SEC Company Response from RAPID LINK INC (CIK 0000913659) — Apr 29, 2005
RAPID LINK INC (CIK 0000913659)
Date: April 29, 2005 · CIK: 0000913659 · Accession: 0000926236-05-000052
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Referenced dates: April 11, 2005
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April 29, 2005
Mr. Larry Spirgel
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporate Finance
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Dial Thru International Corporation (the "Company")
Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2004
(the "Annual Report")
Securities and Exchange Commission Comment Letter
Dated April 11, 2005
Dear Mr. Spirgel,
We are in receipt of your letter dated April 11, 2005 (the "Letter"),
which sets forth a number of Securities and Exchange Commission (the
"Commission") comments to our Company's Annual Report. Our responses are
keyed to the comments set forth in the Letter.
Item 1. Business - Customers
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1. In describing your primary customers, you disclose that the Company
provided wholesale services to one customer who accounted for 17% of
the Company's revenues and another customer who accounted for 13% of
the Company's revenues. Revise your disclosure to fully comply with
Item 101 (c)(vii) of Regulation S-K, which requires the disclosure of
'Dependence on one or a few customers, with the name and relationship
of any customer accounting for 10% or more of consolidated revenues
under certain conditions'.
We note the Commission's comment. However, it is our position that we
are not required to disclose the name and relationship of any customer
accounting for 10% or more of consolidated revenues as we do not
believe that the "the loss of such customer would have a material
adverse effect on the registrant and its subsidiaries taken as a whole"
as noted in Item 101 (c)(vii). However, we will amend our disclosure
under the heading "Customers" to add the following language at the end
of the paragraph:
"We generally do business with approximately 20 wholesale customers,
any of which either collectively, or in most cases individually, could
compensate for the loss of a major customer. Typically, we have
limited capacity, imposed by our suppliers, in which to transmit our
telecommunications traffic. We frequently offer this capacity to our
larger customers, however it is possible to offer these opportunities
to all, or a few, of our wholesale customers at any time, thus reducing
our reliance on any one customer and providing a relatively quick
transition between customers if we should lose a customer."
Item 7. Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
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Results of Operations for the Fiscal Years Ended October 31, 2004, 2003 and
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2002 - Liquidity and Sources of Capital
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2. Revise your disclosures regarding liquidity and sources of capital to
include tabular disclosure of contractual obligations, as required by
Item 303 (a)(V) of Regulation S-K.
The Commission's comment is duly noted and we will revise our
disclosure to include the following table, as required by Item
303(a)(V) of Regulation S-K.
Payments Due By Period
Less More
than 1 1-3 3-5 than 5
year years years years Total
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Contractual Obligations:
Long term debt $3,760,890 $ - $ - $ - $3,760,890
Capital leases 126,196 - - - 126,196
Operating leases 203,251 223,449 - - 426,700
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Total $4,090,337 $223,449 $ - $ - $4,313,786
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3. Expand the disclosure in the liquidity and capital resources section
to discuss the issuance of a going concern opinion by the auditors.
Include a detailed discussion of management's viable plan for
overcoming your financial difficulties. Discuss in detail your cash
requirements during the next twelve months and your ability to generate
sufficient cash to support operations. Expand this discussion to
specifically include the manner in which you intend to generate future
revenues. Update this disclosure in each subsequent Form 10-Q. Refer
to Section 607.02 of the Financial Reporting Codification.
The Commission's comment is duly noted and we will expand our
disclosure regarding liquidity and capital resources to include the
following discussion.
"Although we have significantly reduced our operating loss, to date we
have been generally unable to achieve positive cash flow on a quarterly
basis primarily due to the fact that our present lines of business do
not generate a volume of business sufficient to cover our overhead
costs. Our audit report includes an explanatory paragraph indicating
substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
We have violated certain requirements of our debt agreements relating
to failure to register the underlying securities, and timely payment of
principal and interest, including payment in full on the maturity date
of the notes, either through the issuance of common stock, or payment
in cash. Our lenders have not declared us in default and have allowed
us to continue to operate. A capital infusion of $4.9 million is
necessary to cure these defaults. Of this amount, approximately $2.2
million is due to two of our executives and a director.
Furthermore, we frequently are not able to make timely payment to
our trade creditors. As of our fiscal year ended October 31, 2004,
approximately $2.0 million, representing approximately 50% of our trade
accounts payable and accrued liabilities, were past due. Although
formal payment terms have not been negotiated with most of these
vendors, we continue to make regular payments, or provide opportunities
for the vendors to send us telecommunications traffic in return for
a reduction in our debt to them. These vendors have not stopped
providing services to us. If these vendors were to stop providing
services to us, our ability to continue to operate would be
jeopardized. We continue to seek sources of working capital sufficient
to fund delinquent balances and meet ongoing obligations, though our
success on that front has been limited.
Our future operating success is dependent on our ability to quickly
generate positive cash flow from our VoIP lines of products and
services. Our major growth areas are anticipated to include the
establishment of additional wholesale points of termination to offer
our existing wholesale and retail customers, and the introduction of
new retail VoIP products, primarily our new Executel and Rapidlink
products (see "Our Products and Services") both domestically and
internationally. We anticipate a cash shortfall from operations of
approximately $300,000 during the next twelve months. We do not have
any capital equipment commitments during the next twelve months. We
anticipate funding this shortfall through available cash on hand,
further reduction of our overhead expenses, including personnel, and
consolidation of operations as necessary. In addition, we are actively
pursuing debt or equity financing opportunities to continue our
business. Any failure of our business plan, including the risk and
timing involved in rolling out retail products to end users, to
generate positive cash flow could result in a significant cash flow
crisis and could force us to seek alternative sources of financing as
discussed, or to greatly reduce or discontinue operations. Although
various possibilities for obtaining financing or effecting a business
combination have been discussed from time to time, there are no
agreements with any party to raise money or for us to combine with
another entity and we cannot assure you that we will be successful in
our search for investors or lenders. Further, negotiations with our
existing lenders have not resulted in any extension of past due
obligations, which could therefore be declared due and accelerated at
any time. Any additional financing we may obtain will involve material
and substantial dilution to existing stockholders. In such event, the
percentage ownership of our current stockholders will be materially
reduced, and any new equity securities sold by us may have rights,
preferences or privileges senior to our current common stockholders.
If we are unable to obtain additional financing, our operations in the
short term will be materially affected and we may not be able to remain
in business. These circumstances raise substantial doubt as to the
ability of our Company to continue as a going concern."
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and
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Results of Operations for the Fiscal Years Ended October 31, 2004, 2003 and
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2002 - Critical Accounting Policies, Goodwill
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4. Specifically describe in your goodwill policy the manner in which you
conduct annual impairment testing. For example, explain that the first
step in the process is to identify potential goodwill impairment by
comparing the estimated fair value of the reporting unit to its
carrying amount. The second step measures the amount of the impairment
based on a comparison of the 'implied fair value' of goodwill with its
carrying amount. Revise your disclosures to include this detail in you
critical accounting policies.
The Commission's comment is duly noted and we will revise our
disclosure to add the following information:
"We record goodwill when the consideration paid for an acquisition
exceeds the fair value of net tangible and identifiable intangible
assets acquired. We measure and test goodwill for impairment on an
annual basis or more frequently if we believe indicators of impairment
exists. Performance of the impairment test involves a two-step process.
The first step compares the fair value of our single reporting unit to
its carrying amount. The fair value of the reporting unit is determined
by calculating the market capitalization of the reporting unit as
derived from quoted market prices, and further substantiated through
the use of other generally accepted valuation methods. A potential
impairment exists if the fair value of the reporting unit is lower than
its carrying amount. Historically, the impairment test has shown that
the carrying value is less than fair value. The second step of the
process is only performed if a potential impairment exists, as
indicated by step one, and involves determining the difference between
the fair values of the reporting unit's net assets, other than
goodwill, as compared to the fair value of the reporting unit. If the
difference is less than the net book value of goodwill, impairment
exists and is recorded. We determine our reporting units, for purposes
of testing for impairment, by determining (i) how we manage our
operations, (ii) if a component of an operating unit constitutes a
business for which discrete financial information is available and our
management regularly review such financial information, and (iii) how
the acquired entity is integrated with our operations. Based on these
criteria, we determined that we have a single reporting unit.
5. Disclose the significant assumptions and estimates you use to estimate
the fair value of your reporting units under SFAS 142. Also, provide
quantitative information to the sensitivity of these assumptions
on the estimated fair value of reporting units if these could
have a material impact on the financial statements. See Interpretive
Release No. 33-8350 on our website for further guidance (http:
//www.sec.gov/rules/interp/33-8350.htm).
In order to determine the fair value of our reporting unit under SFAF
142, we consider the following two approaches:
* Market Approach - Under the market approach, recent sales of
comparable companies or securities are analyzed to determine
the value for a particular asset under study. Adjustments are
made to the sales data to account for differences between the
subject asset and the comparables. The market approach is most
applicable to assets that are homegenous in nature and are
actively traded. Relative to other approaches to value, the
key strength of the market approach is that it provides
objective indications of value while requiring relatively few
assumptions be made.
* Income Approach - This approach measures the present worth of
anticipated future net cash flows generated by the business.
Net cash flows are forecast for an appropriate period and then
discounted to present value using an appropriate discount rate.
Net cash flow forecasts require analysis of the significant
variables influencing revenues, expenses, working capital,
and capital investment. An income approach methodology is
generally useful because it accounts for the specific
contribution of fundamental factors impacting those variables
that affect the value of the business.
According to SFAS 142, quoted market prices in active markets are the
best evidence of fair value and shall be used as the basis for the
measurement of fair value, if available. As of October 31, 2004, our
market capitalization was $2,303,415, determined by taking the shares
outstanding as of that date multiplied by our stock price of $0.10. We
added interest bearing debt and operating liabilities (excluding net
current liabilities of discontinued operations), adjusted downward to a
fair value estimate of 25%, resulting in a fair value of assets of
approximately $4.75 million. This amount exceeds the carrying value
of our assets (the value of our assets as reported in our financial
statements), including goodwill,