|
|
10,600
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
13,947,368
|
|
|
|
0.0008
|
|
|
|
|
2/13/2020
|
|
|
|
9,300
|
|
|
|
1,300
|
|
|
|
13,947,368
|
|
|
|
0.0008
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
53,000
|
|
|
|
1,300
|
|
|
|
68,844,496
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Auctus
|
|
|
1/22/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,250
|
|
|
|
9,000,000
|
|
|
|
0.0009
|
|
|
|
|
1/31/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7,407
|
|
|
|
11,328,792
|
|
|
|
0.0007
|
|
|
|
|
2/11/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,692
|
|
|
|
13,419,792
|
|
|
|
0.0005
|
|
|
|
|
2/14/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,692
|
|
|
|
13,419,792
|
|
|
|
0.0005
|
|
|
|
|
2/20/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5,692
|
|
|
|
13,419,792
|
|
|
|
0.0005
|
|
|
|
|
2/25/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8,717
|
|
|
|
19,723,187
|
|
|
|
0.0005
|
|
|
|
|
3/3/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10,626
|
|
|
|
23,699,083
|
|
|
|
0.0005
|
|
|
|
|
3/9/2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
11,323
|
|
|
|
25,151,000
|
|
|
|
0.0005
|
|
|
|
|
3/13/2020
|
|
|
|
5,593
|
|
|
|
5,593
|
|
|
|
29,839,300
|
|
|
|
0.0004
|
|
|
|
|
3/20/2020
|
|
|
|
4,784
|
|
|
|
4,784
|
|
|
|
32,246,500
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
3/26/2020
|
|
|
|
4,365
|
|
|
|
4,365
|
|
|
|
33,855,570
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
3/31/2020
|
|
|
|
3,125
|
|
|
|
3,125
|
|
|
|
25,000,000
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
4/6/2020
|
|
|
|
3,536
|
|
|
|
3,536
|
|
|
|
27,936,930
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
4/9/2020
|
|
|
|
1,006
|
|
|
|
6,066
|
|
|
|
27,936,930
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
4/15/2020
|
|
|
|
5,574
|
|
|
|
2,279
|
|
|
|
30,725,000
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
4/21/2020
|
|
|
|
5,197
|
|
|
|
2,257
|
|
|
|
29,298,332
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
33,180
|
|
|
|
95,404
|
|
|
|
366,000,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
JSJ
|
|
|
2/10/2020
|
|
|
|
3,734
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
5,656,913
|
|
|
|
0.0007
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3,734
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
5,656,913
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
EMA
|
|
|
2/14/2020
|
|
|
|
3,546
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
15,500,000
|
|
|
|
0.0002
|
|
|
|
|
2/19/2020
|
|
|
|
4,700
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
19,000,000
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
2/24/2020
|
|
|
|
5,180
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
20,600,000
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
2/28/2020
|
|
|
|
6,080
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,600,000
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
3/2/2020
|
|
|
|
6,080
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23,600,000
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
3/10/2020
|
|
|
|
7,100
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27,000,000
|
|
|
|
0.0003
|
|
|
|
|
3/17/2020
|
|
|
|
2,680
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
18,400,000
|
|
|
|
0.0002
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
35,366
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
147,700,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Odyssey
|
|
|
1/8/2020
|
|
|
|
10,000
|
|
|
|
713
|
|
|
|
5,487,027
|
|
|
|
0.0020
|
|
|
|
|
1/17/2020
|
|
|
|
12,000
|
|
|
|
892
|
|
|
|
9,191,886
|
|
|
|
0.0014
|
|
|
|
|
2/12/2020
|
|
|
|
8,800
|
|
|
|
729
|
|
|
|
13,860,465
|
|
|
|
0.0007
|
|
|
|
|
2/25/2020
|
|
|
|
12,700
|
|
|
|
1,106
|
|
|
|
20,082,138
|
|
|
|
0.0007
|
|
|
|
|
6/3/2020
|
|
|
|
5,650
|
|
|
|
676
|
|
|
|
4,340,405
|
|
|
|
0.0015
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
49,150
|
|
|
|
4,116
|
|
|
|
52,961,921
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
Conversions 2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
232,430
|
|
|
|
104,300
|
|
|
|
679,932,432
|
|
|
|
|
|
We have
filed Forms 8-K dated April 22, 2019, May 28, 2019, June 20, 2019,
September 19, 2019 and September 30, 2019, related to convertible
promissory notes for which the underlying common shares have not be
registered.
56
Exemption From Registration Claimed
All of
the above sales by us of our unregistered securities were made by
us in reliance upon Rule 506 of Regulation D and Section 4(a)(5) of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "1933 Act"). All of the
individuals and/or entities that purchased the unregistered
securities were primarily existing shareholders, known to us and
our management, through pre-existing business relationships, as
long-standing business associates and employees. All purchasers
were provided access to all material information, which they
requested, and all information necessary to verify such information
and were afforded access to our management in connection with their
purchases. All purchasers of the unregistered securities acquired
such securities for investment and not with a view toward
distribution, acknowledging such intent to us. All certificates or
agreements representing such securities that were issued contained
restrictive legends, prohibiting further transfer of the
certificates or agreements representing such securities, without
such securities either being first registered or otherwise exempt
from registration in any further resale or
disposition.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
We did
not repurchase any shares of our common stock during the year ended
December 31, 2020.
ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL
DATA.
Not
applicable.
ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION
AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF
OPERATIONS.
Forward-Looking Statements and Associated Risks.
This Form 10-K contains certain statements that are forward-looking
within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act
of 1995. For this purpose, any statements contained in this Form
10-K that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be
forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, words
such as “may,” “will,”
“expect,” “believe,”
“anticipate,” “estimate,”
“continue,” or comparable terminology are intended to
identify forward-looking statements. These statements by their
nature involve substantial risks and uncertainties, and actual
results may differ materially depending on a variety of factors,
many of which are not within our control. These factors include but
are not limited to economic conditions generally and in the
industries in which we may participate; competition within our
chosen industry, including competition from much larger
competitors; technological advances and failure to successfully
develop business relationships.
Based
on our financial history since inception, our auditor has expressed
substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern.
As reflected in the accompanying financial statements, as of
December 31, 2020, we had an accumulated deficit totaling
$40,902,944. This raises substantial doubts about our ability to
continue as a going concern.
We
generate revenues primarily through telecommunications and Internet
services and as a provider of ecommerce and cloud solutions in the
western United States.
PLAN OF OPERATIONS
Our Capital Budget for the next 12 months
Liquidity and Capital Resource Needs
If we
can raise sufficient capital resources, we intend to expend
significant funds after our intended funding event equally
throughout 2021 as follows.
Equipment purchases
and manufacturing (1)
|
$14,000,000
|
Product
advancement
|
$2,250,000
|
Acquisitions
|
$500,000
|
Debt
Restructuring
|
$7,300,000
|
Working Capital,
including marketing (1)
|
$10,710,000
|
Brokerage
commissions
|
$3,040,000
|
Offering
expenses
|
$200,000
|
|
$38,000,000
|
(1) It
is expected the use of this working capital and funds for equipment
purchases will extend into 2022.
57
Although
the items set forth above indicate management’s present
estimate of our use of the net proceeds, we may reallocate the proceeds or utilize them
for other corporate purposes. Our actual use of proceeds may
vary from these estimates because of a number of factors, including
whether we are successful in completing future acquisitions,
whether we obtain additional funding, what other obligations have
been incurred by us, the operating results of our initial
acquisition activities, and whether we are able to operate
profitably. If our need for working capital increases, we may seek
additional funds through loans or other financing. There are no
commitments for any such financing, and there can be no assurance
that these funds may be obtained in the future if the need
arises.
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
For the Year Ended December 31, 2020 Compared to the Year Ended
December 31, 2019
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, we recognized total revenues of
$11,094,170 compared to the prior period of $10,212,377. The
increase was a result of the acquisition of a majority of the
assets of SpeedConnect in May of 2019.
Gross
profit (loss) for the year ended December 31, 2020 was $3,900,677
compared to $4,300,376 for the prior period. The decrease was due
primarily to a decrease in the gross profit from Blue Collar. Blue
Collar’s operations were severally restricted from the
effects of COVID-19 during 2020.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, we recognized $12,105,016 in
expenses compared to $7,409,428 for the prior period. The increase
was a result of the acquisition of a majority of the assets of
SpeedConnect in May of 2019, 1,000,000 of research and development
expense, and $2,702,996 of impairment expense in 2020.
Derivative
gain of $1,140,323 compared to derivative expense of $7,476,908 for
2019 resulted from the accounting for derivative financial
instruments.
Interest
expense decreased for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to
the prior period by $2,049,287. The decrease is largely from the
derivative debt being in default of the increased penalty amounts
that were accounted for in the prior period versus this
period.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, we recognized a net loss of
$8,119,268 compared to $14,028,165 for the prior period. The
increase in the loss of $6,762,263 was in large part a result of
derivative expense of $7,476,908 in 2019 versus a derivative gain
of $1,140,323 in 2020, higher interest expense of $3,581,020 versus
$1,531,733 in 2020 from the convertible promissory notes and
impairment expense of $2,702,996, in 2020 versus $949,872 for the
prior year.
LIQUIDITY
AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
Cash
flows generated from operating activities were not enough to
support all working capital requirements for the years ended
December 31, 2020 and 2019. Financing activities described below
have helped with working capital and other capital
requirements.
We
incurred $8,119,268 and $14,028,165, respectively, in losses, and
we used $489,573 and $328,251, respectively, in cash for operations
for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. We calculate the
net cash used by operating activities by decreasing, or increasing
in case of gain, our let loss by those items that do not require
the use of cash such as depreciation, amortization, promissory note
issued for research and development, note payable issued for legal
fees, derivative expense or gain, gain on extinguishment of debt,
loss on conversion of notes payable, impairment of goodwill and
long-loved assts and share-based compensation which totaled to a
net $5,378,277 for 2020 and $13,091,764 for 2019.
In
addition, we report increases and reductions in liabilities as uses
of cash and deceases assets and increases in liabilities as sources
of cash, together referred to as changes in operating assets and
liabilities. For the year ended December 31, 2020, we had a net
increase in our assets and liabilities of $2,251,418 primarily from
an increase in accounts payable from lag of payments for accounts
payable for cash flow considerations and an increase in the
balances from our operating lease liabilities. For the year ended
December 31, 2019 we had a net increase to our assets and
liabilities of $608,150 for similar reasons.
Cash
flows from financing activities were $817,608 and $1,390,538 for
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. For the
year ended December 30, 2020, these cash flows were generated
primarily from proceeds from proceeds from sale of non-controlling
interests in QuikLABS of $460,000, proceeds from convertible notes,
loans and advances of $1,753,204 offset by payment on convertible
loans, advances and factoring agreements of $1,169,330 and payments
on convertible notes and amounts payable – related parties of
$212,256. For the year ended December 31, 2019, cash flows from
financing activities primarily came from proceeds from convertible
notes, loans and advances of $2,613,047 offset by payments on
convertible loans, advances and factoring agreements of
$1,440,139.
Cash
flows used in investing activities were $500,898 and $901,901,
respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. For
the year ended December 31, 2020 these cash flows were used
primarily for the acquisition of property and equipment of $424,560
and the purchase of intangibles of $76,798. For the year ended
December 31, 2019 cash flows for investing activities were used to
acquire property and equipment and the payment for business
acquisitions.
These
factors raise substantial doubt about the ability of the Company to
continue as a going concern for a period of one year from the
issuance of these financial statements. The financial statements do
not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of
this uncertainty.
In December 2019, COVID-19 emerged and has subsequently spread
worldwide. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a
pandemic resulting in federal, state and local governments and
private entities mandating various restrictions, including travel
restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home
orders and advisories and quarantining of people who may have been
exposed to the virus. After close monitoring and responses and
guidance from federal, state and local governments, in an effort to
mitigate the spread of COVID-19, around March 18, 2020 for a period
of time, the Company closed its Blue Collar office in Los Angeles
and its TPT SpeedConnect offices in Michigan, Idaho and
Arizona. Most employees were working remotely, however this
is not possible with certain employees and all subcontractors that
work for Blue Collar. The Company continues to monitor
developments, including government requirements and recommendations
at the national, state, and local level to evaluate possible
extensions to all or part of such closures.
The Company has taken advantage of the stimulus offerings and
received $722,200 in April 2020 and $680,500 in February 2021 and
believes it has used these funds as is prescribed by the stimulus
offerings to have the entire amounts forgiven. The Company has
applied for forgiveness of the original stimulus of $722,200. The
forgiveness process for stimulus funded in February 2021 has not
begun. The Company will try and take advantage of additional
stimulus as it is available and is also in the process of trying to
raise debt and equity financing, some of which may have to be used
for working capital shortfalls if revenues continue to decline
because of the COVID-19 closures.
58
In
order for us to continue as a going concern for a period of one
year from the issuance of these financial statements, we will need
to obtain additional debt or equity financing and look for
companies with cash flow positive operations that we can acquire.
There can be no assurance that we will be able to secure additional
debt or equity financing, that we will be able to acquire cash flow
positive operations, or that, if we are successful in any of those
actions, those actions will produce adequate cash flow to enable us
to meet all our future obligations. Most of our existing financing
arrangements are short-term. If we are unable to obtain additional
debt or equity financing, we may be required to significantly
reduce or cease operations.
A
summary of material terms of our financing arrangements as of
December 31, 2020 is as follows:
|
|
Balance
|
|
Rate
|
|
Due
Date
|
|
Past
Due
|
|
Conversion
|
|
Secured
|
||||||||||
Third party debt:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Loans
and advances
|
|
$
|
2,517,200
|
|
|
|
3.76-14
|
|
|
|
May
2020 to March 2021
|
|
|
$
|
580,942
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
Company
assets
|
Convertible
Notes Payable
|
|
|
1,711,098
|
|
|
|
6-24%
|
|
|
|
(1)
|
|
|
$
|
1,711,098
|
|
|
|
Convertible
at $0.15 to $0.25 per share
|
|
|
Company
stock
|
Factoring
Agreements
|
|
|
635,130
|
|
|
|
30-43%
|
|
|
|
February
2020 to October 2021
|
|
|
$
|
—
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
Receivables
|
Total third party debt
|
|
$
|
4,863,428
|
|
|
|
5%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Related party debt:
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Line
of Credit
|
|
$
|
3,043,390
|
|
|
|
1 Mo
Libor plus 2.0%
|
|
|
|
(2)
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
Trucom
assets
|
Debt
(Matrixsites)(5)
|
|
|
4,000,000
|
|
|
|
0%
|
|
|
|
(3)
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
ViewMe
Live assets
|
Debt
(Lion Phone)
|
|
|
350,000
|
|
|
|
0%
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
None
|
Debt
(Blue Collar)(4)
|
|
|
1,600,000
|
|
|
|
3%
|
|
|
|
August
31, 2020
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
Blue
Collar assets
|
Debt
(Aire Fitness)(6)
|
|
|
473,334
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
February
1, 2021
|
|
|
|
None
|
(6)
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
Aire
Fitness assets
|
|
Convertible
Debt
|
|
|
922,881
|
|
|
|
4-6%
|
|
|
|
Various
in 2020 and 2021
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
Convertible
at $0.15 to $1.00 per share
|
|
|
Company
assets
|
Shareholder
Debt
|
|
|
93,072
|
|
|
|
0%
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
|
None
|
|
|
None
|
Total related party debt
|
|
$
|
11,482,277
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total financing arrangements
|
|
$
|
16,345,705
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1)
Various dates from December 2019 to June 2020.
(2)
Subsequently amended to August 31, 2020.
(3)
$2,000,000 from debt proceeds and $2,000,000 from a second Company
public offering.
(4) On
September 1, 2018, the Company closed on its acquisition of Blue
Collar. Part of the acquisition included a promissory note of
$1,600,000 and interest at 3%. The promissory note is secured by
the assets of Blue Collar.
(5)
Matrixsites debt of $4,000,000 does not bear interest, is not
convertible and is payable $2,000,000 from debt proceeds and
$2,000,000 from a second Company public offering and has a security
interest in the assets that were acquired.
(6)
Aire Fitness debt of $500,000 ($473,334 net of discount) does not
bear interest, is not convertible, is payable six months from
origination (August 1, 2020) or as agreed up by the Company and the
former owners (currently non-controlling interest holders) of Aire
Fitness has a security interest in the assets that were acquired.
This Note Payable became delinquent subsequent to December 31,
2020.
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Consequences of not
repaying the Blue Collar $1,600,000 debt, the Matrixsites
$4,000,000 debt and the Aire Fitness $500,000 debt ($473,334 net of
discount) are outlined in the security agreements which are
generally the following:
The
lender (seller) may foreclose on the assets in the event of default
of non-payment or other default and may bid in the assets at
foreclosure at less than the debt. This could have the practical
effect of taking away the assets pledged, through the foreclosure
and, may leave a deficiency under the note, which would mean the
company would have none of the assets and still retain liability
for an unknown amount, and have no business related to these
acquisitions.
CRITICAL ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Revenue Recognition
On
January 1, 2018, we adopted the new accounting standard ASC
606, Revenue from Contracts
with Customers, and all of the related amendments
(“new revenue standard”). We recorded the change, which
was immaterial, related to adopting the new revenue standard using
the modified retrospective method. Under this method, we recognized
the cumulative effect of initially applying the new revenue
standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained
earnings. This results in no restatement of prior periods, which
continue to be reported under the accounting standards in effect
for those periods. We expect the impact of the adoption of the new
revenue standard to continue to be immaterial on an ongoing basis.
We have applied the new revenue standard to all contracts as of the
date of initial application and as such, have used the following
criteria described below in more detail for each business
unit:
Identify the contract with the
customer.
Identify the performance
obligations in the contract.
Determine the transaction
price.
Allocate the transaction price
to performance obligations in the contract.
Recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance
obligation.
Reserves are recorded as a reduction in net sales and are not
considered material to our consolidated statements of income for
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. In addition, we
invoice our customers for taxes assessed by governmental
authorities such as sales tax and value added taxes, where
applicable. We present these taxes on a net
basis.
The
Company’s revenue generation for the years ended December 31,
2020 and 2019 came from the following sources disaggregated by
services and products, which sources are explained in detail
below.
|
For the year
ended
December 31,
2020
|
For the year
ended
December 31,
2019
|
TPT
SpeedConnect
|
$9,958,770
|
$8,002,875
|
Blue
Collar
|
1,051,120
|
1,941,955
|
San Diego
Media
|
14,405
|
23,683
|
TPT
MedTech
|
30,484
|
—
|
Copperhead
Digital
|
—
|
189,511
|
Other
|
—
|
749
|
Total Services
Revenues
|
$11,054,779
|
$10,158,772
|
K Telecom –
Product Revenue
|
39,391
|
53,605
|
Total
Revenue
|
$11,094,170
|
$10,212,377
|
TPT SpeedConnect: ISP and Telecom Revenue
TPT
SpeedConnect is a rural Internet provider operating in 10
Midwestern States under the trade name SpeedConnect. TPT SC’s
primary business model is subscription based, pre-paid monthly
reoccurring revenues, from wireless delivered, high-speed internet
connections. In addition, the company resells third-party satellite
and DSL internet and IP telephony services. Revenue generated from
sales of telecommunications services is recognized as the
transaction with the customer is considered closed and the customer
receives and accepts the services that were the result of the
transaction. There are no financing terms or variable transaction
prices. Due date is detailed on monthly invoices distributed to
customer. Services billed monthly in advance are deferred to the
proper period as needed. Deferred revenue are contract liabilities
for cash received before performance obligations for monthly
services are satisfied. Deferred revenue at December 31, 2020 and
2019 are $292,847 and $305,741, respectively. Certain of our
products require specialized installation and equipment. For
telecom products that include installation, if the installation
meets the criteria to be considered a separate element, product
revenue is recognized upon delivery, and installation revenue is
recognized when the installation is complete. The Installation
Technician collects the signed quote containing terms and
conditions when installing the site equipment at customer
premises.
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Revenue
for installation services and equipment is billed separately from
recurring ISP and telecom services and is recognized when equipment
is delivered and installation is completed. Revenue from ISP and
telecom services is recognized monthly over the contractual period,
or as services are rendered and accepted by the
customer.
The
overwhelming majority of our revenue continues to be recognized
when transactions occur. Since installation fees are generally
small relative to the size of the overall contract and because most
contracts are for two years or less, the impact of not recognizing
installation fees over the contract is immaterial.
Blue Collar: Media Production Services
Blue
Collar creates original live action and animated content
productions and has produced hundreds of hours of material for the
television, theatrical, home entertainment and new media markets.
Blue Collar designs branding and marketing campaigns and has had
agreements with some of the world’s largest companies
including PepsiCo, Intel, HP, WalMart and many other Fortune 500
companies. Additionally, they create motion picture, television and
home entertainment marketing campaigns for studios including Sony,
DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount
Studios, and Warner Brothers. With regard to revenue recognition,
Blue Collar receives an agreement from each client to perform
defined work. Some agreements are written, some are verbal. Work
may include creation of marketing materials and/or content
creation. Some work may be short term and take weeks to create and
some work may be longer and take months to create. There are
instances where customer agreements segregate identifiable
obligations (like filming on site vs. film editing and final
production) with separate transaction pricing. The performance
obligation is generally satisfied upon delivery of such film or
production products, at which time revenue is recognized. There are
no financing terms or variable transaction prices.
SDM: Ecommerce, Email Marketing and Web Design
Services
SDM
generates revenue by providing ecommerce, email marketing and web
design solutions to small and large commercial businesses, complete
with monthly software support, updates and maintenance. Services
are billed monthly. There are no financing terms or variable
transaction prices. Platform infrastructure support is a prepaid
service billed in monthly recurring increments. The services are
billed a month in advance and due prior to services being rendered.
The revenue is deferred when invoiced and booked in the month the
service is provided. There is no deferred revenue at December 31,
2020 and 2019. Software support services (including software
upgrades) are billed in real time, on the first of the month. Web
design service revenues are recognized upon completion of specific
projects. Revenue is booked in the month the services are rendered
and payments are due on the final day of the month. There are
usually no contract revenues that are deferred until services are
performed.
TPT MedTech: Medical Testing Revenue
TPT
MedTech operates in the Point of Care Testing (“POCT”)
market by primarily offering mobile medical testing facilities and
software equipped for mobile devices to monitor and manage
personalized healthcare. Services used from our mobile medical
testing facilities are billing through credit cards at the time of
service. Revenue is generated from our software platform as users
sign up for our mobile healthcare monitor and management
application and tests are performed. If medical testing is in one
our own owned facility, the usage of the software application is
included in the testing fees. If the testing is in a non-owned
outside contracted facility, fees are generated from the usage of
the software application on a per test basis and billed
monthly.
TPT
MedTech also offers two products. One is to build and sell its
mobile testing facilities called QuikLABs designed for mobile
testing. This is used by TPT MedTech for its own testing services.
The other is a sanitizing unit called SANIQuik which is used as a
safe and flexible way to sanitize providing an additional routine
to hand washing and facial coverings. The SANIQuik has not yet been
approved for sale in the United States but has in some parts of the
European community. Revenues from these products are recognized
when a product is delivered, the sales transaction considered
closed and accepted by a customer. There are no financing terms or
variable transaction prices for either of these
products.
Copperhead Digital: ISP and Telecom Revenue
Copperhead
Digital operated as a regional internet and telecom services
provider operating in Arizona under the trade name Trucom. Although
there are currently no customers and it will take capital to reopen
this revenue stream, Copperhead Digital operated as a wireless
telecommunications Internet Service Provider (“ISP”)
facilitating both residential and commercial accounts. Copperhead
Digital’s primary business model was subscription based,
pre-paid monthly reoccurring revenues, from wireless delivered,
high-speed internet connections. In addition, the company resold
third-party satellite and DSL internet and IP telephony services.
Revenue generated from sales of telecommunications services was
recognized as the transaction with the customer is considered
closed and the customer received and accepted the services that
were the result of the transaction. There are no financing terms or
variable transaction prices. Due date was detailed on monthly
invoices distributed to customer. Services billed monthly in
advance were deferred to the proper period as needed. Deferred
revenue was contract liabilities for cash received before
performance obligations for monthly services are satisfied. Certain
of its products required specialized installation and equipment.
For telecom products that included installation, if the
installation met the criteria to be considered a separate element,
product revenue was recognized upon delivery, and installation
revenue was recognized when the installation was complete. The
Installation Technician collected the signed quote containing terms
and conditions when installing the site equipment at customer
premises.
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Revenue
for installation services and equipment was billed separately from
recurring ISP and telecom services and was recognized when
equipment was delivered, and installation was completed. Revenue
from ISP and telecom services was recognized monthly over the
contractual period, or as services were rendered and accepted by
the customer.
The
overwhelming majority of revenue was recognized when transactions
occurred. Since installation fees were generally small relative to
the size of the overall contract and because most contracts were
for a year or less, the impact of not recognizing installation fees
over the contract was immaterial.
K Telecom: Prepaid Phones and SIM Cards Revenue
K
Telecom generates revenue from reselling prepaid phones, SIM cards,
and rechargeable minute traffic for prepaid phones to its customers
(primarily retail outlets). Product sales occur at the
customer’s locations, at which time delivery occurs and cash
or check payment is received. The Company recognizes the revenue
when they receive payment at the time of delivery. There are no
financing terms or variable transaction prices.
Use of Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with United
States generally accepted accounting principles requires management
to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts
of assets and liabilities, disclosures of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the
reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
period. Actual results could differ materially from those
estimates. The Company’s consolidated financial statements
reflect all adjustments that management believes are necessary for
the fair presentation of their financial condition and results of
operations for the periods presented.
Share-based Compensation
We are
required to measure and recognize compensation expense for all
share-based payment awards (including stock options) made to
employees and directors based on estimated fair value. Compensation
expense for equity-classified awards is measured at the grant date
based on the fair value of the award and is recognized as an
expense in earnings over the requisite service period.
We
record compensation expense related to non-employees that are
awarded stock in conjunction with selling goods or services and
recognize compensation expenses over the vesting period of such
awards.
In June
2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-07, Improvements to Nonemployee
Share-Based Payment Accounting, which amends ASC 718, Compensation
– Stock Compensation. This ASU requires that most of the
guidance related to stock compensation granted to employees be
followed for non-employees, including the measurement date,
valuation approach, and performance conditions. The expense is
recognized in the same period as though cash were paid for the good
or service. The effective date is the first quarter of fiscal year
2020, with early adoption permitted, including in interim periods.
The ASU has been adopted using a modified-retrospective transition
approach. The adoption is not considered to have a material effect
on the consolidated financial statements.
Income Taxes
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. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are
measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable
income in the year in which those temporary differences are
expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax
assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in
our income tax provision in the period of enactment.
We
recognize deferred tax assets to the extent that we believe that
these assets are more likely than not to be realized. In making
such a determination, we consider all available positive and
negative evidence, including future reversal of existing taxable
temporary differences, projected future taxable income,
tax-planning strategies, and results of recent operations,
including taxable income in carryback periods. If we determine that
we would be able to realize our deferred tax assets in the future
in excess of their net recorded amount, we would make an adjustment
to the deferred tax asset valuation allowance, which would reduce
our income tax provision.
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We
account for uncertain tax positions using a
“more-likely-than-not” recognition threshold. We
evaluate uncertain tax positions on a quarterly basis and consider
various factors, including, but not limited to, changes in tax law,
the measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in
tax returns, the effective settlement of matters subject to audit,
new audit activity and changes in facts or circumstances related to
a tax position.
During
November 2015, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update
No. 2015-17, ASU 2015-17, Balance Sheet Classification of
Deferred Taxes, which simplifies the presentation of deferred
income taxes. ASU 2015-17 requires that deferred tax assets and
liabilities be classified as non-current in a statement of
financial position. We adopted ASU 2015-17 effective
December 31, 2015.
It is
our policy to record costs associated with interest and penalties
related to tax in the selling, general and administrative line of
the consolidated statements of operations.
Goodwill
Goodwill
relates to amounts that arose in connection with our various
business combinations and represents the difference between the
purchase price and the fair value of the identifiable tangible and
intangible net assets when accounted for using the acquisition
method of accounting. Goodwill is not amortized, but it is subject
to periodic review for impairment.
We test goodwill balances for impairment on an annual basis as
of December 31st
or whenever impairment indicators
arise. We utilize several reporting units in evaluating
goodwill for impairment using a quantitative assessment, which uses
a combination of a guideline public company market-based approach
and a discounted cash flow income-based approach. The quantitative
assessment considers whether the carrying amount of a reporting
unit exceeds its fair value, in which case an impairment charge is
recorded to the extent the reporting unit’s carrying value
exceeds its fair value. Based on our impairment testing, we
recorded impairment charges of $853,366 and $70,995 of goodwill
during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively.
Intangible Assets
Our
intangible assets consist primarily of customer relationships,
developed technology, favorable leases, trademarks and the film
library. The majority of our intangible assets were recorded in
connection with our various business combinations. Our intangible
assets are recorded at fair value at the time of their acquisition.
Intangible assets are amortized over
their estimated useful life on a straight-line basis. Estimated
useful lives are determined considering the period the assets are
expected to contribute to future cash flows. We evaluate the
recoverability of our intangible assets periodically and take into
account events or circumstances that warrant revised estimates of
useful lives or that indicate impairment
exists.
Business Acquisitions
Our
business acquisitions have historically been made at prices above
the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed,
resulting in goodwill or some identifiable intangible asset.
Significant judgment is required in estimating the fair value of
intangible assets and in assigning their respective useful lives.
The fair value estimates are based on available historical
information and on future expectations and assumptions deemed
reasonable by management but are inherently uncertain.
We
generally employ the income method to estimate the fair value of
intangible assets, which is based on forecasts of the expected
future cash flows attributable to the respective assets.
Significant estimates and assumptions inherent in the valuations
reflect a consideration of other marketplace participants and
include the amount and timing of future cash flows (including
expected growth rates and profitability), the underlying product
life cycles, economic barriers to entry, a brand’s relative
market position and the discount rate applied to the cash flows.
Unanticipated market or macroeconomic events and circumstances may
occur, which could affect the accuracy or validity of the estimates
and assumptions.
Net
assets acquired are recorded at their fair value and are subject to
adjustment upon finalization of the fair value analysis.
Long-Lived Assets
We periodically review the carrying amount of our depreciable
long-lived assets for impairment which include property and
equipment and intangible assets. An asset is considered
impaired when estimated future cash flows are less than the
carrying amount of the asset. In the event the carrying amount
of such asset is not considered recoverable, the asset is adjusted
to its fair value. Fair value is generally determined based on
discounted future cash flow. As of December 31, 2020, we adjusted
the net book value to zero for the net book value of the equipment
of Copperhead Digital as it became doubtful with no customers that
the estimated future cash flows would recover the net book value.
We recorded impairment expenses of $1,849,630 and 878,877,
respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2020 and
2019.
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Right of Use Assets and Lease Liabilities
In
February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) and
subsequent amendments to the initial guidance: ASU 2017-13, ASU
2018-10, ASU 2018-11, ASU 2018-20 and ASU 2019-01 (collectively,
Topic 842). Topic 842 requires lessees to classify leases as either
finance or operating leases and to record a right-of-use asset and
a lease liability for all leases with a term greater than 12 months
regardless of the lease classification. We adopted Topic 842 using
the effective date, January 2019, as the date of our initial
application of the standard. Consequently, financial information
for the comparative periods has not been updated. Our finance and
operating lease commitments are subject to the new standard and we
recognize as finance and operating lease liabilities and
right-of-use assets. The effect on our consolidated financial
statements has not been material until we acquired the assets of
SpeedConnect, which effect has been recorded during the period
ended December 31, 2019 and is reflected in the consolidated
financial statements as of December 31, 2019.
Research and Development
Our
research and development programs focus on telecommunications
products and services. Research and development costs are expensed
as incurred. Any payments received from external parties to fund
our research and development activities reduce the recorded
research and development expenses.
Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share
The
Company computes net income (loss) per share in accordance with ASC
260, “Earning per Share””. ASC 260 requires
presentation of both basic and diluted earnings per share
(“EPS”) on the face of the income statement. Basic EPS
is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to common
shareholder (numerator) by the weighted average number of shares
outstanding (denominator) during the period. Diluted EPS gives
effect to all dilutive potential common shares outstanding during
the period using the treasury stock method and convertible
preferred stock using the if-converted method. In computing diluted
EPS, the average stock price for the period is used in determining
the number of shares assumed to be purchased from the exercise of
stock options or warrants. Diluted EPS excludes all dilutive
potential shares if their effect is anti-dilutive. As of December
31, 2020 and 2019, the Company had shares that were potentially
common stock equivalents as follows:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Convertible
Promissory Notes (2)
|
175,316,748
|
1,506,387,647
|
Series A Preferred
Stock (1)(3)
|
1,243,987,624
|
199,728,891
|
Series B Preferred
Stock
|
2,588,693
|
2,588,693
|
Stock Options and
warrants
|
4,333,333
|
6,333,333
|
|
1,426,226,398
|
1,715,038,564
|
______________________
(1) No
consideration given for existing anti-dilution
provisions.
(2) Price
used for illustrative purposes. Actual Exercise or
conversion price is a calculation based on the market.
(3) Holder
of Series A Preferred Stock which is Stephen J. Thomas, guaranteed
60% of the then outstanding common stock upon conversion. The
Company would have to authorize additional shares for this to occur
as only 1,000,000,000 are currently authorized.
In the
event of default under some of the notes, the conversion rates
change significantly, allowing certain noteholders to convert at a
greater discount to the market, which results in amounts of
issuable shares which cannot be determined at this time. An
estimate of the issuable shares is reflected below.
Derivative Financial Instruments
Derivative
financial instruments, as defined in ASC 815, “Accounting for
Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities”,
consist of financial instruments or other contracts that contain a
notional amount and one or more underlying (e.g. interest rate,
security price or other variable), require no initial net
investment and permit net settlement. Derivative financial
instruments may be free-standing or embedded in other financial
instruments. Further, derivative financial instruments are
initially, and subsequently, measured at fair value and recorded as
liabilities or, in rare instances, assets.
The
Company does not use derivative financial instruments to hedge
exposures to cash-flow, market or foreign-currency risks. However,
the Company had issued financial instruments including convertible
promissory notes payable with features during 2019 that were either
(i) not afforded equity classification, (ii) embody risks not
clearly and closely related to host contracts, or (iii) may be
net-cash settled by the counterparty. As required by ASC 815, in
certain instances, these instruments are required to be carried as
derivative liabilities, at fair value, in our financial
statements.
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The
Company estimates the fair values of derivative financial
instruments using the monte Carlo model. Estimating fair values of
derivative financial instruments requires the development of
significant and subjective estimates (such as volatility, estimated
life and interest rates) that may, and are likely to, change over
the duration of the instrument with related changes in internal and
external market factors. In addition, option-based techniques are
highly volatile and sensitive to changes in the trading market
price of our common stock, which has a high-historical volatility.
Since derivative financial instruments are initially and
subsequently carried at fair values, the Company’s operating
results will reflect the volatility in these estimate and
assumption changes.
The Company issued convertible promissory notes which are
convertible into common stock, at holders’ option, at a
discount to the market price of the Company’s common stock.
The Company has identified the embedded derivatives related to
these notes relating to certain anti-dilutive (reset) provisions.
These embedded derivatives included certain conversion features.
The accounting treatment of derivative financial instruments
requires that the Company record fair value of the derivatives as
of the inception date of debenture and to fair value as of each
subsequent reporting date.
As of December 31, 2020, the Company marked to market the fair
value of the debt derivatives and determined a fair value of
$5,265,139 ($5,229,436 from the convertible notes and $35,703 from
the warrants) in Note 6. The Company recorded a gain from change in
fair value of debt derivatives of $1,140,323 for the year ended
December 31, 2020. The fair value of the embedded derivatives was
determined using Monte Carlo simulation method based on the
following assumptions: (1) dividend yield of 0%, (2) expected
volatility of 190.9% to 350.8%, (3) weighted average risk-free
interest rate of 0.09% to 0.12% (4) expected life of 0.25 to 1.4
years, and (5) the quoted market price of $0.03 for the
Company’s common stock.
COVID-19
In December 2019, COVID-19 emerged and has subsequently spread
worldwide. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a
pandemic resulting in federal, state and local governments and
private entities mandating various restrictions, including travel
restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home
orders and advisories and quarantining of people who may have been
exposed to the virus. After close monitoring and responses and
guidance from federal, state and local governments, in an effort to
mitigate the spread of COVID-19, around March 18, 2020 for an
indefinite period of time, the Company closed its Blue Collar
office in Las Angeles and its TPT SpeedConnect offices in Michigan,
Idaho and Arizona. Most employees are working remotely,
however this is not possible with certain employees and all
subcontractors that work for Blue Collar. The Company continues to
monitor developments, including government requirements and
recommendations at the national, state, and local level to evaluate
possible extensions to all or part of such closures.
The Company has taken advantage of the stimulus offerings and
received $722,200 in April 2020 and $680,500 in February 2021 and
believes it has used these funds as is prescribed by the stimulus
offerings to have the entire amounts forgiven. The Company has
applied for forgiveness of $722,200 of this amount. The forgiveness
process to stimulus funded in February 2021 has not begun. The
Company will try and take advantage of additional stimulus as it is
available and is also in the process of trying to raise debt and
equity financing, some of which may have to be used for working
capital shortfalls if revenues decrease significantly because of
the COVID-19 closures.
As the COVID-19 pandemic is complex and rapidly evolving, the
Company's plans as described above may change. At this point, we
cannot reasonably estimate the duration and severity of this
pandemic, which could have a material adverse impact on our
business, results of operations, financial position and cash
flows.
ITEM 7A. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE
DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.
We are
a smaller reporting company as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the
Securities Act of 1934 and are not required to provide the
information under this item.
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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND
SUPPLEMENTARY DATA.
TPT GLOBAL TECH, INC.
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
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F-6
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F-7
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F-8
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66
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING
FIRM
To the
Shareholders and the Board of Directors of TPT Global Tech,
Inc.:
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have
audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of TPT Global
Tech, Inc. (“the Company”) as of December 31, 2020 and
2019, the related consolidated statements of operations,
stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for each of the years
in the two-year period ended December 31, 2020 and the related
notes (collectively referred to as the “financial
statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements
referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the
financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2020 and 2019,
and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of
the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2020, in
conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the
United States of America.
Explanatory Paragraph Regarding Going Concern
The
accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that
the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note
3 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring
losses from operations and has insufficient cash flows from
operations to support working capital requirements. These factors
raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to
continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these
matters are also described in Note 3. The financial statements do
not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of
this uncertainty.
Basis for Opinion
These
financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s
management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the
Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a
public accounting firm registered with the Public Company
Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”)
and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in
accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable
rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and
the PCAOB.
We
conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB.
Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to
obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements
are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud.
The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to
perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting.
As part of our audit, we are required to obtain an understanding of
internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose
of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the
Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Accordingly, we express no such opinion.
Our
audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of
material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to
error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those
risks. Such procedures included examining on a test basis, evidence
regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.
Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used
and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating
the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe
that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our
opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
The
critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from
the current-period audit of the consolidated financial statements
that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit
committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are
material to the financial statements and (2) involved our
especially challenging, subjective, or complex judgments. The
communication of a critical audit matter does not alter in any way
our opinion on the financial statements, taken as a whole, and we
are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below,
providing a separate audit opinion on the critical audit matters or
on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
F-1
Long-Lived
Asset Impairment Assessment
Critical Audit Matter Description
As
described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the
Company performs impairment testing for its long-lived assets when
events or changes in circumstances indicate that its carrying
amount may not be recoverable and exceeds its fair value. Due to
challenging industry and economic conditions, the Company tested
its long-lived assets during the year ended December 31,
2020.
We
identified the evaluation of the impairment analysis for long-lived
assets as a critical audit matter because of the significant
estimates and assumptions management used in the related cash flow
analysis. Performing audit procedures to evaluate the
reasonableness of these estimates and assumptions required a high
degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent of
effort.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the
Audit
Our
audit procedures related to the following:
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Testing
management’s process for developing the recoverability
test.
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Evaluating the
appropriateness of the cash flow model used by
management.
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Testing the
completeness and accuracy of underlying data used in the
recoverability test.
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Evaluating the
significant assumptions used by management related to revenues,
gross margin, other operating expenses, income taxes and long-term
growth rate to discern whether they are reasonable considering (i)
the current and past performance of the entity; (ii) the
consistency with external market and industry data; and (iii)
whether these assumptions were consistent with evidence obtained in
other areas of the audit.
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Professionals with
specialized skill and knowledge were utilized by the Firm to assist
in the evaluation of the cash flow model and assumptions used by
management in the related recoverability test.
Goodwill
Impairment Assessment
Critical Audit Matter Description
As
described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the
Company tests goodwill for impairment annually at the reporting
unit level, or more frequently, if events or circumstances indicate
it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit
is less than its carrying amount. Reporting units are tested for
impairment by comparing the estimated fair value of each reporting
unit with its carrying amount. If the carrying amount of a
reporting unit exceeds its estimated fair value, an impairment loss
is recorded based on the difference between the fair value and
carrying amount, not to exceed the associated carrying amount of
goodwill. The Company’s annual impairment test occurred on
December 31, 2020.
We
identified the evaluation of the impairment analysis for goodwill
as a critical audit matter because of the significant estimates and
assumptions management used in the discounted cash flow analysis
performed by management to determine fair value of the reporting
unit. Performing audit procedures to evaluate the reasonableness of
these estimates and assumptions required a high degree of auditor
judgment and an increased extent of effort.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the
Audit
Our
audit procedures related to the following:
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Testing
management’s process for developing the fair value
estimate.
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Evaluating the
appropriateness of the discounted cash flow model used by
management.
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Testing the
completeness and accuracy of underlying data used in the fair value
estimate.
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Evaluating the
significant assumptions used by management related to revenues,
gross margin, other operating expenses, long term growth rate, and
discount rate to discern whether they are reasonable considering
(i) the current and past performance of the entity; (ii) the
consistency with external market and industry data; and (iii)
whether these assumptions were consistent with evidence obtained in
other areas of the audit.
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Professionals with
specialized skill and knowledge were utilized by the Firm to assist
in the evaluation of the discounted cash flow model and discount
rate assumptions.
F-2
Business
Acquisition
Description of the Critical Audit Matter
As
described in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, the
Company acquired 75% ownership of Aire Fitness for a total purchase
price of $610,585. The Company accounted for this acquisition as a
business combination. Accordingly, the purchase price was allocated
to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at fair value as of
the transaction date. The Company utilized a third-party valuation
specialist to assist in determining the fair value of the
consideration granted and identifiable intangible assets acquired
in the acquisition. We identified the estimation of the fair value
of the consideration transferred, assets acquired, and liabilities
assumed in the acquisition as a critical audit matter.
We
identified the valuation of the consideration transferred, assets
acquired, and liabilities assumed as a critical audit matter
because of the significant estimates and assumptions management
made to determine the fair value of certain of these assets. This
required a high degree of auditor judgment and an increased extent
of effort when performing audit procedures to evaluate the
reasonableness of the valuation methodology applied and the
assumptions used such as forecasted sales growth rates, cash flows,
and estimated discount rates. In addition, the audit effort
involved the use of professionals with specialized skill and
knowledge.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the
Audit
Our
audit procedures related to the following:
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We evaluated
management’s and the valuation specialist’s
identification of assets acquired and liabilities
assumed.
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We obtained
management’s purchase price allocation detailing fair values
assigned to acquired tangible and intangible assets.
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We obtained the
valuation report prepared by the valuation specialist engaged by
management to assist in the purchase price allocation, including
determination of fair values assigned to acquired intangible
assets, and examined valuation methods used and qualifications of
the specialist.
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We examined the
completeness and accuracy of the underlying data supporting the
significant assumptions and estimates used in the valuation report,
including historical and projected financial
information.
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We evaluated the
accuracy and completeness of the financial statement presentation
and disclosure of the acquisitions.
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Professionals with
specialized skill and knowledge were utilized by the Firm to assist
in the evaluation of the valuation models deployed by
management.
Determination
and Valuation of Derivative Liabilities
Critical Audit Matter Description
As
described further in Note 6 of the consolidated financial
statements, during the year ended December 31, 2020 and in prior
periods, the Company issued convertible notes and warrants that
required management to assess whether the conversion features of
the convertible notes required bifurcation and separate valuation
as a derivative liability and whether the warrants required
accounting as derivative liabilities. The Company determined that
the conversion features of certain of its convertible notes and
certain warrants issued in financing arrangements required to be
accounted for as derivative liabilities due to: (1) certain
conversion features did not contain an explicit limit on the number
of shares to be delivered in share settlement; and (2) the fact the
Company could not assert it had sufficient authorized but unissued
shares available to settle certain instruments considering all
other stock-based commitments. The derivative liabilities were
recorded at fair value when issued and subsequently re-measured to
fair value upon settlement or at the end of each reporting period.
The Company utilized valuation models to determine the fair value
of the derivative liabilities depending on the features embedded in
the instruments. These models use certain assumptions related to
exercise price, term, expected volatility, and risk-free interest
rate.
We
identified auditing the determination and valuation of the
derivative liabilities as a critical audit matter due to the
significant judgements used by the Company in determining whether
the embedded conversion features and warrants required derivative
accounting treatment and the significant judgements used in
determining the fair value of the derivative liabilities. Auditing
the determination and valuation of the derivative liabilities
involved a high degree of auditor judgement, and specialized skills
and knowledge were needed.
How the Critical Audit Matter Was Addressed in the
Audit
Our
audit procedures included the following, among others:
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We inspected and
reviewed debt agreements, warrant agreements, conversion notices,
and settlement agreements to evaluate the Company's determination
of whether derivative accounting was required, including assessing
and evaluating management's application of relevant accounting
standards to such transactions.
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We evaluated the
reasonableness and appropriateness of the choice of valuation model
used for each specific derivative instrument.
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We tested the
reasonableness of the assumptions used by the Company in the
valuation models, including exercise price, term, expected
volatility, and risk-free interest rate.
●
We tested the
accuracy and completeness of data used by the Company in developing
the assumptions used in the valuation models.
●
We developed an
independent expectation for comparison to the Company's estimate,
which included developing our own valuation model and
assumptions.
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We evaluated the
accuracy and completeness of the Company's presentation of these
instruments in the financial statements and related disclosures in
Note 6, including evaluating whether such disclosures were in
accordance with relevant accounting standards.
●
Professionals with
specialized skill and knowledge were utilized by the Firm to assist
in the evaluation of the valuation models deployed by
management.
/s/ Sadler, Gibb & Associates, LLC
We have served as the Company’s auditor since
2016.
Draper, UT
April 15, 2021
F-3
TPT Global Tech, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
ASSETS
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December
31,
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2020
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2019
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CURRENT
ASSETS
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Cash and cash
equivalents
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$19,309
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$192,172
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Accounts
receivable, net
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164,818
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379,805
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Prepaid expenses
and other current assets
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180,362
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48,648
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Total current
assets
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364,489
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620,625
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NON-CURRENT
ASSETS
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Property and
equipment, net
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2,145,597
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4,423,148
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Operating lease
right of use assets
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4,732,459
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3,886,045
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Intangible assets,
net
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4,714,941
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5,369,083
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Goodwill
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768,091
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1,050,366
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Deposits and other
assets
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111,111
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104,486
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Total non-current
assets
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12,472,199
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14,833,128
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TOTAL
ASSETS
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$12,836,688
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$15,453,753
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LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
CURRENT
LIABILITIES
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Accounts payable
and accrued expenses
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$7,866,140
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$6,543,635
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Deferred
revenue
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341,789
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305,741
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Customer
liability
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338,725
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338,725
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Current portion of
loans, advances and factoring agreements
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2,308,753
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344,758
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Current portion of
convertible notes payable, net of discounts
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1,711,098
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2,101,649
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Notes payable
– related parties, net of discounts
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10,559,796
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9,297,078
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Current portion of
convertible notes payable – related party, net
of discounts
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922,481
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534,381
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Derivative
liabilities
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5,265,139
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8,836,514
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Current portion of
operating lease liabilities
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2,682,722
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1,921,843
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Financing lease
liabilities
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184,939
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—
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Financing lease
liability – related party
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654,633
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626,561
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Total
current liabilities
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32,836,215
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30,850,885
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NON-CURRENT
LIABILITIES
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Long term
portion:
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Loans, advances and
factoring agreements, net of current portion and
discounts
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843,577
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1,000,500
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Convertible notes
payable – related parties, net of current portion and
discounts
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—
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388,500
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Operating lease
liabilities, net of current portion
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2,872,952
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2,009,737
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Total non-current liabilities
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3,716,529
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3,398,737
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Total
liabilities
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36,552,744
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34,249,622
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Commitments and
contingencies
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—
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—
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See accompanying notes to consolidated financial
statements.
F-4
TPT Global Tech, Inc.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS - CONTINUED
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December
31,
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December
31,
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2020
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2019
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MEZZANINE
EQUITY
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Convertible Preferred Series A,
1,000,000 designated - 1,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as
of December 31, 2020 and 2019
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$3,117,000
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—
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Convertible Preferred Series B,
3,000,000 designated - 2,588,693 shares issued and outstanding as
of December 31, 2020 and 2019
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1,677,473
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—
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Total mezzanine
equity
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$4,794,473
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—
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STOCKHOLDER’S
DEFICIT
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PREFERRED STOCK, $.001 PAR VALUE
100,000,000 SHARES AUTHORIZED:
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Convertible Preferred Series A,
1,000,000 designated - 1,000,000 shares issued and outstanding as
of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively
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—
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1,000
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Convertible Preferred Series B,
3,000,000 designated - 2,588,693 shares issued and outstanding as
of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively
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—
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2,589
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Convertible Preferred Series C
– 3,000,000 shares designated, zero shares issued and
outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively
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—
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—
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Convertible Preferred Series D
– 20,000,000 shares designated, zero shares issued and
outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively
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—
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—
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Common stock, $.001 par value,
1,000,000,000 shares authorized, 865,564,371 and 177,629,939 as of
December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively
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865,565
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177,630
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Subscriptions
payable
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125,052
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574,256
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Additional paid-in
capital
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11,462,940
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13,279,749
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Accumulated
deficit
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(40,902,944)
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(32,831,093)
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Total TPT Global Tech, Inc.
Stockholders’ deficit
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(28,449,387)
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(18,795,869)
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Non-controlling
interests
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(61,142)
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—
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Total stockholders'
deficit
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(28,510,529)
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(18,795,869)
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TOTAL LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS'
DEFICIT
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$12,836,688
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$15,453,753
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See accompanying notes to consolidated financial
statements.
F-5
TPT Global Tech, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF
OPERATIONS
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For the years ended
December 31,
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2020
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2019
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REVENUES:
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Products
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$39,391
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$53,605
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Services
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11,054,779
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10,158,772
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Total
Revenues
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11,094,170
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10,212,377
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COST OF
SALES:
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Products
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38,455
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55,470
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Services
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7,155,038
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5,856,531
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Total Costs of
Sales
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7,193,493
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5,912,001
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Gross
profit
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3,900,677
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4,300,376
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OPERATING
EXPENSES:
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Sales and
marketing
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178,539
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55,882
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Professional
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2,077,770
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1,888,047
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Payroll and
related
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2,502,461
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1,513,050
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General and
administrative
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1,857,608
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1,542,886
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Research and
development
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1,000,000
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Impairment of
goodwill and long-lived assets
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2,702,996
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949,872
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Depreciation
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1,054,702
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591,069
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Amortization
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730,940
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868,622
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Total
operating expenses
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12,105,016
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7,409,428
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Loss from
operations
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(8,204,339)
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(3,109,052)
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OTHER INCOME
(EXPENSE)
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Derivative gain
(expense)
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1,140,323
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(7,476,908)
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Gain on debt
extinguishment
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1,252,131
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Gain (loss) on debt
conversions
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(775,650)
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138,815
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Interest
expense
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(1,531,733)
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(3,581,020)
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Total
other income (expense)
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85,071
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(10,919,113)
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Net loss before
income taxes
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(8,119,268)
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(14,028,165)
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Income
taxes
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—
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—
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Net loss before
non-controlling interests
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(8,119,268)
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$(14,028,165)
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Net loss
attributable to non-controlling interests
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47,417
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—
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Net loss
attributable to TPT Global Tech, Inc. Shareholders
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$(8,071,851)
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(14,028,165)
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Loss per common
shares-basic and diluted
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$(0.01)
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$(0.10)
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Weighted-average
common shares outstanding-basic and diluted
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740,163,898
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141,594,930
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See accompanying notes to consolidated financial
statements.
F-6
TPT Global Tech, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
For the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019
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Series
A
Preferred
Stock
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Series
B
Preferred
Stock
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Common
Stock
|
|
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Shares
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Amount
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Shares
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Amount
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Shares
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Amount
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Subscriptions
Payable
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Additional
Paid-in Capital
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Accumulated
Deficit
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Non-Controlling
Interest
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Total
Stockholders’ Deficit
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Balance as of December 31,
2018
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1,000,000
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$1,000
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2,588,693
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$2,589
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136,953,904
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$136,954
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$168,006
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$12,567,881
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$(18,802,928)
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$—
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$(5,926,498)
|
Common stock issuable for director
services
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
406,250
|
|
|
|
406,250
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Stock options issued for
services
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
140,668
|
|
|
140,668
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Common stock issued for convertible
promissory notes
|
|
|
|
|
40,676,035
|
40,676
|
|
571,200
|
|
|
611,876
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Net Loss
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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(14,028,165)
|
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(14,028,165)
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Balance as of December 31,
2019
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1,000,000
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$1,000
|
2,588,693
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$2,589
|
177,629,939
|
$177,630
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$574,256
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$13,279,749
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$(32,831,093)
|
$—
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$(18,795,869)
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Common stock issued for
services
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
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7,002,000
|
7,002
|
(812,773)
|
859,771
|
—
|
—
|
54,000
|
Common stock issuable for
services
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
363,569
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
363,569
|
Equity interest in QuikLABS issued
for cash
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
368,000
|
—
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92,000
|
460,000
|
Acquisition of Aire
Fitness
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
113,333
|
113,333
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Common stock issued for settlement
of liability
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
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1,000,000
|
1,000
|
—
|
57,000
|
—
|
—
|
58,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reclassification of preferred stock
as mezzanine
|
(1,000,000)
|
(1,000)
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(2,588,693)
|
(2,589)
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
(4,790,884)
|
—
|
—
|
(4,794,473)
|
Common stock issued for convertible
promissory notes
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
679,932,432
|
679,933
|
—
|
1,470,246
|
—
|
—
|
2,150,179
|
InnovaQor
merger
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
219,058
|
—
|
(219,058)
|
—
|
Net Loss
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
(8,071,851)
|
(47,417)
|
(8,119,268)
|
Balance as of December 31,
2020
|
—
|
$—
|
—
|
$—
|
865,564,371
|
$865,565
|
$125,052
|
$11,462,940
|
$(40,902,944)
|
$(61,142)
|
$(28,510,529)
|
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial
statements.
F-7
TPT Global Tech, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH
FLOWS
|
For the years
ended December 31,
|
|
|
2020
|
2019
|
Cash flows from
operating activities:
|
|
|
Net
loss
|
$(8,119,268)
|
$(14,028,165)
|
Adjustments to
reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating
activities:
|
|
|
Depreciation
|
1,054,702
|
591,069
|
Amortization
|
730,940
|
868,622
|
Amortization of
debt discounts
|
738,794
|
2,797,185
|
Promissory note
issued for research and development
|
1,000,000
|
—
|
Note payable issued
for legal fees
|
350,000
|
—
|
Gain on conversion
of notes payable
|
775,650
|
(138,815)
|
Derivative expense
(gain)
|
(1,140,323)
|
7,476,908
|
Gain on
extinguishment of debt
|
(1,252,131)
|
—
|
Impairment of
goodwill and long-lived assets
|
2,702,996
|
949,877
|
Share-based
compensation: Common stock (issued and payable)
|
417,649
|
406,250
|
Stock options
|
—
|
140,668
|
Changes in
operating assets and liabilities:
|
|
|
Accounts
receivable
|
254,022
|
(330,883)
|
Prepaid expenses
and other assets
|
(138,339)
|
57,340
|
Accounts payable
and accrued expenses
|
1,314,086
|
766,867
|
Other
liabilities
|
43,969
|
69,291
|
Net change in
operating lease assets and liabilities
|
777,680
|
45,535
|
Net cash used in
operating activities
|
(489,573)
|
(328,251)
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from
investing activities:
|
|
|
Acquisition of
property and equipment
|
(424,560)
|
(103,515)
|
Purchase of
intangibles
|
(76,798)
|
---
|
Payment for
business acquisitions, net of cash acquired
|
460
|
(798,386)
|
Net cash used in
investing activities
|
(500,898)
|
(901,901)
|
|
|
|
Cash flows from
financing activities:
|
|
|
Proceeds from sale
of non-controlling interests in QuikLABS
|
460,000
|
—
|
Proceeds from
convertible notes and notes payable – related
parties
|
2,400
|
293,707
|
Proceeds from
convertible notes, loans and advances
|
1,753,204
|
2,613,047
|
Payments on
convertible loans, advances and factoring agreements
|
(1,169,330)
|
(1,440,139)
|
Payments on
convertible notes and amounts payable – related
parties
|
(212,256)
|
(50,720)
|
Payments on
financing lease liabilities
|
(16,410)
|
(25,357)
|
Net cash provided
by financing activities
|
817,608
|
1,390,538
|
|
|
|
Net change in
cash
|
(172,863)
|
160,386
|
Cash and cash
equivalents – beginning of period
|
192,172
|
31,786
|
|
|
|
Cash and cash
equivalents – end of period
|
$19,309
|
$192,172
|
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial
statements.
F-8
TPT Global Tech, Inc.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS
OF CASH FLOWS - CONTINUED
Supplemental Cash Flow Information:
Cash
used for:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Interest
expense
|
$—
|
$—
|
Taxes
|
$—
|
$—
|
Non-Cash Investing and Financing Activity:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Debt discount on
factoring agreement
|
$634,341
|
$2,011,600
|
Acquisition of
assets of SpeedConnect – Liabilities assumed
|
$—
|
$1,894,964
|
Operating lase
liabilities and right of use assets
|
$—
|
$5,003,178
|
Common stock issued
for conversion of convertible notes
|
$2,258,637
|
—
|
Convertible
Preferred Series A and B reclassified to mezzanine
equity
|
$4,790,884
|
$—
|
Acquisition of Aire
Fitness – Liabilities assumed
|
$610,919
|
$—
|
Purchase of
property and equipment under finance leases
|
$201,349
|
$---
|
InnovaQor Merger-
non controlling interest
|
$219,058
|
$---
|
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial
statements.
F-9
TPT Global Tech, Inc.
NOTES TO
CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
DECEMBER 31, 2020
NOTE
1 - DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING
POLICIES
Nature
of Operations
The
Company was originally incorporated in 1988 in the state of
Florida. TPT Global, Inc., a Nevada corporation formed in June
2014, merged with Ally Pharma US, Inc., a Florida corporation,
(“Ally Pharma”, formerly known as Gold Royalty
Corporation) in a “reverse merger” wherein Ally Pharma
issued 110,000,000 shares of Common Stock, or 80% ownership, to the
owners of TPT Global, Inc. in exchange for all outstanding common
stock of TPT Global Inc. and Ally Pharma agreed to change its name
to TPT Global Tech, Inc. (jointly referred to as “the
Company” or “TPTG”).
The
following acquisitions have resulted in entities which have been
consolidated into TPTG. In 2014 the Company acquired all the assets
of K Telecom and Wireless LLC (“K Telecom”) and Global
Telecom International LLC (“Global Telecom”). Effective
January 31, 2015, TPTG completed its acquisition of 100% of the
outstanding stock of Copperhead Digital Holdings, Inc.
(“Copperhead Digital”) and Subsidiaries, TruCom, LLC
(“TruCom”), Nevada Utilities, Inc. (“Nevada
Utilities”) and CityNet Arizona, LLC (“CityNet”).
Effective September 30, 2016, the company acquired 100% ownership
in San Diego Media Inc. (“SDM”). In October 2017, we
entered into agreements to acquire Blue Collar, Inc. (“Blue
Collar”) which closed as of September 1, 2018. On May 7, 2019
we completed the acquisition of a majority of the assets of
SpeedConnect, LLC, which assets were conveyed into our wholly owned
subsidiary TPT SpeedConnect, LLC (“TPT SC” or
“TPT SpeedConnect”) which was formed on April 16, 2019.
On January 8, 2020 we formed TPT Federal, LLC (“TPT
Federal”), on March 7, 2020 we acquired 75% interest in
Bridget Internet, LLC (“Bridge Internet” or
“BIC”). On March 30, 2020 we formed TPT MedTech, LLC
(“TPT MedTech”) and on June 6, 2020 we formed
InnovaQor, Inc (“InnovaQor”). In July and August 2020, the Company
formed Quiklab 1 LLC, QuikLAB 2, LLC, QuikLAB 3, LLC and QuikLAB 4,
LLC where TPT MedTech owns 80% (as agreed per the operating
agreement) of all outside equity investments. Effective August 1,
2020 we closed on the acquisition of 75% of The Fitness Container,
LLC (“Air Fitness”). In July 2020, we invested in a
Hong Kong company called TPT Global Tech Asia Limited of which we
own 78%, and during 2020, InnovaQor did a reverse merger with
Southern Plains of which there ended up being a non controlling
interest of 6% as of December 31, 2020. The name of InnovaQor
remained for the merged entities but was changed to TPT Strategic,
Inc. on March 21, 2021.
We are based in San Diego, California, and operate as a
technology-based company with
divisions providing telecommunications, medical technology and
product distribution, media content for domestic and international
syndication as well as technology solutions. We operate on our own proprietary
Global Digital Media TV and Telecommunications infrastructure
platform and also provide technology solutions to businesses
domestically and worldwide. We offer Software as a Service (SaaS),
Technology Platform as a Service (PAAS), Cloud-based Unified
Communication as a Service (UCaaS) and carrier-grade performance
and support for businesses over our private IP MPLS fiber and
wireless network in the United States. Our cloud-based UCaaS
services allow businesses of any size to enjoy all the latest
voice, data, media and collaboration features in today's global
technology markets. We also operate as a Master Distributor for
Nationwide Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) and Independent
Sales Organization (ISO) as a Master Distributor for Pre-Paid
Cellphone services, Mobile phones, Cellphone Accessories and Global
Roaming Cellphones.
SIGNIFICANT
ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Principles of Consolidation
Our
consolidated financial statements include the wholly-owned accounts
of K Telecom and Global, Copperhead Digital, SDM, Blue Collar, TPT
SpeedConnect, TPT Federal, BIC, TPT MedTech, InnovaQor, Quiklab 1,
QuikLAB 2, QuikLAB 3, QuikLAB 4, Aire Fitness and TPT Global Tech
Asia Limited. The consolidated financial statements also give
effects to non-controlling interests of the QuikLABs of 20%, Aire
Fitness of 25%, TPT Global Tech Asia Limited of 22% and InnovaQor
of 6%, where appropriate. All intercompany accounts and
transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
Reclassifications
Certain
amounts presented in previously issued financial statements have
been reclassified in these financial statements. During 2019,
impairment expense of $949,872 was recorded in Other Income
(Expense) in the statement of operations and has been reclassified
to Operating Expenses to be consistent with the current period
presentation.
Revenue Recognition
On
January 1, 2018, we adopted the new accounting standard ASC
606, Revenue from Contracts
with Customers, and all of the related amendments
(“new revenue standard”). We recorded the change, which
was immaterial, related to adopting the new revenue standard using
the modified retrospective method. Under this method, we recognized
the cumulative effect of initially applying the new revenue
standard as an adjustment to the opening balance of retained
earnings. This results in no restatement of prior periods, which
continue to be reported under the accounting standards in effect
for those periods. We expect the impact of the adoption of the new
revenue standard to continue to be immaterial on an ongoing basis.
We have applied the new revenue standard to all contracts as of the
date of initial application and as such, have used the following
criteria described below in more detail for each business
unit:
Identify the contract with the
customer.
Identify the performance
obligations in the contract.
Determine the transaction
price.
Allocate the transaction price
to performance obligations in the contract.
Recognize revenue when or as we satisfy a performance
obligation.
F-10
Reserves are recorded as a reduction in net sales and are not
considered material to our consolidated statements of income for
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. In addition, we
invoice our customers for taxes assessed by governmental
authorities such as sales tax and value added taxes, where
applicable. We present these taxes on a net
basis.
The
Company’s revenue generation for the years ended December 31,
2020 and 2019 came from the following sources disaggregated by
services and products, which sources are explained in detail
below.
|
For the year
ended
December 31,
2020
|
For the year
ended
December 31,
2019
|
TPT
SpeedConnect
|
$9,958,770
|
$8,002,875
|
Blue
Collar
|
1,051,120
|
1,941,955
|
San Diego
Media
|
14,405
|
23,683
|
TPT
MedTech
|
30,484
|
—
|
Copperhead
Digital
|
—
|
189,511
|
Other
|
—
|
749
|
Total Services
Revenues
|
$11,054,779
|
$10,158,772
|
K Telecom –
Product Revenue
|
39,391
|
53,605
|
Total
Revenue
|
$11,094,170
|
$10,212,377
|
TPT SpeedConnect: ISP and Telecom Revenue
TPT
SpeedConnect is a rural Internet provider operating in 10
Midwestern States under the trade name SpeedConnect. TPT SC’s
primary business model is subscription based, pre-paid monthly
reoccurring revenues, from wireless delivered, high-speed internet
connections. In addition, the company resells third-party satellite
and DSL internet and IP telephony services. Revenue generated from
sales of telecommunications services is recognized as the
transaction with the customer is considered closed and the customer
receives and accepts the services that were the result of the
transaction. There are no financing terms or variable transaction
prices. Due date is detailed on monthly invoices distributed to
customer. Services billed monthly in advance are deferred to the
proper period as needed. Deferred revenue are contract liabilities
for cash received before performance obligations for monthly
services are satisfied. Deferred revenue for TPT SpeedConnect at
December 31, 2020 and 2019 are $292,847 and $305,741, respectively.
Certain of our products require specialized installation and
equipment. For telecom products that include installation, if the
installation meets the criteria to be considered a separate
element, product revenue is recognized upon delivery, and
installation revenue is recognized when the installation is
complete. The Installation Technician collects the signed quote
containing terms and conditions when installing the site equipment
at customer premises.
Revenue
for installation services and equipment is billed separately from
recurring ISP and telecom services and is recognized when equipment
is delivered and installation is completed. Revenue from ISP and
telecom services is recognized monthly over the contractual period,
or as services are rendered and accepted by the
customer.
The
overwhelming majority of our revenue continues to be recognized
when transactions occur. Since installation fees are generally
small relative to the size of the overall contract and because most
contracts are for two years or less, the impact of not recognizing
installation fees over the contract is immaterial.
Blue Collar: Media Production Services
Blue
Collar creates original live action and animated content
productions and has produced hundreds of hours of material for the
television, theatrical, home entertainment and new media markets.
Blue Collar designs branding and marketing campaigns and has had
agreements with some of the world’s largest companies
including PepsiCo, Intel, HP, WalMart and many other Fortune 500
companies. Additionally, they create motion picture, television and
home entertainment marketing campaigns for studios including Sony,
DreamWorks, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Studios, Paramount
Studios, and Warner Brothers. With regard to revenue recognition,
Blue Collar receives an agreement from each client to perform
defined work. Some agreements are written, some are verbal. Work
may include creation of marketing materials and/or content
creation. Some work may be short term and take weeks to create and
some work may be longer and take months to create. There are
instances where customer agreements segregate identifiable
obligations (like filming on site vs. film editing and final
production) with separate transaction pricing. The performance
obligation is generally satisfied upon delivery of such film or
production products, at which time revenue is recognized. There are
no financing terms or variable transaction prices.
F-11
SDM: Ecommerce, Email Marketing and Web Design
Services
SDM
generates revenue by providing ecommerce, email marketing and web
design solutions to small and large commercial businesses, complete
with monthly software support, updates and maintenance. Services
are billed monthly. There are no financing terms or variable
transaction prices. Platform infrastructure support is a prepaid
service billed in monthly recurring increments. The services are
billed a month in advance and due prior to services being rendered.
The revenue is deferred when invoiced and booked in the month the
service is provided. There is no deferred revenue at December 31,
2020 and 2019. Software support services (including software
upgrades) are billed in real time, on the first of the month. Web
design service revenues are recognized upon completion of specific
projects. Revenue is booked in the month the services are rendered
and payments are due on the final day of the month. There are
usually no contract revenues that are deferred until services are
performed.
TPT MedTech: Medical Testing Revenue
TPT
MedTech operates in the Point of Care Testing (“POCT”)
market by primarily offering mobile medical testing facilities and
software equipped for mobile devices to monitor and manage
personalized healthcare. Services used from our mobile medical
testing facilities are billing through credit cards at the time of
service. Revenue is generated from our software platform as users
sign up for our mobile healthcare monitor and management
application and tests are performed. If medical testing is in one
our own owned facility, the usage of the software application is
included in the testing fees. If the testing is in a non-owned
outside contracted facility, fees are generated from the usage of
the software application on a per test basis and billed
monthly.
TPT
MedTech also offers two products. One is to build and sell its
mobile testing facilities called QuikLABs designed for mobile
testing. This is used by TPT MedTech for its own testing services.
The other is a sanitizing unit called SANIQuik which is used as a
safe and flexible way to sanitize providing an additional routine
to hand washing and facial coverings. The SANIQuik has not yet been
approved for sale in the United States but has in some parts of the
European community. Revenues from these products are recognized
when a product is delivered, the sales transaction considered
closed and accepted by a customer. There are no financing terms or
variable transaction prices for either of these
products.
Copperhead Digital: ISP and Telecom Revenue
Copperhead
Digital operated as a regional internet and telecom services
provider operating in Arizona under the trade name Trucom. Although
there are currently no customers and it will take capital to reopen
this revenue stream, Copperhead Digital operated as a wireless
telecommunications Internet Service Provider (“ISP”)
facilitating both residential and commercial accounts. Copperhead
Digital’s primary business model was subscription based,
pre-paid monthly reoccurring revenues, from wireless delivered,
high-speed internet connections. In addition, the company resold
third-party satellite and DSL internet and IP telephony services.
Revenue generated from sales of telecommunications services was
recognized as the transaction with the customer is considered
closed and the customer received and accepted the services that
were the result of the transaction. There are no financing terms or
variable transaction prices. Due date was detailed on monthly
invoices distributed to customer. Services billed monthly in
advance were deferred to the proper period as needed. Deferred
revenue was contract liabilities for cash received before
performance obligations for monthly services are satisfied. Certain
of its products required specialized installation and equipment.
For telecom products that included installation, if the
installation met the criteria to be considered a separate element,
product revenue was recognized upon delivery, and installation
revenue was recognized when the installation was complete. The
Installation Technician collected the signed quote containing terms
and conditions when installing the site equipment at customer
premises.
Revenue
for installation services and equipment was billed separately from
recurring ISP and telecom services and was recognized when
equipment was delivered, and installation was completed. Revenue
from ISP and telecom services was recognized monthly over the
contractual period, or as services were rendered and accepted by
the customer.
The
overwhelming majority of revenue was recognized when transactions
occurred. Since installation fees were generally small relative to
the size of the overall contract and because most contracts were
for a year or less, the impact of not recognizing installation fees
over the contract was immaterial.
F-12
K Telecom: Prepaid Phones and SIM Cards Revenue
K
Telecom generates revenue from reselling prepaid phones, SIM cards,
and rechargeable minute traffic for prepaid phones to its customers
(primarily retail outlets). Product sales occur at the
customer’s locations, at which time delivery occurs and cash
or check payment is received. The Company recognizes the revenue
when they receive payment at the time of delivery. There are no
financing terms or variable transaction prices.
Share-based
Compensation
The
Company is required to measure and recognize compensation expense
for all share-based payment awards (including stock options) made
to employees and directors based on estimated fair value.
Compensation expense for equity-classified awards is measured at
the grant date based on the fair value of the award and is
recognized as an expense in earnings over the requisite service
period.
The
Company records compensation expense related to non-employees that
are awarded stock in conjunction with selling goods or services and
recognizes compensation expenses over the vesting period of such
awards.
Income Taxes
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. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are
measured using enacted tax rates expected to apply to taxable
income in the year in which those temporary differences are
expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax
assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in
our income tax provision in the period of enactment.
We
recognize deferred tax assets to the extent that we believe that
these assets are more likely than not to be realized. In making
such a determination, we consider all available positive and
negative evidence, including future reversal of existing taxable
temporary differences, projected future taxable income,
tax-planning strategies, and results of recent operations,
including taxable income in carryback periods. If we determine that
we would be able to realize our deferred tax assets in the future
in excess of their net recorded amount, we would make an adjustment
to the deferred tax asset valuation allowance, which would reduce
our income tax provision.
We
account for uncertain tax positions using a
“more-likely-than-not” recognition threshold. We
evaluate uncertain tax positions on a quarterly basis and consider
various factors, including, but not limited to, changes in tax law,
the measurement of tax positions taken or expected to be taken in
tax returns, the effective settlement of matters subject to audit,
new audit activity and changes in facts or circumstances related to
a tax position.
It is
our policy to record costs associated with interest and penalties
related to tax in the selling, general and administrative line of
the consolidated statements of operations.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
The
Company considers all investments with a maturity date of three
months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. There are no
cash equivalents as of December 31, 2020 and 2019.
Accounts Receivable
We
establish an allowance for potential uncollectible accounts
receivable. All accounts receivable 60 days past due are considered
uncollectible unless there are circumstances that support
collectability. Those circumstances are documented. As of December
31, 2020 and 2019, the allowance for uncollectible accounts
receivable was $762,815 and $881,676, respectively. Receivables are
charged off when collection efforts cease.
Property and Equipment
Property
and equipment are stated at cost or fair value if acquired as part
of a business combination. Depreciation is computed by the
straight-line method and is charged to operations over the
estimated useful lives of the assets. Maintenance and repairs are
charged to expense as incurred. The carrying amount of accumulated
depreciation of assets sold or retired are removed from the
accounts in the year of disposal and any resulting gain or loss in
s included in results of operations. The estimated useful lives of
property and equipment are telecommunications network - 5 years,
telecommunications equipment - 7 to 10 years, and computers and
office equipment - 3 years.
F-13
Goodwill
Goodwill
relates to amounts that arose in connection with our various
business combinations and represents the difference between the
purchase price and the fair value of the identifiable tangible and
intangible net assets when accounted for using the acquisition
method of accounting. Goodwill is not amortized, but it is subject
to periodic review for impairment.
We test goodwill balances for impairment on an annual basis as
of December 31st
or whenever impairment indicators
arise. We utilize several reporting units in evaluating
goodwill for impairment using a quantitative assessment, which uses
a combination of a guideline public company market-based approach
and a discounted cash flow income-based approach. The quantitative
assessment considers whether the carrying amount of a reporting
unit exceeds its fair value, in which case an impairment charge is
recorded to the extent the reporting unit’s carrying value
exceeds its fair value. Based on our impairment testing, we
recorded impairment charges of $853,366 and $70,995 of goodwill
during the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively.
Intangible Assets
Our
intangible assets consist primarily of customer relationships,
developed technology, favorable leases, trademarks and the film
library. The majority of our intangible assets were recorded in
connection with our various business combinations. Our intangible
assets are recorded at fair value at the time of their acquisition.
Intangible assets are amortized over
their estimated useful life on a straight-line basis. Estimated
useful lives are determined considering the period the assets are
expected to contribute to future cash flows. We evaluate the
recoverability of our intangible assets periodically and take into
account events or circumstances that warrant revised estimates of
useful lives or that indicate impairment
exists.
Business Acquisitions
Our
business acquisitions have historically been made at prices above
the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed,
resulting in goodwill or some identifiable intangible asset.
Significant judgment is required in estimating the fair value of
intangible assets and in assigning their respective useful lives.
The fair value estimates are based on available historical
information and on future expectations and assumptions deemed
reasonable by management but are inherently uncertain.
We
generally employ the income method to estimate the fair value of
intangible assets, which is based on forecasts of the expected
future cash flows attributable to the respective assets.
Significant estimates and assumptions inherent in the valuations
reflect a consideration of other marketplace participants and
include the amount and timing of future cash flows (including
expected growth rates and profitability), the underlying product
life cycles, economic barriers to entry, a brand’s relative
market position and the discount rate applied to the cash flows.
Unanticipated market or macroeconomic events and circumstances may
occur, which could affect the accuracy or validity of the estimates
and assumptions.
Net
assets acquired are recorded at their fair value and are subject to
adjustment upon finalization of the fair value analysis.
Long-Lived Assets
We periodically review the carrying amount of our depreciable
long-lived assets for impairment which include property and
equipment and intangible assets. An asset is considered
impaired when estimated future cash flows are less than the
carrying amount of the asset. In the event the carrying amount
of such asset is not considered recoverable, the asset is adjusted
to its fair value. Fair value is generally determined based on
discounted future cash flow. As of December 31, 2020, we adjusted
the net book value to zero for the net book value of the equipment
of Copperhead Digital as it became doubtful with no customers that
the estimated future cash flows would recover the net book value.
We recorded impairment expenses of $1,849,630 and $878,877,
respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2020 and
2019.
Basic and Diluted Net Loss Per Share
The
Company computes net income (loss) per share in accordance with ASC
260, “Earning per Share”. ASC 260 requires presentation
of both basic and diluted earnings per share (“EPS”) on
the face of the income statement. Basic EPS is computed by dividing
net income (loss) available to common shareholder (numerator) by
the weighted average number of shares outstanding (denominator)
during the period. Diluted EPS gives effect to all dilutive
potential common shares outstanding during the period using the
treasury stock method and convertible preferred stock using the
if-converted method. In computing diluted EPS, the average stock
price for the period is used in determining the number of shares
assumed to be purchased from the exercise of stock options or
warrants. Diluted EPS excludes all dilutive potential shares if
their effect is anti-dilutive. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019,
the Company had shares that were potentially common stock
equivalents as follows:
F-14
|
2020
|
2019
|
Convertible
Promissory Notes
|
175,316,748
|
1,506,387,647
|
Series A Preferred
Stock (1)
|
1,243,987,624
|
199,728,891
|
Series B Preferred
Stock
|
2,588,693
|
2,588,693
|
Stock Options and
warrants
|
4,333,333
|
6,333,333
|
|
1,426,226,398
|
1,715,038,564
|
_____________________
(1)
Holder of the
Series A Preferred Stock which is Stephen J. Thomas, is guaranteed
60% of the then outstanding common stock upon conversion. The
Company would have to authorize additional shares for this to occur
as only 1,000,000,000 shares are currently authorized.
Concentration of Credit Risk, Off-Balance Sheet Risks and Other
Risks and Uncertainties
Financial
instruments that potentially subject us to concentration of credit
risk primarily consist of cash and cash equivalents and accounts
receivable. We invest our excess cash primarily in high quality
securities and limit the amount of our credit exposure to any one
financial institution. We do not require collateral or other
securities to support customer receivables; however, we perform
on-going credit evaluations of our customers and maintain
allowances for potential credit losses.
As of
December 31, 2020 and 2019, two customer accounts receivable
balances were 78% and 91%, respectively, of our aggregate accounts
receivable from revenues.
Financial Instruments and Fair Value of Financial
Instruments
Our
primary financial instruments at December 31, 2020 and 2019
consisted of cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts
payable and debt. We apply fair value measurement accounting to
either record or disclose the value of our financial assets and
liabilities in our financial statements. Fair value is defined as
the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to
transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most
advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly
transaction between market participants on the measurement date. A
fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of
observable inputs, where available, and minimize the use of
unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.
Described
below are the three levels of inputs that may be used to measure
fair value:
Level 1 Quoted prices in active markets for identical
assets or liabilities.
Level 2 Observable inputs other than Level 1
prices, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities;
quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that
are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for
substantially the full term of the assets or
liabilities.
Level 3 Unobservable inputs that are supported by
little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair
value of the assets or liabilities.
We
consider our derivative financial instruments as Level 3. The
balances for our derivative financial instruments as of December
31, 2020 are the following:
Derivative Instrument
|
|
Fair Value
|
||
Fair
value of Auctus Convertible Promissory Note
|
|
$
|
4,227,656
|
|
Fair
value of EMA Financial Convertible Promissory Note
|
|
|
1,001,780
|
|
Fair
value of Warrants issued with the derivative
instruments
|
|
|
35,703
|
|
|
|
$
|
5,265,139
|
|
Research and Development
Our
research and development programs focus on telecommunications
products and services. Research and development costs are expensed
as incurred. Any payments received from external parties to fund
our research and development activities reduce the recorded
research and development expenses.
F-15
Advertising Costs
Advertising
costs are expensed as incurred. The Company incurred advertising
costs of zero for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively.
Use of Estimates
The
preparation of financial statements in conformity with United
States generally accepted accounting principles requires management
to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts
of assets and liabilities, disclosures of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the
reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting
period. Actual results could differ materially from those
estimates. The Company’s consolidated financial statements
reflect all adjustments that management believes are necessary for
the fair presentation of their financial condition and results of
operations for the periods presented.
Derivative Financial Instruments
Derivative
financial instruments, as defined in ASC 815, “Accounting for
Derivative Financial Instruments and Hedging Activities”,
consist of financial instruments or other contracts that contain a
notional amount and one or more underlying (e.g. interest rate,
security price or other variable), require no initial net
investment and permit net settlement. Derivative financial
instruments may be free-standing or embedded in other financial
instruments. Further, derivative financial instruments are
initially, and subsequently, measured at fair value and recorded as
liabilities or, in rare instances, assets.
The
Company does not use derivative financial instruments to hedge
exposures to cash-flow, market or foreign-currency risks. However,
the Company had issued financial instruments including convertible
promissory notes payable with features during 2019 that were either
(i) not afforded equity classification, (ii) embody risks not
clearly and closely related to host contracts, or (iii) may be
net-cash settled by the counterparty. As required by ASC 815, in
certain instances, these instruments are required to be carried as
derivative liabilities, at fair value, in our financial
statements.
The
Company estimates the fair values of derivative financial
instruments using the Monte Carlo model. Estimating fair values of
derivative financial instruments requires the development of
significant and subjective estimates (such as volatility, estimated
life and interest rates) that may, and are likely to, change over
the duration of the instrument with related changes in internal and
external market factors. In addition, option-based techniques are
highly volatile and sensitive to changes in the trading market
price of our common stock, which has a high-historical volatility.
Since derivative financial instruments are initially and
subsequently carried at fair values, the Company’s operating
results will reflect the volatility in these estimate and
assumption changes.
The Company issued convertible promissory notes which are
convertible into common stock, at holders’ option, at a
discount to the market price of the Company’s common stock.
The Company has identified the embedded derivatives related to
these notes relating to certain anti-dilutive (reset) provisions.
These embedded derivatives included certain conversion features.
The accounting treatment of derivative financial instruments
requires that the Company record fair value of the derivatives as
of the inception date of debenture and to fair value as of each
subsequent reporting date.
As of December 31, 2020, the Company marked to market the fair
value of the debt derivatives and determined a fair value of
$5,265,139 ($5,229,436 from the convertible notes and $35,703 from
the warrants) in Note 6. The Company recorded a gain from change in
fair value of debt derivatives of $1,140,323 for the year ended
December 31, 2020. The fair value of the embedded derivatives was
determined using Monte Carlo simulation method based on the
following assumptions: (1) dividend yield of 0%, (2) expected
volatility of 190.9% to 350.8%, (3) weighted average risk-free
interest rate of 0.09% to 0.12% (4) expected life of 0.25 to 1.4
years, and (5) the quoted market price of $0.03 for the
Company’s common stock.
Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements
In June
2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-07, Improvements to Nonemployee
Share-Based Payment Accounting, which amends ASC 718, Compensation
– Stock Compensation. This ASU requires that most of the
guidance related to stock compensation granted to employees be
followed for non-employees, including the measurement date,
valuation approach, and performance conditions. The expense is
recognized in the same period as though cash were paid for the good
or service. The effective date is the first quarter of fiscal year
2020, with early adoption permitted, including in interim periods.
The ASU has been adopted using a modified-retrospective transition
approach. The adoption is not considered to have a material effect
on the consolidated financial statements.
Management
has reviewed other recently issued accounting pronouncements and
have determined there are not any that would have a material impact
on the condensed consolidated financial statements.
F-16
NOTE 2 – ACQUISITIONS
SpeedConnect Asset Acquisition
Effective April 2, 2019, the Company entered into an Asset Purchase
Agreement with SpeedConnect, LLC (“SpeedConnect”) to
acquire substantially all of the assets of SpeedConnect. On May 7,
2019, the Company closed the transaction underlying the Asset
Purchase Agreement with SpeedConnect to acquire substantially all
of the assets of SpeedConnect for $2 million and the assumption of
certain liabilities. The Asset Purchase Agreement required a
deposit of $500,000 made in April and an additional $500,000
payment to close. The additional $500,000 was paid and all other
conditions were met to effectuate the sale of substantially all of
the assets of SpeedConnect to the Company. As part of the closing,
the Company entered into a Promissory Note to pay SpeedConnect
$1,000,000 in two equal installments of $500,000 plus applicable
interest at 10% per annum with the first installment payable within
30 days of closing and the second installment payable within 60
days of closing (but no later than July 6, 2019). The Company paid
off the Promissory Note by June 11, 2019 and by amendment dated May
7, 2019, SpeedConnect forgave $250,000 of the Promissory
Note.
The
Company treated the asset acquisition as a business combination and
has allocated the fair market value to assets received in excess of
goodwill.
Purchase
Price Allocation:
Effective
date
|
May
7, 2019
|
|
|
Purchaser
|
TPT
Global Tech
|
|
|
Consideration
Given:
|
|
Cash
paid
|
$1,000,000
|
Liabilities:
|
|
|
|
Promissory
Note
|
$750,000
|
Deferred
revenue
|
230,000
|
Operating
lease liabilities
|
5,162,077
|
Unfavorable
leases
|
323,000
|
Accounts
and other payables
|
591,964
|
Total
liabilities
|
$7,057,041
|
Total Consideration
Value
|
$8,057,041
|
|
|
Assets
Acquired:
|
|
Customer
base
|
$350,000
|
Current
assets:
|
|
Cash
|
201,614
|
Prepaid
and other receivables
|
99,160
|
Deposits
|
13,190
|
Operating
lease right of use asset
|
5,162,077
|
Favorable
leases
|
95,000
|
Property
and equipment
|
1,939,000
|
Total Assets
Acquired
|
$7,860,041
|
Goodwill
|
$197,000
|
F-17
Included
in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended
December 31, 2019 are the results of operations for TPT
SpeedConnect for the period May 8, 2019 to December 31, 2019 as
follows:
|
2019
|
Revenue
|
$8,002,875
|
Cost of
Sales
|
4,826,475
|
Gross
Profit
|
3,176,400
|
Expenses
|
(1,999,221)
|
Interest
Expense
|
—
|
Income
taxes
|
—
|
Net
Income
|
$1,177,179
|
The Fitness Container, LLC (DBA Aire Fitness)
On June
1, 2020, the Company signed an agreement for the acquisition of a
majority interest in San Diego based manufacturing company, The
Fitness Container, LLC dba “Aire Fitness” (www.airefitness.com), for
500,000 shares of common stock in TPT, vesting and issuable after
the common stock reaches at least a $1.00 per share closing price
in trading, a $500,000 promissory note payable primarily out of
future capital raising and a 10% gross profit royalty from sales of
drive through lab operations for the first year. Aire Fitness, in
which TPT owns 75% is a California LLC founded in 2014 focused on
custom designing, manufacturing, and selling high-end turnkey
outdoor fitness studios and mobile medical testing labs. Aire
Fitness has contracted with YMCAs, Parks and Recreation
departments, Universities and Country Clubs which are currently
using its mobile gyms. Aire Fitness’ existing and
future clients will be able to take advantage of TPT’s
upcoming Broadband, TV and Social Media platform to offer virtual
classes utilizing the company’s mobile gyms. The agreement
included an employment agreement for Mario Garcia, former principal
owner, which annual employment is to be at $120,000 plus customary
employee benefits. This agreement was closed August 1,
2020.
The Company evaluated this acquisition in accordance with ASC
805-10-55-4 to discern whether the assets and operations of the
assets purchased met the definition of a business. The company
concluded that there are processes and sufficient inputs into
outputs. Accordingly, the Company accounted for this transaction as
a business combination and allocated the purchase price as
follows:
Consideration given
at fair value:
|
|
Note payable, net
of discount
|
$340,000
|
Accounts
payable
|
157,252
|
Non-controlling
interest
|
113,333
|
|
$610,585
|
|
|
Assets acquired at
fair value:
|
|
Cash
|
$460
|
Accounts
receivable
|
39,034
|
|
$39,494
|
Goodwill
|
$571,091
|
Included
in the consolidated statement of operations for the year ended
December 31, 2020 is $56,300 of expenses which primarily related to
payroll expenses. The were no outside revenues generated by Aire
Fitness recorded From August 1, 2020 through December 31,
2020.
Had the
acquisitions of TPT SpeedConnect and Aire Fitness occurred on
January 1, 2019, condensed proforma results of operations for the
years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 would be as
follows:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Revenue
|
11,191,709
|
$11,630,775
|
Cost of
Sales
|
7,270,166
|
6,513,624
|
Gross
Profit
|
3,921,543
|
$5,117,151
|
Expenses
|
(12,305,652)
|
(7,844,692)
|
Other income
(expense)
|
85,071
|
(10,875,850)
|
Net
Loss
|
(8,299,039)
|
$(13,603,391)
|
Loss per
share
|
(0.01)
|
$(0.10)
|
F-18
EPIC Reference Labs, Inc. Acquisition
On August 6, 2020, TPT MedTech signed a binding letter of intent
with Rennova to acquire EPIC Reference Labs, Inc.
(“EPIC”), wholly owned subsidiary of Rennova, for
$750,000, comprised of a deposit of $25,000 within five days of
signing and the remainder due either from 20% of net proceeds
received from fund raising that the Company had initiated and as
evidenced by SEC Filings or a minimum payment of $25,000 per month
until paid in full. The first $25,000 payment was made and was
accounted for as a deposit in the consolidated balance sheet. All
defined laboratory equipment and a $100,000 lease deposit were to
be excluded from the sales price. All liabilities incurred up to
signing were to be discharged. Receivables existing at signing were
to be 100% ownership of Rennova. There were no other significant
assets. This acquisition would allow TPT MedTech to own a license
to operate medical testing facilities.
TPT MedTech and Rennova subsequently agreed that the acquisition
would be of an asset acquisition of substantially all of the assets
of EPIC instead of acquiring the stock of EPIC, but that all other
terms were to be consistent with the binding letter of
intent. Until the change of
ownership of the assets was complete, Rennova started operating the
laboratory under a management agreement dated August 6, 2020
between TPT MedTech, LLC and Rennova. There are approximately
$19,000 of expenses in our consolidated statement of operations
under the management agreement.
Subsequently, TPT MedTech decided that it would not acquire the
assets of EPIC and terminated its relationship with EPIC. The
$25,000 deposit was then expensed to the statement of operations
for the year ended December 31, 2020.
Rennova Acquisition Agreement
Effective
December 31, 2020, the Company completed its
acquisition agreement (“Rennova Acquisition Agreement”)
with Rennova Health, Inc. (“Rennova”), an owner
and operator of rural hospitals in Tennessee, and InnovaQor, to
merge Rennova’s software and genetic testing interpretation
divisions, Health Technology Solutions, Inc. (HTS) and Advanced
Molecular Services Group, Inc., (AMSG) and their subsidiaries into
InnovaQor. After closing, these entities were to operate as wholly
owned subsidiaries of InnovaQor which then would have been
controlled by Rennova. Closing was subject to a number of customary
conditions for a transaction of this nature and was intended to
happen on or before January 31, 2020.
InnovaQor
had previously completed a license agreement giving it certain
rights to assets and technology from the Company’s
proprietary live streaming communication technology. As part of the
license agreement InnovaQor and TPT had agreed on a development
project to create a next generation telehealth type platform. It
was intended to combine the TPT and Rennova assets and technology
into a smart phone and computer accessible healthcare platform to
facilitate a patient’s immediate access to healthcare and
their local hospital or doctors office, for initial consultation,
scheduling of appointments and follow on care and other added value
services that may be one off or recurring.
Rennova
had agreed to complete the necessary steps and SEC filings with the
intent to facilitate TPT shareholders receiving approximately
2,500,000 shares in InnovaQor, and Rennova’s shareholders
receiving approximately $5M of Preference shares which were be
converted to common shares. As described in the Rennova Acquisition
Agreement, TPT, or its assigns, was to retain direct ownership of a
further 3,500,000 shares and Rennova and retain ownership of an
additional $17.5M of preference shares with certain conversion
rights and restrictions, making it the contolling entity of
InnovaQor.
Rennova
terminated the Rennova Acquisition Agreement effective March 5,
2021 and the Company agreed to this termination with both parties
not able to come to agreement of final terms.
InnovaQor Merger with Southern Plains
On
August 1, 2020, InnovaQor,
a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, entered into a Merger
Agreement with the publicly traded company Southern Plains Oil
Corp. (OTC PINK: SPLN prior to Merger Agreement). The SPLN Merger
moved the Company’s subsidiary InnovaQor one step closer to
completing a recently executed Asset Purchase Agreement with
Rennova Health, Inc. The Merger also positioned InnovaQor to trade
on the OTC Market, which InnovaQor is now traded under INOQ. The
Company was to receive 6,000,000 common shares as part of the
Merger Agreement out of a total of 6,400,667 common shares
outstanding.
During August, InnovaQor authorized a Series A Super Majority
Preferred Stock valued at $350,000 by management and issued to a
third party in exchange for legal services. Effective September 30,
2020, the Series A Super Majority Preferred Stock was exchanged
with TPT for a note payable of $350,000 payable in cash or common
stock (see Note 5(1)). As such, as of September 30, 2020, the
Company, for accounting purposes, took control of the merged
InnovaQor and reflected in it’s consolidated balance the
consolidated balance sheet of InnovaQor which assets and
liabilities were di minimus. The merger was a reverse merger with
Southern Plains of which there ended up being a non controlling
interest of 6% as of December 31, 2020. The name of InnovaQor
remained for the merged entities but was changed to TPT Strategic,
Inc. on March 21, 2021.
F-19
A License Agreement that was originally signed between the Company
and InnovaQor for software development but rescinded March 30, 2021
and the issuance of 6,000,000 shares of common stock were
cancelled.
Bridge Internet Acquisition
On
March 6, 2020, the Company executed an Acquisition and Purchase
Agreement (“Agreement”) dated March 6, 2020 with Bridge
Internet, LLC (“Bridge Internet”), a Delaware Limited
Liability Company. On December 23, 2020, the Company and prior
owner agreed to terminate the agreement.
The
Agreement stated that the Company had acquired 75% of Bridge
Internet for 8,000,000 shares of common stock of TPT Global Tech,
Inc., 4,000,000 common shares issued to Sydney “Trip”
Camper immediately and 4,000,000 common shares would vest equally
over two years. As sufficient funding was raised by the Company,
defined as approximately $3,000,000, marketing funds of up to
$200,000 per quarter for the next year were to be provided. Sydney
“Trip” Camper, would retain the remaining 25% of Bridge
Internet and stay on as the CEO. This Agreement was terminated as
if there were no agreement. Any monies paid as contractor payments
by the Company are to be maintained and the Company is to have no
liabilities related to Bridge Internet of any sort.
NOTE
3 – GOING CONCERN
The
accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared
assuming that the Company will continue as a going
concern.
Cash
flows generated from operating activities were not enough to
support all working capital requirements for the years ended
December 31, 2020 and 2019. Financing activities described below
have helped with working capital and other capital
requirements.
We
incurred $8,119,268 and $14,028,165, respectively, in losses, and
we used $489,573 and $328,251, respectively, in cash for operations
for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. We calculate the
net cash used by operating activities by decreasing, or increasing
in case of gain, our let loss by those items that do not require
the use of cash such as depreciation, amortization, promissory note
issued for research and development, note payable issued for legal
fees, derivative expense or gain, gain on extinguishment of debt,
loss on conversion of notes payable, impairment of goodwill and
long-loved assts and share-based compensation which totaled to a
net $5,378,277 for 2020 and $13,091,764 for 2019.
In
addition, we report increases and reductions in liabilities as uses
of cash and deceases assets and increases in liabilities as sources
of cash, together referred to as changes in operating assets and
liabilities. For the year ended December 31, 2020, we had a net
increase in our assets and liabilities of $2,251,418 primarily from
an increase in accounts payable from lag of payments for accounts
payable for cash flow considerations and an increase in the
balances from our operating lease liabilities. For the year ended
December 31, 2019 we had a net increase to our assets and
liabilities of $608,150 for similar reasons.
Cash
flows from financing activities were $817,608 and $1,390,538 for
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. For the
year ended December 30, 2020, these cash flows were generated
primarily from proceeds from proceeds from sale of non-controlling
interests in QuikLABS of $460,000, proceeds from convertible notes,
loans and advances of $1,753,204 offset by payment on convertible
loans, advances and factoring agreements of $1,169,330 and payments
on convertible notes and amounts payable – related parties of
$212,256. For the year ended December 31, 2019, cash flows from
financing activities primarily came from proceeds from convertible
notes, loans and advances of $2,613,047 offset by payments on
convertible loans, advances and factoring agreements of
$1,440,139.
Cash
flows used in investing activities were $500,898 and $901,901,
respectively, for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019. For
the year ended December 31, 2020 these cash flows were used
primarily for the acquisition of property and equipment of $424,560
and the purchase of intangibles of $76,798. For the year ended
December 31, 2019 cash flows for investing activities were used to
acquire property and equipment and the payment for business
acquisitions.
These
factors raise substantial doubt about the ability of the Company to
continue as a going concern for a period of one year from the
issuance of these financial statements. The financial statements do
not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of
this uncertainty.
In December 2019, COVID-19 emerged and has subsequently spread
worldwide. The World Health Organization has declared COVID-19 a
pandemic resulting in federal, state and local governments and
private entities mandating various restrictions, including travel
restrictions, restrictions on public gatherings, stay at home
orders and advisories and quarantining of people who may have been
exposed to the virus. After close monitoring and responses and
guidance from federal, state and local governments, in an effort to
mitigate the spread of COVID-19, around March 18, 2020 for a period
of time, the Company closed its Blue Collar office in Los Angeles
and its TPT SpeedConnect offices in Michigan, Idaho and
Arizona. Most employees were working remotely, however this
is not possible with certain employees and all subcontractors that
work for Blue Collar. The Company continues to monitor
developments, including government requirements and recommendations
at the national, state, and local level to evaluate possible
extensions to all or part of such closures.
The Company has taken advantage of the stimulus offerings and
received $722,200 in April 2020 and $680,500 in February 2021 and
believes it has used these funds as is prescribed by the stimulus
offerings to have the entire amounts forgiven. The Company has
applied for forgiveness of the original stimulus of $722,200. The
forgiveness process for stimulus funded in February 2021 has not
begun. The Company will try and take advantage of additional
stimulus as it is available and is also in the process of trying to
raise debt and equity financing, some of which may have to be used
for working capital shortfalls if revenues continue to decline
because of the COVID-19 closures.
In
order for us to continue as a going concern for a period of one
year from the issuance of these financial statements, we will need
to obtain additional debt or equity financing and look for
companies with cash flow positive operations that we can acquire.
There can be no assurance that we will be able to secure additional
debt or equity financing, that we will be able to acquire cash flow
positive operations, or that, if we are successful in any of those
actions, those actions will produce adequate cash flow to enable us
to meet all our future obligations. Most of our existing financing
arrangements are short-term. If we are unable to obtain additional
debt or equity financing, we may be required to significantly
reduce or cease operations.
F-20
NOTE 4 – PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT
Property
and equipment and related accumulated depreciation as of December
31, 2020 and 2019 are as follows:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Property and
equipment:
|
|
|
Telecommunications
fiber and equipment
|
$2,530,167
|
5,203,000
|
Film production
equipment
|
369,903
|
369,903
|
Medical
equipment
|
133,329
|
—
|
Office furniture
and equipment
|
86,899
|
85,485
|
Leasehold
improvements
|
18,679
|
18,679
|
Total
Property ad equipment
|
3,138,977
|
5,677,067
|
Accumulated
depreciation
|
(993,380)
|
(1,253,919)
|
Property and
equipment, net
|
$2,145,597
|
4,423,148
|
Depreciation
expense was $1,054,702 and $591,069 for the years ended December
31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
During
the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company had a change in
useful life for its telecommunications fiber and equipment related
to Copperhead Digital resulting from managements evaluation of its
remaining useful life in light of the decrease in revenues for
which it was being used. The useful life was decreased from its
original 20 years when it was acquired in 2015 to five years.
Subsequently, as of December 31, 2020, management adjusted the net book value
of this equipment to zero as it became doubtful with no customers
that the estimated future cash flows would recover the net book
value. This resulted in an expense for impairment of $1,849,630 to
the statement of operations for the year ended December 31,
2020.
NOTE 5 – DEBT FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS
Financing
arrangements as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 are as
follows:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Loans and advances
(1)
|
$2,517,200
|
$1,121,640
|
Convertible notes
payable (2)
|
1,711,098
|
2,101,649
|
Factoring
agreements (3)
|
635,130
|
223,618
|
Debt – third
party
|
$4,863,428
|
$3,446,907
|
|
|
|
Line of credit,
related party secured by assets (4)
|
$3,043,390
|
3,043,390
|
Debt– other
related party, net of discounts (5)
|
7,423,334
|
5,950,000
|
Convertible debt
– related party (6)
|
922,481
|
922,881
|
Shareholder debt
(7)
|
93,072
|
303,688
|
Debt –
related party
|
$11,482,277
|
$10,219,959
|
|
|
|
Total financing
arrangements
|
$16,345,705
|
$13,666,866
|
|
|
|
Less current
portion:
|
|
|
Loans, advances and
factoring agreements – third party
|
$(2,308,753)
|
$(344,758)
|
Convertible notes
payable third party
|
(1,711,098)
|
(2,101,649
|
Debt –
related party, net of discount
|
(10,559,796)
|
(9,297,078)
|
Convertible notes
payable– related party
|
(922,481)
|
(534,381)
|
|
(15,502,128)
|
(12,277,866)
|
Total long term
debt
|
$843,577
|
$1,389,000
|
_____________________________
(1) The
terms of $40,000 of this balance are similar to that of the Line of
Credit which bears interest at adjustable rates, 1 month LIBOR plus
2%, 2.2% as of December 31, 2020, and is secured by assets of the
Company, was due August 31, 2020, as amended, and included 8,000
stock options as part of the terms which options expired December
31, 2019 (see Note 7).
$500,500
is a line of credit that Blue Collar has with a bank, bears
interest at Prime plus 1.125%, 4.38% as of December 31, 2020, and
is due March 25, 2021. The Company is working with the bank on an
extension of the due date.
$363,558
is a bank loan dated May 28, 2019 which bears interest at Prime
plus 6%, 9.25% as of December 31, 2020, was interest only for the
first year, thereafter beginning in June of 2020 payable monthly of
principal and interest of $22,900 until the due date of May 1,
2022. The bank loan is collateralized by assets of the
Company.
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$722,220
represents loans under the COVID-19 Pandemic Paycheck Protection
Program (“PPP”) originated in April of 2020. The
Company believes that it has used the funds such that 100% will be
forgiven. The applications for forgiveness have been submitted to
the Small Business Administration. If any of the PPP loans are not
forgiven then, per the PPP, the unforgiven loan amounts will be
payable monthly over a five-year period of which payments are to
begin no later than 10 months after the covered period as defined
at a 1% annual interest rate.
On June 4, 2019, the Company consummated a Securities Purchase
Agreement with Odyssey Capital Funding, LLC.
(“Odyssey”) for the purchase of a $525,000 Convertible
Promissory Note (“Odyssey Convertible Promissory
Note”). The Odyssey Convertible Promissory Note was due June
3, 2020, paid interest at the rate of 12% (24% default) per annum
and gave the holder the right from time to time, and at any time
during the period beginning six months from the issuance date to
convert all of the outstanding balance into common stock of the
Company limited to 4.99% of the outstanding common stock of the
Company. The conversion price was 55% multiplied by the average of
the two lowest trading prices for the common stock during the
previous 20 trading days prior to the applicable conversion date.
The Odyssey Convertible Promissory Note could be prepaid in full at
125% to 145% up to 180 days from origination. Through June 3, 2020,
Odyssey converted $49,150 of principal and $4,116 of accrued
interest into 52,961,921 shares of common stock of the Company. On
June 8, 2020, Odyssey agreed to convert the remaining principal and
accrued interest balance on the Odyssey Convertible Promissory Note
of $475,850 and $135,000, respectively, to a term loan payable in
six months in the form of a balloon payment, earlier if the Company
has a funding event, bearing simple interest on the unpaid balance
of 0% for the first three months and then 10% per annum thereafter.
This loan is in default. The Company is negotiating with Odyssey
for repayment.
Effective
September 30, 2020, we entered into a Purchase Agreement by which
we agreed to purchase the 500,000 outstanding Series A Preferred
shares of InnovaQor, Inc., our majority owned subsidiary, in an
agreed amount of $350,000 in cash or common stock, if not paid in
cash, at the five day average price preceding the date of the
request for effectiveness after the filing of a registration
statement on Form S-1. This was modified December 28 and 29, 2020,
to provide for registration of 7,500,000 common shares for resale
at the market price. Any balance due on notes will be calculated
after an accounting for the net sales proceeds from sale of the
stock by February 28, 2021 and may be paid in cash or stock
thereafter. The Series A Preferred shares are being purchased from
the Michael A. Littman, Atty. Defined Benefit Plan. The $350,000 is
included as a Note Payable as of December 31, 2020 and bears no
interest.
The
remaining balances generally bear interest at approximately 10%,
have maturity dates that are due on demand or are past due, are
unsecured and are classified as current in the balance
sheets.
(2) During
2017, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in the amount
of $67,000 (comprised of $62,000 from two related parties and
$5,000 from a former officer of CDH), all which were due May 1,
2020 and bear 6% annual interest (12% default interest rate). The
convertible promissory notes are convertible, as amended, at $0.25
per share. These convertible promissory notes were not repaid May
1, 2020, and are delinquent. The Company is working to renegotiate
these promissory notes.
During
2019, the Company consummated Securities Purchase Agreements dated
March 15, 2019, April 12, 2019, May 15, 2019, June 6, 2019 and
August 22, 2019 with Geneva Roth Remark Holdings, Inc.
(“Geneva Roth”) for the purchase of convertible
promissory notes in the amounts of $68,000, $65,000, $58,000,
$53,000 and $43,000 (“Geneva Roth Convertible Promissory
Notes”). The Geneva Roth Convertible Promissory Notes are due
one year from issuance, pays interest at the rate of 12% (principal
amount increases 150%-200% and interest rate increases to 24% under
default) per annum and gives the holder the right from time to
time, and at any time during the period beginning 180 days from the
origination date to the maturity date or date of default to convert
all or any part of the outstanding balance into common stock of the
Company limited to 4.99% of the outstanding common stock of the
Company. The conversion price is 61% multiplied by the average of
the two lowest trading prices for the common stock during the
previous 20 trading days prior to the applicable conversion date.
The Geneva Roth Convertible Promissory Notes may be prepaid in
whole or in part of the outstanding balance at 125% to 140% up to
180 days from origination. Geneva Roth converted a total of
$244,000 of principal and $8,680 of accrued interest through
September 30, 2020 from its various Securities Purchase Agreements
into 125,446,546 shares of common stock of the Company leaving no
outstanding principal balances as of September 30, 2020. On
February 13, 2020, the August 22, 2019 Securities Purchase
Agreement was repaid for $63,284, including a premium and accrued
interest.
On March 25, 2019, the Company consummated a Securities Purchase
Agreement dated March 18, 2019 with Auctus Fund, LLC.
(“Auctus”) for the purchase of a $600,000 Convertible
Promissory Note (“Auctus Convertible Promissory Note”).
The Auctus Convertible Promissory Note is due December 18, 2019,
pays interest at the rate of 12% (24% default) per annum and gives
the holder the right from time to time, and at any time during the
period beginning 180 days from the origination date or at the
effective date of the registration of the underlying shares of
common stock, which the holder has registration rights for, to
convert all of the outstanding balance into common stock of the
Company limited to 4.99% of the outstanding common stock of the
Company. The conversion price is the lessor of the lowest trading
price during the previous 25 trading days prior the date of the
Auctus Convertible Promissory Note or 50% multiplied by the average
of the two lowest trading prices for the common stock during the
previous 25 trading days prior to the applicable conversion date.
The Auctus Convertible Promissory Note may be prepaid in full at
135% to 150% up to 180 days from origination. Auctus converted
$33,180 of principal and $142,004 of accrued interest into
376,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company prior to December
31, 2020. 2,000,000 warrants were issued in conjunction with the
issuance of this debt. See Note 8.
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On June 6, 2019, the Company consummated a Securities Purchase
Agreement with JSJ Investments Inc. (“JSJ”) for the
purchase of a $112,000 Convertible Promissory Note (“JSJ
Convertible Promissory Note”). The JSJ Convertible Promissory
Note is due June 6, 2020, pays interest at the rate of 12% per
annum and gives the holder the right from time to time, and at any
time during the period beginning 180 days from the origination date
to convert all of the outstanding balance into common stock of the
Company limited to 4.99% of the outstanding common stock of the
Company. The conversion price is the lower of the market price, as
defined, or 55% multiplied by the average of the two lowest trading
prices for the common stock during the previous 20 trading days
prior to the applicable conversion date. The JSJ Convertible
Promissory Note may be prepaid in full at 135% to 150% up to 180
days from origination. JSJ converted $43,680 of principal into
18,500,000 shares of common stock of the Company prior to December
31, 2020. In addition, on February 25, 2020 the Company repaid for
$97,000, including a premium and accrued interest, for all
remaining principal and accrued interest balances as of that day.
333,333 warrants were issued in conjunction with the issuance of
this debt. See Note 8.
On June 11, 2019, the Company consummated a Securities Purchase
Agreement with EMA Financial, LLC. (“EMA”) for the
purchase of a $250,000 Convertible Promissory Note (“EMA
Convertible Promissory Note”). The EMA Convertible Promissory
Note is due June 11, 2020, pays interest at the rate of 12%
(principal amount increases 200% and interest rate increases to 24%
under default) per annum and gives the holder the right from time
to time to convert all of the outstanding balance into common stock
of the Company limited to 4.99% of the outstanding common stock of
the Company. The conversion price is 55% multiplied by the lowest
traded price for the common stock during the previous 25 trading
days prior to the applicable conversion date. The EMA Convertible
Promissory Note may be prepaid in full at 135% to 150% up to 180
days from origination. Prior to December 31, 2020, EMA converted
$35,366 of principal into 147,700,000 shares of common stock of the
Company. 1,000,000 warrants were issued in conjunction with the
issuance of this debt. See Note 8.
The
Company is in default under its derivative financial instruments
and received notice of such from Auctus and EMA for not reserving
enough shares for conversion and for not having filed a Form S-1
Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
It was the intent of the Company to pay back all derivative
securities prior to the due dates but that has not occurred in case
of Auctus or EMA. As such, the Company is currently in negotiations
with Auctus and EMA and relative to extending due dates and
changing terms on the Notes. The Company has been named in a
lawsuit by EMA for failing to comply with a Securities Purchase
Agreement entered into in June 2019. See Note 9 Other Commitments
and Contingencies.
On February 14, 2020, the Company agreed to a Secured Promissory
Note with a third party for $90,000. The Secured Promissory Note
was secured by the assets of the Company and was due June 14, 2020
or earlier in case the Company is successful in raising other
monies and carried an interest charge of 10% payable with the
principal. The Secured Promissory Note was also convertible at the
option of the holder into an equivalent amount of Series D
Preferred Stock. The Secured Promissory Note also included a
guaranty by the CEO of the Company, Stephen J. Thomas III. This
Secured Promissory Note was paid off in June 2020, including $9,000
of interest in June and $1,000 in July 2020.
(3)
$101,244 of the Factoring Agreements is with full recourse, due
February 29, 2020, as amended, was established in June 2016 with a
company that is controlled by a shareholder and is personally
guaranteed by an officer of the Company. This Factoring Agreement
is such that the Company pays a discount of 2% per each 30-day
period for each advance received against accounts receivable or
future billings. The Company was advanced funds from this Factoring
Agreement for which $101,244 and $101,244 in principal remained
unpaid as of December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2019,
respectively.
On May
8, 2019, the Company entered into a factoring agreement with
Advantage Capital Funding (“2019 Factoring agreement”).
$500,000, net of expenses, was funded to the Company with a promise
to pay $18,840 per week for 40 weeks until a total of $753,610 was
paid which occurred in February 2020.
On February 21, 2020, the Company entered into an Agreement for the
Purchase and Sale of Future Receipts (“2020 Factoring
Agreement”). The balance to be purchased and sold is $716,720
for which the Company received $500,000, net of fees. Under the
2020 Factoring Agreement, the Company was to pay $14,221 per week
for 50 weeks at an effective interest rate of approximately 43%
annually. However, due to COVID-19 the payments under the 2020
Factoring Agreement were reduced temporarily, to between $9,000 and
$11,000 weekly, of which $144,119 in payments have been deferred to
be paid at the end of the 50-week term. The 2020 Factoring
Agreement includes a guaranty by the CEO of the Company, Stephen J.
Thomas III.
On November 13, 2020, the Company entered into an Agreement for the
Purchase and Sale of Future Receipts (“2020 NewCo Factoring
Agreement”). The balance to be purchased and sold is $326,400
for which the Company received $232,800, net of fees. Under the
2020 NewCo Factoring Agreement, the Company is to pay $11,658 per
week for 28 weeks at an effective interest rate of approximately
36% annually. The 2020 NewCO Factoring Agreement includes a
guaranty by the CEO of the Company, Stephen J. Thomas
III.
F-23
On December 11, 2020, the Company entered into an Agreement for the
Purchase and Sale of Future Receipts with Samson MCA LLC
(“Samson Factoring Agreement”). The balance to be
purchased and sold is $162,500 for which the Company received
$118,625, net of fees. Under the Samson Factoring Agreement, the
Company is to pay $8,125 per week for 20 weeks at an effective
interest rate of approximately 36%. The Samson Factoring Agreement
includes a guaranty by the CEO of the Company, Stephen J. Thomas
III.
On December 11, 2020, the Company entered into a consolidation
agreement for the Purchase and Sale of Future Receipts with QFS
Capital (“QFS Factoring Agreement”). The balance to be
purchased and sold is $976,918 for which the Company receives
weekly payments of $29,860 for 20 weeks and then $21,978 for 4
weeks and then $11,669 in the last week of receipts all totaling
$696,781 net of fees. During the same time, the Company is required
to pay weekly $23,087 for 42 weeks at an effective interest rate of
approximately 36% annually. The QFS Factoring Agreement includes a
guaranty by the CEO of the Company, Stephen J. Thomas
III.
(4) The
Line of Credit originated with a bank and was secured by the
personal assets of certain shareholders of Copperhead Digital.
During 2016, the Line of Credit was assigned to the Copperhead
Digital shareholders, who subsequent to the Copperhead Digital
acquisition by TPTG became shareholders of TPTG, and the secured
personal assets were used to pay off the bank. The Line of Credit
bears a variable interest rate based on the 1 Month LIBOR plus
2.0%, 2.14% as of December 31, 2020, is payable monthly, and is
secured by the assets of the Company. 1,000,000 shares of Common
Stock of the Company have been reserved to accomplish raising the
funds to pay off the Line of Credit. Since assignment of the Line
of Credit to certain shareholders, which balance on the date of
assignment was $2,597,790, those shareholders have loaned the
Company $445,600 under the similar terms and conditions as the line
of credit but most of which were also given stock options totaling
$85,120 which expired as of December 31, 2019 (see Note 8) and was
due, as amended, August 31, 2020. The Company is in negotiations to
refinance this Line of Credit.
During
the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, those same shareholders
and one other have loaned the Company money in the form of
convertible loans of $136,400 and $537,200, respectively, described
in (2) and (6).
(5)
$350,000 represents cash due to the prior owners of the technology
acquired in December 2016 from the owner of the Lion Phone which is
due to be paid as agreed by the Company and the former owners of
the Lion Phone technology and has not been determined.
$4,000,000
represents a promissory note included as part of the consideration
of ViewMe Live technology acquired in 2017, later agreed to as
being due and payable in full, with no interest with $2,000,000
from debt proceeds and the remainder from proceeds from a second
Company public offering.
$1,000,000
represents a promissory note which was entered into on May 6, 2020
for the acquisition of Media Live One Platform from
Steve and Yuanbing Caudle for the further development of software.
This was expensed as research and development in the year ended
December 31, 2020. This
$1,000,000 promissory note is non-interest bearing, due
after funding has been received by the Company from its various
investors and other sources. Mr. Caudle is a principal with the
Company’s ViewMe technology.
On
September 1, 2018, the Company closed on its acquisition of Blue
Collar. Part of the acquisition included a promissory note of
$1,600,000 and interest at 3% from the date of closure. The
promissory note is secured by the assets of Blue
Collar.
$473,334,
net of a discount of $26,666 represents a Note Payable related to
the acquisition of 75% of Aire Fitness, payable six months from the
date of the note or as agreed by the Company out of future capital
raising efforts and does not accrue interest.
(6)
During 2016, the Company acquired SDM which consideration included
a convertible promissory note for $250,000 due February 29, 2019,
as amended, does not bear interest, unless delinquent in which the
interest is 12% per annum, and is convertible into common stock at
$1.00 per share. The SDM balance is $181,981 as of December 31,
2020. As of March 1, 2020, this convertible promissory note is
delinquent.
During
2018, the Company issued convertible promissory notes in the amount
of $537,200 to related parties and $10,000 to a non-related party
which bear interest at 6% (11% default interest rate), are due 30
months from issuance and are convertible into Series C Preferred
Stock at $1.00 per share. Because the Series C Preferred Stock has
a conversion price of $0.15 per share, the issuance of Series C
Preferred Stock promissory notes will cause a beneficial conversion
feature of approximately $38,479 upon exercise of the convertible
promissory notes.
(7) The
shareholder debt represents funds given to TPTG or subsidiaries by
officers and managers of the Company as working capital. There are
no written terms of repayment or interest that is being accrued to
these amounts and they will only be paid back, according to
management, if cash flows support it. They are classified as
current in the balance sheets.
F-24
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, the holders of approximately
$4,700,000 of existing financing arrangements agreed to exchange
their debt and accrued interest for Series D Preferred Stock
through a separate $12 Million Private Placement of Series D
Preferred Stock (“$12 Million Private Placement”),
conditioned on the Company raising at least $12,000,000. To date,
this condition has not been met.
See
Lease financing arrangement in Note 9.
NOTE 6 – DERIVATIVE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The Company previously adopted the provisions of ASC subtopic
825-10, Financial
Instruments (“ASC
825-10”). ASC 825-10 defines fair value as the price that
would be received from selling an asset or paid to transfer a
liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at
the measurement date. When determining the fair value measurements
for assets and liabilities required or permitted to be recorded at
fair value, the Company considers the principal or most
advantageous market in which it would transact and considers
assumptions that market participants would use when pricing the
asset or liability, such as inherent risk, transfer restrictions,
and risk of nonperformance. ASC 825-10 establishes a fair value
hierarchy that requires an entity to maximize the use of observable
inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring
fair value.
The derivative liability as of December 31, 2020, in the amount of
$5,265,139 has a level 3 classification under ASC
825-10.
The following table provides a summary of changes in fair value of
the Company’s Level 3 financial liabilities as of December
31, 2020.
|
Debt Derivative
Liabilities
|
Balance, December
31, 2018
|
$—
|
Debt discount from
initial derivative
|
1,774,000
|
Initial fair value
of derivative liabilities
|
2,601,631
|
Change in
derivative liability from conversion of notes payable
|
(407,654)
|
Change in fair
value of derivative liabilities at end of period
|
4,868,537
|
Balance, December
31, 2019
|
$8,836,514
|
Change in
derivative liabilities from conversion of notes
payable
|
(1,144,290)
|
Change in
derivative liabilities from the Odyssey conversion to a term
loan
|
(1,286,762)
|
Change in fair
value of derivative liabilities at end of period – derivative
expense
|
(1,140,323)
|
Balance, December
31, 2020
|
$5,265,139
|
Convertible notes payable and warrant derivatives
– The Company issued
convertible promissory notes which are convertible into common
stock, at holders’ option, at a discount to the market price
of the Company’s common stock. The Company has identified the
embedded derivatives related to these notes relating to certain
anti-dilutive (reset) provisions. These embedded derivatives
included certain conversion features. The accounting treatment of
derivative financial instruments requires that the Company record
fair value of the derivatives as of the inception date of debenture
and to fair value as of each subsequent reporting
date.
As of December 31, 2020, the Company marked to market the fair
value of the debt derivatives and determined a fair value of
$5,265,139 comprised of $5,229,436 from the convertible notes (Note
5) and $35,703 from the warrants (Note 8). The Company recorded a
gain from change in fair value of debt derivatives of $1,140,323
for the year ended December 31, 2020. The fair value of the
embedded derivatives was determined using Monte Carlo simulation
method based on the following assumptions: (1) dividend yield of
0%, (2) expected volatility of 190.9% to 350.8%, (3) weighted
average risk-free interest rate of 0.09% to 0.12% (4) expected life
of 0.25 to 1.4 years, and (5) the quoted market price of $0.03 for
the Company’s common stock.
See
Financing lease arrangements in Note 9.
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NOTE
7 - INCOME TAXES
The
following table sets forth the components of the Company’s
income tax expense (benefit) for the years ended December 31, 2020
and 2019:
Current:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Federal State and
local
|
$—
|
—
|
Total
Current
|
$—
|
—
|
Deferred:
|
|
|
Federal State and
local benefit
|
$(1,705,046)
|
(2,945,915)
|
Net operating loss,
net of state tax effect
|
(60,546)
|
(107,011)
|
Meals and
entertainment
|
4,459
|
4,506
|
Stock based
expenses
|
87,706
|
124,124
|
Impairment
|
567,629
|
199,473
|
Amortization
|
153,497
|
182,411
|
Derivative
expense
|
239,468
|
—
|
Other
|
—
|
61,472
|
Change in
allowance
|
712,833
|
2,480,939
|
Total
Benefit
|
$—
|
—
|
The
following table sets forth a reconciliation of the Company’s
income tax expense (benefit) as the federal statutory rate to
recorded income tax expense (benefit) for the years ended December
31, 2020 and 2019:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Income tax at
Federal statutory rate
|
21%
|
21%
|
Change in valuation
allowance
|
(21%)
|
(21%)
|
Stock based
compensation
|
(0%)
|
(0%)
|
Net operating loss,
net of state tax effect
|
(1%)
|
(1%)
|
Other
|
(1%)
|
(1%)
|
Total
|
—
|
—
|
The
following table sets forth the components of the Company’s
deferred income taxes as of December 31, 2020 and
2019:
Current deferred
tax assets (liabilities):
|
2020
|
2019
|
Valuation
allowance
|
$—
|
—
|
Total current
deferred tax asset (liability)
|
$—
|
—
|
|
|
|
Noncurrent deferred
tax assets (liabilities):
|
|
|
Derivative (gain)
expense
|
$1,330,683
|
1,570,151
|
Intangible assets
amortization
|
956,355
|
802,857
|
Net operating loss
carry forwards
|
2,752,287
|
2,140,224
|
Stock base
compensation
|
1,743,527
|
1,655,821
|
Other
|
99,034
|
—
|
Less; Valuation
allowance
|
$(6,881,886)
|
(6,169,052)
|
Total noncurrent
deferred tax asset (liability)
|
—
|
—
|
|
|
|
Total deferred tax
asset (liability)
|
$—
|
—
|
The
Company has approximately $13,100,000 and $10,000,000 of net
operating loss carry forwards as of December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively, which expire in varying amounts, if unused. Because
of the change in ownership of more than 50% of the Company in
accordance with Section 382 of the IRS Code, these net operating
loss carry forwards may be significantly limited to use in future
periods.
F-26
NOTE
8 - STOCKHOLDERS' DEFICIT
Preferred
Stock
As of
December 31, 2020, we had authorized 100,000,000 shares of
Preferred Stock, of which certain shares had been designated as
Series A Preferred Stock, Series B Preferred Stock, Series C
Preferred Stock and Series D Preferred Stock.
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
The
Company designated 1,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock as Series A
Preferred Stock. In February 2015, the Board of Directors
authorized the issuance of 1,000,000 shares of Series A Preferred
Stock to Stephen Thomas, Chairman, CEO and President of the
Company, valued at $3,117,000 for compensation expense. These
shares are outstanding as of December 31, 2020.
The
Series A Preferred Stock has a par value of $.001, is redeemable at
the Company’s option at $100 per share, is senior to any
other class or series of outstanding Preferred Stock or Common
Stock and does not bear dividends. The Series A Preferred Stock has
a liquidation preference immediately after any Senior Securities,
as defined and amended, of an amount equal to amounts payable
owing, including contingency amounts where Holders of the Series A
have personally guaranteed obligations of the Company. Holders of
the Series A Preferred Stock shall, collectively have the right to
convert all of their Series A Preferred Stock when conversion is
elected into that number of shares of Common Stock of the Company,
determined by the following formula: 60% of the issued and
outstanding Common Shares as computed immediately after the
transaction for conversion. For further clarification, the 60% of
the issued and outstanding common shares includes what the holders
of the Series A Preferred Stock may already hold in common shares
at the time of conversion. The Series A Preferred Stock,
collectively, shall have the right to vote as if converted prior to
the vote to a number of shares equal to 60% of the outstanding
Common Stock of the Company.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, the Series A Preferred Stock was
reclassified as mezzanine equity as a result of the Company not
having enough authorized common shares to be able to issue common
shares upon their conversion.
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
In
February 2015, the Company designated 3,000,000 shares of Preferred
Stock as Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
The
Series B Preferred Stock was designated in February 2015, has a par
value of $.001, is not redeemable, is senior to any other class or
series of outstanding Preferred Stock, except the Series A
Preferred Stock, or Common Stock and does not bear dividends. The
Series B Preferred Stock has a liquidation preference immediately
after any Senior Securities, as defined and currently the Series A
Preferred Stock, and of an amount equal to $2.00 per share. Holders
of the Series B Preferred Stock have a right to convert all or any
part of the Series B Preferred Shares and will receive and equal
number of common shares at the conversion price of $2.00 per share.
The Series B Preferred Stockholders have a right to vote on any
matter with holders of Common Stock and shall have a number of
votes equal to that number of Common Shares on a one-to- one
basis.
There
are 2,588,693 shares of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
outstanding as of December 31, 2020. During the year ended December
31, 2020, the Series B Preferred Stock was reclassified as
mezzanine equity as a result of the Company not having enough
authorized common shares to be able to issue common shares upon
their conversion.
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock
In May
2018, the Company designated 3,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock as
Series C Convertible Preferred Stock.
The
Series C Preferred Stock has a par value of $.001, is not
redeemable, is senior to any other class or series of outstanding
Preferred Stock, except the Series A and Series B Preferred Stock,
or Common Stock and does not bear dividends. The Series C Preferred
Stock has a liquidation preference immediately after any Senior
Securities, as defined and currently the Series A and B Preferred
Stock, and of an amount equal to $2.00 per share. Holders of the
Series C Preferred Stock have a right to convert all or any part of
the Series C Preferred Shares and will receive an equal number of
common shares at the conversion price of $0.15 per share. The
Series C Preferred Stockholders have a right to vote on any matter
with holders of Common Stock and shall have a number of votes equal
to that number of Common Shares on a one-to-one basis.
There
are no shares of Series C Convertible Preferred Stock outstanding
as of December 31, 2020. There are approximately $688,500 in
convertible notes payable convertible into Series C Convertible
Preferred Stock which compromise some of the common stock
equivalents calculated in Note 1.
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Series D Convertible Preferred Stock
On June 15, 2020, the Company amended its Series D Designation from
January 14, 2020. This Amendment changed the number of shares to
10,000,000 shares of the authorized 100,000,000 shares of the
Company's $0.001 par value preferred stock as the Series D
Convertible Preferred Stock ("the Series D Preferred
Shares.").
Series
D Preferred shares have the following features: (i) 6% Cumulative
Annual Dividends payable on the purchase value in cash or common
stock of the Company at the discretion of the Board and payment is
also at the discretion of the Board, which may decide to cumulate
to future years; (ii) Any time after 18 months from issuance an
option to convert to common stock at the election of the holder @
80% of the 30 day average market closing price (for previous 30
business days) divided into $5.00. ; (iii) Automatic conversion of
the Series D Preferred Stock shall occur without consent of holders
upon any national exchange listing approval and the registration
effectiveness of common stock underlying the conversion rights. The
automatic conversion to common from Series D Preferred shall be on
a one for one basis, which shall be post-reverse split as may be
necessary for any Exchange listing (iv) Registration Rights –
the Company has granted Piggyback Registration Rights for common
stock underlying conversion rights in the event it files any other
Registration Statement (other than an S-1 that the Company may file
for certain conversion common shares for the convertible note
financing that was arranged and funded in 2019). Further, the
Company will file, and pursue to effectiveness, a Registration
Statement or offering statement for common stock underlying the
Automatic Conversion event triggered by an exchange listing. (v)
Liquidation Rights - $5.00 per share plus any accrued unpaid
dividends – subordinate to Series A, B, and C Preferred Stock
receiving full liquidation under the terms of such series. The
Company has redemption rights for the first year following the
Issuance Date to redeem all or part of the principal amount of the
Series D Preferred Stock at between 115% and 140%.
As of
December 31, 2020, there are no Series D Preferred shares
outstanding as amended.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, the related party holders of
approximately $4,700,000 of existing financing arrangements agreed
to exchange their debt and accrued interest for 940,800 Series D
Preferred Stock through a separate $12 Million Private Placement of
Series D Preferred Stock (“$12 Million Private
Placement”), conditioned on the Company raising at least
$12,000,000. To date, this condition has not been met.
Common
Stock
As of
December 31, 2020, we had authorized 1,000,000,000 shares of Common
Stock, of which 865,564,371 common shares are issued and
outstanding.
Common Stock Issued for Conversion of Debt
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company issued 679,932,432 of
common shares for $232,430 of principal and $104,300 of interest,
resulting in a loss on conversion of $775,650. In addition, the
Company issued 1,000,000 common shares in exchange for $58,000 of
legal liabilities.
Common Stock Issued for Expenses and Liabilities
The
Company also entered into a twelve-month general consulting
agreement with a third party to provide general business advisory
services to be rendered through March 30, 2019 for 1,000,000
restricted shares of common stock and 1,000,000 options to purchase
restricted common shares at $0.10 per share for 36 months from the
time of grant. The fair value of the common shares granted was
based on the Company’s stock price of $0.155 per share, or
$155,000 of which $0 and $34,444 was expensed during the period for
the portion of service term complete as of December 31, 2020 and
2019.
In
addition, in the year ended December 31, 2020 1,000,000 shares were
issued to a consultant as a bonus for IR consulting services
performed which the Company recorded $58,000 of compensation
expense. These shares were valued at their fair value on the day
they were granted for which the Company recorded $54,000 in the
statement of operations as share-based compensation.
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Subscription Payable
As of
December 31, 2020, the Company has recorded $125,052 in stock
subscription payable, which equates to the fair value on the date
of commitment, of the Company’s commitment to issue the
following common shares:
Unissued shares for
conversion of debt
|
14,667
|
Unissued shares for
TPT MedTech consulting agreements
|
300,000
|
Unissued shares for
TPT consulting agreements
|
4,150,000
|
Shares receivable
under terminated acquisition agreement
|
(3,096,181)
|
Net
commitment
|
(1,368,486)
|
During
the years ended December 31, 2018, 16,667 of common shares were
subscribed to for a note payable on the balance sheet of $2,000.
2,000 of these shares were issued during the year ended December
31, 2020.
During
the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company signed consulting
agreements related to their activities with TPT Global Tech and TPT
MedTech with three third parties for which we agreed to issue
4,450,000 shares of restricted common stock. 300,000 of these
shares were valued at fair value and expensed in the statement of
operations for $16,200. The other 4,150,000 shares were value at
their value of $275,975 which is being amortized over 10 months of
service starting on the date of the agreement of September 1, 2020.
$110,390 has been amortized into the statement of operations as of
December 31, 2020.
In
2018, Arkady Shkolnik and Reginald Thomas (family member of CEO)
were added as members of the Board of Directors. In accordance with
agreements with the Company for his services as a director, Mr.
Shkolnik is to receive $25,000 per quarter and 5,000,000 shares of
restricted common stock valued at approximately $692,500 vesting
quarterly over twenty-four months. The quarterly cash payments of
$25,000 will be paid in unrestricted common shares if the Company
has not been funded adequately to make such payments. Mr. Thomas is
to receive $10,000 per quarter and 1,000,000 shares of restricted
common stock valued at approximately $120,000 vesting quarterly
over twenty-four months. The quarterly payment of $10,000 may be
suspended by the Company if the Company has not been adequately
funded. As of December 31, 2020, $215,500 and $75,000 has been
accrued as accounts payable in the balance sheet for Mr. Shkolnik
and Mr. Thomas, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2020
and 2019, $236,978 and $409,688, respectively, have been expensed
under these agreements. Both the 5,000,000 and 1,000,000 shares
granted were issued during the year ended December 31, 2020 and are
no longer reflected in subscriptions payable as of December 31,
2020.
Effective
November 1, 2017, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire
Holly wood Rivera, LLC and HRS Mobile LLC (“HRS”). In
March 2018, the HRS acquisition was rescinded and 3,096,181 shares
of common stock which were issued as consideration are being
returned by the recipients. As such, as of December 31, 2020 the
shares for the HRS transaction are reflected as subscriptions
receivable based on their par value.
Common Stock Issued Subsequent to December 31, 2020
Effective
September 30, 2020, we entered into a Purchase Agreement by which
we agreed to purchase the 500,000 outstanding Series A Preferred
shares of InnovaQor, Inc., our majority owned subsidiary, in an
agreed amount of $350,000 in cash or common stock, if not paid in
cash, at the five day average price preceding the date of the
request for effectiveness after the filing of a registration
statement on Form S-1. This was modified December 28 and 29, 2020,
to provide for registration of 7,500,000 common shares for resale
at the market price. Any balance due on notes will be calculated
after an accounting for the net sales proceeds from sale of the
stock by February 28, 2021 and may be paid in cash or stock
thereafter. The Series A Preferred shares are being purchased from
the Michael A. Littman, Atty. Defined Benefit Plan.
Effective
September 30, 2020, we entered into a Settlement Agreement to
settle outstanding legal fees due to date in the amount of $74,397
(as assigned to the Michael A. Littman Atty. Defined Benefit Plan.)
The number of shares to be issued in consideration is to be
computed at the five day average price as specified under Rule 474
under the Securities Act of 1933 for the 5 days preceding the date
of the request for acceleration of the effective date of this
registration of our common shares to be issued. (This may also be
fully settled by payment of the sum of $74,397 in cash at any time
prior to the issuance of the shares of stock of the Company.) This
was modified December 28 and 29, 2020, to provide for registration
of 7,500,000 common shares for resale at the market price. Any
balance due on notes will be calculated after an accounting for the
net sales proceeds from sale of the stock by February 28, 2021 and
may be paid in cash or stock thereafter.
The
7,500,000 shares identified in these agreements with Mr. Littman
were issued subsequent to December 31, 2020 and included in a Form
S-1 filed in January 2021. To date, we
understand the shares have not been sold and thus there is no
calculated shortfall as outlined above.
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Stock Options
|
Options
Outstanding
|
Vested
|
Vesting
Period
|
Exercise Price
Outstanding and Exercisable
|
Expiration
Date
|
December 31,
2018
|
3,093,120
|
1,954,230
|
100% at issue and
12 to 18 months
|
$0.05 to $0.22
|
12-31-19 to
3-21-21
|
Expired
|
(93,120)
|
|
|
$0.05 to $0.22
|
12-31-19
|
December 31,
2019
|
3,000,000
|
3,000,000
|
12 to 18
months
|
$0.10
|
3-1-20 to
3-21-21
|
Expired
|
(2,000,000)
|
|
|
|
|
December 31,
2020
|
1,000,000
|
1,000,000
|
12
months
|
$0.10
|
3-21-21
|
During
the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company entered into
consulting arrangements primarily for legal work and general
business support that included the issuance of stock options to
purchase 3,000,000 options to purchase common shares at $0.10 per
share. 2,000,000 of these expired. The remaining 1,000,000 are
fully vested as of December 31, 2020 but expired after year end.
The Black-Scholes options pricing model was used to value the stock
options. The inputs included the following:
(1)
|
Dividend
yield of 0%
|
(2)
|
expected
annual volatility of 307% - 311%
|
(3)
|
discount
rate of 2.2% to 2.3%
|
(4)
|
expected
life of 2 years, and
|
(5)
|
estimated
fair value of the Company’s common $0.125 to $0.155 per
share.
|
Additionally,
93,120 options expired in 2019. Expense recorded in the years ended
December 31, 2020 and 2019 was $0 and $0 related to stock options.
No further expense will be incurred to the consolidated statement
of operations for the existing stock options.
Warrants
As of December 31, 2020, there were 3,333,333 warrants outstanding
that expire in five years or in the year ended December 31, 2024.
As part of the Convertible Promissory Notes payable – third
party issuance in Note 5, the Company issued 3,333,333 warrants to
purchase 3,333,333 common shares of the Company at 70% of the
current market price. Current market price means the average
of the three lowest trading prices for our common stock during the
ten-trading day period ending on the latest complete trading day
prior to the date of the respective exercise notice. However, if a
required registration statement, registering the underlying shares
of the Convertible Promissory Notes, is declared effective on or
before June 11, 2019 to September 11, 2019, then, while such
Registration Statement is effective, the current market price shall
mean the lowest volume weighted average price for our common stock
during the ten-trading day period ending on the last complete
trading day prior to the conversion date.
The
warrants issued were considered derivative liabilities valued at
$35,703 of the total $5,265,436 derivative liabilities as of
December 31, 2020. See Note 6.
Common Stock Reservations
The
Company has reserved 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock of the
Company for the purpose of raising funds to be used to pay off debt
described in Note 5.
We have
reserved 20,000,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company to grant
to certain employee and consultants as consideration for services
rendered and that will be rendered to the Company.
Non-Controlling Interests
QuikLAB Mobile Laboratories
In July and August 2020, the Company formed Quiklab 1 LLC, QuikLAB
2, LLC, QuikLAB 3, LLC and QuikLAB 4, LLC. It is the intent to use
these entities as vehicles into which third parties would invest
and participate in owning QuikLAB Mobile Laboratories. As of
December 31, 2020, Quiklab 1 LLC, QuikLAB 2, LLC and QuikLAB 3, LLC
have received an investment of $460,000, of which Stephen Thomas
and Rick Eberhardt, CEO and COO of the Company, have invested
$100,000 in QuikLAB 2, LLC. The third party investors and Mr.
Thomas and Mr. Eberhart, will benefit from owning 20% of QuikLAB
Mobile Laboratories specific to their investments. The Company owns
the other 80% ownership in the QuickLAB Mobile Laboratories. The
net loss attributed to the non-controlling interests from the
QuikLAB Mobile Laboratories included in the statement of operations
for the year ended December 31, 2020 is $30,536.
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Other Non-Controlling Interests
InnovaQor, Aire Fitness and TPT Asia are other non-controlling
interests in which the Company owns 94%, 75% and 78%, respectively.
There is very little activity in any of these entities. The net
loss attributed to these non-controlling interests included in the
statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2020 is
$16,881.
InnovaQor did a reverse merger with Southern Plains of which there
ended up being a non-controlling interest ownership of 6% as of
December 31, 2020. As a result, $219,058 in the non-controlling
interest in liabilities of a license agreement valued at $3,500,000
was reflected in the consolidated balance sheet as of December 31,
2020.
NOTE 9 - COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Accounts
Payable and Accrued Expenses
Accounts
payable:
|
2020
|
2019
|
Related
parties (1)
|
$1,339,352
|
$1,141,213
|
General
operating
|
3,965,135
|
3,342,952
|
Accrued interest on
debt (2)
|
1,328,939
|
793,470
|
Credit card
balances
|
173,972
|
183,279
|
Accrued payroll and
other expenses
|
296,590
|
207,108
|
Taxes and fees
payable
|
641,012
|
633,357
|
Unfavorable lease
liability
|
121,140
|
242,256
|
Total
|
$7,866,140
|
$6,543,635
|
_____________
|
(1)
(2)
|
Relates
to amounts due to management and members of the Board of Directors
according to verbal and written agreements that have not been paid
as of period end.
Portion
relating to related parties is $679,380 and $481,942 for December
31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
|
Operating
lease obligations
The Company adopted Topic 842 on January 1, 2019. The Company
elected to adopt this standard using the optional modified
retrospective transition method and recognized a cumulative-effect
adjustment to the consolidated balance sheet on the date of
adoption. Comparative periods have not been restated. With the
adoption of Topic 842, the Company’s consolidated balance
sheet now contains the following line items: Operating lease
right-of-use assets, Current portion of operating lease liabilities
and Operating lease liabilities, net of current
portion.
As all the existing leases subject to the new lease standard were
previously classified as operating leases by the Company, they were
similarly classified as operating leases under the new standard.
The Company has determined that the identified operating leases did
not contain non-lease components and require no further allocation
of the total lease cost. Additionally, the agreements in place did
not contain information to determine the rate implicit in the
leases, so we used our estimated incremental borrowing rate as the
discount rate. Our weighted average discount rate is 10.0% and the
weighted average lease term of 4.2 years.
We have various non-cancelable lease agreements for certain of our
tower locations with original lease periods expiring between 2021
and 2044. Our lease terms may include options to extend or
terminate the lease when it is reasonably certain we will exercise
that option. Certain of the arrangements contain escalating rent
payment provisions. Our Michigan main office lease and an equipment
lease described below and leases with an initial term of twelve
months have not been recorded on the consolidated balance sheets.
We recognize rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease
term.
As of December 31, 2020, operating lease right-of-use assets and
liabilities arising from operating leases were $4,732,459 and
$5,555,674, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2020,
cash paid for amounts included for the measurement of lease
liabilities was $2,506,924 and the Company recorded lease expense
in the amount of $2,846,068 in cost of sales.
F-31
The Company entered into an operating lease agreement for location
rights for certain QuikLABS. The operating lease agreement start
October 1, 2020 and goes for three years at $9,798 per month. In
addition, the Company entered an operating agreement to lease
colocation space for 5 years. This operating agreement starts
October 1, 2020 for 7,140 per month.
The following is a schedule showing the future minimum lease
payments under operating leases by years and the present value of
the minimum payments as of December 31,
2020.
2021
|
$2,790,694
|
2022
|
1,545,075
|
2023
|
1,002,903
|
2024
|
668,474
|
2025
|
354,398
|
Thereafter
|
93,242
|
Total operating
lease liabilities
|
6,454,785
|
Amount representing
interest
|
(899,111)
|
Total net present
value
|
$5,555,674
|
Office lease used by CEO
During
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, the Company entered
into a lease of 12 months or less for living space which is
occupied by Stephen Thomas, Chairman, CEO and President of the
Company. Mr. Thomas lives in the space and uses it as his corporate
office. The Company has paid $30,000 and $30,857 in rent and
utility payments for this space for the year ended December 31,
2020 and 2019, respectively.
Financing
lease obligations
Future
minimum lease payments are as follows:
2021
|
$864,025
|
2022
|
10,780
|
2023
|
—
|
2024
|
—
|
2025
|
—
|
Thereafter
|
—
|
Total financing
lease liabilities
|
874,805
|
Amount representing
interest
|
(35,233)
|
Total future
payments (1)(2)
|
$839,572
|
____________________
(1)
Included is a
Telecom Equipment Lease is with an entity owned and controlled by
shareholders of the Company and was due August 31, 2020, as
amended.
(2)
Also included are
leases under Xroads Equipment Agreements with a third party that
allows the Company to pay between $11,288 and $11,780 per month,
including interest, starting between November 16, 2020 and February
22, 2021 for eleven months with a $1 value acquisition price at the
termination of the leases.
Other
Commitments and Contingencies
Employment Agreements
The
Company has employment agreements with certain employees of SDM, K
Telecom and Aire Fitness. The agreements are such that SDM, K
Telecom and Aire Fitness, on a standalone basis in each case, must
provide sufficient cash flow to financially support the financial
obligations within the employment agreements.
On May
6, 2020, the Company entered into an agreement to employ Ms. Bing
Caudle as Vice President of Product Development of the Media One
Live platform for an annual salary of $250,000 for five years,
including customary employee benefits. The payment is guaranteed
for five years whether or not Ms. Caudle is dismissed with
cause.
F-32
Litigation
We have
been named in a lawsuit by EMA Financial, LLC (“EMA”)
for failing to comply with a Securities Purchase Agreement entered
into in June 2019. More specifically, EMA claims the Company failed
to honor notices of conversion, failed to establish and maintain
share reserves, failed to register EMA shares and by failed to
assure that EMA shares were Rule 144 eligible within 6 months. EMA
has claimed in excess of $7,614,967 in relief. The Company has
filed a motion in response for which EMA has filed a motion to
dismiss. The Company does not believe at this time that any
negative outcome would result in more than the $593,120 it has
recorded on its balance sheet as of December 31, 2020.
A
lawsuit was filed in Michigan by the one of the former owners of
SpeedConnect, LLC, John Ogren. Mr. Ogren claims he is
owed back wages related to the acquisition agreement wherein the
Company acquired the assets of SpeedConnect, LLC and kept him on
through a consulting agreement. He ultimately resigned in
writing and now claims that even though he resigned he should still
have been paid. Mr. Ogren is claiming wages of $354,178 plus
interest, fees and costs. The consulting agreement called for
arbitration. We understand that Mr. Ogren is in the process
of dismissing the lawsuit and that he wants to pursue his claim
through arbitration. Management does not believe the Company
has any liability in this claim and will pursue its defenses
vigorously.
The
Company has been named in a lawsuit, Robert Serrett vs. TruCom,
Inc., by a former employee who was terminated by management in
2016. The employee was working under an employment agreement but
was terminated for breach of the agreement. The former employee is
suing for breach of contract and is seeking around $75,000 in back
pay and benefits. We recently learned that Mr. Serrett received a
default judgement in Texas on May 15, 2018 for $70,650 plus $3,500
in attorney fees and 5% interest and court costs. However, he
has made no attempt that we are aware of to obtain a sister state
judgment in Arizona, where Trucom resides, or to try and enforce
the judgement and collect. Management believes it has good
and meritorious defenses and does not belief the outcome of the
lawsuit will have any material effect on the financial position of
the Company.
We are
not currently involved in any litigation that we believe could have
a material adverse effect on our financial condition or results of
operations. There is no action, suit, proceeding, inquiry or
investigation before or by any court, public board, government
agency, self-regulatory organization or body pending or, to the
knowledge of the executive officers of our company or any of our
subsidiaries, threatened against or affecting our company, our
common stock, any of our subsidiaries or of our companies or our
subsidiaries’ officers or directors in their capacities as
such, in which an adverse decision could have a material adverse
effect. We anticipate that we (including current and any future
subsidiaries) will from time to time become subject to claims and
legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. It is
not feasible to predict the outcome of any such proceedings and we
cannot assure that their ultimate disposition will not have a
materially adverse effect on our business, financial condition,
cash flows or results of operations.
Customer Contingencies
The
Company has collected $338,725 from one customer in excess of
amounts due from that customer in accordance with the
customer’s understanding of the appropriate billings
activity. The customer has filed a written demand for repayment by
the Company of these amounts. Management believes that the customer
agreement allows them to keep the amounts under dispute. Given the
dispute, the Company has reflected the amounts in dispute as a
customer liability on the consolidated balance sheet as of December
31, 2020 and 2019.
Stock Contingencies
The Company issued 7,500,000 shares of stock to Mr. Littman in
accordance with its December 28 and 29, 2020 agreements as
described in Note 8. These shares were included in a Form S-1 filed
by the Company on January 15, 2021. To date, we understand the
shares have not been sold and thus there is no calculated shortfall
as outlined in Note 8, but this may happen, which shortfall, if it
occurs, is unknown at this time.
F-33
The
Company has convertible debt, preferred stock, options and warrants
outstanding for which common shares would be required to be issued
upon exercise by the holders. As of December 31, 2020, the
following shares would be issued:
Convertible
Promissory Notes
|
175,316,748
|
Series A Preferred
Stock (1)
|
1,243,987,624
|
Series B Preferred
Stock
|
2,588,693
|
Stock Options and
warrants
|
4,333,333
|
|
1,426,226,398
|
_______________
(1)
Holder of the Series A Preferred Stock which is Stephen J. Thomas,
is guaranteed 60% of the then outstanding common stock upon
conversion. The Company would have to authorize additional shares
for this to occur as only 1,000,000,000 shares are currently
authorized.
During
the fourth quarter of 2020, the related party holders of
approximately $4,700,000 of existing financing arrangements agreed
to exchange their debt and accrued interest for Series D Preferred
Stock through a separate $12 Million Private Placement, conditioned
on the Company raising at least $12,000,000 in a separate Form 1-A
Offering.
Part of
the consideration in the acquisition of Aire Fitness was the
issuance of 500,000 restricted common shares of the Company vesting
and issuable after the common stock reaches at least a $1.00 per
share closing price in trading. To date, this has not occurred but
may happen in the future upon which the Company will issue 500,000
common shares to the non-controlling interest owners of Aire
Fitness.
NOTE
10 – RELATED PARTY ACTIVITY
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
There
are amounts outstanding due to related parties of the Company of
$1,339,352 and $1,141,213, respectively, as of December 31, 2020
and 2019 related to amounts due to employees, management and
members of the Board of Directors according to verbal and written
agreements that have not been paid as of period end which are
included in accounts payable and accrued expenses on the balance
sheet. See Note 9.
As is
mentioned in Note 8, Reginald Thomas was appointed to the Board of
Directors of the Company in August 2018. Mr. Thomas is the brother
to the CEO Stephen J. Thomas III. According to an agreement with
Mr. Reginald Thomas, he is to receive $10,000 per quarter and
1,000,000 shares of restricted common stock valued at approximately
$120,000 vesting quarterly over twenty-four months. The quarterly
payment of $10,000 may be suspended by the Company if the Company
has not been adequately funded.
Leases
See
Note 9 for office lease used by CEO.
Debt Financing and Amounts Payable
As of
December 31, 2020, there are amounts due to management/shareholders
of $93,072 included in financing arrangements, of which $88,922 is
payable from the Company to Stephen J. Thomas III, CEO of the
Company. See note 5.
Revenue Transactions and Accounts Receivable
During
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, Blue Collar provided
production services to an entity controlled by the Blue Collar CEO
(355 LA, LLC or “355”) for which it recorded revenues
of $385,988 and $707,263, respectively, and had accounts receivable
outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 of $0 and $169,439,
respectively, which is included in accounts receivable on the
consolidated balance sheet. 355 was formed in October 2019 by the
CEO of Blue Collar for the purpose of production of certain
additional footage for a 355 customer. 355 has opportunity to
engage with other production relationships outside of using Blue
Collar.
Other Agreements
On
April 17, 2018, the CEO of the Company, Stephen Thomas, signed an
agreement with New Orbit Technologies, S.A.P.I. de C.V., a Mexican
corporation, (“New Orbit”), majority owned and
controlled by Stephen Thomas, related to a license agreement for
the distribution of TPT licensed products, software and services
related to Lion Phone and ViewMe Live within Mexico and Latin
America (“License Agreement”). The License Agreement
provides for New Orbit to receive a fully paid-up, royalty-free,
non-transferable license for perpetuity with termination only under
situations such as bankruptcy, insolvency or material breach by
either party and provides for New Orbit to pay the Company fees
equal to 50% of net income generated from the applicable
activities. The transaction was approved by the Company’s
Board of Directors in June 2018. There has been no activity on this
agreement.
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NOTE 11 – GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS
Goodwill
and intangible assets are comprised of the following:
December 31,
2020
|
Gross
carrying
amount
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
Net Book
Value
|
Useful
Life
|
Customer
Base
|
$938,000
|
(207,771)
|
$730,229
|
3-10
|
Developed
Technology
|
4,595,600
|
(1,616,975)
|
2,978,625
|
9
|
Film
Library
|
957,000
|
(177,100)
|
779,900
|
11
|
Trademarks and
Tradenames
|
132,000
|
(26,731)
|
105,269
|
12
|
Favorable
leases
|
95,000
|
(50,880)
|
44,120
|
3
|
Other
|
76,798
|
—
|
76,798
|
|
Total
intangible assets, net
|
$6,794,398
|
(2,079,457)
|
$4,714,941
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Goodwill
|
$768,091
|
—
|
$768,091
|
—
|
Amortization
expense was $730,940 and $548,205 for the year ended December 31,
2020 and 2019, respectively.
December 31,
2019
|
Gross
carrying
amount
|
Accumulated
Amortization
|
Net Book
Value
|
Useful
Life
|
Customer
Base
|
$1,197,200
|
(364,383)
|
$832,817
|
3-10
|
Developed
Technology
|
4,595,600
|
(1,106,351)
|
3,489,249
|
9
|
Film
Library
|
957,000
|
(104,900)
|
852,100
|
11
|
Trademarks and
Tradenames
|
132,000
|
(15,123)
|
116,877
|
12
|
Favorable
leases
|
95,000
|
(16,960)
|
78,040
|
3
|
Total intangible assets,
net
|
$6,976,800
|
(2,707,717)
|
$5,369,083
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Goodwill
|
$1,050,366
|
—
|
$1,050,366
|
—
|
Amortization
expense was $730,940 and $868,622 for year ended December 31, 2020
and 2019, respectively. Increases from the prior year are from the
acquisition of the SpeedConnect assets. See more details on this
acquisition in Note 2 to these consolidated financial statements.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company’s
evaluation of goodwill and intangible assets resulted in
impairments for Copperhead Digital to goodwill of $70,995 and for
developed technology of $600,000 resulting in impairment expense of
$70,995 and $272,213, respectively. During this same period an
impairment of the developed technology intangible of $910,000 for
the Lion Phone resulted in impairment expense of $606,664. There
was no impairment considered necessary as of December 31, 2020 for
intangibles. There was, however,
impairment expense of $853,366 for Blue Collar to Goodwill during
the year ended December 31, 2020.
Remaining
amortization of the intangible assets is as following for the next
five years and beyond:
2021
|
$753,779
|
2022
|
730,059
|
2023
|
719,859
|
2024
|
719,859
|
2025
|
719,859
|
Thereafter
|
1,071,526
|
|
$4,714,941
|
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NOTE
12 – SEGMENT REPORTING
ASC 280, “Segment Reporting”, establishes standards for
reporting information about operating segments on a basis
consistent with the Company's internal organizational structure as
well as information about geographical areas, business segments and
major customers in financial statements for details on the
Company's business segments.
The Company's chief operating decision maker (“CODM”)
has been identified as the CEO who reviews the financial
information of separate operating segments when making decisions
about allocating resources and assessing performance of the group.
Based on management's assessment, the Company considers its most
significant segments for 2020 and 2019 are those in which it is
providing Broadband Internet through TPT SpeedConnect and Media
Production services through Blue Collar Medical Testing services
through TPT MedTech and QuikLABs.
The following table presents summary information by segment for the
twelve months ended December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively:
2020
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TPT
SpeedConnect
|
Blue
Collar
|
TPT
MedTech and
QuikLABS
|
Corporate and
other
|
Total
|
Revenue
|
$9,958,770
|
1,051,120
|
30,484
|
53,796
|
$11,094,170
|
Cost of
revenue
|
$(6,367,474)
|
(437,936)
|
(68,884)
|
(319,199)
|
$(7,193,493)
|
Net income
(loss)
|
$983,673
|
(166,110)
|
(747,485)
|
(8,189,346)
|
$(8,119,268)
|
Total
assets
|
$7,010,444
|
370,554
|
11,850
|
5,443,840
|
$12,836,688
|
Depreciation and
amortization
|
$(531,254)
|
(111,336)
|
(3,583)
|
(1,139,470)
|
$(1,785,643)
|
Impairment of long
lived assets and goodwill
|
$—
|
(853,366)
|
—
|
(1,849,630)
|
$(2,702,996)
|
Derivative gain
(expense)
|
$—
|
—
|
—
|
1,140,323
|
$1,140,323
|
Interest
expense
|
$(242,693)
|
(36,507)
|
(800)
|
(1,251,733)
|
$(1,531,733)
|
2019
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TPT
SpeedConnect
|
Blue
Collar
|
TPT
MedTech and
QuikLABS
|
Corporate and
other
|
Total
|
Revenue
|
$8,002,875
|
1,941,955
|
—
|
267,547
|
$10,212,377
|
Cost of
revenue
|
$(4,879,444)
|
(751,349)
|
—
|
(281,208)
|
$(5,912,001)
|
Net income
(loss)
|
$1,124,210
|
428,758
|
—
|
(15,581,133)
|
$(14,028,165)
|
Total
assets
|
$8,003,380
|
476,268
|
—
|
6,974,105
|
$15,453,753
|
Depreciation and
amortization
|
$(282,449)
|
(20,563)
|
—
|
(1,156,679)
|
$(1,459,691)
|
Impairment of long
lived assets and goodwill
|
$—
|
—
|
—
|
(949,872)
|
$(949,872)
|
Derivative
expense
|
$—
|
—
|
—
|
(7,476,908)
|
$(7,476,908)
|
Interest
expense
|
$—
|
(119,359)
|
—
|
(3,461,661)
|
$(3,581,020)
|
NOTE 13 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
Stock Issuance
The Company issued 7,500,000 shares of stock to Mr. Littman in
accordance with its December 28 and 29, 2020 agreements as
described in Note 8. These shares were included in a Form S-1 filed
by the Company on January 15, 2021. To date, we understand the
shares have not been sold and thus there is no calculated shortfall
as outlined in Note 8.
On April 5, the Company granted 1,500,000 restricted commons shares
to a consultant as a bonus for services rendered. The Company will
record $44,100 as expense in the statement of operations during the
year ended December 31, 2021 represented the calculation fair value
on the date of grant.
COVID-19
The Company has taken advantage of the stimulus offerings and
received $722,200 in April 2020 and $680,500 in February 2021 and
believes it has used these funds as is prescribed by the stimulus
offerings to have the entire amounts forgiven. The Company has
applied for forgiveness of the original stimulus of $722,200. The
forgiveness process for stimulus funded in February 2021 has not
begun. The Company will try and take advantage of additional
stimulus as it is available and is also in the process of trying to
raise debt and equity financing, some of which may have to be used
for working capital shortfalls if revenues continue to decline
because of the COVID-19 closures.
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Rennova Acquisition Agreement
Rennova
terminated the Rennova Acquisition Agreement described in Note 2
effective March 5, 2021 and the Company agreed to this termination
with both parties not able to come to agreement of final
terms.
InnovaQor
InnovaQor changed its name to TPT Strategic, Inc. on March 21,
2021. On March 30, 2021, a License Agreement, originally signed
between the Company and InnovaQor for software development, was
rescinded and the issuance of 6,000,000 shares of common stock to
the Company were cancelled.
On April 5, 2021, the Board of Directors granted 1,500,000
restricted common shares of the Company to a consultant as a bonus
for past services. This grant was valued by the Company at $44,100
and will be expensed in the year ending December 31,
2021.
Subsequent
events were reviewed through the date the financial statements were
issued.
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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS
WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL
DISCLOSURE.
None.
ITEM 9A. CONTROLS AND
PROCEDURES.
EVALUATION
OF DISCLOSURE CONTROLS & PROCEDURES
Disclosure
controls and procedures are controls and other procedures that are
designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed in our
reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the
time period specified in the SEC's rules and forms. Disclosure
controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and
procedures designed to ensure that information required to be
disclosed in our reports filed or submitted under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 is accumulated and communicated to management
including our principal executive officer and principal financial
officer as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding
required disclosure.
In
connection with this annual report, as required by Rule 15d-15
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, we have carried out an
evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our
company's disclosure controls and procedures. Under the supervision
of our Board of Directors, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief
Financial Officer, acting as our principal executive officer and
principal financial officer respectively, we conducted an
evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over
financial reporting as of December 31, 2019 based on the framework
in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the
Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.
Based on our evaluation under the framework in Internal Control -
Integrated Framework (2013), our management concluded that our
internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of
December 31, 2020. Subject to the inherent limitations noted in
this Part II, Item 9A as of December 31, 2020, our disclosure
controls and procedures were not effective due to the existence of
material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial
reporting as discussed below. It is management's responsibility to
establish and maintain adequate internal control over financial
reporting.
This
annual report does not include an attestation report of our
independent registered public accounting firm regarding our
internal control over financial reporting. Management's report on
internal control over financial reporting was not subject to
attestation by our independent registered public accounting firm
pursuant to the rules of the SEC because we are neither an
accelerated filer nor a larger accelerated filer.
We have
implemented a framework used by management to evaluate the
effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting,
which incorporates a quarterly review by our Board of Directors of
the recording of transactions and whether questions of accuracy and
authorization may arise as the accounting may be reviewed by our
auditors.
Our
Management's assessment of the effectiveness of internal controls
over financial reporting as of the end of the most recent fiscal
year, including a statement as to whether or not internal control
over financial reporting is effective is contained in the section
immediately following this paragraph.
MANAGEMENT'S
REPORT ON INTERNAL CONTROL OVER FINANCIAL REPORTING
It is
Management's responsibility to establish and maintain adequate
internal control over financial reporting. The matters involving
internal controls and procedures that our Company's management
considered to be material weaknesses and may have been ineffective
under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board were: (1) lack of a functioning audit committee and lack of a
majority of outside directors on our board of directors, resulting
in ineffective oversight in the establishment and monitoring of
required internal controls and procedures; (2) inadequate
segregation of duties consistent with control objectives; (3)
insufficient written policies and procedures for accounting and
financial reporting with respect to the requirements and
application of US GAAP and SEC disclosure requirements; and (4)
ineffective controls over period end financial disclosure and
reporting processes.
Management
has assessed the effectiveness of its internal controls over
financial reporting at the end of the most recent fiscal year and
has determined several weaknesses and has determined that its
internal controls have not been effective due, in part, to lack of
full-time financial accounting professionals.
Management
believes that the material weaknesses and ineffectiveness set forth
in items (2), (3) and (4) above did not have an affect on our
Company's financial results. However, management believes that the
lack of a functioning audit committee and lack of a majority of
outside directors on our Company's board of directors, resulting in
ineffective oversight in the establishment and monitoring of
required internal controls and procedures may result in our
Company's financial statements for the future years being subject
to error and inaccurate if controls, procedures, and professional
financial officers are not maintained.
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We are
committed to improving our financial organization. As part of this
commitment, we intend to create a position to segregate duties
consistent with control objectives and intend to increase our
personnel resources and technical accounting expertise within the
accounting function when funds are available to our Company: i)
Appointing one or more outside directors to our board of directors
who shall be appointed to the audit committee of our Company
resulting in a fully functioning audit committee who will undertake
the oversight in the establishment and monitoring of required
internal controls and procedures; and ii) preparing and
implementing sufficient written policies and checklists which will
set forth procedures for accounting and financial reporting with
respect to the requirements and application of US GAAP and SEC
disclosure requirements.
Management
believes that the appointment of one or more outside directors, who
shall be appointed to a fully functioning audit committee, will
remedy the lack of a functioning audit committee and a lack of a
majority of outside directors on our Company's Board. In addition,
management believes that preparing and implementing sufficient
written policies and checklists will remedy the following material
weaknesses (i) insufficient written policies and procedures for
accounting and financial reporting with respect to the requirements
and application of US GAAP and SEC disclosure requirements; and
(ii) ineffective controls over period end financial close and
reporting processes. Further, management believes that the hiring
of additional personnel who have the technical expertise and
knowledge will result proper segregation of duties and provide more
checks and balances within the department. Additional personnel
will also provide the cross training needed to support our Company
if personnel turn over issues within the department occur. This
coupled with the appointment of additional outside directors will
greatly decrease any control and procedure issues our Company may
encounter in the future.
Due to
insufficient funds during the year ended December 31, 2020, the
Company has been unable to implement many of the remedies to the
ineffective oversight. The Company will continue to implement the
changes as laid out above as soon as funds are available to the
Company.
We will
continue to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of our internal
controls and procedures and our internal controls over financial
reporting on an ongoing basis and are committed to taking further
action and implementing additional enhancements or improvements, as
necessary and as funds allow.
ITEM 9B. OTHER
INFORMATION.
None.
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PART III
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS, EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
AND CORPORATE GOVERNANCE.
The
following table sets forth information as to persons who currently
serve as our directors or executive officers, including their ages
as of March 31, 2021.
Name
|
Age
|
Position
|
Term
|
Stephen
J. Thomas, III
|
56
|
President, Chief
Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
|
Annual
|
Richard
Eberhardt
|
63
|
Chief
Operating Officer and Director
|
Annual
|
Arkady
Shkolnik
|
57
|
Director
|
Annual
|
Reginald
Thomas
|
55
|
Director
|
Annual
|
Gary
Cook
|
63
|
Chief
Financial Officer
|
Annual
|
Our
officers are elected by the board of directors at the first meeting
after each annual meeting of our stockholders and hold office until
their successors are duly elected and qualified under our
bylaws.
The
directors named above will serve until the next annual meeting of
our stockholders. Thereafter, directors will be elected for
one-year terms at the annual stockholders' meeting. Officers will
hold their positions at the pleasure of the board of directors
absent any employment agreement. There is no arrangement or
understanding between our directors and officers and any other
person pursuant to which any director or officer was or is to be
selected as a director or officer.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Stephen J. Thomas, III – President, Chief Executive Officer
and Chairman of the Board
Mr.
Thomas was appointed President, CEO and Chairman of the Board of
TPT Global Tech, Inc. on August 11, 2014. Previously, Mr. Thomas
was Manager of TPT Group, LLC (2015-2017) and Director of TPT
Group, Inc. (2011-2014). Mr. Thomas was founder, CEO and Director
of Trans Pacific Telecom, Inc. from 2000-2011 and prior to that was
president and CEO of New Orbit Communications (1999-2001). In 2002,
as CEO of Trans Pacific Telecom Group, Mr. Thomas was featured on
CBS MarketWatch for winning “Product of the Year Award for
2002” VIVOware at the Internet Telephony Conference and Expo
an event focused on voice, video, fax and data convergence. During
his employment with New Orbit, Mr. Thomas worked extensively
throughout Latin America, gaining extensive expertise and resources
in the international telecom marketplace. Mr. Thomas has also
served as Director of Network Optimization/Validation for
WorldxChange Communications, one of the largest privately held
facilities-based telecommunications company with headquarters in
San Diego, California and international operations all over the
globe. His responsibilities included Cost Assurance for expenses.
As a matter of disclosure, in 2005 Mr. Thomas was an ISP equipment
provider to Access Point Africa (“APA”). APA allowed
its license to expire in Sierra Leone, and as a result APA and
several individuals were alleged to have violated the Sierra Leone
Telecommunications Act by operating an unlicensed internet access
point. Mr. Thomas was charged as well as for the offense which
bears a fine of up to $3,000 but the charge is unresolved at this
time, but he intends to resolve it in the next several
months.
Mr.
Thomas attended Northeastern University majoring in Finance and
Management (1984 to 1987).
Richard Eberhardt- Chief Operating Officer and
Director
Mr.
Eberhardt was appointed Chief Operating Officer of TPT Global Tech,
Inc. on December 15, 2020 and Director on October 10, 2014. Mr.
Eberhardt also serves as Chief Executive Officer of Copperhead
Digital Holdings, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of TPT Global,
Inc. Previously, Mr. Eberhardt served CEO/COO of Pacific Bio
Medical, a Durable Medical Equipment provider, located in Phoenix,
Arizona (2008-2012). From 2012-2015, Mr. Eberhardt served as
Consultant and Sales Director for two telecommunications companies,
Fathom Voice and Ipitomy located in Indiana and Florida,
respectively. Founding member of a telecommunications firm,
WorldxChange, located in San Diego, CA. (1989-2001) With
WorldxChange, he researched, designed, and implemented start-up
business sales and marketing models resulting in wholesale,
commercial, and consumer revenue channels. He opened and operated
offices in approximately 23 countries. He created and managed
channels with 25K+ agents and $15M in monthly revenue.
We
believe his management experience is valuable to our company
because he is an experienced sales and business development
executive with strong business acumen and more than thirty years of
experience leading sales and marketing operations. He has managed
growth and revenue expansion through effective management of
accounts and consultative sales approach that aligns the interests
of all parties.
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He has
sought, and negotiated, partnerships and asset management
agreements across multiple channels, including wholesale telecom
providers (AT&T, Verizon, Global Crossing, and Worldcom). He
has managed structured methodologies that combined strengths of
marketing, sales, and operations to reduce redundancies, improve
order-processing times, and streamline business flow. He has
experience in reviving product lines with rebranding and
repackaging, as well as created communications bundles, and
incentive programs to maximize existing client penetration and
drive vertical growth.
Arkady Shkolnik – Director
Mr.
Shkolnik was appointed a Director of TPT Global Tech, Inc. on
August 15, 2018. Mr. Shkolnik has over 25 years of senior-level
management experience in the Semiconductor, Wireless and
Telecommunications industry. He is currently VP EMEA of Sales with
Qualcomm (2010 – present). In addition to being a leader at
Qualcom, Mr. Shkolnik served on the Board of Advisors at Zeevo
Technology, Inc, (2009 to 2012) leading up to their acquisition by
Broadcom and brings extensive experience in global business
development, sales, marketing, product management and strategic
account management to TPT Global’s already diverse board.
From 2006 until 2010, Mr. Shkolnik was Vice President, EMEA Sales
& Business Development of PacketVideo Corporation. Previous
experience includes Executive Vice President, Sales & Business
Development of Quorum Systems (2005-2006), Vice President, Sales
& Business Development of Broadcom (acquired by Widcomm) from
2000-2005, and Director of Sales, North America Wireless ASIC
Business Unit at Philips Semiconductors/VLSI Technology from
1991-2000.
Mr.
Shkolnik has developed and managed strategic OEM and semiconductor
relationships globally. Aligning sales and marketing functions with
corporate objectives, he has negotiated and secured over ~100
License, Technology and CSA agreements with customers such as
Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, HTC, BlackBerry, Microsoft, IBM, HP,
Dell, Compaq, Logitech, TDK, Acer, TI, Philips, STM, Broadcom, CSR,
Toyota, Panasonic, ZTE, and others.
Mr.
Shkolnik attended Temple University where he received a Bachelor of
Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Skills & Endorsements (1984).
Reginald Thomas – Director
Mr.
Thomas was appointed a Director of TPT Global Tech, Inc. on August
15, 2018. He has over 20 years of experience working for technology
companies where he is an accomplished business leader driving world
class customer and partner experiences though the delivery of
innovative software products and solutions for leading global
companies. Specific results include:
Cisco:
(July 2018 - present) As Partner Delivery Executive he supports 3
of Cisco’s largest Multi-National Partners- IBM US IBM
Canada, and Presidio. He aligned these Partners go to market
strategy with Cisco’s shifting business strategy to influence
more than $15M in services sales in the last 14
months.
Cisco:
(2007 - 2017) As the Sr. Product Manager he owned Cisco’s
Services Portal strategy, the UX Strategy, the build, and adoption
of Cisco’s Services Portal. Under his direction it grew from
2 to 24 integrated service offers delivering a seamless customer
and partner experience.
Openwave: (2001 -
2007) IT Director of Program Management- through his leadership he
designed the foundation for the Program Management Office that
managed the upgrades to mission critical databases requiring the
management of highly technical resources; multiple applications
delivery from concept to development, companywide roll outs for ERP
systems, and Merger & Acquisition consolidation.
Lucent
/Avaya: (1997 - 2001) E- Commerce Product and Strategy Lead where
he had global responsibility for Lucent’s online Partner
Portal. He e- enabled Lucent to transition $10M of Distributor
order revenue to a seamless online experience realizing significant
savings in the cost per order.
Mr.
Thomas graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1988 with a
BS in Business.
Gary Cook – Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Cook was appointed Chief Financial Officer of TPT Global Tech,
Inc. on November 1, 2017. Mr. Cook has served as chief financial
officer, secretary or treasurer for several small to medium size
public and private companies in various industries for over 25
years including providing Chief Financial Officer services for
several companies on a contract basis (2008-2017), in addition to
full time employment with eVision USA.com, Inc. (1996-2002),
Cognigen Networks, Inc. (2003-2008), and SolaRover, Inc.
(2009-2015). Prior to this, Mr. Cook worked in the auditing
department for KPMG in both the New Orleans, LA and Denver, CO
offices for 12 years.
His experience includes companies from start-ups to
multimillion-dollar international operating companies in the
internet marketing, software development, medical device,
alternative energy, telecommunications, securities broker/dealer,
private equity and manufacturing industries. While working with
KPMG, Mr. Cook worked in other industries such as oil & gas,
oil & gas services, cable, theatre exhibition, mining, banking,
construction and not-for-profit.
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Mr.
Cook has a broad experience
in accounting, finance, human resources, legal, insurance,
contracts, banking relations, shareholder relations, internal
controls, SEC matters, financial reporting and other corporate
administrative and governance matters for both private and public
companies. Mr. Cook has held Series 7, 24, 27 and 63 licenses from
FINRA, successor to the NASD.
Mr.
Cook attended and graduated from Brigham Young University between
1979 and 1982. He is a certified public accountant and licensed
with the State of Colorado.
KEY EMPLOYEES OF SUBSIDIARIES
Steve Caudle - CEO Cloud Services
Steve
Caudle has been in the technology field for 31 years and brings
significant operations and technology development experiences to
TPT Global Tech, Inc. Mr. Caudle began his career at the IBM
“Think Tank” and Fairchild/National Semiconductor
located in Silicon Valley California. Steve then moved on to work
for the Department of Defense for eighteen years and specialized in
code writing and software applications. Steve moved to the private
sector and was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) at North Face
Corporation and then moved to become the Executive VP of ZDTV
(renamed TechTV) and then became C-NET now owned by
CBS.
Robert
Haas, CEO of Levi Strauss, contracted Mr. Caudle as an executive
consultant where he was placed in charge of relocating their data
center from San Francisco, California to Dallas, Texas
(1988).
Subsequently,
Mr. Caudle joined ESST, where he was the CIO. ESST was a public
company. Steve Caudle then joined Mr. Fred Chan, CEO of ESST in
starting a new company called Vialta, Inc. Mr. Caudle was again the
CIO and the number two person in charge of Vialta. Vialta designed
DVD laser decoder chips that were used in many DVD players in the
world. Vialta grew the company from 3 employees to over 4,000 in
just five months and over $1.2 billion in revenue while he was
there.
Upon
leaving Vialta, Mr. Caudle started his own software development
company called Matrixsites. Matrixsites has developed software and
applications for a variety of companies such as Federal Express,
Wells Fargo Bank, Bank of America, Apple, Pixar, ITV Guide and
China Mobile.
Mr.
Caudle received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical
Engineering from San Jose State University in 1977 and holds one
U.S. Patent.
Mark Rowen- CEO Media Division
Mark
Rowen is a seasoned executive with over 25 years in the film and
television business. In 2000, Mr. Rowen founded Blue Collar
Productions, Inc., an entity with which we entered into an
acquisition agreement in November 2017 and amended in February
2018, where he remains President today. Blue Collar is a leader in
the creation of original live action and animated content and has
produced hundreds of hours of material for the television,
theatrical, home entertainment and new media markets. Mr. Rowen
works closely with all of the major television networks, cable
channels and film studios to produce home entertainment
products.
Mr.
Rowen also works with a wide array of notable filmmakers including
Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Brett Ratner and James Cameron to
name a few. Mr. Rowen also has very close working relationships
with actors including Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Robert
Downey, Jr., Denzel Washington, Ryan Gosling, Sofia Vergara,
Mariska Hargitay and many others.
Prior
to starting Blue Collar Productions, Mr. Rowen functioned as the
head of home entertainment production for DreamWorks SKG from 1997
to 2000. He also serves as the President of Long Leash
Entertainment, an aggregator of entertainment based intellectual
property and creator of high-end entertainment
content.
Mr.
Rowen is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles.
He is also actively involved in charitable organizations including
Stand Up 2 Cancer,
The Joyful Heart
Foundation, Save The
Children, and other philanthropic endeavors in the
arts.
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CONFLICTS OF INTEREST – GENERAL.
Our
directors and officers are, or may become, in their individual
capacities, officers, directors, controlling shareholders and/or
partners of other entities engaged in a variety of non-profit and
for-profit organizations. Thus, there exist potential conflicts of
interest including, among other things, time, efforts and
corporation opportunity, involved in participation with such other
business entities.
CONFLICTS OF INTEREST – CORPORATE OPPORTUNITIES
Presently
no requirement contained in our Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws,
or minutes which requires our officers and directors to disclose
business opportunities which come to their attention. Our officers
and directors do, however, have a fiduciary duty of loyalty to us
to disclose to us any business opportunities which come to their
attention, in their capacity as an officer and/or director or
otherwise. Excluded from this duty would be opportunities which the
person learns about through his involvement as an officer and
director of another company. We have no intention of merging with
or acquiring an affiliate, associate person or business opportunity
from any affiliate or any client of any such person.
COMMITTEES OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
We are
managed under the direction of its board of directors.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
We do
not have an executive committee, at this time.
AUDIT COMMITTEE
We do
not have an audit committee, at this time.
ANNUAL MEETING
The
annual meeting of stockholders is anticipated in the Fall of 2019
and will include the election of directors. The annual meeting will
be held at our principal office or at such other place as permitted
by the laws of the State of Florida and on such date as may be
fixed from time to time by resolution of our board of
directors.
PREVIOUS "BLANK CHECK" OR "SHELL" COMPANY INVOLVEMENT
No
members of our management have been involved in previous
"blank-check" or "shell" companies.
INVOLVEMENT IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
No
executive Officer or Director of our Company has been convicted in
any criminal proceeding (excluding traffic violations) or is the
subject of a criminal proceeding that is currently
pending.
No
executive Officer or Director of our Company is the subject of any
pending legal proceedings.
No
Executive Officer or Director of our Company is involved in any
bankruptcy petition by or against any business in which they are a
general partner or executive officer at this time or within two
years of any involvement as a general partner, executive officer,
or Director of any business.
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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE
COMPENSATION.
Summary of Executives and Director Compensation Table
The
following table sets forth the compensation paid to our officers
from the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and
2018.
SUMMARY EXECUTIVES COMPENSATION TABLE
In Dollars
Name &
Position
|
Year
|
Salary
($)
|
Bonus
($)
|
Stock awards
($)
|
Option awards
($)
|
Non-equity
incentive plan compensation ($)
|
Non-qualified
deferred compensation earnings ($)
|
All other
compensation ($)
|
Total
($)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stephen J. Thomas, III CEO and
President
|
2,020
|
262,083
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—(1)
|
262,083(2)
|
|
2019
|
175,000
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—(1)
|
175,000(2)
|
|
2018
|
98,790
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—(1)
|
98,790(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Richard Eberhardt, Executive
Vice-President
|
2020
|
169,250
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
169,250(2)
|
|
2019
|
110,242
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
110,242(2)
|
|
2018
|
21,115
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
21,115(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gary Cook, CFO
|
2020
|
219,167
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
219,167(2)
|
|
2019
|
112,150
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
112,150(2)
|
|
2018
|
45,100
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
45,100(2)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stacie Stricker, Secretary and
Controller
|
2020
|
135,000
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
135,000(2)
|
|
2019
|
80,750
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
80,750(2)
|
|
2018
|
52,850
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
52,850(2)
|
___________________________
(1) The
Company entered into a lease for living space which is occupied by
Stephen Thomas, Chairman, CEO and President of the Company. Mr.
Thomas lives in the space and uses it as his corporate office. The
Company has paid approximately $30,000 and $30,857 in rent and
utility payments for years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019,
respectively. No portion of the payments on this lease have been
included in amounts shown in compensation to Mr. Stephen Thomas and
has approximated $30,000 to $40,000 a year in
2015-2018.
(2)
These amounts do not include compensation that has been accrued on
the books of the Company in accordance with employment agreements
and other previous contract work performed but has not been paid
because of the lack of cash flows. Accrued but unpaid compensation
as of December 31, 2020 is as follows: Stephen J. Thomas, III -
$2,096; Richard Eberhardt - $173,394; Gary Cook - $166,990; and
Stacie Stricker - $112,250.
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Employment Contracts and Termination of Employment and
Change-in-Control Arrangements
The
initial term for our three executive employees employment
agreements have expired and they are now working under an extended
period which primarily calls for a 30-day notice for any changes or
termination. The Board is working to revise the executive
employment agreements. Below is a summary of current terms for our
three executives which is, for the most part, an extension of their
prior employment agreements, as well as those consulting agreements
for the outside directors. The prior employment agreements were
approved by our board based upon recommendations conducted by the
board.
Name
|
|
Position
|
|
Annual
Compensation
|
Stephen
J. Thomas, III (1)
|
|
Chief
Executive Officer
|
|
$250,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
Richard
Eberhardt (2)
|
|
Executive
Vice President
|
|
$150,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gary
Cook (3)
|
|
Chief
Financial Officer
|
|
$200,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arkady
Shkolnik (4)
|
|
Director
|
|
$100,000
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reginald
Thomas (5)
|
|
Director
|
|
$40,000
|
_____________________________
(1)
Pursuant to an employment agreement dated November 1, 2017, and now
is in an extended period, Mr. Thomas receives a base salary of
$250,000 per year. In addition to the base salary, Mr. Thomas is
eligible to receive performance bonuses as to be determined by our
Board of Directors. The agreement had a three-year term that ended
on October 31, 2020 and now is in an extended period.
Upon an
affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the Board of
Directors, the employment may be terminated without further
liability on the part of our Company. Cause is considered to be an
act or acts of serious dishonesty fraud, or material and deliberate
injury related to our business, including personal enrichment at
the expense of our Company. If there is a termination for cause the
benefits of any bonus for the period preceding termination would be
forfeit.
In
addition, the agreement provides for Mr. Thomas to be able to
terminate the agreement for Good Reason. Good Reason is considered
to be (1) an adverse change in his status or position as CEO, (2) a
reduction in base salary, or (3) action by us that adversely
affected his participation in the benefits.
(2)
Pursuant to an employment agreement dated November 1, 2017, and now
is in an extended period, Mr. Eberhardt receives a base salary of
$150,000 per year. In addition to the base salary, Mr. Eberhardt is
eligible to receive performance bonuses as to be determined by our
Board of Directors. The agreement had a three-year term that ended
on October 31, 2020 and now is in an extended period.
Upon an
affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the Board of
Directors, the employment may be terminated without further
liability on the part of our Company. Cause is considered to be an
act or acts of serious dishonesty fraud, or material and deliberate
injury related to our business, including personal enrichment at
the expense of our Company. If there is a termination for cause the
benefits of any bonus for the period preceding termination would be
forfeit.
In
addition, the agreement provides for Mr. Eberhardt to be able to
terminate the agreement for Good Reason. Good Reason is considered
to be (1) an adverse change in his status or position as CEO, (2) a
reduction in base salary, or (3) action by us that adversely
affected his participation in the benefits.
(3)
Pursuant to an employment agreement dated November 1, 2017, and now
is in an extended period, Mr. Cook receives a base salary of
$200,000 per year for which currently he devotes no less than 60%
of his full-time. In addition to the base salary, Mr. Cook is
eligible to receive performance bonuses as to be determined by our
Board of Directors. The agreement had a three-year term that ended
on October 31, 2020 and now is in an extended period.
Upon an
affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of the Board of
Directors, the employment may be terminated without further
liability on the part of our Company. Cause is considered to be an
act or acts of serious dishonesty fraud, or material and deliberate
injury related to our business, including personal enrichment at
the expense of our Company. If there is a termination for cause the
benefits of any bonus for the period preceding termination would be
forfeit.
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In
addition, the agreement provides for Mr. Cook to be able to
terminate the agreement for Good Reason. Good Reason is considered
to be (1) an adverse change in his status or position as CEO, (2) a
reduction in base salary, or (3) action by us that adversely
affected his participation in the benefits.
(4) In
accordance with an Independent Director Agreement with the Company
for his services as a director, Mr. Shkolnik is to receive $25,000
per quarter and 5,000,000 shares of restricted common stock valued
at approximately $687,500 vesting quarterly over twenty-four
months. The quarterly cash payments of $25,000 will be paid in
unrestricted common shares if the Company has not been funded
adequately to make such payments.
(5) In
accordance with an Independent Director Agreement with the Company
for his services as director, Mr. Thomas is to receive $10,000 per
quarter and 1,000,000 shares of restricted common stock valued at
approximately $119,000 vesting quarterly over twenty-four months.
The quarterly payment of $10,000 may be suspended by the Company if
the Company has not been adequately funded.
Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider
Participation
Our
board of directors in our entirety acts as the compensation
committee for TPT Global Tech, Inc.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMPENSATION
All of
our officers and/or directors will continue to be active in other
companies. All officers and directors have retained the right to
conduct their own independent business interests.
The
term of office for each Director is one (1) year, or until his/her
successor is elected at our annual meeting and qualified. The term
of office for each of our Officers is at the pleasure of the Board
of Directors.
The
Board of Directors has no nominating, auditing committee or a
compensation committee. Therefore, the selection of person or
election to the Board of Directors was neither independently made
nor negotiated at arm's length.
At this
time, our Directors do not receive cash compensation for serving as
members of our Board of Directors.
Only
our outside Directors receive cash compensation for serving as
members of our Board of Directors.
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OF PAGE LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY)
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The
following table sets forth certain information concerning
compensation paid to our directors for services as directors, but
not including compensation for services as officers reported in the
"Summary Executives’ Compensation Table" during the years
ended December 31, 2020, 2019, and 2018:
Name
|
Year
|
Fees earned or
paid in cash ($)
|
Stock awards
($)
|
Option awards
($)
|
Non-equity
incentive plan compensation ($)
|
Non-qualified
deferred compensation earnings ($)
|
All other
compensation ($)
|
Total
($)
|
Stephen J.
Thomas, III (1)
|
2020
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
2019
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
2018
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Richard Eberhardt
(2)
|
2020
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
2019
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
2018
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Arkady Shkolnik
(3)
|
2020
|
100,000
|
201,979
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
301,979
|
|
2019
|
100,000
|
346,250
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
446,250
|
|
2018
|
37,500
|
144,271
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
181,771
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reginald Thomas
(3)
|
2020
|
40,000
|
35,000
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
75,000
|
|
2019
|
40,000
|
60,000
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
100,000
|
|
2018
|
15,000
|
25,000
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
40,000
|
________
|
(1)
|
Mr.
Thomas is also an officer and as such he receives the compensation
as disclosed in the Executive Compensation Table.
|
|
(2)
|
Mr.
Eberhardt is also an officer and as such he receives the
compensation as disclosed in the Executive Compensation
Table.
|
|
(3)
|
In
August 2018, a majority of the outstanding voting shares of the
Company voted through a consent resolution to support a consent
resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company to add two new
directors to the Board. As such, Arkady Shkolnik and Reginald
Thomas were added as members of the Board of Directors. The total
members of the Board of Directors after this addition is four. In
accordance with agreements with the Company for his services as a
director, Mr. Shkolnik is to receive $25,000 per quarter and
5,000,000 shares of restricted common stock valued at approximately
$687,500 vesting quarterly over twenty-four months. The quarterly
cash payments of $25,000 will be paid in unrestricted common shares
if the Company has not been funded adequately to make such
payments. Mr. Thomas is to receive $10,000 per quarter and
1,000,000 shares of restricted common stock valued at approximately
$119,000 vesting quarterly over twenty-four months. The quarterly
payment of $10,000 may be suspended by the Company if the Company
has not been adequately funded. Both the 5,000,000 and 1,000,000
shares granted were issued during the year ended December 31, 2020
and are no longer reflected in subscriptions payable as of December
31, 2020.
|
Limitation on Liability and Indemnification
We are
a Florida corporation. The Florida Revised Statutes provide that
the articles of incorporation of a Florida corporation may contain
a provision eliminating or limiting the personal liability of a
director to the corporation or our stockholders for monetary
damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except that any
such provision may not eliminate or limit the liability of a
director (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty
to the corporation or our stockholders, (ii) acts or omissions not
in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing
violation of law, (iii) acts specified in Section 78 (concerning
unlawful distributions), or (iv) any transaction from which a
director directly or indirectly derived an improper personal
benefit. Our articles of incorporation contain a provision
eliminating the personal liability of directors to our
company’ or our stockholders for monetary damages to the
fullest extent provided by the Florida Revised
Statutes.
The
Florida Revised Statutes provides that a Florida corporation must
indemnify a person who was wholly successful, on the merits or
otherwise, in defense of any threatened, pending, or completed
action, suit, or proceeding, whether civil, criminal,
administrative, or investigative and whether formal or informal (a
“Proceeding”), in which he or she was a party because
the person is or was a director, against reasonable expenses
incurred by him or her in connection with the Proceeding, unless
such indemnity is limited by the corporation’s articles of
incorporation. Our articles of incorporation do not contain any
such limitation.
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The
Florida Revised Statutes provide that a Florida corporation may
indemnify a person made a party to a Proceeding because the person
is or was a director against any obligation incurred with respect
to a Proceeding to pay a judgment, settlement, penalty, fine
(including an excise tax assessed with respect to an employee
benefit plan) or reasonable expenses incurred in the Proceeding if
the person conducted himself or herself in good faith and the
person reasonably believed, in the case of conduct in an official
capacity with the corporation, that the person’s conduct was
in the corporation’s best interests and, in all other cases,
his or her conduct was at least not opposed to the
corporation’s best interests and, with respect to any
criminal proceedings, the person had no reasonable cause to believe
that his or her conduct was unlawful. Our articles of incorporation
and bylaws allow for such indemnification. A corporation may not
indemnify a director in connection with any Proceeding by or in the
right of the corporation in which the director was adjudged liable
to the corporation or, in connection with any other Proceeding
charging that the director derived an improper personal benefit,
whether or not involving actions in an official capacity, in which
Proceeding the director was judged liable on the basis that he or
she derived an improper personal benefit. Any indemnification
permitted in connection with a Proceeding by or in the right of the
corporation is limited to reasonable expenses incurred in
connection with such Proceeding.
The
Florida Revised Statutes, unless otherwise provided in the articles
of incorporation, a Florida corporation may indemnify an officer,
employee, fiduciary, or agent of the corporation to the same extent
as a director and may indemnify such a person who is not a director
to a greater extent, if not inconsistent with public policy and if
provided for by our bylaws, general or specific action of our board
of directors or stockholders, or contract. Our articles of
incorporation provide for indemnification of our directors,
officers, employees, fiduciaries and agents to the full extent
permitted by Florida law.
Our
articles of incorporation also provide that we may purchase and
maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director
or officer of our company or who is or was serving at our request
as a director, officer or agent of another enterprise against any
liability asserted against him or her and incurred by him or her in
any such capacity or arising out of his or her status as such,
whether or not we would have the power to indemnify him or her
against such liability.
EQUITY COMPENSATION PLAN INFORMATION
Key Employees Stock Compensation Plan
Effective
October 14, 2017, we adopted the 2017 TPT Global Tech, Inc. Stock
Option and Award Incentive Plan (the "Plan"). The Plan provides for
grants of nonqualified stock options and other stock awards,
including warrants, to designated employees, officers, directors,
advisors and independent contractors. A maximum of 20,000,000
shares of our common stock were reserved for options and other
stock awards under the Plan. We have the ability to issue either
options or warrants under the Plan.
OPTION/WARRANT GRANTS IN THE LAST FISCAL YEAR
On
October 14, 2017, the Board of Directors and majority stockholders
of TPT approved the 2017 TPT Global Tech, Inc. Stock Option and
Award Incentive Plan (“the 2017 Plan.”) There are
20,000,000 shares of our common stock reserved under the 2017
Plan.
As of
September 30, 2020, we had options outstanding to purchase
1,000,000 shares of common stock of the Company as
follows:
Grant
Purpose
|
Grant
Date
|
Number
|
Exercise
Price
|
Expiration
Date
|
Vesting
|
Consulting
|
3-21-2018
|
1,000,000
|
$0.10
|
3-20-2021
|
100%
|
During
the year ended December 31, 2019, 3,333,333 warrants were issued to
purchase 3,333,333 shares of common stock in conjunction with
financing arrangements entered into. See Note 8 of the consolidated
financial statements.
Option/Warrant Grants In The Last Fiscal Year
On
October 14, 2017, the Board of Directors and majority stockholders
of TPT approved the 2017 TPT Global Tech, Inc. Stock Option and
Award Incentive Plan (“the 2017 Plan.”) There are
20,000,000 shares of our common stock reserved under the 2017
Plan.
As of December 31, 2020, there were 3,333,333 warrants outstanding
that expire in five years or in the year ended December 31, 2024.
As part of the Convertible Promissory Notes payable – third
party issuance in Note 5, the Company issued 3,333,333 warrants to
purchase 3,333,333 common shares of the Company at 70% of the
current market price. Current market price means the average
of the three lowest trading prices for our common stock during the
ten-trading day period ending on the latest complete trading day
prior to the date of the respective exercise notice.
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Outstanding Equity Awards At Fiscal Year End
The
following table sets forth certain information concerning
outstanding equity awards held by our appointed executive officers
for years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019 (the "Named Executive
Officers"):
|
Option
Awards
|
Stock
awards
|
|||||||
Name
|
Number of
securities underlying unexercised options (#)
exercisable
|
Number of
securities underlying unexercised options (#)
unexercisable
|
Equity incentive
plan awards: Number of securities underlying unexercised unearned
options
(#)
|
Option exercise
price
($)
|
Option
expiration date
|
Number of shares
or units of stock that have not vested
(#)
|
Market value of
shares of units of stock that have not vested
($)
|
Equity incentive
plan awards: Number of unearned shares, units or other rights that
have not vested (#)
|
Equity incentive
plan awards: Market or payout value of unearned shares, units or
others rights that have not vested
($)
|
Stephen J. Thomas,
III,
CEO and Chairman
(1)
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Richard
Eberhardt,
Executive
VP
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gary Cook,
CFO
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Stacie
Stricker,
Secretary and
Controller
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
—
|
______________________
(1)
Does not
contemplate the Series A Preferred Stock held 100% by Stephen J.
Thomas, III which guarantees the holder to 60% of the outstanding
common stock in shares when converted and 60% of any vote prior to
or after conversion. As of December 31, 2020, approximately
1,243,987,624 additional common shares would be issued if Mr.
Thomas were to convert his Series A Preferred Stock holdings to
common stock. The Company would have to authorize more shares as
there are only 1,000,000,000 shares authorized
currently.
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN
BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER
MATTERS.
The
following table sets forth information regarding beneficial
ownership of our common stock as of March 31, 2021 by:
●
each of our
directors and the named executive officers;
●
all of our
directors and executive officers as a group; and
●
each person or
group of affiliated persons known by us to be the beneficial owner
of more than 5% of our outstanding shares of common
stock.
Beneficial
ownership and percentage ownership are determined in accordance
with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and
includes voting or investment power with respect to shares of
stock. This information does not necessarily indicate beneficial
ownership for any other purpose.
Unless
otherwise indicated, such as the case with voting percentages, and
subject to applicable community property laws, to our knowledge,
each stockholder named in the following table possesses sole voting
and investment power over their shares of common stock, except for
those jointly owned with that person’s spouse. Percentage of
beneficial ownership before the offering is based on 873,064,371
shares of common stock outstanding as of March 31,
2021.
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OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
Title of Class
|
Name and Address
of Beneficial Owner (1)
|
Amount and
Nature of Beneficial Owner
|
Percent of Class
Outstanding Common Shares (2)
|
Number of Common
Shares & Warrants if fully exercised
|
Percent of Class
including Warrants(5)
|
Percent of Class
including all classes of voting stock (6)
|
Common Stock
|
Stephen J. Thomas, III, Chairman,
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
|
20,606,137(3)
|
2.36%
|
20,606,137
|
2.36%
|
60%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common Stock
|
Richard Eberhardt, Director and
Executive Vice President
|
18,128,039
|
2.08%
|
18,128,039
|
2.08%
|
1.24%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common Stock
|
Arkady Shkolnik,
Director
|
5,000,000(4)
|
.57%
|
5,000,000
|
.57%
|
.34%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common Stock
|
Reginald Thomas,
Director
|
1,165,000(4)
|
.13%
|
1,165,000
|
.13%
|
.08%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common Stock
|
Gary Cook, Chief Financial
Officer
|
6,106,281
|
.70%
|
6,106,281
|
.70%
|
.42%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common Stock
|
Stacie Stricker, Corporate
Secretary and Controller
|
500,000
|
.06%
|
500,000
|
.06%
|
.03%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Common shares
|
All Directors and Executive
Officers as a Group (6 persons)
|
1,505,457
|
5.90%
|
1,505,457
|
5.90%
|
61.54%
|
|
(1)
|
|
The
Address for the above individuals and entities is c/o 501 West
Broadway, Suite 800, San Diego, CA 92101.
|
|
(2)
|
|
Based
upon 873,064,371 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31,
2021.
|
|
(3)
|
|
Based
upon 873,064,371 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31,
2021. Does not contemplate the Series A Preferred Stock held 100%
by Stephen J. Thomas, III which guarantees the holder to 60% of the
outstanding common stock in shares when converted and 60% of any
vote prior to or after conversion. As of December 31, 2020,
approximately 1,243,987,624 additional common shares would be
issued if Mr. Thomas were to convert his Series A Preferred Stock
holdings to common stock. The Company would have to authorize more
shares as there are only 1,000,000,000 shares authorized
currently.
|
|
(4)
|
|
In
August 2018, the Company added two new directors to the Board.
Arkady Shkolnik and Reginald Thomas were added as members of the
Board of Directors. The total members of the Board of Directors
after this addition is four. In accordance with agreements with the
Company for his services as a director, Mr. Shkolnik received
5,000,000 shares of restricted common stock and Mr. Thomas received
1,000,000 shares of restricted common stock.
|
|
(5)
|
|
Assuming
full exercise of any stock options or warrants.
|
|
(6)
|
|
Calculated
using voting shares from all classes of common and preferred voting
shares.
|
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GREATER THAN 5% STOCKHOLDERS
Title
of Class
|
Name
of Beneficial Owner
|
Amount
and Nature of Beneficial Owner
|
Percent
of Class Outstanding and Pre-Offering (2)
|
Number
of Common Shares & Warrants if fully exercised
|
Percent
of Class including Warrants(4)
|
Percent
of Class including all classes of voting stock (5)
|
Common
Stock
|
Stephen J. Thomas,
III, Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
(1)
|
20,606,137(3)
|
2.36%
|
20,606,137
|
2.36%
|
60%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
(1)
The
Address for the above individuals and entities is c/o 501 West
Broadway, Suite 800, San Diego, CA 92101.
(2)
Based
upon 873,064,371 shares issued and outstanding as of March 31,
2021.
(3)
Does
not contemplate the Series A Preferred Stock held 100% by Stephen
J. Thomas, III which guarantees the holder to 60% of the
outstanding common stock in shares when converted and 60% of any
vote prior to or after conversion. As of December 31, 2020,
approximately 1,410,000,000 additional common shares would be
issued if Mr. Thomas were to convert his Series A Preferred Stock
holdings to common stock as there are only 1,000,000,000 shares
authorized currently.
(4)
Assuming
full exercise of any stock options or warrants.
(5)
Calculated
using voting shares from all classes of common and preferred voting
shares.
Rule
13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 governs the
determination of beneficial ownership of securities. That rule
provides that a beneficial owner of a security includes any person
who directly or indirectly has or shares voting power and/or
investment power with respect to such security. Rule 13d-3 also
provides that a beneficial owner of a security includes any person
who has the right to acquire beneficial ownership of such security
within sixty days, including through the exercise of any option,
warrant or conversion of a security. Any securities not outstanding
which are subject to such options, warrants or conversion
privileges are deemed to be outstanding for the purpose of
computing the percentage of outstanding securities of the class
owned by such person. Those securities are not deemed to be
outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage of the
class owned by any other person.
BENEFICIAL
OWNERSHIP OF EACH CLASS OF VOTING SECURITIES
The
following table reflects the beneficial ownership of each class of
voting securities as of December 31, 2021.
|
|
Equivalent Voting
Shares
|
|
Equivalent
Voting Percentage
|
|
Voting
Rights
|
||||
Series
A Preferred Stock
|
|
|
1,243,987,624
|
|
|
|
60.00
|
%
|
|
Shall
have the right to vote as if converted prior to any vote at
60%.
|
Series
B Preferred Stock
|
|
|
2,588,693
|
|
|
|
0.001
|
%
|
|
Shall
have the right to vote equal to the number of common shares on a
one-to-one basis.
|
Series
C Preferred Stock
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
Shall
have the right to vote equal to the number of common shares on a
one-to-one basis.
|
Series
D Preferred Stock
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
|
—
|
|
|
Shall
have the right to vote on an as-converted basis
|
Common
Stock
|
|
|
51,505,457
|
|
|
|
39.999
|
%
|
|
|
|
|
|
1,298,081,774
|
|
|
|
100.00
|
%
|
|
|
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The
following table sets forth information with respect to the
beneficial ownership of our outstanding common stock
by:
·
each
person who is known by us to be the beneficial owner of five
percent (5%) or more of our common stock;
·
our
executive officers, and each director as identified in the
“Management — Executive Compensation” section;
and
·
all of
our directors and executive officers as a group.
Beneficial
ownership is determined in accordance with the rules of the
Securities and Exchange Commission and generally includes voting or
investment power with respect to securities. Shares of common stock
and options, warrants and convertible securities that are currently
exercisable or convertible within 60 days of the date of this
document into shares of our common stock are deemed to be
outstanding and to be beneficially owned by the person holding the
options, warrants or convertible securities for the purpose of
computing the percentage ownership of the person, but are not
treated as outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage
ownership of any other person.
REPORTS
TO SECURITIES HOLDERS
We
provide an annual report that includes audited financial
information to our shareholders. We will make our financial
information equally available to any interested parties or
investors through compliance with the disclosure rules for a small
business issuer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. We are
subject to disclosure filing requirements including filing Form 10K
annually and Form 10Q quarterly. In addition, we will file Form 8K
and other proxy and information statements from time to time as
required. We do not intend to voluntarily file the above reports in
the event that our obligation to file such reports is suspended
under the Exchange Act. The public may read and copy any materials
that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
(“SEC”), at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at
100 F Street NE, Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain
information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by
calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. The SEC maintains an Internet
site (http://www.sec.gov) that contains reports, proxy and
information statements, and other information regarding issuers
that file electronically with the SEC.
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND
RELATED TRANSACTIONS, AND DIRECTOR INDEPENDENCE.
Other
than the stock transactions discussed herein, we have not entered
into any transaction nor are there any proposed transactions in
which any of our founders, directors, executive officers,
stockholders or any members of the immediate family of any of the
foregoing had or are to have a direct or indirect material interest
except as follows:
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
There
are amounts outstanding due to related parties of the Company of
$1,339,352 and $1,141,213, respectively, as of December 31, 2020
and 2019 related to amounts due to employees, management and
members of the Board of Directors according to verbal and written
agreements that have not been paid as of period end which are
included in accounts payable and accrued expenses on the balance
sheet. See Note 9.
As is
mentioned in Note 8, Reginald Thomas was appointed to the Board of
Directors of the Company in August 2018. Mr. Thomas is the brother
to the CEO Stephen J. Thomas III. According to an agreement with
Mr. Reginald Thomas, he is to receive $10,000 per quarter and
1,000,000 shares of restricted common stock valued at approximately
$120,000 vesting quarterly over twenty-four months. The quarterly
payment of $10,000 may be suspended by the Company if the Company
has not been adequately funded.
Leases
See
Note 9 for office lease used by CEO.
Debt Financing and Amounts Payable
As of
December 31, 2020, there are amounts due to management/shareholders
of $93,072 included in financing arrangements, of which $88,922 is
payable from the Company to Stephen J. Thomas III, CEO of the
Company. See note 5.
Revenue Transactions and Accounts Receivable
During
the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, Blue Collar provided
production services to an entity controlled by the Blue Collar CEO
(355 LA, LLC or “355”) for which it recorded revenues
of $385,988 and $707,263, respectively, and had accounts receivable
outstanding as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 of $0 and $169,439,
respectively, which is included in accounts receivable on the
consolidated balance sheet. 355 was formed in October 2019 by the
CEO of Blue Collar for the purpose of production of certain
additional footage for a 355 customer. 355 has opportunity to
engage with other production relationships outside of using Blue
Collar.
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Other Agreements
On
April 17, 2018, the CEO of the Company, Stephen Thomas, signed an
agreement with New Orbit Technologies, S.A.P.I. de C.V., a Mexican
corporation, (“New Orbit”), majority owned and
controlled by Stephen Thomas, related to a license agreement for
the distribution of TPT licensed products, software and services
related to Lion Phone and ViewMe Live within Mexico and Latin
America (“License Agreement”). The License Agreement
provides for New Orbit to receive a fully paid-up, royalty-free,
non-transferable license for perpetuity with termination only under
situations such as bankruptcy, insolvency or material breach by
either party and provides for New Orbit to pay the Company fees
equal to 50% of net income generated from the applicable
activities. The transaction was approved by the Company’s
Board of Directors in June 2018. There has been no activity on this
agreement.
ITEM 14. PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND
SERVICES.
We
incurred approximately $147,500 in audit fees to our principal
independent accountants for professional services rendered in
connection with the audit of financial statements for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2020. We incurred approximately $112,500 in
audit fees to our principal independent accountants for
professional services rendered in connection with the audit of
financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31,
2019.
During
the fiscal years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we incurred
$21,100 and $168,000, respectively, in other fees for professional
services rendered by our principal independent accountants for all
other non-audit services which may include, but not limited to, tax
related services, actuarial services or valuation
services.
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PART IV
ITEM 15. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT
SCHEDULES.
The
following exhibits are incorporated into this Form 10-K Annual
Report:
Exhibit Number
|
|
Description
|
|
3.1
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.2
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.3
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.4
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.5
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.6
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.7
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.8
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.9
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.10
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.11
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.12
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.13
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.14
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.15
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.16
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.17
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.18
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.19
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.20
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.21
|
|
(1)
|
|
3.22
|
|
(12)
|
|
3.23
|
|
(12)
|
|
3.24
|
|
(12)
|
|
3.25
|
|
(13)
|
|
3.26
|
|
(13)
|
|
3.27
|
|
(13)
|
|
3.28
|
|
(13)
|
|
3.29
|
|
(13)
|
|
3.30
|
|
(13)
|
|
3.31
|
|
(13)
|
|
4.1
|
|
(1)
|
|
4.2
|
|
(1)
|
|
4.3
|
|
(1)
|
|
4.4
|
|
(1)
|
|
4.5
|
|
(1)
|
|
4.6
|
|
(1)
|
4.7
|
|
(2)
|
|
4.8
|
|
(2)
|
|
4.9
|
|
(3)
|
|
4.10
|
|
Promissory Note -
MatrixSites, Inc. (10.31.17)
|
(3)
|
4.11
|
|
(3)
|
|
4.12
|
|
(9)
|
83
4.13
|
|
(12)
|
|
10.1
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.2
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.3
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.4
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.5
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.6
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.7
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.8
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.9
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.10
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.11
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.12
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.13
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.14
|
|
(1)
|
|
10.15
|
|
(2)
|
|
10.16
|
|
(2)
|
|
10.17
|
|
(3)
|
|
10.18
|
|
(3)
|
|
10.19
|
|
(3)
|
|
10.20
|
|
(3)
|
|
10.21
|
|
(3)
|
|
10.22
|
|
(3)
|
|
10.23
|
|
(4)
|
|
10.24
|
|
(4)
|
|
10.25
|
|
(5)
|
|
10.26
|
|
(6)
|
|
10.27
|
|
(6)
|
|
10.28
|
|
(6)
|
|
10.29
|
|
(7)
|
|
10.30
|
|
(8)
|
|
10.31
|
|
(10)
|
|
10.32
|
|
(11)
|
|
10.33
|
|
(13)
|
|
10.34
|
|
(13)
|
|
10.35
|
|
(13)
|
|
10.36
|
|
(14)
|
|
10.37
|
|
(15)
|
|
10.38
|
|
(15)
|
|
10.39
|
|
(16)
|
|
10.40
|
|
(17)
|
84
10.41
|
|
(17)
|
|
10.42
|
|
(17)
|
|
10.43
|
|
(17)
|
|
10.44
|
|
Amendment and Extension Agreement No. 1 with Michael A. Littman,
Atty, Defined Benefit Plan
|
(18)
|
10.45
|
|
Addendum to Amendment and Extension Agreement No. 1 with Michael A.
Littman, Atty, Defined Benefit Plan
|
(18)
|
10.46
|
|
Release and Termination Agreement
|
(18)
|
21.1
|
Filed
Herewith
|
||
31.1
|
Filed
Herewith
|
||
31.2
|
Filed
Herewith
|
||
32.1
|
Filed
Herewith
|
||
32.2
|
Filed
Herewith
|
||
99.1
|
(1)
|
||
99.2
|
(1)
|
||
101
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The
following materials from TPT Global Tech, Inc. Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2020, formatted in Extensible Business
Reporting Language (XBRL): (i) Balance Sheets at December 31, 2020
and 2019, (ii) Statements of Operations for the years ended
December 31, 2020 and 2019, (iii) Statements of Changes in
Stockholders’ Equity for the years ended December 31, 2020
and 2019, (iv) Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended
December 31, 2020 and 2019 and (v) Notes to the Financial
Statements.*
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*
|
*
|
Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, the Interactive Data Files
in Exhibit 101 hereto are deemed not filed or part of a
registration statement or prospectus for purposes of Sections 11 or
12 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, are deemed not filed
for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as amended, and otherwise are not subject to liability under those
sections.
|
(1) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 dated December
15, 2017.
(2) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A dated February
23, 2018.
(3) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A dated October
1, 2018.
(4) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A dated November
5, 2018.
(5) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated March 19, 2019.
(6) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated March 25, 2019.
(7) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated April 3, 2019.
(8) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated March 3, 2020.
(9) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated March 10, 2020.
(10) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated March 19, 2020.
(11) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated June 10, 2020.
(12) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 1-A dated July 2, 2020.
(13) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Amended Form 1-A dated August 27,
2020.
(14) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated August 17, 2020.
(15) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated September 9, 2020.
(16) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form 8-K dated September 10, 2020.
(17) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form S-1 dated October 28, 2020.
(18) Incorporated by reference from the exhibits included in the
Company’s Form S-1/A dated January 15, 2021.
ITEM 16. FORM 10-K SUMMARY
Not
applicable.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant
to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities and
Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to
be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.
TPT GLOBAL TECH, INC.
|
|
|
/s/
Stephen J. Thomas, III
|
|
April
15, 2021
|
Stephen
J. Thomas, III
|
|
|
(Chief
Executive Officer/Principal Executive Officer)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/s/
Gary L. Cook
|
|
April
15, 2021
|
Gary L.
Cook
|
|
|
(Chief
Financial Officer/Principal Accounting Officer)
|
|
|
Pursuant
to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this
report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of
the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates
indicated.
|
|
|
|
|
|
/s/
Stephen J. Thomas, III
|
|
April
15, 2021
|
Stephen
J. Thomas, III, Director
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/s/
Richard Eberhardt
|
|
April
15, 2021
|
Richard
Eberhardt, Director
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/s/
Arkady Shkolnik
|
|
April
15, 2021
|
Arkady
Shkolnik, Director
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
/s/
Reginald Thomas
|
|
April
15, 2021
|
Reginald
Thomas, Director
|
|
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