SEC Company Response from UNITED AMERICAN CORP (CIK 0001096688) — Dec 14, 2005
UNITED AMERICAN CORP (CIK 0001096688)
Date: Dec. 14, 2005 · CIK: 0001096688 · Accession: 0001255294-05-000799
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Referenced dates: May 12, 2004
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Cane
Clark LLP
3273
E. Warm Springs
Las
Vegas, NV 89120
Kyleen
E. Cane*
Bryan
R. Clark^
Chad
Wiener+
Scott
P. Doney~
Telephone:
702-312-6255
Facsimile:
702-944-7100
Email:
bclark@caneclark.com
December
14, 2005
UNITED
STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE
COMMISSION-Division
of Corporation Finance
100
F.
Street NE
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Mail
Stop
4561
ATTENTION:
Eric McPhee
Re: United
American Corporation
Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2004
Filed
April 29, 2005
File
No. 0-27621
________________________________________________________________________________
We
write
on behalf of United American Corporation (the “Company”) in response to Staff's
letter of July 26, 2005 by Daniel L. Gordon, Branch Chief at the United States
Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) regarding the
above-referenced annual report on Form 10-KSB filed April 29, 2005 (the “Comment
Letter”). On behalf of the Company, we are submitting this response to the
Comment Letter. The Company will endeavor to supplement this correspondence
with
an additional response to all unanswered comments when the Company is able
to
respond completely and accurately. The delay in responding fully to all comments
is attributable to the Company dismissing its former auditor and engaging a
new
auditor coupled with its efforts to remedy errors in the Company’s prior
disclosure.
The
factual information provided herein relating to the Company has been made
available to us by the Company. Paragraph numbering used for each response
corresponds to the numbering used in the Comment Letter.
Note
3. Acquisition of Internet Telecommunications
Equipment
5.
Tell
us whether you considered accounting for the acqusition of internet
communications equipment as a reverse acqusition with 3874958 Canada
Inc.
as the accounting acquirer. Additionally, please tell us how you
determined that the value of the transaction was $874,125. See paragraph
17 of SFAS 141.
In
response to this comment, the Company retained an outside consultant to conduct
a valuation of the transaction. A copy of this valuation is attached hereto.
This valuation report was provided to the Company’s former auditor, Madsen &
Associates, CPA’s, Inc. The Company accounted for this transaction in a manner
consistent with the advice of its former auditor.
*Licensed
Nevada, California, Washington and Hawaii Bars;
^
Nevada,
Colorado and District of Columbia Bars
+
Illinois, Nevada and Wisconsin State Bars ~Nevada
Note
6. Contingent Liabilities - Extinguishment of Debt
6.
Please
tell us how you determined that the outstanding debt of $625,964
no longer
constituted a liability. In your response, please provide us with
all
relevant details of the transactions that led to incurring the debt
as
well as your decision to write off the outstanding debt. Please cite
the
accounting literature that you are relying on in your response.
In
response to this comment, the Company sought the opinion of two law firms
regarding a statute of limitations defense to these claims. All individuals
with
personal knowledge of these transactions are no longer with the Company. The
correspondence that the Company received from these law firms was provided
to
the Company’s former auditor, Madsen & Associates, CPA’s, Inc. Based upon
this information, the former auditor concluded that these debts no longer
constituted a liability. The former auditor did not provide the Company with
any
accounting literature that was relied upon in making this decision. A copy
of
the correspondence from the two law firms regarding a statute of limitations
defense to these claims is attached hereto.
If
you
have any questions regarding this comment letter, please feel free to contact
me
at
702-312-6255.
Sincerely,
/s/
Bryan R. Clark
Bryan
R.
Clark
Asset
Evaluation
Description:
The
asset
consists of an information technology platform for internet telecommunications
known as VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). This platform includes computer
equipment and software which has been configured in order to process incoming
and outgoing phone calls. The process is as follows:
·
Accept
incoming calls either from any POTS (Plain Old Telephone System)
phone
number worldwide or a registered internet phone
user.
·
Route
the call to the appropriate destination
either,
o
Through
a gateway to the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) in the
case of a
POTS destination
o
To
another Internet phone user
o
To
an international destination through a terminating
partner
·
Ensure
that the call is billed appropriately to the user’s account for the
allotted time
·
Ensure
that the billing of the user’s account occurs via credit card or pre-paid
cash card system
·
Provide
a web interface for the user to manage their account with advanced
call
forwarding options
·
Provide
a web interface for sales distributors to manage their accounts
and
monitor their sales commissions
·
Provide
a complete interface for technical support and network management
and
control.
The
platform is SS7 compliant, can accommodate both G.729A/B, G.711 U-LAW Codecs,
along with H.323 and SIP compatible signaling protocol. The total processing
and
memory consists of 72 processors with 40 G of RAM and 1.75 TByte of ROM storage.
The equipment is all located within the Peer 1 co-location facility of Montreal,
located at 1080 Beaver Hall, Suite 1520. This is an industry standard
co-location facility providing all the necessary power back-up and fire
suppression equipment to ensure its proper functionality on a continuous
basis.
The
equipment is as follows:
·
1
Cisco Firewall
·
13
Compaq/HP Servers
·
1
3-Com Network Switch
·
1
Cisco Network switch
·
1
Quintum VoIP Switch
·
2
Cisco Gateways
·
1
Quintum Gateway
·
1
Quintum Routing Server
·
Racks,
back-up and related equipment
Its
current capacity is evaluated as 100,000 users.
Equipment
age
The
equipment dates from 24 to 48 months old, when considering processor speeds
and
memory capacity. Considering this age, and considering the capacity (this
equipment was clearly the top tier equipment when new, as it still classifies
as
significantly robust and powerful in terms of its processing capabilities),
the
economic life of the equipment could be another 7-10 years of useful life,
provided regular scheduled maintenance such as updating power supplies,
upgrading necessary hard drives and maintaining existing peripherals such
as
network cards and external drives is continuous throughout this time
period.
The
images were photographed of the equipment:
The
following demonstrates software development to render the equipment commercially
viable:
Automated,
client-driven add service option
-Add
virtual numbers
-Add
extra handsets
Web-based,
client-driven voicemail to e-mail management
FollowMe
call forwarding management
-Automatic
client driven call forwarding to any number within Continental
US&Canada
-Selection
of time and day for forwarding
Real-time
outbound call listings
On-line
invoicing and payment control
Valuation:
In
order
to valuate the asset, one must consider the potential of the VoIP market.
At the
end of 2004, there were just over 1 Million VoIP subscribers in North America.
In comparison, there are 350 Million wireline and cellular phone lines in
the
same area. Numerous industry analysts agree that VoIP telephony will replace
traditional telephony by 2008-2009.
As
an
indication of the commercial value of this platform and its intellectual
property, one must consider that by the end of 2004, Vonage Holdings Corp.,
the
leader in the US VoIP market had recorded 350,000 subscribers at average
revenues of US$25 per month. Hence, the 100,000 subscriber capacity will
permit
the owner of the asset to achieve yearly revenue of 30M$.
The
asset
value is evaluated at 1.75M$ when considering equipment cost and network
architecture, systems analyst and programming labour costs to build such
a
system. In order to maintain a conservative estimate of the assets current
value, 50% of this would be a fair and equitable valuation of the asset,
ie.
$875,000.
Considering
that 26.25M shares have been issued as exchange for entire title of ownership
and control of the asset, this would value each share at $0.0333 per
share.
Currently,
the public NASDAQ market indicates that shares of United American Corp. are
currently trading at $0.10 to $0.14 per share. Therefore, the share exchange
outlined in this transaction is considered to be a fair and equitable
transaction for both parties.
McDONALD
-
CARANO
-WILSON
Bryan
R. Clark Reply
to Las Vegas
May
17,
2004
PRIVILEGED
ATTORNEY CLIENT COMMUNICATION
Via
Facsimile only (450-446-1348)
Benoit
Laliberte
United
American Corporation
Re:
Old Payables
Mr
Laliberte:
I
am
writing in response to your letter dated May 12, 2004, wherein you seek
additional detail regarding the potential applicability of a statute of
limitations defense to what you have represented to me are stale claims by
Akamai Technology, Fried Frank et al, BWR Public Relations and Corporate
Management. As we've discussed, I lack sufficient information as to the
particulars of any of these transactions to be able to offer any opinion
as to
the viability of these claims.
I
can
offer only very general and limited guidance as to the possible applicability
of
statute of limitations defenses Please be cautioned, however, that the statute
of limitations defense is both generally disfavored by courts and riddled
with
exceptions Thus, the particular facts of any given transaction can easily
circumvent a facially valid statute of limitations defense thereby rendering
it
impossible for me to offer an opinion upon which you can rely with any degree
of
confidence as to the enforceability of any particular claim without access
to
the specifics of the underlying transactions. For example, although the statute
of limitations on contracts for the sale of goods is generally four years,
the
parties can modify this term by agreement Also, an act by the debtor in
affirming the validity of the debt may start the limitations period running
anew
Thus,
a
dearth of information as to the specifics with respect to the four potential
claims at issue here is particularly a problem because you do not have any
of
the underlying records and all of the individuals with personal knowledge
of the
transactions are no longer with the company Nor have you asked me to review
or
even provided me with copies of the limited documents in your possession
related
to these claims With the foregoing in mind, I offer the following, very general
and very limited observations:
McDONALD-CARANO-WILSON
Benoit
Laliberte
United
American Corporation May 17, 2004
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With
respect to the Akamai Technology payable in the amount of $49,478.00
(estimated),
you have
advised me that the agreement was an oral one for the sale of goods for
which
full payment was due by the Company prior to December 1999. Assuming that
this
is true, that the invoice you have received is not considered to constitute
a
written contract by a court of competent jurisdiction or that any other
written
contract exists, that Massachusetts law applies, that the parties have
not
agreed to a longer limitations period, that the Company's payment obligation
was
due in full on or before four years ago today, that the Company was in
default
as of that time and has not since cured or affirmed the debt, that the
creditor
has not already filed suit or obtained a judgment, and that there are no
other
facts that would give rise to one of the myriad of counters to a statute
of
limitations defense under these circumstances, it is probable that the
Company
has a viable statute of limitations defense to a claim by this creditor
under
Massachusetts