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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 1, 2005

Registration No. 333-          


 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


 

FORM S-1

 


 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


 

AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 


 

Delaware   5065   77-0602480
(State of Incorporation)  

(Primary Standard Industrial

Classification Code Number)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

2466 Peck Road

City of Industry, California 90601

(562) 692-3869

(Address and Telephone Number of Registrant’s Principal Executive Offices)

 

Bruce Hahn

Chief Executive Officer

American Telecom Services, Inc.

2466 Peck Road

City of Industry, California 90601

(562) 908-1287

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Agent for Service)

 


 

Copies to:

 

Ira I. Roxland, Esq.

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

1221 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10020

(212) 768-6700

Fax: (212) 768-6800

 

David Alan Miller, Esq.

Graubard Miller

The Chrysler Building

405 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10174-1901

(212) 818-8800

Fax: (212) 818-8881

 


 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:  As soon as practicable after the effective date of this Registration Statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box.  x

 

If this form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

 

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

 

If this form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

 

If delivery of the prospectus is expected to be made pursuant to Rule 434, check the following box.  ¨


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CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE


Title of Each Class of

Securities to be Registered(1)

  

Amount to be

Registered

   

Proposed

Maximum

Aggregate

Price Per

Security(2)

   

Proposed

Maximum

Aggregate

Offering Price

   

Amount of

Registration

Fee

 

Common stock, par value $0.001 per share, to be sold by issuer in the offering(3)

   3,220,000        $ 5.05        $ 16,261,000.00        $ 1,913.92  

Warrants to be sold by issuer in the offering(4)

   3,220,000     $ 0.05     $ 161,000.00     $ 18.95  

Representative’s purchase option

   1           $ 100.00       (5 )

Common stock issuable upon exercise of the representative’s purchase option

   280,000     $ 5.555     $ 1,555,400.00     $ 183.07  

Warrants issuable upon exercise of the representative’s purchase option

   280,000     $ 0.055     $ 15,400.00     $ 1.81  

Common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrants sold by issuer in the offering (including the warrants underlying the representative’s purchase option)

   3,500,000     $ 5.05     $ 17,675,000.00     $ 2,080.35  

Common stock to be sold by selling securityholders(6)

   749,930     $ 5.05     $ 3,787,146.50     $ 445.75  

Warrants to be sold by selling securityholders(6)

   1,475,666     $ 0.05     $ 73,783.30     $ 8.68  

Common stock to be sold by selling securityholders upon their exercise of warrants(6)

   1,475,666     $ 5.05     $ 7,452,113.30     $ 877.11  

Common stock to be issued upon exercise of warrants after sale thereof in open market transactions(6)

   1,475,666     $ 5.05     $ 7,452,113.30     $ 877.11  

Total

                 $ 54,433,056.10     $ 6,406.75  

(1) Pursuant to Rule 416 under the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement also covers any additional securities that may be offered or issued in connection with any stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction.
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(c).
(3) Includes 420,000 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option.
(4) Includes 420,000 warrants issuable upon exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option.
(5) No fee pursuant to Rule 457(g).
(6) Securities being sold by the selling securityholders identified in this registration statement.

 


 

The registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 or until this registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 



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EXPLANATORY NOTE

 

This registration statement contains two forms of prospectus: (a) one to be used in connection with an offering by the registrant of 2,800,000 shares of common stock and 2,800,000 redeemable warrants (the “Registrant’s Prospectus”) and (b) one to be used in connection with (i) the resale of up to 749,930 shares of common stock and 1,475,666 redeemable warrants (and the 1,475,666 shares of common stock underlying such warrants) by the holders named therein and (ii) the issuance by the registrant of up to 1,475,666 shares of common stock upon the exercise of redeemable warrants purchased by others in the open market from such selling securityholders (the “Selling Securityholders’ Prospectus”).

 

The complete Registrant’s Prospectus follows immediately. Following the Registrant’s Prospectus are certain pages of the Selling Securityholders’ Prospectus, which include: (i) an alternate front cover page, (ii) an alternate section entitled “Prospectus Summary — The Offering,” (iii) an alternate section entitled “Use of Proceeds,” (iv) an alternate section entitled “Selling Securityholders” and (v) an alternate section entitled “Plan of Distribution.”

 

All other pages of the Registrant’s Prospectus and the Selling Securityholders’ Prospectus are the same, except that the Selling Securityholders’ Prospectus will not have a section entitled “Underwriting.”


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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

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Subject to Completion, dated November 1, 2005

 

PROSPECTUS

 

2,800,000 shares of common stock

2,800,000 redeemable common stock purchase warrants

 


 

LOGO

American Telecom Services, Inc.

 


 

This is an initial public offering of our securities. We are offering 2,800,000 shares of our common stock and 2,800,000 redeemable common stock purchase warrants. Each redeemable warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of our common stock at a price of $5.05 and will expire on                     , 2010 [five years from the date of this prospectus], or earlier upon redemption. The redeemable warrants are redeemable at our option, with the consent of HCFP/Brenner Securities LLC, the representative of the underwriters, as set forth in this prospectus.

 

We have agreed to sell to the representative, for $100, an option to purchase up to 280,000 shares of our common stock at $5.555 per share and/or up to 280,000 of our redeemable warrants, identical to those offered by this prospectus, at $.055 per warrant. The purchase option and its underlying securities have been registered under the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

 

There is presently no public market for our securities. We anticipate that our common stock and redeemable warrants will be quoted on The Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “ATEL” and “ATELW,” respectively, on or promptly after the date of this prospectus.

 


 

Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “ Risk Factors” beginning on page 6 of this prospectus for a discussion of information that should be considered in connection with an investment in our company.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

       Per Share

     Per Warrant

     Total

Public offering prices

     $ 5.05      $ 0.05      $ 14,280,000

Underwriting discount and the representative’s 2% nonaccountable expense allowance

     $ 0.505      $ 0.005      $ 1,428,000

Proceeds to us (before expenses)

     $ 4.545      $ 0.045      $ 12,852,000

 

We have granted to the underwriters a 45-day option to purchase up to an additional 420,000 shares of our common stock and/or an additional 420,000 redeemable warrants from us at the public offering prices, less the underwriting discount, solely to cover over-allotments.

 

HCFP/Brenner Securities LLC, acting as representative of the underwriters, expects to deliver the shares of our common stock and the redeemable warrants to investors in this offering on or about                     , 2005.

 


 

HCFP/Brenner Securities LLC

 

                    , 2005


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LOGO

 

We offer broadband phone (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol

or “VolP”) and prepaid long distance communications services that are bundled

with our digital, cordless multi-handset phones. Our strategic

partners include SunRocket, Inc. and IDT Corporation.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

 

Our company

 

We offer broadband phone (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol or “VoIP”) and prepaid long distance communications services that are bundled with our digital, cordless multi-handset phones. We sell our phone/service bundles through major retailers under our “American Telecom”, “ATS” or “Pay N’ Talk” brand names. Our digital spread spectrum (“DSS”) telecom platform is designed to enable seamless access to the communications services provided by our strategic partners. Our strategic partners include SunRocket, Inc., an emerging leader in the provision of VoIP services, for our VoIP service offering, and IDT Corporation, a leading communications carrier, for our prepaid long distance service offering. Under the agreements with each of these service providers, we will receive a percentage of the monthly service revenues generated by users of our service offerings, in addition to the revenues we generate through the sale of our phone hardware. We are initially targeting the U.S. residential and small office/home office (“SOHO”) markets.

 

Since our formation, we have devoted our resources to creating our initial phone/service bundles and establishing contractual relationships with our strategic communications services and manufacturing partners. Recently, we commenced our initial marketing efforts, focusing on securing approved vendor status with numerous national and regional retail channels. We received our initial purchase orders in September 2005 and initial shipments of our phones bundled with our pre-paid long distance service offering arrived in retail stores in October 2005.

 

We expect to sell our phone/service bundles to retailers in the following categories, including, but not limited to, those named below (with which we have already secured approved vendor status):

 

    Office superstores, such as Staples;

 

    Electronics stores, such as Best Buy and Fry’s;

 

    Drugstore chains, such as Brooks/Eckerd;

 

    Do-it-yourself retailers, such as Home Depot;

 

    Mass retailers and department stores, such as Wal-Mart and JCPenney;

 

    Internet-based retail distribution outlets, such as Amazon.com, Target.com, Costco.com, JCPenney.com and Staples.com;

 

    Live shopping networks such as QVC; and

 

    Direct marketers, such as Tiger Direct.

 

Our VoIP offering

 

Our VoIP offering will provide customers with a DSS multi-handset, plug-and-play, broadband phone, a phone number and VoIP-based communications services, including inbound and outbound local calling service, long distance service, enhanced 911 emergency calling (which routes calls directly to emergency operators along with caller address information and automatic phone number identification) and other standard and competitive services. Technology research firm Jupiter Research reports that the number of users of VoIP telephony services has grown to approximately 3 million in the United States in 2005 and projects that there will be approximately 27 millions users in the United States by 2009.

 

The VoIP services accessible through our broadband phones will be provided in the United States by SunRocket. SunRocket is a growing VoIP communications service provider that was founded by former executives of MCI, Inc. Under the terms of our agreement with SunRocket, purchasers of our broadband phones will be offered an exclusive low-cost rate plan in addition to all other plans marketed by SunRocket to its customers. We will receive an agreed-upon percentage of SunRocket’s monthly service revenues generated by users of our broadband phones.

 

Most currently available VoIP services require some combination of an adaptor, modem and/or router and often require cable companies or other service providers to engage in varying degrees of rewiring in the customer location to establish VoIP service. Our cordless broadband phone, however, is plugged directly into a customer’s

 

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Internet router or modem, without use of an adaptor or additional hardware, and does not require any complex rewiring. Our VoIP phone/service bundle can easily be installed by customers and requires no installation appointments with the cable company or other service provider. Our broadband phone may be used in rooms other than those with an Internet connection by carrying the wireless handset from room to room in the same manner as traditional cordless phones. Our multi-handset design allows customers to add additional handsets to their system and place extensions in other rooms without any rewiring. SunRocket provides VoIP services at what we believe are among the lowest rates currently available. Accordingly, we believe our VoIP phone/service bundle represents one of the easiest and most cost-efficient means for customers to acquire VoIP service.

 

Our prepaid long distance offering

 

Our phones that are bundled with prepaid long distance services are branded as “Pay N’ Talk” and marketed in the United States. Prepaid long distance service on each of these phones is accessible, on demand, with the press of the LDS (Long Distance Service) auto-key on the handset dial pad. This process provides the user with an immediate and seamless connection to prepaid long distance services provided by IDT. As a promotion, we are providing a specified number of initial minutes of long distance service at no additional charge to purchasers of these phone/service bundles. According to a 2005 report on prepaid markets by Atlantic-ACM, a telecommunications industry research firm, prepaid long distance service is an $11.8 billion global market that has experienced steady growth over the last ten years.

 

Under our agreement with IDT, prepaid long distance service is offered to our customers at a current rate of 3.9 cents per minute for domestic calls, inclusive of all fees and taxes. International calling will be available at low, competitive per-minute rates under a rate plan that IDT created for our customers. Through IDT, our customers will be able to purchase a specified number of minutes or create an automatic recharge account by which additional minutes are added whenever their account balance falls below pre-set limits. We believe that the prepaid long distance rates available to users of our phones will be among the lowest available for such service. We will receive an agreed-upon percentage of IDT’s monthly service revenues generated by users of our phones.

 

Our strategy

 

We believe that currently there are a limited number of providers of bundled communications phone/service offerings. Our objective is to expand and become a leader in the market for bundled communications phone/service offerings by combining our phones with attractively priced service offerings, thereby creating a compelling proposition for value purchasers. Key elements of our strategy include:

 

    developing high-quality end user communications hardware that enhances the accessibility and utility of the communications services with which our hardware is bundled;

 

    expanding our existing relationships with SunRocket and IDT by expanding the communications services that are bundled with our hardware, expanding our joint marketing initiatives and increasing the retail distribution channels which we provide;

 

    establishing relationships with other providers of communications services inside and outside of the United States;

 

    obtaining retail shelf space and Internet presence for our bundled communications phone/service offerings by utilizing our management’s broad retail experience and providing retailers the opportunity to share in our service revenues; and

 

    utilizing our management’s extensive manufacturing and sourcing experience (particularly in China) to expand and diversify our supplier base for phone hardware, services and technology in order to maximize cost efficiency and support the diversification of our bundled communications phone/service offerings.

 

Additional information

 

We were incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware on June 16, 2003. Our principal offices are located at 2466 Peck Road, City of Industry, California, 90601 and our telephone number is (562) 908-1287.

 

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THE OFFERING

 

Securities offered

2,800,000 shares of our common stock and 2,800,000 redeemable warrants.

 

Common stock:

 

Number of shares outstanding before this offering

2,749,930 shares, assuming, and giving effect to, the conversion of $2,163,500 principal amount of our outstanding notes (and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, estimated at approximately $86,000) into 749,930 shares of our common stock upon the consummation of this offering.

 

Number of shares to be outstanding after this offering

5,549,930 shares.

 

Redeemable warrants:

 

Number of redeemable warrants outstanding before this offering

1,475,666 redeemable warrants, after giving effect to the issuance of such redeemable warrants in exchange for 1,475,666 of our outstanding private warrants.

 

Number of redeemable warrants to be outstanding after this offering

4,275,666 redeemable warrants.

 

Exercisability

Each redeemable warrant is exercisable for the purchase of one share of our common stock.

 

Exercise price

$5.05, subject to adjustment in the event of a stock dividend or split, reorganization, recapitalization or similar event.

 

Exercise period

The redeemable warrants are exercisable immediately and will expire on                     , 2010 [five years from the date of this prospectus], or earlier upon redemption.

 

Redemption

Subject to the prior consent of HCFP/Brenner Securities, we may redeem the outstanding redeemable warrants:

 

    in whole and not in part;

 

    at a price of $.05 per warrant;

 

    upon a minimum of 30 days’ advance written notice of redemption;

 

    if, and only if, the last sales price per share of our common stock equals or exceeds 190% (currently $9.60) during the first three months after the consummation of this offering, or 150% (currently $7.58) thereafter, of the then effective exercise price of the redeemable warrants for all 15 of the trading days ending within three business days before we send the notice of redemption; and

 

    if, and only if, we then have an effective registration statement covering the shares issuable upon exercise of the redeemable warrants.

 

Use of proceeds

We intend to use the net proceeds from the sale of our securities in this offering for contract manufacturing and shipping and

 

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warehousing of inventory; for sales and marketing activities, including salaries and fees of sales and marketing personnel and consultants; for product enhancement and new product development; for the purchase and/or lease of tooling equipment; for the purchase and/or lease of office equipment; and for working capital and general corporate purposes. See “Use of Proceeds.”

 

Proposed Nasdaq Capital Market symbols for our:

 

Common stock

“ATEL”

 

Warrants

“ATELW”

 

Unless otherwise indicated, information contained in this prospectus regarding the number of shares of our common stock that will be outstanding after this offering includes the 749,930 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of the outstanding principal of our notes and all accrued interest thereon concurrently with the consummation of this offering, but does not include up to an aggregate of 6,275,666 shares comprised of:

 

    2,800,000 shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of the redeemable warrants to be sold in this offering;

 

    1,475,666 shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of the redeemable warrants issued in exchange for the private warrants;

 

    420,000 shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option and 420,000 shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of the redeemable warrants issuable upon exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option;

 

    280,000 shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of the representative’s purchase option and 280,000 shares reserved for issuance upon exercise of the redeemable warrants issuable upon exercise of the representative’s purchase option; and

 

    600,000 shares reserved for the grant of restricted stock and issuance upon exercise of options that will or may be granted under our 2005 stock option plan, including (i) options exercisable for an aggregate of 195,000 shares that will be granted upon consummation of this offering, comprised of options exercisable for an aggregate of 150,000 shares that will be granted to our officers, employee-directors and certain affiliates and 45,000 of which will be granted to our non-employee directors, each with an exercise price of $5.05 per share and (ii) an aggregate of 325,000 shares of performance accelerated restricted stock to be granted to our executive officers, our Chairman and one consultant upon consummation of this offering. In addition, after consummation of this offering, each of our non-employee directors will receive options to purchase 5,000 shares per quarter at an exercise price per share equal to not less than the fair market value per share of our common stock at the time of grant.

 

In addition, unless otherwise indicated, information contained in this prospectus regarding the number of redeemable warrants that will be outstanding after this offering includes 1,475,666 redeemable warrants issuable in exchange for the private warrants, but does not include:

 

    the 420,000 redeemable warrants issuable upon exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option; or

 

    the 280,000 redeemable warrants issuable upon exercise of the representative’s purchase option.

 

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SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION

 

The table below provides summary financial information as of the date indicated. You should read this information with our financial statements and the related notes and the section entitled “Plan of Operations,” all of which are included in this prospectus.

 

Statement of Operations:    Fiscal year
ended June 30,
2005


    Fiscal year
ended June 30,
2004


    For the period
from June 16,
2003
(inception) to
June 30, 2005


 

Total revenues

   $ —       $ —       $ —    
    


 


 


Expenses:

                        

Marketing and development

     84,813       22,058       106,871  

General and administrative

     84,435       3,000       87,435  

Interest expense

     1,000             1,000  
    


 


 


       170,248       25,058       195,306  
    


 


 


Net loss

   $ (170,248 )   $ (25,058 )   $ (195,306 )
    


 


 


Net loss per common share:

                        

Basic and diluted

   $ (0.09 )   $ (0.01 )        
    


 


       

Weighted average shares outstanding:

                        

Basic and diluted

     1,920,870       1,729,610          
    


 


       
     As of June 30, 2005

 
Balance Sheet Data:    Actual

    Pro forma

    Pro forma as
adjusted


 

Working capital (deficit)

   $ (60,877 )   $ 1,671,503     $ 13,889,985  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 50,780     $ 1,783,160     $ 14,115,160  

Total assets

   $ 164,298     $ 1,896,678     $ 14,115,160  

Total liabilities

   $ 225,175     $ 225,175     $ 225,175  

Shareholders’ equity (deficit)

   $ (60,877 )   $ 1,671,503     $ 13,889,985  

 

The “pro forma” information as of June 30, 2005 gives effect at that date to our sale after such date of $2,113,500 principal amount of our notes and 1,409,000 of our private warrants and our receipt of the net proceeds therefrom. The net proceeds of such notes ($1,732,380) have been recorded as additional paid in capital due to the value assigned to the private warrants issued with the notes and the value of the beneficial conversion feature of the notes.

 

The “pro forma as adjusted” information as of June 30, 2005 gives effect at that date to the pro forma adjustments and the following events:

 

    the conversion upon the consummation of this offering of all $2,163,500 principal amount of our outstanding notes and all accrued and unpaid interest thereon (approximately $86,000);

 

    our receipt of the estimated net proceeds (i.e., gross proceeds less the underwriting discount and the estimated offering expenses payable by us from the offering proceeds) from the sale of 2,800,000 shares of our common stock and 2,800,000 warrants in this offering and our anticipated application of those proceeds. See “Use of Proceeds.”

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

An investment in our securities involves a high degree of risk. You should consider carefully all of the material risks described below, together with the other information contained in this prospectus before making a decision to invest in our securities.

 

Risks related to our business

 

We are only now commencing our commercial operations and have no operating history upon which you can base your investment decision.

 

We were incorporated in June 2003 and only recently completed the development of our first phones and secured our initial strategic relationships with communications service and manufacturing service providers. We have only recently received our first purchase orders. We generated no revenues in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2005 and, to date, have generated only nominal revenues in the first quarter of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2006. We have no real operating history upon which you can evaluate our business strategy or future prospects, and have negative working capital. As a result, our independent registered accountant has issued an explanatory paragraph in its opinion in connection with our financial statements included herein that expresses substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern unless we obtain the financing sought in this offering. While this offering addresses such concern, our ability to generate revenues going forward that are capable of supporting our operations without other financing sources will depend on whether we can successfully commercialize our phones and make the transition from a development stage company to an operating company. We may not achieve and/or sustain profitability. In making your evaluation of our prospects, you should consider that we are an early-stage business engaged principally in the development and marketing of bundled communications phone/service offerings that have minimal, if any, proven market acceptance. We operate in a rapidly evolving industry. As a result, we may encounter many expenses, delays, problems and difficulties that we have not anticipated and for which we have not planned.

 

The agreements with the strategic partners that provide the communications services accessible through our phones require us to meet certain minimum requirements, which, if not met, could lead to our loss of certain material rights.

 

Under our agreements with SunRocket and IDT, users of our phones must activate certain minimum numbers of accounts with these providers within certain time periods. Some of these minimum requirements must be met by the end of 2005. If these minimums are not met or exceeded, we could lose some or all of the discounts or other financial incentives and rights we have negotiated with such service providers. Although arrangements similar to those we currently have with our strategic partners may be readily available from other communications providers, we cannot assure you that we would be able to secure such alternate arrangements on a timely basis or at all or efficiently configure our phones to work seamlessly with such services. Our failure to maintain our agreements with our current strategic partners or to secure alternate arrangements with other communications service providers if needed on substantially similar terms could materially adversely affect our ability to favorably price our offerings to customers and could harm our operating margins and financial results.

 

If we are unable to effectively manage the transition from development stage to commercial operations, our financial results will be negatively affected.

 

For the period from our inception in June 2003 through June 2005, we have incurred aggregate net losses in our development stage of $195,306 and had an accumulated deficit of $195,306 as of June 30, 2005. Upon consummation of our initial public offering such losses would increase by a non-cash interest charge of approximately $2.2 million resulting from the amortization of the original issue discount due to the immediate conversion of the notes issued in our private placement into shares of common stock. Our losses are expected to increase in the short term as we commence full scale manufacturing, marketing and deployment of our phone/service bundles and transition from a development stage company to an operating company. As we make such transition, we expect our business to grow significantly in size and complexity. This growth is expected to place significant additional demands on our management, systems, internal controls and financial and physical resources. As a result, we will need to expend additional funds to secure necessary assets and hire additional qualified personnel for our marketing activities, for the development of appropriate control systems and for the expansion of our information technology and operating infrastructures. Our inability to secure additional

 

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resources and personnel, as and when needed, or manage our growth effectively, if and when it occurs, would significantly hinder our transition to an operating company, as well as diminish our prospects of generating revenues and, ultimately, achieving profitability.

 

Our failure to quickly and positively distinguish our phone/service bundles from other available communications solutions and limit the adoption curve associated with their market acceptance could negatively affect our operations.

 

We may be slow to achieve, or may never achieve, market acceptance for our phone/service bundles. Failure to distinguish our phones and services from competing communications solutions would hinder market acceptance of our phone/service bundles. Meaningful numbers of customers may not be willing to adopt our phones and services until they have been proven, both initially and over time, to be viable communications solutions. There is also no way to determine the adoption curve that will be associated with our phone/service bundles. Non-acceptance or delayed acceptance of our phones and/or services could force reductions in contemplated sales prices of our phones, reduce our overall sales and gross margins and negatively affect our operations and prospects.

 

We may not be able to meet our future capital requirements solely through revenues generated from our operations, and the cost of additional equity or debt capital could be prohibitive or result in dilution to existing securityholders.

 

Our business model is capital intensive, requiring significant expenditures ahead of projected revenues. Based on our current operating plan, we anticipate that the net proceeds of our previous 2005 financings and this offering, together with anticipated revenues from operations and accounts receivable financing that we believe will be available to us, will allow us to meet our cash requirements for approximately 12 months following the date of this prospectus. If revenues from operations are not sufficient to meet all of our capital needs after such time, or we do not obtain accounts receivable financing, we will need to obtain additional sources of capital. Further, if the assumptions currently underlying our business plan prove incorrect, we may need to seek additional financing prior to that time. In addition, if and when we achieve initial market acceptance for our initial phone/service bundles, we may desire to accelerate our growth to take advantage of increasing demand. Accordingly, we may wish to raise additional capital to offset increased capital expenditures and costs associated with accelerated growth. Any source of additional capital could be in the form of public or private equity or debt financing. Such financing may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If additional capital is needed and is either unavailable or cost prohibitive, we may need to change our business strategy or reduce or curtail our operations. In addition, if we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, our securityholders will experience dilution.

 

Our business may be materially and adversely affected by our high level of debt.

 

In order to finance the potential growth of our business, we may incur debt, including loans or convertible debt financing, in the future. A high level of debt, arduous or restrictive terms and conditions related to accessing certain sources of funding, poor business performance or lower than expected cash inflows could materially and adversely affect our ability to fund the operation of our business. Other effects of a high level of debt include the following:

 

    we may have difficulty borrowing money in the future or accessing other sources of funding;

 

    we may need to use a large portion of our cash flow from operations to pay principal and interest on our indebtedness, which would reduce the amount of cash available to finance our operations and other business activities;

 

    a high debt level, arduous or restrictive terms and conditions, or lower than expected cash flows would make us more vulnerable to economic downturns and adverse developments in our business; and

 

    if operating cash flows are not sufficient to meet our operating expenses, capital expenditures and debt service requirements as they become due, we may be required, in order to meet our debt service obligations, to delay or reduce capital expenditures or the introduction of new phones, sell assets and/or forego business opportunities.

 

Our inability to establish cost-effective sales channels would negatively affect our revenue potential.

 

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currently have only limited internal sales, marketing and distribution capabilities. In order to commercialize our phones and services, we will have to develop a sales and marketing infrastructure and/or rely on third parties to perform these functions. To market directly, we will have to develop a marketing and sales force with technical expertise, which would require the dedication of significant capital, management resources and time. We could also be required to expend significant capital and other resources in developing third-party distribution channels. Further, any agreement to sell our phones and services through a third party could hamper our ability to sell our phones and services to that third party’s competitors. Due to our limited financial resources, we may not be able to establish an appropriate sales force or make adequate third-party distribution arrangements. Our failure to do so would limit our ability to expand sales and would negatively affect our operations, financial results and long-term growth.

 

Failure to obtain satisfactory performance from our strategic and contract manufacturing partners and other third party vendors on whom we will be dependent for our phones and services could cause us to lose sales, incur additional costs and lose credibility in the market place.

 

We will rely on third-party sources to manufacture our phones and will rely on third-party communications service providers to provide users of our phones with communications services. The failure of any of these third party providers to perform satisfactorily or the loss of any of them could cause us to fail to meet customer expectations, lose sales and expose us to product and service quality issues. In turn, this could damage our relationships with customers and harm our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations. If our third-party providers increase their prices and we do not have access to alternative providers, we could be required to raise the price of our phone/service bundles to customers to cover all or part of the increased costs. Our inability to obtain phones and services at the prices we desire could hurt our sales and lower our margins. Generally, we will not own or control the vast majority of the equipment, tools and molds used in the manufacturing process. As a result, difficulties encountered by our third-party manufacturers that result in product defects, production delays, cost overruns or the inability to fulfill orders on a timely basis could harm our operations. Our operations would be adversely affected if we were to lose our relationships with our primary suppliers, if our suppliers’ operations were interrupted or terminated, or if overseas or air transportation services were disrupted, even for a relatively short period of time. We do not expect to maintain a product inventory that is sufficient to provide protection for any significant period against an interruption of the supply of our hardware.

 

Since our hardware will be sourced from parties outside of the United States, we will face certain risks inherent in conducting business in foreign countries.

 

We will produce our phones under manufacturing arrangements with third-party manufacturers, including those located in China. Our reliance on our third-party manufacturers to provide personnel and facilities in their country of operations and the potential imposition of quota limitations on imported goods from certain Asian countries expose us to certain economic and political risks, including transportation delays and interruptions, political instability, the business and financial condition of our third party manufacturer, the possibility of expropriation, supply disruption, currency controls, and currency exchange fluctuations, changes in tax laws, tariffs, and freight rates, as well as strikes, work slow downs, or lockouts at ports where our phones arrive in the United States. Protectionist trade legislation in either the United States or foreign countries, such as a change in the current tariff structures, export compliance laws, or other trade policies, could adversely affect our ability to purchase our phones from foreign suppliers at a price that will enable us to sell those phones profitably.

 

We may not be successful if the Internet is not adopted by a significant number of users as a means of communications.

 

If the market for IP-based communications and the related services that we will make available does not grow at the rate we anticipate or at all, we will not be able to realize our anticipated revenues with respect to our broadband phones. To be successful, IP-based communications require validation as an effective means of communication and as a viable alternative to traditional phone service. Demand and market acceptance for newly introduced services are subject to a high level of uncertainty. The Internet may not prove to be a viable alternative to traditional phone service for reasons including:

 

    inconsistent quality or speed of service;

 

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    traffic congestion on the Internet;

 

    potentially inadequate development of the necessary infrastructure;

 

    lack of acceptable security technologies;

 

    lack of timely development and commercialization of performance improvements; and

 

    unavailability of cost-effective, high-speed access to the Internet.

 

A significant number of the companies with which we will compete have substantially greater resources and longer operating histories than we do, and we may not be able to compete with them effectively, even if our phones and services are technically superior.

 

We engage in an intensely competitive business that has been characterized by price erosion, rapid technological change and foreign competition. We will compete with major domestic and international companies. Many of our competitors have greater market recognition and substantially greater financial, technical, marketing, distribution, and other resources than we possess. Emerging companies also may increase their participation in the phone hardware or communications service markets. Our ability to compete successfully depends on a number of factors both within and outside our control, including:

 

    the quality, performance, reliability, features, ease of use, pricing, and diversity of our phones and the communications services accessed through them;

 

    our ability to address the evolving demands of our customers;

 

    our success in designing and manufacturing new phones, including those implementing new technologies and services;

 

    the availability of adequate sources of raw materials, finished components, and other supplies at acceptable prices;

 

    our suppliers’ efficiency of production;

 

    new product introductions by our competitors;

 

    the number, nature, and success of our competitors in a given market; and

 

    general market and economic conditions.

 

Decreasing telecommunications rates may diminish or eliminate any competitive pricing advantage we may have previously established.

 

International and domestic telecommunications rates have decreased significantly over the last few years in most of the markets in which we expect to operate, and we anticipate that rates will continue to be reduced in all of the markets in which we expect to do business. Decreasing telecommunications rates may diminish or eliminate any competitive pricing advantage we may have previously been able to establish for the communications services available to our hardware users. Purchasers who select our services to take advantage of the current pricing differential between our rates and rates otherwise available to them for the same service may not purchase our phones if such pricing differentials diminish or disappear. In addition, rate decreases would reduce our gross profit margin from the services we make available to purchasers of our phones and services.

 

Government regulation and legal uncertainties relating to VoIP telephony could harm our business.

 

Historically, voice communications services have been provided by regulated telecommunications common carriers. For some of our phones, we will offer voice communications to the public for international and domestic calls using VoIP telephony. Based on specific regulatory classifications and recent regulatory decisions, we believe such services qualify for certain exemptions from telecommunications common carrier regulation in many of our markets. However, the growth of VoIP telephony has led to close examination of its regulatory treatment in many jurisdictions, making the legal status of such services uncertain and subject to change as a result of future regulatory action, judicial decisions or legislation in the jurisdictions in which we expect to

 

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operate. Established regulated telecommunications carriers have sought and may continue to seek regulatory actions to restrict the ability of companies such as our communications service providers to provide services or to increase the cost of providing such services. In addition, such services may be subject to regulation if regulators distinguish between phone-to-phone telephony service using VoIP and other technologies over privately-managed networks, such as our services, and integrated PC-to-PC and PC-originated voice services over the Internet. Some regulators may decide to treat the former as regulated common carrier services and the latter as unregulated enhanced or information services. Application of new regulatory restrictions or requirements to our service providers could increase our cost of doing business or otherwise prevent or restrict us from delivering our services through our current arrangements. Such regulations could limit our service phone/service bundles, raise our costs and restrict our pricing flexibility, and potentially limit our ability to compete effectively.

 

If we don’t enhance our phone/service bundles and develop new phones and services to keep pace with rapid technological and consumer demand changes in the communications industry, we may lose any market share we were previously able to establish.

 

Our industry is subject to rapid changes in technology and consumer demand. We cannot predict the effect of technological changes or the changes of consumer demand on our business. In addition, widely accepted standards have not yet developed for the technologies we use, such as VoIP. We expect that new services and technologies will emerge over time in the markets in which we compete. These new services and technologies may be superior to the services and technologies that we make available, or these new services may render the services and technologies that we make available obsolete or less attractive to consumers. To be successful, we must adapt to our rapidly changing market by continually improving and expanding the scope of services we make available and by developing new services and technologies to meet consumer needs.

 

The loss of any of the members of our management or certain other key personnel could harm our business.

 

Our development and operations to date have been, and our proposed operations will be, substantially dependent upon the efforts and abilities of our senior management and technical personnel. Although, prior to the consummation of this offering, we will acquire $3,000,000 of key-person life insurance on the life of Bruce Hahn, our Chief Executive Officer, the loss of his services or the services of other existing key personnel or the failure to recruit and retain necessary additional personnel would adversely affect our business prospects. We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to retain our current personnel or that we will be able to attract and retain necessary additional personnel. Our internal growth and the expansion of our product lines will require additional expertise in such areas as product design, operational management, and sales and marketing. Such growth and expansion activities will increase further the demand on our resources and require the addition of new personnel and the development of additional expertise by existing personnel. Our failure to attract and retain personnel possessing the requisite expertise or to develop such expertise internally could adversely affect the prospects for our success.

 

Our business may suffer if it is alleged or found that our phones infringe the intellectual property rights of others.

 

Although we attempt to avoid infringing known proprietary rights of third parties in our product development efforts, from time to time we may receive notice that a third party believes that our phones may be infringing certain trademarks, patents or other intellectual property rights of that third party. We may also be contractually obligated to indemnify our customers or other third parties associated with our phones in the event they are alleged to infringe a third party’s intellectual property rights in connection with our phones. Responding to those claims, regardless of their merit, can be time consuming, result in costly litigation, divert management’s attention and resources and cause us to incur significant expenses. Thus, even if our phones do not infringe, we may elect to take a license or settle to avoid incurring such costs. In the event our phones are infringing upon the intellectual property rights of others, we may elect or be required to redesign our phones so that they do not incorporate any intellectual property to which the third party has or claims rights. As a result, some of our phone/service bundles could be delayed, or we could be required to cease distributing some of our phones. Alternatively, we could seek a license for the third party’s intellectual property, but it is possible that we would not be able to obtain such a license on reasonable terms, or at all. Any delays that we might then suffer or additional expenses that we might then incur could adversely affect our revenues, operating results and financial condition.

 

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Risks related to this offering

 

We anticipate that our common stock and redeemable warrants will be quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market, which may limit the liquidity and price of our securities more than if our securities were quoted or listed on the Nasdaq National Market or a national exchange.

 

We anticipate that our common stock and redeemable warrants will be quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market. Quotation of our securities on the Nasdaq Capital Market may limit the liquidity and price of our securities more than if our securities were quoted or listed on The Nasdaq National Market or a national exchange.

 

The representative of the underwriters in the offering will not make a market for our securities which could adversely affect the liquidity and price of our securities.

 

HCFP/Brenner Securities, the representative of the underwriters in this offering, does not make markets in securities and will not be making a market in our securities. However, we believe certain broker-dealers other than HCFP/Brenner Securities will be making a market in our securities. HCFP/Brenner Securities’ not acting as a market maker for our securities may adversely impact the liquidity and price of our securities.

 

If our common stock becomes subject to the SEC’s penny stock rules, broker-dealers may experience difficulty in completing customer transactions and trading activity in our securities may be severely limited.

 

If at any time we have net tangible assets of $5,000,000 or less and our common stock has a market price per share of less than $5.00, transactions in our common stock may be subject to the “penny stock” rules promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Under these rules, broker-dealers who recommend such securities to persons other than institutional investors:

 

    must make a special written suitability determination for the purchaser;

 

    receive the purchaser’s written agreement to a transaction prior to sale;

 

    provide the purchaser with risk disclosure documents which identify risks associated with investing in “penny stocks” and which describe the market for these “penny stocks” as well as a purchaser’s legal remedies; and

 

    obtain a signed and dated acknowledgment from the purchaser demonstrating that the purchaser has actually received the required risk disclosure document before a transaction in a “penny stock” can be completed.

 

As a result of these requirements, broker-dealers may find it difficult to effectuate customer transactions and trading activity in our stock will be significantly limited. Accordingly, the market price of our stock may be depressed, and you may find it more difficult to sell your shares.

 

Future sales of our common stock may cause the prevailing market price to decrease and impair our capital raising abilities.

 

Immediately following this offering, we will have options and warrants outstanding that are exercisable for the purchase of an aggregate of 4,835,666 shares of our common stock, comprised of the 2,800,000 redeemable warrants issued in this offering, the 1,475,666 redeemable warrants that will be issued in exchange for our outstanding private warrants, the option to purchase 280,000 shares (and the 280,000 warrants purchasable under such option, which are exercisable for the purchase of an additional 280,000 shares) issued to the representative. Following this offering, we also will have granted or may grant options and other stock-based awards for up to an aggregate of 600,000 shares of our common stock under our 2005 stock option plan. If, and to the extent, outstanding options and warrants are exercised, you will experience dilution to your holdings. An aggregate of 2,225,597 shares of common stock and 1,475,666 warrants are being registered for resale under the registration of which this prospectus forms a part and such shares and warrants will be immediately saleable into the market. Our officers, directors and principal securityholders have entered into lock-up agreements with the representative by which they have agreed not to sell or otherwise dispose of any shares of our common stock (other than an aggregate of 200,000 shares as a group) for a period of 12 months after the later of the date of this prospectus and

 

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the date any state or regulatory agency imposed lockups placed upon them have expired. After this lock-up period, however, these securityholders may sell their shares. We cannot predict whether following this offering substantial amounts of our common stock and/or warrants will be sold in the open market in anticipation of, or following, any future divestiture of our shares by these or other of our officers, directors or principal securityholders. In addition, after this offering, we will have more than 28.8 million shares of our common stock authorized and not yet issued or reserved against. In general, we may issue all of these shares without any action or approval by our securityholders. If a large number of shares of our common stock are sold in the open market after this offering, or if the market perceives that such sales will occur as a result of any of the foregoing, the trading price of our common stock could decrease. In addition, the sale of these shares could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional common stock.

 

As we do not anticipate paying cash dividends, you should not expect any return on your investment except through appreciation, if any, in the value of our common stock.

 

You should not rely on an investment in our common stock to provide dividend income, as we have not paid any cash dividends on our common stock and do not plan to pay dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. Thus, if you are to receive any return on your investment in our common stock it will likely have to come from the appreciation, if any, in the value of our common stock. The payment of future cash dividends, if any, will be reviewed periodically by the board of directors and will depend upon, among other things, our financial condition, funds from operations, the level of our capital and development expenditures, any restrictions imposed by present or future debt instruments and changes in federal tax policies, if any.

 

Our officers, directors and affiliated entities own a large percentage of our company, and they could make business decisions with which you disagree that will affect the value of your investment.

 

We anticipate that our executive officers, directors and other 5% or greater securityholders will, in total, beneficially own approximately 28.4% of our outstanding common stock after this offering. These securityholders will be able to influence significantly all matters requiring approval by our securityholders, including the election of directors. Thus, actions might be taken even if other securityholders, including those who purchase shares in this offering, oppose them. This concentration of ownership might also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of our company, which could cause our stock price to decline.

 

Our management will have substantial discretion over the use of proceeds of this offering and may not apply them effectively.

 

Our management will have significant flexibility in applying the net proceeds of this offering and may apply the proceeds in ways with which you do not approve. Although the proposed allocation of the net proceeds of this offering represents our management’s best estimate of the expected utilization of funds to finance our activities in accordance with our management’s current objectives and market conditions, the failure of our management to apply these funds effectively could materially harm our business.

 

Our founders paid a nominal sum for their shares and, accordingly, you will experience immediate and substantial dilution from the purchase of our common stock.

 

The difference between the public offering price per share of our common stock and the pro forma net tangible book value per share of our common stock after this offering constitutes the dilution to you and the other investors in this offering. The fact that our founders acquired their shares of common stock at a nominal price has significantly contributed to this dilution. New investors will incur an immediate and substantial dilution of approximately 50% or $2.55 per share (the difference between the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of $2.50 and the initial offering price of $5.05 per share).

 

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Provisions in our corporate documents and our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as well as Delaware General Corporation Law, may hinder a change of control.

 

Provisions of our certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as well as provisions of the Delaware General Corporation Law, could discourage unsolicited proposals to acquire us, even though such proposals may be beneficial to you. These provisions include:

 

    a classified board of directors that cannot be replaced without cause by a majority vote of our securityholders;

 

    our board of director’s authorization to issue shares of preferred stock, on terms as the board of directors may determine, without securityholder approval; and

 

    provisions of Delaware General Corporation Law that restrict many business combinations.

 

We are also subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which could prevent us from engaging in a business combination with a 15% or greater securityholder for a period of three years from the date it acquired that status unless appropriate board or securityholder approvals are obtained.

 

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This prospectus includes “forward-looking statements” based on our current expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections about our business and our industry. They include statements relating to, among other things:

 

    future revenues, expenses and loss or profitability;

 

    the completion and commercialization of one or more of our phones;

 

    projected capital expenditures;

 

    competition;

 

    the effectiveness, quality and cost of our intended phones and services;

 

    anticipated trends in the telecommunications industry; and

 

    the marketability of our bundled communications solutions as a cost effective, easily deployable and comparable or higher quality alternative to existing solutions.

 

You can identify forward-looking statements by the use of words such as “may,” “should,” “will,” “could,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “plans,” “expects,” “future” and “intends” and similar expressions which are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors, some of which are beyond our control and difficult to predict and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or forecasted in the forward-looking statements. In evaluating these forward-looking statements, you should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described in “risk factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. These forward-looking statements reflect our view only as of the date of this prospectus. All forward-looking statements attributable to us or persons acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements and risk factors contained throughout this prospectus.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

 

We estimate that the aggregate net proceeds to us from the sale of the 2,800,000 shares of our common stock and 2,800,000 redeemable warrants in this offering will be approximately $12,332,000, after deducting the underwriting discount and expenses and approximately $520,000 of estimated offering expenses that will be payable by us from the proceeds of this offering.

 

We expect to use these net proceeds for the following purposes:

 

Contract manufacturing of phones and related components

   $ 9,250,000

Sales and marketing, including salaries of personnel

     800,000

Product enhancement and new product development

     350,000

Tooling

     150,000

Purchase and/or lease of office equipment

     150,000

Working capital and general corporate purposes

     1,632,000
    

TOTAL

   $ 12,332,000
    

 

We expect that the net proceeds from this offering will enable us to:

 

    expand manufacturing and commercial distribution of our multi-handset, cordless phones bundled with Pay N’ Talk prepaid long distance provided by IDT and our digital, multi-handset broadband phones bundled with VoIP services provided by SunRocket;

 

    develop enhanced product features and additional service features and design and develop new phone/service bundles; and

 

    expand our sales and marketing capabilities.

 

We intend to use approximately $9,250,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for the contract manufacturing of our multi-handset cordless phones for bundling with Pay N’ Talk prepaid long distance services, and our digital, multi-handset broadband phones for bundling with VoIP services, as well as for the purchase of related components and the shipping and warehousing of completed inventory. Manufacturing of our phones and components will be done to our specifications based upon our designs and will be provided on a contract basis by overseas providers. Although we intend to carry inventory, the actual amount of proceeds expended on our design, engineering and manufacturing efforts and the allocation of such proceeds between our phone/service bundles will depend on actual demand for our phones.

 

We intend to use approximately $800,000 of the net proceeds of this offering to support and expand our sales and marketing infrastructure and activities. These expenses shall include (i) the payment of fees to Future Marketing, LLC (a multi-person marketing and sales company under common ownership with The Future, LLC, one of our founding shareholders) that, among other things, assists in the development and execution of our marketing plans, manages our accounts, assists in our product development and handles our back-office customer functions, (ii) the payment of salaries and benefits for existing and newly hired marketing, sales and project management personnel, including certain salaries accrued since July 1, 2005, (iii) costs associated with the development of packaging, advertising, retail displays and collateral marketing materials and (iv) costs related to the establishment of sales channels into targeted retail outlets.

 

We intend to use approximately $350,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for product enhancement and development and related activities. This amount includes approximately $275,000 for sourcing and internal design of product improvements and new phones, as well as for external engineering and product development conducted in China through companies we presently utilize for manufacturing services, and approximately $75,000 for technology and support services in the United States to coordinate our overseas development efforts.

 

We intend to use approximately $150,000 of the net proceeds of the offering for the design and development of tools (molds) in cooperation with our third-party contract manufacturers of our next generation of multi-handset Pay N’ Talk phones and multi-handset broadband phones.

 

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We intend to use approximately $150,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for the purchase and/or lease of computers and other equipment and for the installation of computer systems and office equipment at our offices in Atlanta, Georgia, City of Industry, California and our overseas office in Shanghai, China.

 

The remaining net proceeds of this offering will be allocated to working capital and general corporate purposes, including payments to our service providers, office space lease payments, directors and officers insurance premiums, salaries and benefits for executive and administrative personnel, including travel and associated expenses, and other general and administrative costs.

 

The above represents our best estimate of the allocation of net proceeds of this offering. We may, as our development and marketing efforts progress, find it necessary to reallocate a portion of the proceeds within the above-described categories or use portions of the proceeds for other purposes, including for acquisitions of complementary businesses, phones or technologies; however, we have no current agreements or commitments to make any potential acquisition. In addition, our estimates may prove to be inaccurate, new phones or product changes may be undertaken which may require us to modify manufacturing requirements and/or product delivery schedules, or which may require additional expenditures and/or unforeseen expenses may occur.

 

Based on current assumptions relating to our business plan, we anticipate that the net proceeds of this offering, together with certain baseline levels of anticipated revenues and accounts receivable financing, will satisfy our capital requirements for approximately 12 months following the consummation of this offering. These assumptions include the following:

 

    our initial phones are produced, shipped and delivered on schedule;

 

    expected customer purchase commitments for phones are received;

 

    end users who purchase our bundled services remain active users of such services at anticipated rates;

 

    we are able to secure necessary accounts receivable financing; and

 

    customers pay for our phones in a timely manner.

 

If we determine to accelerate our business plan or if our plans otherwise change or our assumptions prove inaccurate, we may need to seek financing sooner than currently anticipated, incur additional financing or reduce or curtail our operations. We cannot assure you that financing will become available as and when needed.

 

If the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full, we will realize additional net proceeds of approximately $1,970,640, which will be added to our working capital. All or a portion of these over-allotment proceeds may be used to acquire complementary businesses or technologies or otherwise obtain the right to use complementary technologies that could broaden or enhance our phones. However, we have no current agreements or commitments to make any potential acquisition. In addition, if the 2,800,000 redeemable warrants offered pursuant to this prospectus and the 1,475,666 redeemable warrants issued in exchange for our private warrants are exercised, we will realize proceeds related to their exercise of approximately $21,592,113 before payment of any solicitation fees that may be due. If and when we receive these additional proceeds, they are also expected to be allocated to our working capital. See “Underwriting.”

 

We will invest proceeds not immediately required for the purposes described above principally in United States government securities, short-term certificates of deposit, money market funds or other short-term interest-bearing investments.

 

DIVIDEND POLICY

 

We have never paid any cash dividends and intend, for the foreseeable future, to retain any future earnings for the development of our business. Our future dividend policy will be determined by the board of directors on the basis of various factors, including our results of operations, financial condition, capital requirements and investment opportunities.

 

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DILUTION

 

The difference between the public offering price per share of our common stock and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock after this offering constitutes the dilution to investors in this offering. Net tangible book value per share is determined by dividing our net tangible book value, which is our total tangible assets less total liabilities, by the number of outstanding shares of our common stock.

 

At June 30, 2005, our net tangible book value was a deficit of approximately $(174,395), or $(0.09) per share of common stock. Pro forma tangible net book value per share at June 30, 2005 was $1,557,985 or approximately $0.78 per share of common stock.

 

After giving effect to the sale of 2,800,000 shares of our common stock and 2,800,000 redeemable warrants (and the deduction of the underwriting discount and expenses and estimated offering expenses of approximately $1,948,000), and the conversion of $2,163,500 principal amount of our outstanding notes (and all interest due thereon, estimated at approximately $86,000) into 749,930 shares of common stock, our net tangible book value as of June 30, 2005 would have been approximately $13,889,985 or $2.50 per share, representing an immediate increase in our net tangible book value of $1.72 per share to the existing securityholders and an immediate dilution of $2.55 per share or approximately 50% to new investors.

 

The following table illustrates the dilution to the new investors on a per-share basis:

 

Public offering price per share

          $ 5.05

Pro forma net tangible book value per share as of June 30, 2005

   $ 0.78       

Increase per share attributable to new investors in this offering

     1.72       
    

      

Pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share after the offering

            2.50
           

Dilution per share to new investors

          $ 2.55
           

 

The numbers in the above table do not take into consideration the common stock issuable upon the exercise of the redeemable warrants, the representative’s purchase option and the options and other stock-based awards granted under our 2005 stock option plan that will be outstanding after the offering.

 

The following table shows on an as adjusted basis, as of June 30, 2005, the total consideration paid and the average price per share paid by our existing stockholders (including for such purposes the shares to be issued upon the conversion of outstanding notes and accrued interest thereon upon completion of this offering) and by the investors in this offering, before deducting the underwriting discount and expenses and related offering expenses.

 

     Shares Purchased

    Total Consideration

   

Average

Price Per

Share


     Number

   Percentage

    Amount

   Percentage

   

Existing securityholders

   2,749,930    49.5 %   $ 2,257,929    13.8 %   $ 0.82

New investors

   2,800,000    50.5 %   $ 14,140,000    86.2 %   $ 5.05
    
  

 

  

     
     5,549,930    100.0 %   $ 16,397,929    100.0 %      
    
  

 

  

     

 

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CAPITALIZATION

 

The following table sets forth our cash and cash equivalents and capitalization at June 30, 2005:

 

    on an actual basis;

 

    on a “pro forma” basis to give effect to our sale after such date of $2,113,500 principal amount of our notes and 1,409,000 private warrants and our receipt of the net proceeds therefrom; the net proceeds of $1,732,380 have been recorded as additional paid in capital due to the value assigned to the private warrants issued with the notes and the value of their beneficial conversion feature.

 

    on a “pro forma as adjusted” basis to give effect to the pro forma adjustments and to our receipt of the net proceeds from our sale of 2,800,000 shares of common stock and 2,800,000 redeemable warrants in this offering and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described under “Use of Proceeds;” and the assumed conversion of $2,163,500 principal amount of our outstanding notes and all accrued interest thereon (estimated at approximately $86,000) into 749,930 shares of common stock. Accumulated deficit reflects additional interest expense of $2,249,000 (original issue discount) from the immediate conversion of the notes into common stock upon consummation of the initial public offering plus the write-off of deferred financing costs of $113,518.

 

In addition, the following table should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and the accompanying notes, which are contained later in this prospectus.

 

     As of June 30, 2005

 
     Actual

    Pro forma

   

Pro forma

as adjusted


 

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 50,780     $ 1,783,160     $ 14,115,160  
    


 


 


Stockholders’ equity:

                        

Common stock, $.001 par value, 20,000,000 shares authorized; 2,000,000 shares issued and outstanding, actual; 2,000,000 shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; 5,549,930 shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     2,000       2,000       5,550  

Additional paid-in capital

     132,429       1,864,809       16,442,259  

Accumulated deficit

     (195,306 )     (195,306 )     (2,557,824 )
    


 


 


Total stockholders’ equity (deficit)

     (60,877 )     1,671,503       13,889,985  
    


 


 


Total capitalization

   $ (60,877 )   $ 1,671,503     $ 13,889,985  
    


 


 


 

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SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

 

The following selected financial data for the period from inception through June 30, 2005 and at June 30, 2005 is derived from our audited financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. You should read this information with our financial statements and the related notes and the section entitled “Plan of Operations,” all of which are included elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

Statement of Operations Data:   

Fiscal year ended

June 30, 2005


   

Fiscal year ended

June 30, 2004


   

For the period

from June 16,

2003

(inception) to

June 30, 2005


 

Total revenues

   $ —       $ —       $ —    
    


 


 


Expenses:

                        

Marketing and development

     84,813       22,058       106,871  

General and administrative

     84,435       3,000       87,435  

Interest expense

     1,000       —         1,000  
    


 


 


       170,248       25,058       195,306  
    


 


 


Net loss

   $ (170,248 )   $ (25,058 )   $ (195,306 )
    


 


 


Net loss per common share:

                        

Basic and diluted

   $ (0.09 )   $ (0.01 )        
    


 


       

Weighted average shares outstanding:

                        

Basic and diluted

     1,920,870       1,729,610          
    


 


       
     As of June 30,
2005


 
Balance Sheet Data:    Actual

 

Working capital (deficit)

   $ (60,877 )

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 50,780  

Total assets

   $ 164,298  

Total liabilities

   $ 225,175  

Shareholders’ equity (deficit)

   $ (60,877 )

 

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PLAN OF OPERATIONS

 

You should read the following plan of operations in conjunction with our financial statements and related notes and the other financial information included in this prospectus. This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. These and other factors, including those set forth under “Risk Factors,” may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements.

 

Overview

 

We are a development stage company that was incorporated in Delaware in June 2003. Our primary business is the marketing and sale of broadband phone communications (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol or “VoIP”) services and/or prepaid long distance services that are bundled with our digital, cordless multi-handset phones. We sell our communications phone/service bundles under our “American Telecom”, “ATS” or “Pay N’ Talk” brand names. Our digital spread spectrum (“DSS”) telecom platform is designed to enable seamless access to the communications services provided by our strategic partners. Our phones will be marketed to the retail mass market through a variety of distribution channels, including office superstores, electronics stores, mass retailers, department stores and Internet-based retail distribution outlets.

 

Since our inception, we have focused on development activities, principally in connection with creating customized communications services to be provided by our strategic partners to users of our phones, securing relationships with the third-party suppliers that will manufacture our phones to our specifications and developing retail and other distribution channels.

 

Recently, we directed our supplier to commence manufacturing of our initial VoIP and prepaid long distance service phones and have been funding these initial manufacturing efforts through our lender relationships and from the net proceeds of our private placements of notes and private warrants conducted during the period from June 2005 through September 2005. In September 2005, we received our first purchase orders, initiated production of our prepaid long distance service phones and shipped these phones to a national retailer. We expect that our prepaid long distance phones will be available at additional select retailers in limited quantities in October 2005. We expect that the initial production of our broadband phones will be completed and shipped and available at select retailers in limited quantities prior to the end of 2005. Since we only recently commenced commercial operations, we have not yet generated meaningful revenues. As a result, we have negative working capital and our auditors have issued an opinion in connection with our June 30, 2005 financial statements which expresses substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern without adequate financing.

 

We will require the net proceeds of this offering (approximately $12,332,000) to continue and expand commercial distribution of our phone/service bundles, develop and enhance product and service features and expand our contract manufacturing, sales and marketing capabilities and to generally fund our operations. We believe that the proceeds of our prior private placements and this offering, together with certain minimum levels of anticipated revenues and accounts receivable financing that we believe will be available to us, will be sufficient to fund our capital requirements for approximately 12 months. If additional funds are required either because our plans change or our assumptions prove to be inaccurate or, if after 12 months, we are not generating revenues sufficient to meet our capital requirements, we would likely seek additional funds through equity or debt financings, including through a possible call of our redeemable warrants.

 

Manufacturing

 

Since our inception, we have concentrated our efforts on developing relationships with overseas suppliers that have extensive experience in manufacturing telecommunications hardware. We believe that we have secured ready access to sufficient production capacity to meet our anticipated requirements. We intend to use approximately $9,250,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for the contract manufacturing of our multi-handset cordless phones for bundling with Pay N’ Talk prepaid long distance services, and our digital, multi-handset broadband phones for bundling with VoIP services, as well as for the purchase of related components, and the shipping and warehousing of inventory.

 

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Manufacturing of our phones and components will be done to agreed upon specifications based upon our feature functions and will be provided on a contract basis by overseas providers. We or our agents intend to perform quality control testing at our manufacturer’s overseas production facilities. Although we intend to carry inventory to meet anticipated reorders, generally we expect to correlate our inventory with actual commitments and projections from retailers.

 

Sales and Marketing

 

Since our inception, we have concentrated our efforts on establishing retail sales channels through which we will sell our phones upon their commercial introduction. We have incurred aggregate expenses of $106,871 in connection with these efforts from our inception through June 30, 2005, and have continued and will continue to incur additional, material expenses in this regard. As of the date of this prospectus, we have secured approved vendor status with more than ten national and regional retail channels. However, there is no obligation for these retailers to purchase our phone/service bundles. We will sell our phones through these and other sales channels using our internal sales force, including our Chief Executive Officer, Bruce Hahn, through Future Marketing, a multi-person marketing and sales consulting firm which is an affiliate of our Company, and through independent sales representatives. We intend to support our sales efforts through strategic marketing programs with our source providers and through promotional campaigns with our potential customers, including co-op marketing programs, in-store special promotions and point-of-purchase displays. We intend to use approximately $800,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for our sales and marketing activities during the next 12 months, including:

 

    salaries for existing and newly hired sales and project management personnel;

 

    costs associated with the development of packaging, advertising, retail displays and collateral marketing materials;

 

    costs related to the establishment of sales channels into targeted retail outlets; and

 

    fees to Future Marketing.

 

We expect, however, that if our phones are successfully sold through our distribution channels, we will increase the allocation of our available funds in order to accelerate and enhance our marketing and sales efforts.

 

Design Enhancement and Product Development

 

Since our inception through June 30, 2005, we have incurred nominal expenses in connection with the design, engineering and development of our initial phones. However, we intend to use approximately $350,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for product enhancement and development and related activities. This amount includes approximately $275,000 for sourcing and internal design of product improvements and new phones, as well as for external engineering and product development conducted in China through companies we are utilizing for manufacturing services, and approximately $75,000 for technology and support services in the United States to coordinate our overseas development efforts.

 

Equipment and Tooling

 

To date, we have not incurred expenses in connection with the development of tools and molds for the production of our initial phones. However, we intend to use approximately $150,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for equipment necessary for our production activities, including the design and development of tools (molds) in cooperation with our third-party contract manufacturers. We also intend to use approximately $150,000 for the purchase and/or lease and installation of computer systems and other office equipment at our office in City of Industry, California and offices we intend to open in Atlanta, Georgia and Shanghai, China.

 

Product Revenue

 

We will market our phone/service bundles through major retail distribution outlets and expect to generate revenues through the sale of our phones and the receipt of a portion of the ongoing revenues generated by our customers’ use of the communications services bundled with our phones. As part of our relationship with our retail distribution channels, we will typically share with them a portion of our service revenues.

 

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General and Administrative Support

 

Although we were formed in June 2003, we only began to compensate our executives in June 2005 and have incurred nominal costs for administrative support. For the period from our inception (June 16, 2003) through June 30, 2005, we incurred $87,435 in general and administrative expenses. We have not incurred any expenses for leased space prior to this offering. We intend to use approximately $1,632,000 of the net proceeds of this offering for general corporate purposes, including salaries for executives and administrative personnel.

 

Results of Operations

 

Our efforts since inception have been focused on placing us in a position to make initial shipments of our phones, which we commenced in mid-September 2005. Since we did not generate any revenues through June 30, 2005 and have generated only nominal revenues since that date, our historical financial information is not indicative of our future financial performance.

 

For the period from our inception through June 30, 2005, we have incurred aggregate net losses in our development stage, and had an accumulated deficit of $195,306 as of June 30, 2005. We expect our losses to increase during the short term as we transition from development stage to commercial operations and initiate distribution of our phone/service bundles.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

In assessing our liquidity based upon the receipt of approximately $12,332,000 of net proceeds, we have reviewed our cash commitments, capital expenditures, available accounts receivable financing and our general working capital requirements. We currently estimate that the net proceeds of our prior private placements and this offering, together with certain minimum levels of anticipated revenues and accounts receivable financing that we believe will be available to us, will be sufficient to enable us to commence the shipment of our phones and implement our business plan for approximately 12 months.

 

In light of the competitive nature of the telecommunications industry and the evolution of new phones and services from time to time, any estimate as to our liquidity and overall financial condition may change over time. Some factors that could affect our liquidity and overall financial condition are the timing of our introduction of our phone/service bundles, customer acceptance and usage of our phone/service bundles and competition from existing service providers and other telecommunications companies. To the extent that circumstances evolve in an unfavorable manner, we may generate lower revenues then we currently anticipate and, as a result, we would experience reduced cash flow and our ability to obtain sufficient accounts receivable financing would be hampered. In such event, we may be required to seek additional equity and/or debt financing, which may not be available to us on satisfactory terms or at all. We also could be required to curtail or cease operations.

 

In June 2005, we issued and sold an aggregate of $50,000 in principal amount of our 6% notes to our Chairman of the Board and another unaffiliated person. During the period July 2005 through September 2005, we issued and sold in a series of private transactions an aggregate of $2,113,500 in principal amount of our 8% notes. All of the notes rank senior to all of our indebtedness, other than certain permitted indebtedness, which is defined as our financing arrangements with banks or other financial institutions existing or proposed as of June 28, 2005. Payment of the notes is collateralized by a lien upon, and security interest in, all of our assets, subject only to the prior lien of such permitted indebtedness. The notes are convertible, at any time, at the option of the holder, and automatically upon consummation of this offering, into shares of our common stock at a conversion price of $3.00 per share assuming this offering is consummated on the terms described in this prospectus. The purchasers of the 6% notes received an aggregate of 66,666 private warrants and the purchasers of the 8% notes received an aggregate of 1,409,000 private warrants in connection with their purchase of the notes. The private warrants are currently exercisable through July 14, 2011. Upon consummation of this offering, all of the private warrants will be automatically converted into a like number of warrants of the same class as the redeemable warrants sold in this offering. The net proceeds of such notes, $1,732,380, will be recorded as additional paid in capital due to the value assigned to the private warrants issued with the notes and the value of the beneficial conversion feature of the notes. A non-cash interest expense of approximately $2.2 million resulting from the amortization of the original issue discount will be incurred upon conversion of the notes into common stock at the consummation of the initial public offering.

 

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In order to facilitate the purchase and financing of our inventory, in June and July 2005 we entered into arrangements with Gain Star International Limited, a Hong Kong-based lender, and CIT Commercial Services, respectively. Under these arrangements, Gain Star acts as our agent for the purchase of our phones from manufacturers in China. Gain Star will fully finance these purchases if they are backed by accounts receivable that are approved and guaranteed by CIT. Under this arrangement, CIT does not advance funds to us or Gain Star. Instead, it makes payments to us and Gain Star only upon collection of the applicable accounts receivable. CIT guarantees payment to us and Gain Star only after a customer’s failure and inability to pay after the longest applicable maturity date.

 

For purchases that are not backed by CIT approved and guaranteed accounts receivable, Gain Star requires us to pay a 20% deposit to them in the form of a standby letter of credit or cash deposit towards the purchase price and requires us to pay the remaining amounts due and owing typically on shipment of our phones. Gain Star permits us to engage in this arrangement for up to approximately $500,000 in purchases.

 

In addition to its direct costs for the purchase of our inventory, Gain Star also requires us to pay certain fees, commissions and charges and to reimburse it for certain of its expenses as compensation for its services as our agent. As compensation for its services, CIT requires us to pay certain factoring fees and charges and to provide it with certain credits, allowances, trade discounts and cash discounts on the face value of the accounts receivable it guarantees.

 

Significant Accounting Policies

 

Our discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations is based on our financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States. Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 to the Financial Statements. The application of these policies requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses, and related disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis we will evaluate our estimates including those related to revenue recognition, research, engineering and development, bad debts.

 

Deferred financing costs

 

Deferred financing costs consist primarily of professional fees incurred through the balance sheet date that are related to the private debt placement and will be amortized over the expected term of the financing or expensed if not completed.

 

Revenue recognition

 

We are a development stage enterprise, did not generate any revenues through June 30, 2005 and only recently commenced shipment of our phones. Revenues from sales of phones will be recognized in the period the phones were shipped to customers. Revenue sharing income generated by subscriber usage and paid to us by carriers will be recognized in the period the usage occurred. Additionally, revenue resulting from carrier agent and co-op fees will be recognized in the period the subscriber activates the phone on the carrier’s network.

 

Advertising

 

Costs of advertising will be expensed as incurred, and recorded as marketing and development expenses.

 

Net loss per share

 

Basic loss per share includes no dilution and is computed by dividing loss available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding for the period.

 

Income taxes

 

We follow the liability approach under which deferred taxes are determined based upon the differences between the financial statement and tax base of assets and liabilities using enacted rates in effect in the years in which the differences are expected to reverse. Valuation allowances are provided against deferred tax assets when management is uncertain as to the ultimate realization of the asset.

 

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Use of estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

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BUSINESS

 

General

 

We offer broadband phone (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol or “VoIP”) and prepaid long distance communications services that are bundled with our digital, cordless multi-handset phones. We sell our phone/service bundles through major retailers under our “American Telecom”, “ATS” or “Pay N’ Talk” brand names. Our digital spread spectrum (“DSS”) telecom platform is designed to enable seamless access to the communications services provided by our strategic partners. Our strategic partners include SunRocket, Inc., an emerging leader in the provision of VoIP services, for our VoIP service offering, and IDT Corporation, a leading communications carrier for our prepaid long distance service offerings. Under the agreements with each of these service providers, we will receive a percentage of their monthly service revenues generated by users of our service offerings, in addition to the revenues we generate through the sale of our phone hardware. We are initially targeting the U.S. residential and SOHO markets.

 

Since our formation in 2003, we devoted our resources to creating our initial phone/service bundles and establishing contractual relationships with our strategic communications services and manufacturing partners. Recently, we commenced our initial marketing efforts, focusing on securing approved vendor status with numerous national and regional retail channels. We received our initial purchase orders in September 2005 and initial shipments of our phones bundled with our prepaid long distance service offering arrived in retail stores in October 2005.

 

Industry Overview

 

The residential and SOHO communications service markets are characterized by a demand for cost-efficient and feature-added communications services. We believe that consumers in this marketplace readily seek to avail themselves of technologies and solutions that:

 

    drive down and/or control their communications costs; and

 

    serve to enhance their quality of life and productivity.

 

VoIP services

 

VoIP is a technology that can be used instead of the traditional phone network for the delivery of voice-based communications services. VoIP technology translates voice into data packets, transmits the packets over data networks, including the Internet, and converts the data packets into voice at the destination. Unlike traditional phone networks, VoIP does not use dedicated circuits for each phone call; instead, the same VoIP network can be shared by multiple users for voice, data and video simultaneously.

 

The VoIP industry has grown dramatically from the early days of calls made through personal computers. Technology research firm Jupiter Research reports that the number of users of VoIP telephony services has grown to approximately 3 million in the United States in 2005 and projects that there will be approximately 27 millions users in the United States by 2009.

 

We believe that the growth of VoIP will continue to be driven primarily by:

 

    increasing consumer demand worldwide for lower cost phone service;

 

    improving quality and reliability of VoIP calls fueled by technological advances, increased network development and greater bandwidth capacity;

 

    continuing domestic and international deregulation, opening new market opportunities for VoIP services;

 

    new product innovations that allow VoIP providers to offer services not currently offered by traditional phone service companies; and

 

    growing demand for long distance communication services driven by the increased mobility of the global workforce.

 

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Prepaid long distance services

 

Prepaid long distance services, such as those available via debit and rechargeable calling cards, are well established and used throughout the world. We believe consumers that typically use prepaid long distance services as their primary means of making long distance phone calls do so because of the competitive rates and reliable service afforded thereby and because such prepaid services afford easy monitoring and budgeting of long distance spending. Industry research indicates that in the United States, prepaid long distance services are most frequently used by businesses seeking to control employee communications expense and immigrants and members of ethnic communities seeking to keep in touch with family members and friends located in their country of origin.

 

Our phones and services

 

Our VoIP offering

 

Our broadband phone/service bundle provides customers with a multi-handset, plug-and-play, broadband phone, a phone number and VoIP-based communications services, including inbound and outbound local calling service, long distance service, enhanced 911 emergency calling (which routes calls directly to emergency operators along with caller address information and automatic phone number identification) and other standard and competitive services.

 

Our VoIP services in the United States will be provided by SunRocket. SunRocket is an emerging VoIP communications service provider that was founded by former executives of MCI, Inc. Under the terms of our agreement with SunRocket, purchasers of our broadband phones will be afforded an exclusive, low-cost rate plan. Our customers will be offered additional low-cost rate plans marketed by SunRocket to its customers. We will receive an agreed-upon percentage of SunRocket’s monthly service revenues generated by users of our broadband phones, whether our customers utilize the exclusive plan afforded us by SunRocket or another SunRocket plan.

 

Most currently available VoIP services require a combination of an adaptor, modem and/or router and often require cable companies and other service providers to engage in varying degrees of rewiring in the customer location in order for the VoIP service to be accessible throughout such location. Our broadband phone, however, is plugged directly into a customer’s Internet router, without use of an adaptor or additional hardware, and does not require any complex rewiring. Our broadband phone may be used in rooms other than those with an Internet connection by carrying the wireless handset from room to room in the same manner as traditional cordless phones. Our multi-handset design allows customers to add additional handsets to their system and situate extensions in other rooms without any rewiring.

 

Our VoIP phone/service bundle can easily be installed by customers, requires no installation appointments with the cable company or other service provider and provides services at what we believe are among the lowest rates currently available. Accordingly, we believe our VoIP phone/service bundle represents one of the easiest and most cost-efficient means for customers to acquire VoIP service.

 

The multi-handset design allows customers to add additional handsets to their system with no additional wiring. The additional handsets communicate with the master handset’s base unit and only require an AC outlet for their base charger. In the future, we expect to have other broadband phones. We expect that these additional phones may include such features as an integrated router, additional ports for external phones and fax machines, Wi-Fi technologies and other technologies to simplify further the broadband phone experience of our customers.

 

Our prepaid long-distance offering

 

Our phones that are bundled with long distance service are marketed in the United States under the brand “Pay N’ Talk.” Prepaid long distance service on these phones is accessible, on demand, with the press of the LDS (Long Distance Service) auto-key on the handset dial pad. This process provides the user with an immediate and seamless connection to prepaid long distance services provided by IDT. As a promotion, we provide a specified number of initial minutes of long distance service at no additional charge to the customer as part of the phone/service bundle.

 

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Under our agreement with IDT, prepaid long distance service is offered to our customers at a current rate of 3.9 cents per minute for domestic calls, inclusive of all fees and taxes. International calling is available at low, competitive per-minute rates under a rate plan that IDT created for our customers. Through IDT, our customers will be able to purchase a specified number of minutes or create an automatic recharge account by which additional minutes are added whenever their account balance falls below pre-set limits.

 

Following activation the customer will be able to make long distance calls at no additional charge until the promotion balance reaches zero. The customer will have the option of adding a cash value to their account using a credit card or checking account, and IDT will give the customer the ability to set an automatic recharge for their account at a pre-set value each time their account balance falls below a pre-set limit in addition to pay-on-demand.

 

Each time the customer chooses to make a long distance call they simply press the LDS auto-key on the American Telecom phone. When the customer presses the LDS auto-key, the phone goes off-hook producing a dial-tone and the customer is instantly and seamlessly connected to the IDT prepaid platform. At that point, the customer will be able to make a call to the extent that the customer has a positive account balance. Whenever customer balances are low, they will be prompted to recharge their account and directed to the platform or a live operator to process their payment. This is an optional service that will not require the users to change their long distance carriers.

 

Strategic service providers

 

SunRocket

 

We have an agreement with SunRocket under which SunRocket will provide users of our broadband phones with VoIP communications services. Under our agreement with SunRocket, we design and configure our broadband phones to work with SunRocket’s VoIP communications services and have been granted the right to include, at our option, SunRocket’s marks and logos on our broadband phones and/or related packaging and marketing materials. These VoIP phone/service bundles will be marketed and distributed by us through mass market retail channels. During the term of this agreement, subject to certain conditions, SunRocket will not provide these services to any other manufacturer or distributor for use with cordless landline phones sold in specified retail outlets where our broadband phones are available or for which we have contracted for our broadband phones to be available. SunRocket will offer purchasers of these VoIP phone/service bundles at least a prescribed minimum number of different service plans at set rates, including plans that have been created exclusively for our customers. We retain the right to bundle similar communications services provided by other service providers with our phones.

 

For each VoIP services account activated by users of our broadband phones, we will receive a certain defined initial payment from SunRocket. In addition, we will receive ongoing monthly commissions equal to defined percentages of the net revenues received by SunRocket from end users of our broadband phones, as well as certain retail marketing co-op fees and contributions for consumer rebates in prescribed circumstances. We have the right to designate numerous identified retailers as “strategic accounts.” In the event we designate one or more retailers as “strategic accounts,” we and SunRocket may each be obligated to commit to fund certain prescribed amounts for marketing activities in connection with such strategic accounts that we select.

 

The initial term of this agreement expires on the third anniversary of the date of activation of the first account of an end user using one of these phones, or earlier in certain circumstances. We have the option to extend the term of this agreement for an additional one year if we deliver prescribed minimum service account activations during the initial term.

 

IDT

 

We have an agreement with IDT Puerto Rico & Co. under which IDT provides users of our prepaid long distance phone/service bundles with prepaid long distance communications services. During the term of this agreement, IDT will not provide these services to any other manufacturer or distributor for use with cordless landline phones sold in retail outlets where our phones are available or for which we have contracted for our phones to be available. Under our agreement with IDT, we design and configure these phones to work with IDT’s

 

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prepaid long distance communications services platform designed to our specifications and have been granted the royalty-free right to use IDT’s marks on related packaging and marketing materials. These bundled phone/prepaid long distance service offerings will be marketed and distributed by us in such manner and through such channels as we determine in our discretion. IDT will offer purchasers of these bundled phone/prepaid long distance service offerings calling rates which we believe to be among the lowest generally available.

 

Under the terms of this agreement, we have certain upfront payment obligations that we must make to IDT for promotional minutes upon activation of each customer account. IDT handles all customer service interaction, billing the customer for all services and remitting a portion of the net revenues to us on a regular basis. IDT is restricted from marketing any other services to our customers without our consent and cooperation, and we would expect to negotiate similar commission arrangements with respect to such other services in connection with giving our consent. We also must deliver certain minimum account activations, otherwise IDT will be entitled to, among other things, terminate the agreement. We retain the right to bundle similar communications services provided by other service providers with our phones. We will receive an agreed-upon percentage of IDT’s monthly service revenues generated by users of our telephones.

 

The initial term of this agreement expires on the second anniversary of the date of activation of the first account of an end user using one of these phones, or earlier in certain circumstances. The agreement will automatically and continually renew for additional one-year periods unless terminated by either party by written notice given at least 30 days prior to the end of the then current term.

 

Our strategy

 

We believe that currently there are a limited number of providers of bundled communications phone/service offerings through mass market retail. Our objective is to expand and become a leader in the market for bundled communications phone/service offerings by combining our phones with attractively priced service offerings, thereby creating a compelling proposition for value purchasers. Key elements of our strategy include:

 

    developing high-quality end user communications hardware that enhances the accessibility and utility of the communications services with which our hardware is bundled;

 

    expanding our existing relationships with SunRocket and IDT by expanding the communications services that are bundled with our hardware, expanding our joint marketing initiatives and increasing the retail distribution channels which we provide;

 

    establishing relationships with other providers of communications services inside and outside of the United States;

 

    obtaining retail shelf space and Internet presence for our bundled communications phone/service offerings by utilizing our management’s broad retail experience and providing retailers the opportunity to share in our service revenues; and

 

    utilizing our management’s extensive manufacturing and sourcing experience (particularly in China) to expand and diversify our supplier base for phone hardware, services and technology in order to maximize cost efficiency and support the diversification of our bundled communications phone/service offerings.

 

Design and development

 

Phones

 

Value-priced consumer electronics, including phones, typically have common technical features. Competition in this segment is therefore more dependent on product design, visual appeal and price. As such, we recognize that superior product design provides an important competitive advantage. We believe that, in addition to our bundled telecommunications services, the superior design and style of our phones will distinguish them from those of our competitors in the value-priced category and help drive consumer purchasing decisions.

 

We believe that the enhancement and extension of our existing phones and the development of new phones will contribute to our future growth and will be necessary for our success. In cooperation with our manufacturers, we will regularly focus on product design. We also will evaluate new ideas and seek to develop new phones and improvements to existing phones to satisfy industry requirements and changing consumer preferences.

 

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Our initial phones incorporate design and manufacturing specifications that adapt and implement available technology features in order to satisfy anticipated customers’ requirements for quality, product mix and pricing. We will work closely with both retailers and suppliers to identify trends in consumer preferences and to generate new product ideas as needed.

 

We also will highlight the design and style features of our phones with detailed descriptions and illustrations on packaging, which we believe will further distinguish our phones from those of our competitors. We believe that this packaging strategy will make our phones more attractive to consumers and will facilitate an understanding of the product features in retail locations where salespersons may not be available to provide detailed explanations and demonstrations.

 

Services

 

We have worked with SunRocket to develop new rate plans for VoIP service and enhance their service offering and capability to service our customers.

 

We have similarly worked with IDT to design our Pay N’ Talk prepaid long distance phone/service bundles. An important part of this joint effort was the development of a rate plan for our customers that offered a unique value proposition when bundled with our phones. We and IDT have taken IDT’s key expertise in customer service and back office services, and IDT’s low long distance and international calling rates, and used them as the foundation for the Pay N’ Talk offering. IDT’s back office systems provides refined payment and usage fraud control systems, bilingual and highly scalable call center infrastructure and economies of scale that allow us to offer our customers rates that, at this time, are among the lowest available in the industry.

 

We expect that as our relationships with SunRocket and IDT progress, we will work closely with these service providers to develop new service offerings and marketing programs based on our hardware bundles with their communications service offerings.

 

Sales and distribution

 

We expect to sell our phone/service bundles to retailers in the following categories, including, but not limited to, those named below (with which we have already secured approved vendor status):

 

    Office superstores, such as Staples;

 

    Electronics stores, such as Best Buy and Fry’s;

 

    Drugstore chains, such as Brooks/Eckerd;

 

    Do-it-yourself retailers, such as Home Depot;

 

    Mass retailers and department stores, such as Wal-Mart and JCPenney;

 

    Internet-based retail distribution outlets, such as Amazon.com, Target.com, Costco.com, JCPenney.com and Staples.com;

 

    Live shopping networks such as QVC; and

 

    Direct marketers, such as Tiger Direct.

 

We plan to offer some retailers a percentage of the service revenue commission we receive from our communications service providers and a percentage of the subscriber placement fees that we will receive from our VoIP service provider in connection with the purchase of VoIP services by users of our broadband phones. These payments to retailers will be in addition to any revenue they receive solely from the sale of our phones.

 

We are equipped to receive orders from our major accounts electronically or by the conventional modes of facsimile, phone, email or mail. Phones imported by us are shipped by ocean freight and stored in, and subsequently shipped to customers from, facilities maintained by Databyte Technology, Inc., an unaffiliated entity, which provides us with warehousing, distribution, customer support services and our executive offices under an agreement that will expire in October 2007, in exchange for two percent of our net sales (defined as our gross sales shipped and collected during a period less returns and allowances, cooperative advertising, promotional allowances, sales commissions and cash discounts) and our reimbursement of Databyte’s pre-approved actual packaging, customs, freight and toll-free telephone costs. If required, we may contract with public warehouse facilities. All product received by us are automatically updated into our inventory system.

 

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Marketing

 

Our strategy will be to initially gain entrance to new retail accounts with one or more phone/service bundles and thereafter introduce such accounts to additional phone/service bundles that we develop. Our goal is to become the primary supplier to retailers of phone/service bundles for the residential and SOHO markets.

 

We expect that our retail accounts will place advertisements that generally promote our brand names in newspapers and other publications, catalogs and flyers and by displaying point-of-purchase advertising. Under such co-op advertising arrangements, we would generally pay the retailer a percentage of the retailer’s sales of our product bundles featured in such advertising. We also expect to market our product bundles to retailers at trade shows, including the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas, Nevada in January of each year. We expect that our service providers will continue to invest heavily in their brands. The brands of our service providers will appear in our retailers’ ads for our bundles, through their purchase of television ads, radio ads, print ads, billboard ads and mailers. Each of our service providers has granted us the royalty-free use of its brand name. Some of our service providers will also contribute to one or several hardware rebates, co-op advertising arrangements, as well as key-city advertising funds.

 

Future Marketing, our affiliate, assists in the development and execution of our marketing plans, manages our accounts, assists in our product development and handles our back-office customer functions. In addition, a portion of our sales will also be made through independent sales representatives who will receive sales commissions and work closely with our sales personnel.

 

Manufacturing

 

We are responsible for the final design and specifications of all of our phones. Actual assembly is performed by one or more of our independent manufacturers in accordance with specifications mandated by us. Our primary independent manufacturer is Giant International, a subsidiary of the Elite Group, which is located in China and has been manufacturing telecommunications phones for more than 25 years. The Elite Group develops and manufactures phones for many companies, including British Telecom, Motorola and Avaya. We may change suppliers from time to time as market conditions require. We expect that our suppliers will assemble phones with components that they purchase from third parties who manufacture these types of components. We have no agreements or arrangements with component suppliers. We believe that this is the standard method of operating and contracting for the manufacture of phones in the consumer electronics industry. During production, our employees will coordinate with the independent manufacturers’ facilities to monitor and facilitate timely manufacture and delivery of phones produced to our specifications. Through Bruce Hahn, Chief Executive Officer, and Yu Wen Ching, our President of Manufacturing and Sourcing (who has more than 25 years of manufacturing experience in Asia), we believe we have established good relationships with our contract manufacturer and component suppliers and believe that, absent unusual circumstances affecting the supply of materials or the demand on manufacturing time, the supply of phones will be available. We do not currently maintain long-term purchase contracts with manufacturers and operate principally on a purchase order basis. We may, however, enter into such long-term contracts in the future. The loss of our primary supplier could, in the short-term, materially and adversely affect our business until alternative supply arrangements could be secured.

 

Quality control

 

We will employ and/or contract with a quality control inspector who inspects our phones before each shipment is sent from our manufacturers to ensure that such phones meet both our quality standards and industry standards. Additionally, our quality control team will randomly do a second quality control inspection when our phones arrive in the United States. If those persons conducting quality control for us believe that the tested phones do not meet our standards and industry standards, such phones will not be accepted by us for shipment to our customers and will be returned to the manufacturer.

 

Product returns and warranty claims

 

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industry practices. If an item is returned, we will generally not repair the item, but will generally return it to the manufacturer for either credit or exchange. We expect to have the ability to return defective phones to the manufacturer for either credit or exchange.

 

Backlog

 

From time-to-time, we expect to have substantial orders from customers on hand. Management believes, however, that if the proper funding is in place, that backlog should not be a significant factor in our operations. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the ability of management to accurately estimate and provide for inventory requirements will be essential to the successful operation of our business.

 

Intellectual property

 

We have applied to register “Pay N’ Talk” as a trademark. We also may seek business process patents for certain methodologies related to our prepaid long distance and broadband phone services.

 

Regulation

 

Regulation of IP telephony

 

The use of the Internet and private Internet protocol (IP) networks to provide phone service is a relatively recent market development. While the provision of voice communication services over the Internet and private IP networks is currently permitted under United States law, some foreign countries have laws or regulations that may prohibit voice communications over the Internet or using private IP networks. Increased regulation of the Internet may slow its growth, particularly if many countries impose restrictive regulations. Increased regulation of the Internet and/or IP telephony providers or the prohibition of Internet and IP telephony in one or more countries, more aggressive enforcement of existing regulations in such countries or the failure of our network partners to comply with applicable regulations could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and future prospects.

 

United States regulatory environment

 

We believe that, under United States law, based on specific regulatory classifications and recent regulatory decisions, the IP communications services that we will make available to certain purchasers of our phones will constitute information services (as opposed to regulated telecommunications services). Therefore, such services are not currently regulated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) or state agencies charged with regulating telecommunications carriers. Nevertheless, aspects of the services we will make available may be subject to state or federal regulation, including regulation governing universal service funding, payment of access charges, disclosure of confidential communications and tax issues. We cannot assure you that such services will not be regulated in the future. Several efforts have been made or are currently being considered in the United States to enact federal legislation that would either regulate or exempt from regulation communications services provided over the Internet.

 

In addition, the FCC is currently considering reforms to universal service funding and may consider whether to impose various types of charges, other common carrier regulations and/or additional operational burdens upon some providers of Internet and IP telephony. On May 19, 2005, the FCC gave Internet phone companies four months to provide 911 service to their customers and ordered incumbent carriers to make emergency networks accessible to VoIP providers. The four-month period began from date of publication of the FCC’s order in the federal register in July 2005. SunRocket, our VoIP service provider, already provides such service to its customers. The FCC is also currently considering reforms to law-enforcement agency regulations and may consider whether to impose various types of charges, other common carrier regulations and/or additional operational burdens upon some providers of Internet and IP telephony. The FCC has stated that the development of new technologies, such as IP telephony, may increase the strain on universal service funding and emergency services provisioning and hinder law enforcement agencies activities. In that regard, the FCC is currently reviewing whether to extend universal service, emergency services provisioning, and/or law-enforcement agency assistance obligations to non-traditional providers such as facilities-based and non-facilities-based providers of broadband Internet services.

 

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Several carriers have asked the FCC to make definitive rulings regarding the classification of their IP telephony services. In response to one of those requests, the FCC determined that a particular free, peer-to-peer IP application is an interstate information service. The FCC’s ruling applies only to that particular application and does not affect the regulatory classification of the services we offer. The FCC also has determined that IP-enabled services with certain characteristics are interstate services subject to federal jurisdiction, rather than state regulation. We cannot predict, however, that services we will make available to certain purchasers of our phones would be found by the FCC to meet the characteristics established by the FCC. In addition, the FCC has initiated a generic proceeding to investigate the legal and regulatory framework for all IP-enabled services, including IP telephony services. Thus, the regulatory classification issue is now before the FCC. Any ruling by the FCC on the regulatory considerations affecting Internet and IP telephony services will affect our operations and revenues.

 

If the FCC were to determine that certain services are subject to FCC regulations as telecommunications services, the FCC might require providers of Internet and IP telephony services to be subject to traditional common carrier regulation, make universal service contributions, implement new hardware and/or software to aid emergency services response and aid law enforcement agencies and/or pay access charges. It is also possible that the FCC may adopt a regulatory framework other than traditional common carrier regulation, which would apply to Internet and IP telephony providers. Despite the FCC’s actions, state regulatory authorities may also retain jurisdiction to regulate the provision of, and impose charges on, intrastate Internet and IP telephony services. Several state regulatory authorities have initiated proceedings to examine the regulation of such. Many of the states that have looked at the regulation of IP telephony services have deferred consideration of the issue pending the outcome of the FCC’s proceedings.

 

However, at least one state has ordered that access charges apply to the termination of IP telephony calls provided by a particular carrier and another state has ordered an IP telephony provider to submit to state regulation. The latter decision later was overturned in federal district court and the district court’s decision was upheld by a federal court of appeals. Another federal district court also issued a preliminary injunction in response to another state’s attempt to force an IP telephony provider to submit to state regulation. A permanent injunction currently is being reviewed by the federal district court. In addition, several state commissions have participated in the FCC’s proceedings and have advocated imposing traditional common carrier regulation on Internet and IP telephony providers. Rulings by the state commissions on the regulatory considerations affecting Internet and IP telephony services could affect our operations and revenues.

 

International regulatory environment

 

The regulatory treatment of Internet and IP telephony outside of the United States varies widely from country to country. A number of countries that currently prohibit competition in the provision of voice telephony may also prohibit Internet and IP telephony. Other countries permit, but regulate, Internet and IP telephony. Some countries will evaluate proposed Internet and IP telephony service on a case-by-case basis and determine whether it should be regulated as a voice service or as another telecommunications service. Finally, in many countries Internet and IP telephony has not yet been addressed by legislation or regulatory action.

 

In 2003, the European Commission adopted directives for a new framework for electronic communications regulation that, in part, attempt to harmonize the regulations that apply to services regardless of the technology used by the provider. Under the New Regulatory Framework, there is no distinction in regulation made based upon technology between switched or packet-based networks. As a result, some types of IP telephony services may be regulated like traditional telephony services while others may remain free from regulation. The European Commission currently is reviewing how IP telephony services fit into the New Regulatory Framework. Although it has been suggested that a “light touch” to regulation be taken, we cannot predict what future actions the European Commission and courts reviewing the New Regulatory Framework may take regarding IP telephony and related matters, or what impact, if any, such actions may have on our business.

 

Electrical safety standards

 

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Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. or ETL Testing Laboratories. Our phones sold for use in the United States must be registered with and approved by the Federal Communications Commission. We do not anticipate experiencing any difficulty in satisfying such standards.

 

Competition

 

The communications industry is extremely competitive and is dominated by large, well-capitalized companies. Our phones will compete with other phones for shelf space at retailers, advertising support and consumer dollars. The communications services accessible through our phones will compete with the communications services offered by numerous other companies. Such other communications providers may offer better features, lower cost or better quality services. Our competitors may introduce similar phone/service bundles, including in the VoIP category. Our competitors may not rely on external financing or relationships with independent manufacturers or communications services providers to the same extent as our company, which could provide them with greater competitive flexibility. Furthermore, our competitors may have cost advantages depending on labor costs, currency exchange rates and other factors in the countries where their manufacturing operations take place, relative to the countries where our phones are manufactured. We have adopted a marketing strategy that targets the value-priced segment of the communications market, which is particularly price sensitive.

 

Employees

 

As of October 31, 2005, we have 4 employees, including our executive officers. None of our employees is subject to collective bargaining agreements or represented by a union. We consider our relations with our employees to be good.

 

Facilities

 

Databyte currently provides us with warehousing, distribution, customer support services and our executive offices located at 2466 Peck Road, City of Industry, California comprising approximately 25,000 square feet in exchange for two percent of our net revenues. We believe this space is sufficient to meet our current and anticipated warehousing needs.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, we intend to establish offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Shanghai, China.

 

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MANAGEMENT

 

Executive officers and directors

 

Set forth below is information concerning each of our directors (and director nominees) and executive officers:

 

Name


   Age

  

Position


Lawrence Burstein

   63    Chairman of the Board

Bruce Hahn

   56    Chief Executive Officer and Director

Bruce Layman

   44    Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Adam Somer

   33    President of Communications Services and Secretary

Yu Wen Ching

   52    President of Manufacturing and Sourcing

Robert F. Doherty

   41    Director Nominee

Elliott J. Kerbis

   53    Director Nominee

Donald G. Norris

   67    Director Nominee

 

Lawrence Burstein.  Mr. Burstein has been our Chairman of the Board since June 2005. Mr. Burstein has many years’ experience managing and financing public and private companies. Mr. Burstein has been President, Treasurer and a member of the board of directors of Trinity Partners Acquisition Company Inc. (“Trinity”) since its inception in April 2004. Trinity is an OTC Bulletin Board-listed company that was formed for the purpose of affecting a business combination with an attractive target business. In March 2005, Trinity announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to merge with and into FreeSeas Inc., an owner and operator of dry bulk ocean carriers. Since March 1996, Mr. Burstein has been President and a principal securityholder of Unity Venture Capital Associates Ltd., a private investment company. For approximately ten years prior to 1996, Mr. Burstein was the President, a member of the board of directors and principal securityholder of Trinity Capital Corporation (“TCC”), a private investment company. TCC ceased operations prior to the formation of Unity Venture in 1996. Mr. Burstein is also a member of the board of directors of I.D. Systems, Inc., a Nasdaq National Market-listed designer, developer and producer of a wireless monitoring and tracking system that uses radio frequency technology; THQ, Inc., a Nasdaq National Market-listed developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software for the major hardware platforms in the home video industry; Traffix, Inc., a Nasdaq National Market-listed developer and operator of Internet-based marketing programs as well as direct marketing programs; CAS Medical Systems, Inc., an OTC Bulletin Board-listed manufacturer and marketer of blood pressure monitors and other disposable products principally for the neonatal market; and Medical Nutrition USA, Inc., an OTC Bulletin Board-listed manufacturer and distributor of nutritional products primarily for the elder care markets. Mr. Burstein received a BA from the University of Wisconsin and an LLB from Columbia Law School.

 

Bruce Hahn.  Mr. Hahn is our founder and has been our Chief Executive Officer since our inception in June 2003. Mr. Hahn has more than twenty-five years’ experience in leading consumer product companies in the development and expansion of their product offerings and related distribution channels. From November 1999 to June 2005, Mr. Hahn served as President of SMMI, a management consulting company, where he worked with leading communications and consumer products companies in securing and expanding distribution channels for their phones. From 1991 to 1999, he served as Chief Executive Officer of USCI, a cellular carrier which he built into the first consumer-focused, national one-rate cellular carrier in the United States using retail accounts such as Radio Shack and Wal-Mart. From 1985 to 1991, he served as Chief Executive Officer of International Consumer Brands (“ICB”), a consumer product development and distribution company and a leader in the rechargeable tool and kitchen aid industries. His efforts with ICB included building and diversifying that company’s product offerings, developing a personal care appliances company in partnership with Candies, Inc., a leading footwear and apparel provider, and launching a rechargeable power tools division, for which he secured distribution channels through major retail outlets, such as Home Depot. From 1984 to 1985, he served as an Executive Vice President of Cosmo Communications, a manufacturer of diversified products, including telecommunications hardware. From 1980 to 1984, he was Senior Vice President and General Manager at Conair Corporation, a manufacturer and

 

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distributor of diversified products, and one of the first companies to introduce phones into the marketplace following the divestiture of AT&T. At Conair, Mr. Hahn managed and directed their telecommunications, personal care appliances and healthcare phones businesses. Mr. Hahn received a BA from the University of Tennessee.

 

Bruce Layman.  Mr. Layman has been our Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer since September 2005. Mr. Layman has more than 15 years’ experience leading the operating and financial functions of communications and technology firms, including building and managing the systems and infrastructure to support operations including billing, customer service, carrier operations and inventory management. From March 2005 to September 2005, Mr. Layman was Vice-President of Account Management for Raptor Communications, Inc., a supplier of VoIP hardware. From January 2000 through February 2005, Mr. Layman served as Chief Financial Officer of Navigauge Inc., a telematics and radio ratings company whose customers include Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Kroger. Mr. Layman served as Chief Operating Officer of USCI from 1998 to 1999, and as that company’s Director of Corporate Development from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Layman served as Controller of Communications Central Inc., one of the country’s largest prison-phone and payphone operators, from 1992 to 1996 and as that company’s Director of Corporate Development from 1990 to 1992. During his tenure at Communications Central, he led that company’s acquisition program, consummating approximately ten acquisitions that added more than $100 million in revenues, and oversaw the consolidation of all the accounting and IT functions of the combined companies. Mr. Layman received a BBA from the University of Georgia.

 

Adam Somer.  Mr. Somer has been our President of Communications Services since June 2003. Mr. Somer has approximately ten years’ experience in the development, deployment and management of communications and technology products and services. From March 2001 to June 2005, Mr. Somer was the Chief Executive Officer of Madison Strategic Partners, LLC, a consulting firm that assists established and new communications and technology companies, including providers of VoIP and other communications services, in developing strategies for their business growth. Mr. Somer continues as a member of Madison Strategic Partners. From November 1997 to March 2001, he was at deltathree, Inc. (“deltathree”), a Nasdaq Capital Market-listed pioneer in VoIP and hosted broadband services and a provider of private label VoIP services to Verizon, SBC and other telecommunications companies. Mr. Somer’s final position at deltathree was Director of Strategic Development, in which capacity he oversaw the deployment of consumer VoIP services. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Somer was at Net2Phone, a division of IDT Corporation, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange-listed communications company, where he developed and managed an operational support system for dealing with resellers and consumers for that company’s VoIP services. His final position at Net2Phone was Director of Operations. IDT’s VoIP division was taken public as Net2Phone in 1999 and is listed on the Nasdaq National Market. Mr. Somer received a BA from Yeshiva University.

 

Yu Wen Ching.  Mr. Ching has been our President of Manufacturing and Sourcing since June 2003. He has more than 25 years’ experience in the areas of product development, manufacturing and sourcing in Asia. From January 2003 until June 2003, Mr. Ching was involved in the development of our company. From 1999 to December 2002, he was the Managing Director of Yu’s Electronics, a manufacturer of satellite transceiver boxes for European communications companies. From 1995 to June 2001, he was the Managing Director of Yu’s Trading, a manufacturer of motorbikes for markets in Germany and Ireland. From 1993 to 1999, he was the Executive Vice President of Mobile Power of Taiwan, a manufacturer of cellular phone power accessories, including batteries and rechargers. In 1990, Mr. Ching founded Aztec Cellular (“Aztec”) and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1990 until its sale in 1995. Aztec developed, manufactured and distributed cellular phones in China. From 1973 to 1990, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Yu’s Coop, a textile group that manufactured raw materials and finished goods for the apparel industry and distributed its products to leading brand manufacturers, including Healthtex and Gerber. From 1980 to 1989, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Yu’s Tool, a subsidiary of Yu’s Coop. Yu’s Tool developed and manufactured nickel cadmium-based rechargeable tools and other products distributed through Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Lowes and other major retailers. Mr. Ching received a business degree from the University of Taiwan.

 

Robert F. Doherty.  Mr. Doherty will become a member of the board of directors upon consummation of this offering. Since May 2005, he has been a financial consultant and President of Great Blue Consulting LLC, a corporate finance consulting firm he founded in October 2002. From February 2004 to May 2005, Mr. Doherty

 

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served as a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Jefferies & Company. From October 2002 to February 2004, he was a financial consultant and President of Great Blue Consulting. From March 2002 to September 2002, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Abovenet, Inc. (formerly Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc.), a provider of fiber connectivity solutions for businesses, having been hired as a financial restructuring expert. In May 2002, Metromedia Fiber Network initiated a voluntary insolvency proceeding under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Doherty previously served as a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Salomon Smith Barney Inc. from October 1996 to January 2002, and as a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of PaineWebber Incorporated from March 1989 to October 1996. Mr. Doherty received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Stern School of Business of New York University.

 

Elliott J. Kerbis.  Mr. Kerbis will become a member of the board of directors upon consummation of this offering. Since June 2004, Mr. Kerbis has served as an independent retail consultant. From January 2002 to June 2004, Mr. Kerbis was President and Chief Merchandising Officer for The Sports Authority, a New York Stock Exchange-listed operator of sporting goods retail stores. He joined The Sports Authority in October 2000 as Executive Vice President-Merchandising and Sales Promotion and was promoted to President and Chief Merchandising Officer in January 2002. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Merchandise at Filene’s, a department store owned by The May Department Store Company, from May 1999 to August 2000, and as Executive Vice President of Merchandise for Hardlines of The Caldor Corporation, a discount retailer, from 1987 to 1999. Prior to joining The Caldor Corporation, Mr. Kerbis served in various capacities with R.H. Macy & Co. from 1977 to 1987. Mr. Kerbis received a BS from Baruch College.

 

Donald G. Norris.  Mr. Norris will become a member of the board of directors upon consummation of this offering. Since November 2003, Mr. Norris has served as President of Norrismen Sales and Marketing and has been a partner of Corporate Identity Network, Inc., each a marketing consulting firm. From January 2000 to November 2003, Mr. Norris was Director of OEM Sales for Earthlink, Inc., a Nasdaq National Market-listed Internet service provider. He previously served as President of Norris and Associates, a consulting firm, from January 1993 to January 2000, and as Director of Subscriber Marketing for Prodigy Services Company, an Internet service provider that was the first consumer online service, from July 1984 to January 1993. Mr. Norris received a BS from Oklahoma State University.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, our board will have an audit committee consisting of three independent directors initially comprised of Messrs. Doherty, Kerbis and Norris. Our board has determined that Mr. Doherty meets the SEC’s definition of an audit committee financial expert.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, our board will have a compensation committee initially comprised of Messrs. Doherty, Kerbis and Norris. The compensation committee members will be appointed for three-year terms and will be responsible for, among other things, reviewing and determining the compensation of all of our executive officers.

 

Our board of directors has adopted a code of ethics applicable to all of our employees, including our chief executive officer, chief financial officer and chief operating officer, and our directors.

 

All executive officers serve at the discretion of our board.

 

Compensation

 

No cash compensation was paid, or accrued to or for the benefit of, our executive officers prior to June 1, 2005. Accruals for compensation of our executive officers began on June 1, 2005. Upon consummation of this offering, compensation for executive officers, other than Mr. Burstein, will be as set forth in their employment agreements as described below. Upon consummation of this offering, Mr. Burstein will receive a salary of $80,000 per year in his capacity as chairman of the board of directors.

 

Employment Agreements

 

Effective as of the consummation of this offering, Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will enter into employment agreements. Each of the employment agreements will be for a term through December 31, 2007.

 

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Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will be paid monthly for the periods indicated on the basis of the following annualized base salaries:

 

    

Period Ended

June 30, 2006


   Period Ended
December 31, 2007


Bruce Hahn

   $ 200,000    $ 230,000

Bruce Layman

   $ 125,000    $ 137,500

Adam Somer

   $ 125,000    $ 137,500

Yu Wen Ching

   $ 144,000    $ 158,400

 

Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will be entitled to the following bonuses based on our net sales (defined as our revenues collected during a period less allowances granted to retailers, markdowns, discounts, commissions, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses):

 

    one percent of the amount by which our net sales during our fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 exceed $5,000,000;

 

    one percent of the amount by which our net sales for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 exceed our net sales during our fiscal year ended June 30, 2006; and

 

    one percent of the amount by which our net sales for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007 exceed our net sales during the six-month period ended June 30, 2007.

 

The bonus described above will be limited to an amount no greater than 75% of the recipient’s then current base annual salary.

 

Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will also be entitled to the following bonuses based on our net profits (defined as our net income, after taxes, as determined in accordance with GAAP):

 

    one percent of our net profits for each of our fiscal years ended June 30, 2006 and June 30, 2007, respectively; and

 

    one percent of our net profits for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007.

 

The employment agreements will further provide that Mr. Hahn’s aggregate bonuses from net sales and net profits for any bonus period will in no event exceed 150% of his base salary during such period and each of Messrs. Layman, Somer and Ching’s aggregate bonuses from net sales and net profits for any bonus period will in no event exceed 112% of his base salary during such period.

 

Compensation of Directors

 

Directors who are not employees will receive $1,250 (plus reimbursement for travel expenses) for each board of directors meeting attended in person and $500 for each board of directors meeting attended telephonically. Upon the consummation of this offering and the commencement of their term, each such director will receive a grant of options to purchase 15,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $5.05 per share. Thereafter, each such director will receive quarterly during their term as a director grants of options to purchase 5,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price per share equal to not less than the fair market value per share of our common stock at the time of grant. All directors’ options will vest in their entirety on the first anniversary of their respective grant dates.

 

2005 Stock Option Plan

 

The purpose of our 2005 stock option plan is (i) to align the interests of our shareholders and the recipients of options under the plan by increasing the proprietary interest of such recipients in our growth and success, (ii) to advance our interests by attracting and retaining officers, other employees, consultants, advisors and well-qualified persons who are neither our officers nor our employees for service as our directors, and (iii) to motivate such persons to act in the long-term best interests of our shareholders. In addition to options, we will also grant performance accelerated restricted stock (PARS) under the plan. The plan will become effective prior to consummation of this offering and will terminate ten years after the date of effectiveness.

 

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Under the plan, 600,000 shares of our common stock are available for stock-based award grants, subject to adjustment in the event of a stock split, stock dividend, recapitalization, reorganization, merger, consolidation, combination, exchange of shares, liquidation, spin-off or other similar change or event, or any distribution to stockholders other than a regular cash dividend. The number of available shares will be reduced by the sum of the aggregate number of shares of common stock which become subject to outstanding awards. To the extent that shares of common stock subject to an outstanding award are not issued or delivered by reason of the expiration, termination, cancellation or forfeiture of such award, then such shares of common stock will again be available under the plan.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, each of Messrs. Burstein, Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will receive 25,000 options under the plan, 12,500 of which will vest on the first anniversary of employment and the remaining 12,500 of which will vest on the second anniversary of employment. Future Marketing will receive 25,000 options upon consummation of this offering, 12,500 of which will vest on the first anniversary of its consulting relationship with us and the remaining 12,500 of which will vest on the second anniversary of its consulting relationship with us. The options will be exercisable at $5.05 per share.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, Mr. Hahn will receive PARS in the amount of 75,000 shares, and each of Messrs. Burstein, Layman, Somer and Ching and Future Marketing will receive PARS in the amount of 50,000 shares under the plan. Of the total PARS granted to each executive officer, Mr. Burstein and Future Marketing, 25% will vest only if net sales equal or exceed $20 million during fiscal 2006 and another 25% will vest only if net profits equal or exceed $1 million during fiscal 2006. An additional 25% will vest only if net sales equal or exceed $50 million in fiscal 2007 and the final 25% will vest only if net profits equal or exceed $5 million during fiscal 2007. If the performance conditions are not met in the first year, no PARS will vest in such year. If the performance conditions are not met in the second year but cumulative amounts are achieved by the second year representing 80% or more of the cumulative target amounts for both years for a respective condition, then a percentage of the unvested PARS for both years will nevertheless vest in the second year in respect of such condition. In such event, the percentage of unvested PARS that will vest in the second year in respect of a particular performance condition will equal the percentage that such aggregate amount achieved in the first and second years represents of the aggregate amount required to be met by the respective condition for both years.

 

Under the plan, the compensation committee will be authorized to grant options to members of our board of directors and our officers.

 

CERTAIN TRANSACTIONS

 

Mr. Burstein, our Chairman of the Board, purchased $25,000 principal amount of our 6% notes and $37,500 principal amount of our 8% notes in our 2005 private placements, and also received an aggregate of 58,333 private warrants in connection with such purchases. Mr. Burstein paid the same purchase price as all other investors in the private placements and received identical registration rights with respect to his securities.

 

Certain marketing services are being provided to us by Future Marketing, whose sole stockholder is also the sole stockholder of The Future, LLC, which owns 18.1% of our stock. Future Marketing, among other things, assists in the development and execution of our marketing plans, manages our accounts, assists in our product development and handles our back-office vendor functions.

 

As compensation for its services, effective as of the consummation of this offering, Future Marketing will be paid monthly for the periods indicated on the basis of the following annualized base fee schedule for the periods indicated:

 

Period ended June 30, 2006

   $ 164,000

July 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007

   $ 184,800

 

In addition to such monthly fees, Future Marketing will be entitled to the following fees based on our net sales (defined as our revenues collected during a period less allowances granted to retailers, markdowns, discounts, commissions, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses):

 

    one percent of the amount by which our net sales during our fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 exceed $5,000,000;

 

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    one percent of the amount by which our net sales for our fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 exceed our net sales for our fiscal year ended June 30, 2006; and

 

    one percent of the amount by which our net sales for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007 exceed our net sales during the six-month period ended June 30, 2007.

 

The fees described above for any period will be limited to an amount no greater than 75% of Future Marketing’s base fees paid during such period.

 

Future Marketing will also be entitled to the following fees based on our net profits (defined as our net income, after taxes, as determined in accordance with GAAP):

 

    one percent of our net profits for each of our fiscal years ended June 30, 2006 and June 30, 2007, respectively; and

 

    one percent of our net profits for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007.

 

In no event may the aggregate supplemental fees paid to Future Marketing from net sales and net profits during any period described above exceed 112% of the base fees paid during such period.

 

Future Marketing will receive 25,000 options and 50,000 PARS pursuant to our 2005 stock option plan.

 

We have entered into a five-year agreement with David Feuerstein, a principal stockholder of our company, pursuant to which, in consideration for helping to establish our service provider relationship with IDT and, going forward, maintaining and expanding our relationships with each of IDT and SunRocket, we will pay him one quarter of one percent of all net revenues collected by us during each year of the term of the agreement directly attributable to the sale of (i) digital cordless multi-handset phone systems, (ii) multi-handset VOIP telephones and (iii) related telephone hardware components ((i), (ii) and (iii), collectively, “Hardware”), subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $250,000 for such year. Under our agreement, such net revenues mean our gross amounts of billing on Hardware sold to retailers less (I) sales and other taxes, postage, cost of freight and disbursements included in such bills and (II) allowances granted to such retailers including, without limitation, advertising and promotional allowances, markdowns, discounts, returns and commissions.

 

We will also pay to Mr. Feuerstein five percent of all net revenues collected by us from IDT Puerto Rico & Co (“IDT”) during each year of the term of and directly attributable to our service agreement dated as of November 25, 2003 with IDT (the “IDT Agreement”), subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $250,000 for such year. Under our agreement, such net revenues mean payments to which we are entitled and collect under the IDT Agreement less service provider deductions provided under our agreement including, without limitation, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses.

 

We will also pay to Mr. Feuerstein two percent of all net revenues collected by us from SunRocket during each year of the term of and directly attributable to our June 7, 2005 service agreement with SunRocket, subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $250,000 for such year; provided, however, that any revenues attributable under the SunRocket agreement from the provision of Internet-based communications services relating to “subscriber bounty,” “advertising co-op” and “key-city funds” are excluded in any computation of such net revenues. Under our agreement, such net revenues mean payments to us to which we are entitled from SunRocket less service provider deductions provided under the SunRocket agreement including, without limitation, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses.

 

Our agreement may be extended for an additional five-year term if we are profitable for three of the first five years of the initial term. If so extended, Mr. Feuerstein will be entitled to a reduced revenue sharing allocation. Our agreement also provides for certain revenue sharing allocation reductions if certain conditions are not satisfied during the initial term.

 

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PRINCIPAL SECURITYHOLDERS

 

The following table sets forth certain information, as of the date of this prospectus, with respect to the beneficial ownership of shares of our common stock held by: (i) each director and director nominee; (ii) each person known by us to beneficially own 5% or more of our common stock; (iii) each named executive officer; and (iv) all directors (and director nominees) and executive officers as a group. Unless otherwise indicated, the address for each securityholder is c/o American Telecom Services Inc., 2466 Peck Road, City of Industry, California 90601.

 

Name and Address of Beneficial Owner


 

Number of Shares of Common Stock

Beneficially Owned(1)


    Percent of Class

 
  Prior to Offering

        Post Closing    

    Prior to Offering

        Post Closing    

 

Lawrence Burstein

  199,958 (2)   199,958 (2)(3)(4)   9.6 %   3.6 %

Bruce Hahn

  794,000 (5)(6)   794,000 (3)(5)(6)(7)   39.7 %   14.3 %

Adam Somer

  235,000     235,000 (3)(4)   11.8 %   4.2 %

Yu Wen Ching

  674,000 (5)   674,000 (3)(4)(5)   33.7 %   12.1 %

Elliott J. Kerbis

      (8)        

Donald G. Norris

      (8)        

Robert F. Doherty

      (8)        

Shih-Chi Ma

Floor 6-7, No. 221

Tin Zhou Rd., Sec. 3

Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  125,000     125,000     6.3 %   2.3 %

I NET Financial Management, Ltd.

No. 17-1, Alley 3, Lane 217

Chung Hsiao E. Road

Sec. 3, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

  674,000 (5)   674,000 (5)   33.7 %   12.1 %

David Feuerstein

P.O. Box 10255

Jerusalem, Israel 91102

  235,000     235,000     11.8 %   4.2 %

The Future, LLC(9)

417 Lucy Street

Henderson, Nevada 89015

  361,000     361,000 (3)(4)   18.1 %   6.5 %

BLA Opportunities LLC

2300 Holcombridge Road

Roswell, Georgia 30076

  120,000 (6)   120,000 (6)   6.0 %   2.2 %

All current executive officers,
directors and director nominees as a group (8 persons)

  1,228,958 (2)(5)(6)   1,228,958 (2)(5)(6)(10)   59.1 %   21.9 %

 * Less than 1%.
(1) As used in this table, beneficial ownership means the sole or shared power to vote, or direct the voting of, a security, or the sole or shared power to invest or dispose, or direct the investment or disposition, of a security. Except as otherwise indicated, based on information provided by the named individuals, all persons named herein have sole voting power and investment power with respect to their respective shares of our common stock, except to the extent that authority is shared by spouses under applicable law, and record and beneficial ownership with respect to their respective shares of our common stock. With respect to each securityholder, any shares issuable upon exercise of options and warrants held by such securityholder that are currently exercisable or will become exercisable within 60 days of the date of this prospectus are deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of the person holding such options, but are not deemed outstanding for computing the percentage of any other person.

 

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(2) Includes 38,000 shares of common stock owned by Unity Venture Capital Associates Ltd., of which Mr. Burstein is President. Also includes 58,333 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of warrants. Also includes 21,625 shares of common stock, which are issuable upon conversion of the principal amount of notes (and accrued interest thereon) held by Mr. Burstein at the closing of the offering.
(3) Does not include 25,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options, which are being granted upon the closing of the offering, but are not exercisable within 60 days thereof.
(4) Does not include 50,000 shares of common stock that are the subject of PARS, which will not vest within 60 days hereof.
(5) Includes 674,000 shares of common stock owned by I NET Financial Management, Ltd., which is 51% owned by Mr. Yu and 49% owned by Mr. Hahn. Each disclaims beneficial ownership of the other’s interest.
(6) Includes 120,000 shares held by BLA Opportunities LLC, which is controlled by Bruce Hahn’s wife for the benefit of Mr. Hahn’s adult and minor children. Mr. Hahn disclaims any beneficial ownership in these shares.
(7) Does not include 75,000 shares of common stock that are the subject of PARS, which will not vest within 60 days hereof.
(8) Does not include 15,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options, which are being issued upon the closing of this offering, but are not exercisable within 60 days thereof.
(9) The Future, LLC is wholly-owned by Tonda Mullis.
(10) Does not include 170,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of options, which are being granted upon the closing of the offering or 275,000 shares of common stock that are the subject of PARS.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF SECURITIES

 

General

 

We are authorized to issue 40,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.001, and 5,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share. As of the date of this prospectus, 2,000,000 shares of our common stock are outstanding, held by five holders of record. No shares of our preferred stock are currently outstanding.

 

Common Stock

 

Holders of our common stock are entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters to be voted on by securityholders. There is no cumulative voting with respect to the election of directors, with the result that the holders of more than 50% of the shares voted for the election of directors can elect all of the directors. Our securityholders have no conversion, preemptive or other subscription rights and there are no sinking fund or redemption provisions applicable to the common stock.

 

Holders of shares of our common stock are entitled to such dividends as may be declared from time to time by the board in its discretion, on a ratable basis, out of funds legally available therefrom, and to a pro rata share of all assets available for distribution upon liquidation, dissolution or other winding up of our affairs. All of the outstanding shares of our common stock are fully paid and non-assessable.

 

Preferred Stock

 

Our certificate of incorporation authorizes the issuance of 5,000 shares of blank check preferred stock with such designation, rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by our board of directors. No shares of preferred stock are being issued or registered in this offering. Accordingly, our board of directors is empowered, without securityholder approval, to issue preferred stock with dividend, liquidation, conversion, voting or other rights which could adversely affect the voting power or other rights of the holders of common stock. The preferred stock could be utilized as a method of discouraging, delaying or preventing a change in control of us. Although we do not currently intend to issue any shares of preferred stock, we cannot assure you that we will not do so in the future.

 

Private Warrants

 

Each private warrant entitles the registered holder to purchase one share of our common stock at a price equal to the lower of (i) $5.05 and (ii) the price per share at which our common stock is sold in this offering, subject to adjustment. If the price per share at which our common stock is sold in this offering is less than $5.05, then the number of warrants will be proportionally adjusted upward. The private warrants expire six years from the date of their issuance. Upon consummation of this offering, the private warrants are exchangeable into a like number of redeemable warrants.

 

Redeemable Warrants

 

Each redeemable warrant entitles the registered holder to purchase one share of our common stock at a price of $5.05 per share, subject to adjustment as discussed below, at any time commencing on the date of this prospectus. The redeemable warrants will expire five years from the date of this prospectus at 5:00 p.m., New York City time.

 

We may call the redeemable warrants, with HCFP/Brenner Securities’ prior consent, for redemption,

 

    in whole and not in part;

 

    at a price of $0.05 per warrant;

 

    upon a minimum of 30 days’ prior written notice of redemption;

 

    if, and only if, the last sales price per share of our common stock equals or exceeds 190% (currently $9.60) during the first three months after the consummation of this offering, or 150% (currently $7.58) thereafter, of the then effective exercise price of the redeemable warrants for all 15 of the trading days ending within three business days before we send the notice of redemption; and

 

    if, and only if, we then have an effective registration statement covering the shares issuable upon exercise of the redeemable warrants.

 

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The redemption criteria for our redeemable warrants have been established at prices which are intended to provide warrant holders a reasonable premium to the initial exercise prices and provide a sufficient degree of liquidity to cushion the market reaction to our redemption call.

 

Since we may redeem the redeemable warrants only with the prior written consent of HCFP/Brenner Securities and HCFP/Brenner Securities may hold the redeemable warrants subject to redemption, HCFP/Brenner Securities may have a conflict of interest in determining whether or not to consent to such redemption. We cannot assure you that HCFP/Brenner Securities will consent to such redemption if it is not in its best interest even if it is in our best interest.

 

The redeemable warrants will be issued in registered form under a warrant agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, as warrant agent, and us. You should review a copy of the warrant agreement, which has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, for a complete description of the terms and conditions applicable to the redeemable warrants.

 

The exercise price and number of shares of common stock issuable on exercise of the redeemable warrants may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a stock dividend, or our recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. However, the redeemable warrants will not be adjusted for issuances of common stock at a price below their respective exercise prices.

 

The redeemable warrants may be exercised upon surrender of the warrant certificate on or prior to the expiration date at the offices of the warrant agent, with the exercise form on the reverse side of the warrant certificate completed and executed as indicated, accompanied by full payment of the exercise price, by certified check payable to us, for the number of redeemable warrants being exercised. The warrantholders do not have the rights or privileges of holders of common stock and any voting rights until they exercise their redeemable warrants and receive shares of common stock. After the issuance of shares of common stock upon exercise of the redeemable warrants, each holder will be entitled to one vote for each share held of record on all matters to be voted on by securityholders.

 

No redeemable warrants will be exercisable unless at the time of exercise a prospectus relating to common stock issuable upon exercise of the redeemable warrants is current and the common stock has been registered or qualified or deemed to be exempt under the securities laws of the state of residence of the holder of the redeemable warrants. Under the terms of the warrant agreement, we have agreed to meet these conditions and to maintain a current prospectus relating to common stock issuable upon exercise of the redeemable warrants until the expiration of the redeemable warrants. However, we cannot assure you that we will be able to do so. The redeemable warrants may be deprived of any value and the market for the redeemable warrants may be limited if the prospectus relating to the common stock issuable upon the exercise of the redeemable warrants is not current or if the common stock is not qualified or exempt from qualification in the jurisdictions in which the holders of the redeemable warrants reside.

 

No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of the redeemable warrants. However, we will pay to the warrantholder, in lieu of the issuance of any fractional share which is otherwise issuable to the warrantholder, an amount in cash based on the market value of the common stock on the last trading day prior to the exercise date.

 

Limitation of Liability

 

As permitted by the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, our restated certificate of incorporation provides that our directors shall not be personally liable to us or our securityholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability:

 

    for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to us or our securityholders;

 

    for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

 

    under section 174 of the Delaware law, relating to unlawful payment of dividends or unlawful stock purchases or redemption of stock; and

 

    for any transaction from which the director derives an improper personal benefit.

 

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As a result of this provision, we and our securityholders may be unable to obtain monetary damages from a director for breach of his or her duty of care.

 

Our restated certificate of incorporation provides for the indemnification of our directors and officers, and, to the extent authorized by our board in its sole and absolute discretion, employees and agents, to the full extent authorized by, and subject to the conditions set forth in the Delaware law.

 

Delaware Anti-Takeover Law

 

We are subject to the provisions of section 203 of the Delaware law. Section 203 prohibits publicly held Delaware corporations from engaging in a “business combination” with an “interested securityholder” for a period of three years after the date of the transaction in which the person became an interested securityholder, unless the business combination is approved in a prescribed manner. A “business combination” includes mergers, asset sales and other transactions resulting in a financial benefit to the interested securityholder. Subject to certain exceptions, an “interested securityholder” is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or within three years did own, 15% or more of the corporation’s voting stock. These provisions could have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a change of control of us or reducing the price that certain investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock.

 

Our Transfer Agent and Warrant Agent

 

The transfer agent for our securities and warrant agent for our redeemable warrants is Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, New York, New York.

 

Shares Eligible for Future Sale

 

Immediately after this offering, we will have 5,549,930 shares of common stock outstanding, or 5,969,930 shares of common stock if the representative’s over-allotment option is exercised in full. All of these shares, except for the 2,000,000 shares of common stock outstanding prior to this offering, will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act, except for any shares purchased by our affiliates within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act. The remaining 2,000,000 shares of common stock are restricted securities under Rule 144, in that they were issued in private transactions not involving a public offering and have not been registered for resale. None of the 2,000,000 shares will be eligible for sale under Rule 144 prior to                         .

 

Rule 144

 

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, a person who has beneficially owned restricted shares of our common stock for at least one year would be entitled to sell within any three-month period a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of either of the following:

 

    1% of the number of shares of common stock then outstanding, which will equal 55,499 shares of common stock immediately after this offering (or 59,699 if the representative of the underwriters exercises its over-allotment option); and

 

    if the common stock is listed on a national securities exchange or on The Nasdaq Stock Market, the average weekly trading volume of the common stock during the four calendar weeks preceding the filing of a notice on Form 144 with respect to the sale.

 

Sales under Rule 144 are also limited by manner of sale provisions and notice requirements and to the availability of current public information about us.

 

Rule 144(k)

 

Under Rule 144(k), a person who is not deemed to have been one of our affiliates at the time of or at any time during the three months preceding a sale, and who has beneficially owned the restricted shares proposed to be sold for at least two years, including the holding period of any prior owner other than an affiliate, is entitled to sell their shares without complying with the manner of sale, public information, volume limitation or notice provisions of Rule 144.

 

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Lock-ups

 

We will not permit or cause a private or public sale or private or public offering of any of our securities (in any manner, including pursuant to Rule 144 under the Act or pursuant to a Rule 10b-5(1) trading plan) owned or to be owned of record, or beneficially by any of our officers, directors or shareholders owning one percent or more of the outstanding shares of common stock on the date of this prospectus, or by any family member or affiliate of any of the foregoing persons, or by any option holder who would have the ability to sell the shares underlying his option under Rule 701 under the Act (collectively, “Insiders”) for a period of 12 months following the later of the (a) date of this prospectus and (b) the date after the date of this prospectus that all investors in our 2005 Private Placement are freed from any lock-up imposed by any regulatory agency, without obtaining the prior written consent of the representative (and, if required by applicable state blue sky laws, the securities commissions in any such states). Each of our Insiders has executed an agreement with the representative regarding such restrictions. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Insiders, as a group, shall be entitled to sell up to an aggregate of 200,000 shares of common stock (with no individual Insider selling more than 10% of the total number of shares owned by him or her) prior to the expiration of such twelve-month period if at the time of such sale there are no longer any redeemable warrants.

 

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UNDERWRITING

 

In accordance with the terms and conditions contained in the underwriting agreement, we have agreed to sell to each of the underwriters named below, and each of the underwriters, for which HCFP/Brenner Securities is acting as representative, have severally, and not jointly, agreed to purchase from us on a firm commitment basis the number of the shares of our common stock and number of our redeemable redeemable warrants offered in this offering set forth opposite their respective names below:

 

Underwriters


   Number of Shares

   Number of Warrants

HCFP/Brenner Securities LLC

         
           
           
    
  

Total

   2,800,000    2,800,000
    
  

 

A copy of the underwriting agreement has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

 

We have been advised by the representative that the underwriters propose to offer shares of our common stock and redeemable warrants directly to the public at the public offering price set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. Any shares and redeemable warrants sold by the underwriters to securities dealers will be sold at the public offering price less a selling concession not in excess of $             per share and $             per warrant. The underwriters may allow, and these selected dealers may re-allow, a concession of not more than $             per share and $             per warrant to other brokers and dealers.

 

The underwriting agreement provides that the underwriters’ obligations to purchase shares of our common stock and redeemable warrants are subject to conditions contained in the underwriting agreement. The underwriters are obligated to purchase and pay for all of the common stock and redeemable warrants offered by this prospectus other than those covered by the over-allotment option, if any of these securities are purchased.

 

No action has been taken by us or the underwriters that would permit a public offering of the shares of our common stock or the redeemable warrants included in this offering in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. None of our securities included in this offering may be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, nor may this prospectus or any other offering material or advertisements in connection with the offer and sales of any of our common stock or redeemable warrants be distributed or published in any jurisdiction, except under circumstances that will result in compliance with the applicable rules and regulations of that jurisdiction. Persons who receive this prospectus are advised to inform themselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to this offering of our common stock and redeemable warrants and the distribution of this prospectus. This prospectus is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of any offer to buy any of our common stock or redeemable warrants included in this offering in any jurisdiction where that would not be permitted or legal.

 

The underwriters have advised us that they do not intend to confirm sales to any accounts over which they exercise discretionary authority.

 

Underwriting discount and expenses

 

The following table summarizes the underwriting discount to be paid to the underwriters by us.

 

   

Total, without

over-allotment


 

Total, with

over-allotment


Underwriting discount to be paid to the underwriters by us for the common stock

  $ 1,131,200   $ 1,300,880

Underwriting discount to be paid to the underwriters by us for the redeemable warrants

  $ 11,200   $ 12,880

 

We have agreed to pay to the representative a nonaccountable expense allowance equal to 2% of the gross proceeds from the sale of the shares of common stock and redeemable warrants offered by us of which $50,000 has been paid by us as of the date of this prospectus. We have also agreed to pay all expenses in connection with qualifying the shares and redeemable warrants offered hereby under the laws of the states designated by the underwriters, including expenses of counsel retained for this purpose by the underwriters. We have also agreed to

 

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pay the fees of counsel retained by the underwriters for purposes of filing this offering with the NASD, which are estimated not to exceed $5,000. We estimate the expenses payable by us for this offering to be $1,948,000, including the underwriting discount, or $2,119,630 if the underwriters’ over-allotment option is exercised in full.

 

We have agreed to sell to the representative, for an aggregate of $100, an option to purchase up to 280,000 shares of our common stock and/or up to 280,000 redeemable warrants identical to those offered by this prospectus. This option is exercisable at any time, in whole or in part, during the five-year period commencing on the date of this prospectus at an exercise price of $5.555 per share of common stock, 110% of the public offering price per share of common stock, and $.055 per warrant, 110% of the public offering price per warrant. We estimate the fair value of this option to be approximately $1.3 million, which will be charged to additional paid in capital upon consummation of the offering as a direct cost of the transaction. Management estimated volatility of 50%, no dividend and a discount rate of 4.21%. During the first year following the date of this prospectus, the representative’s purchase option may not be sold, transferred, pledged or hypothecated, except that it may be assigned or transferred to any underwriter and selected dealer participating in this offering and any of their bona fide officers or partners (but not directors). Although the purchase option and its underlying securities have been registered under the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, the option grants to holders demand and “piggy back” rights with respect to the registration under the Securities Act of the securities directly and indirectly issuable upon exercise of the option. The exercise prices and number of securities issuable upon exercise of the option may be adjusted in certain circumstances including in the event of a stock dividend, or our recapitalization, reorganization, merger or consolidation. However, the option will not be adjusted for issuances of common stock or redeemable warrants at prices below the option’s exercise prices.

 

Warrant solicitation fees

 

We have engaged HCFP/Brenner Securities, the representative of the underwriters, on a non-exclusive basis, as our agent for the solicitation of the exercise of the redeemable warrants. To the extent not inconsistent with the guidelines of the NASD and the rules and regulations of the SEC, we have agreed to pay the representative, for bona fide services rendered, a commission equal to 5% of the exercise price for each warrant exercised more than one year after the date of this prospectus if the exercise was solicited by the representative. In addition to soliciting, either orally or in writing, the exercise of the redeemable warrants, the representative’s services may also include disseminating information, either orally or in writing, to warrantholders about us or the market for our securities, and assisting in the processing of the exercise of redeemable warrants. No compensation will be paid to the representative upon the exercise of the redeemable warrants if:

 

    the market price of the underlying shares of common stock is lower than the exercise price;

 

    the holder of the redeemable warrants has not confirmed in writing that the representative solicited the holder’s exercise;

 

    the redeemable warrants are held in a discretionary account;

 

    the redeemable warrants are exercised in an unsolicited transaction; or

 

    the arrangement to pay the commission is not disclosed in the prospectus provided to warrantholders at the time of exercise.

 

Over-allotment option

 

We have granted to the underwriters an option, exercisable not later than 45 days after the date of this prospectus, to purchase up to 420,000 additional shares of our common stock and/or up to 420,000 additional redeemable warrants at the public offering prices, less the underwriting discount, set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. The underwriters may exercise the option solely to cover over-allotments, if any, made in connection with this offering. If any additional shares of our common stock or redeemable warrants are purchased pursuant to the over-allotment option, the underwriters will offer these additional shares and redeemable warrants on the same terms as those on which the other shares and redeemable warrants are being offered hereby.

 

Right of first refusal

 

The representative has the right to serve as managing underwriter, managing placement agent or managing arranger for any financing we undertake during the three years following the date of this prospectus that has aggregate gross proceeds of less than $25,000,000, on terms then competitive in the market for transactions of that

 

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type. If the representative elects not to exercise this right, or for any financing for which the representative would be entitled to exercise this right but for the fact that the gross proceeds are $25,000,000 or more, the representative is entitled to act as a co-managing underwriter, co-managing agent or co-managing arranger for the financing and assist us in identifying, selecting and negotiating with the lead underwriter, agent or arranger for the financing. The representative, in its discretion, also has the opportunity to purchase, place or arrange, as a member of the underwriting syndicate, selling group or arranging group for the financing, the largest allocation to any member of the underwriting syndicate, selling group or arranging group. During the three-year period following the date of this prospectus, the representative will also have the right to purchase for its own account, or to sell for the accounts of our affiliates, any securities sold by our affiliates pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act.

 

Director designee

 

For a period of three years from the date of this prospectus, the representative shall be entitled to designate (a) one person who is reasonably acceptable to us to serve on our board of directors, provided such designee would be deemed an independent director under Nasdaq rules, and we will appoint such person as a member of our board of directors and (b) one representative (who need not be the same individual from meeting to meeting) to observe each meeting of the board of directors. Each designee and representative shall be entitled to receive reimbursement for all reasonable costs incurred in attending such meetings, including, but not limited to, food, lodging and transportation.

 

Advisory fee

 

We have engaged the representative as our financial advisor for a period of six months following the date of this prospectus, at a monthly fee of $10,000, all $60,000 of which will be payable in advance upon the consummation of this offering. Additionally, we will enter into an agreement that will provide that we will pay the representative a fee in the event that the representative originates a merger, acquisition, joint venture or other transaction to which we are a party.

 

Determination of offering prices

 

Before this offering, there has been no public market for any of our securities. The public offering price of the securities and the terms of the redeemable warrants were negotiated between us and the representative of the underwriters. Factors considered in determining the prices and terms of the securities include the history and prospects of companies whose principal business is the production of residential and small business communications hardware generally and cordless phones and VoIP equipment specifically, the development stage nature of our business, an assessment of our management and their experience in the communications industry, general conditions of the securities markets at the time of the offering and such other factors as were deemed relevant.

 

Stabilization, short positions and penalty bids

 

The underwriters may engage in over-allotment, syndicate covering transactions, stabilizing transactions and penalty bids or purchases for the purpose of pegging, fixing or maintaining the price of our common stock or redeemable warrants:

 

    Over-allotment involves sales by the underwriters of shares in excess of the number of shares the underwriters are obligated to purchase, which creates a syndicate short position. The short position may be either a covered short position or a naked short position. In a covered short position, the number of shares over-allotted by an underwriter is not greater than the number of shares that it may purchase in the over-allotment option. In a naked short position, the number of shares involved is greater than the number of shares in the over-allotment option. An underwriter may close out any short position by either exercising its over-allotment option, in whole or in part, or purchasing shares or redeemable warrants in the open market.

 

   

Syndicate covering transactions involve purchases of securities in the open market after the distribution has been completed in order to cover syndicate short positions. In determining the source of securities needed to close out the short position, the representative will consider, among other things, the price of the securities available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which it may purchase

 

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the securities through the over-allotment option. If the underwriters sell more shares or redeemable warrants than could be covered by the over-allotment option, a naked short position, the position can only be closed out by buying shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the representative is concerned that there could be downward pressure on the price of the shares or redeemable warrants in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering.

 

    Stabilizing transactions permit bids to purchase the underlying security so long as the stabilizing bids do not exceed a specific maximum.

 

    Penalty bids permit the representative to reclaim a selling concession from a syndicate member when the securities originally sold by the syndicate member is purchased in a stabilizing or syndicate covering transaction to cover syndicate short positions.

 

These syndicate covering transactions, stabilizing transactions and penalty bids may have the effect of raising or maintaining the market prices of our securities or preventing or retarding a decline in the market prices of our securities. As a result, the price of our common stock may be higher than the price that might otherwise exist in the open market. These transactions may be effected on the Nasdaq Capital Market, the OTC Bulletin Board, in the over-the-counter market or on any trading market and, if commenced, may be discontinued at any time.

 

Neither we nor the underwriters make any representation or prediction as to the direction or magnitude of any effect that the transactions described above may have on the prices of our securities. In addition, neither we nor the underwriters make any representation that the underwriters will engage in these stabilizing transactions or that any transaction, once commenced, will not be discontinued without notice.

 

Indemnification

 

We have agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribute to payments the underwriters may be required to make with respect to any of these liabilities.

 

LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the shares of common stock offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for our company by Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, New York, New York. Certain legal matters in connection with the securities offered in this prospectus will be passed upon for the underwriters by Graubard Miller, New York, New York.

 

EXPERTS

 

The financial statements of American Telecom Services, Inc. at June 30, 2004 and June 30, 2005 and for the period from June 16, 2003 (date of inception) through June 30, 2005 appearing in this prospectus and in the registration statement have been included herein in reliance upon the report, which includes an explanatory paragraph relating to the ability of American Telecom Services, Inc. to continue as a going concern, of BDO Seidman, LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

 

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1, which includes exhibits, schedules and amendments, under the Securities Act, with respect to this offering of our securities. Although this prospectus, which forms a part of the registration statement, contains all material information included in the registration statement, parts of the registration statement have been omitted as permitted by rules and regulations of the SEC. We refer you to the registration statement and its exhibits for further information about us, our securities and this offering. The registration statement and its exhibits, as well as our other reports filed with the SEC, can be inspected and copied at the SEC’s public reference room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. The public may obtain information about the operation of the public reference room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. In addition, the SEC maintains a web site at http://www.sec.gov which contains the Form S-1 and other reports, proxy and information statements and information regarding issuers that file electronically with the SEC.

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

JUNE 30, 2005 and 2004

 

INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

     Page

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

   F-2

Balance Sheets

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Statements of Operations

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Statements of Stockholders’ Deficit

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Statements of Cash Flows

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Notes to Financial Statements

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 

Board of Directors and Stockholders

American Telecom Services, Inc.

City of Industry, California

 

We have audited the accompanying balance sheets of American Telecom Services, Inc. (a development stage company) (the “Company”) as of June 30, 2005 and 2004, the related statements of operations and cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2005 and for the period from June 16, 2003 (inception) to June 30, 2005, and the related statements of stockholders’ deficit for the period from June 16, 2003 (inception) to June 30, 2005. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

 

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, 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. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of American Telecom Services, Inc. as of June 30, 2005 and 2004, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the two years in the period ended June 30, 2005 and for the period from June 16, 2003 (inception) to June 30, 2005, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 1 to the financial statements, the Company has incurred losses from its development stage operations since inception and has working capital and shareholders’ deficiencies that raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management’s plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 1. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

BDO Seidman, LLP

 

New York, New York

 

September 30, 2005

 

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

BALANCE SHEETS

 

     June 30, 2005

    June 30, 2004

 
ASSETS                 

Current assets:

                

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 50,780     $  

Deferred financing costs (Note 2)

     113,518        
    


 


Total assets

   $ 164,298     $  
    


 


LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT                 

Current liabilities:

                

Accrued expenses and other (Note 8)

   $ 101,657     $  

Accrued financing costs

     123,518        
    


 


Total current liabilities

     225,175        
    


 


Commitments (Notes 4 and 6)

                

Stockholders’ deficit:

                

Preferred stock, $.001 par value, authorized 5,000,000 shares, issued and outstanding -0- shares (Note 6)

            

Common stock, $.001 par value, authorized 20,000,000 shares; issued and outstanding 2,000,000 shares and 1,805,000 shares (Note 5 and 7)

     2,000       1,805  

Additional paid-in capital (Note 8)

     132,429       23,253  

Deficit accumulated during the development stage

     (195,306 )     (25,058 )
    


 


Total stockholders’ deficit

     (60,877 )      
    


 


Total liabilities and stockholders’ deficit

   $ 164,298     $  
    


 


 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

 

     For the Year
Ended June 30,
2005


    For the Year
Ended June 30,
2004


   

For the Period from
June 16, 2003
(inception) to

June 30, 2005


 

Total revenues

   $     $     $  
    


 


 


Expenses:

                        

Marketing and development

     84,813       22,058       106,871  

General and administrative

     84,435       3,000       87,435  

Interest expense

     1,000             1,000  
    


 


 


       170,248       25,058       195,306  
    


 


 


Net loss

   $ (170,248 )   $ (25,058 )   $ (195,306 )
    


 


 


Net loss per common share:

                        

Basic and diluted

   $ (0.09 )   $ (0.01 )        
    


 


       

Weighted average shares outstanding:

                        

Basic and diluted

     1,920,870       1,729,610          
    


 


       

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

 

    Common stock

  Additional
paid in
capital


  Deficit
accumulated
during the
development
stage


   

Total
stockholders’

deficit


 
    Shares

  Amount

     

Balance, June 16, 2003 (inception)

    $   $   $     $  

Issuance of common stock, June 16, 2004

  1,765,000     1,765               1,765  

Issuance of common stock, June 22, 2004

  40,000     40               40  

Capital contribution

          23,253           23,253  

Net loss

                    (25,058 )     (25,058 )
   
 

 

 


 


Balance, June 30, 2004

  1,805,000   $ 1,805   $ 23,253   $ (25,058 )   $  

Issuance of common stock, July 7, 2004

  195,000     195               195  

Capital contribution

          69,176           69,176  

Value allocated to warrants issued and beneficial conversion feature of convertible notes issued on June 20, 2005

          40,000           40,000  

Net loss

                    (170,248 )     (170,248 )
   
 

 

 


 


Balance, June 30, 2005

  2,000,000   $ 2,000   $ 132,429   $ (195,306 )   $ (60,877 )
   
 

 

 


 


 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

     For the Year
Ended June 30,
2005


    For the Year
Ended June 30,
2004


   

For the Period from
June 16, 2003
(inception) to

June 30, 2005


 

Cash flows from operating activities:

                        

Net loss

   $ (170,248 )   $ (25,058 )   $ (195,306 )

Adjustment to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities

                        

Common stock and capital contributed for services

     69,371       25,058       94,429  

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

                        

Accrued expenses

     101,657             101,657  
    


 


 


Net cash provided by operating activities

     780             780  
    


 


 


Cash flows from financing activities:

                        

Proceeds from convertible notes

     50,000             50,000  
    


 


 


Net increase in cash and cash equivalents

     50,780             50,780  

Cash and cash equivalents — beginning of period

                  
    


 


 


Cash and cash equivalents — end of period

   $ 50,780     $     $ 50,780  
    


 


 


Supplementary disclosure of cash flow information:

                        

Non-cash financing activity:

                        

Deferred financing costs

   $ 123,518     $     $ 123,518  
    


 


 


 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

1.  Description of the business and basis of presentation:

 

American Telecom Services, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware on June 16, 2003. The Company’s fiscal year ends on June 30. The Company is a development stage company in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 7.

 

The Company was formed to design, distribute and market product bundles that include multi-handset phones and low-cost, high value telecommunication services for sale through retail channels. The Company expects to generate revenues through the sale of phones into the retail market and share in a portion of revenues generated by communications service providers.

 

Primary activities to date have consisted of securing financing, developing strategic alliances associated with the development of its technology, design and development and initial sales and marketing.

 

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming the Company will continue as a going concern. The Company is in the development stage and has incurred losses from operations from inception through June 30, 2005, and had working capital and stockholders’ deficiencies that raise substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern unless it is able to obtain financing. Subsequent to June 30, 2005, the Company has issued convertible notes in the aggregate principal amount of $2,113,500 (Note 9) and is pursuing an initial public offering of its common shares and redeemable warrants, which is expected to generate gross proceeds of $14.3 million. However, there can be no assurance that the Company will consummate the initial public offering or that it will emerge from the development stage and generate sufficient revenues to sustain its business objectives. The accompanying financial statements do not include any adjustments to the carrying amounts or classifications of assets and liabilities that may result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

 

2.  Summary of significant accounting policies:

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

The Company considers all highly liquid debt instruments purchased with a maturity of three months or less to be cash equivalents.

 

Deferred financing costs

 

Deferred financing costs consist of direct expenses incurred through June 30, 2005 that are related to the issuance of convertible notes (Note 9) subsequent to year end and will be amortized over the expected term of the financing.

 

Revenue recognition

 

The Company is a development stage enterprise and did not generate any revenues through June 30, 2005. Subsequent to June 30, 2005, limited shipments of phones have commenced. Revenues from sales of phones will be recognized in the period the phones are shipped to customers. Revenue sharing income generated by subscriber usage and paid to the Company by carriers will be recognized in the period the usage occurred. Additionally, revenue resulting from carrier agent and co-op fees will be recognized in the period the subscriber activates the phone on the carrier’s network.

 

Advertising

 

Costs of advertising will be expensed as incurred, and recorded as marketing and development expenses.

 

Net loss per share

 

Basic loss per share includes no dilution and is computed by dividing loss available to common shareholders by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. Diluted earnings per share reflect, in periods in

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

 

2.  Summary of significant accounting policies: — (Continued)

 

which they have a dilutive effect, the effect of common shares issuable upon exercise of stock options and warrants. The 91.9271 for one and two for one splits in June 2004 and March 2005, respectively, effected as a stock dividend have been reflected retroactively for all periods.

 

Income taxes

 

The Company follows the liability approach under which deferred income taxes are determined based upon the differences between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted rates in effect in the years in which the differences are expected to reverse. Valuation allowances are provided against deferred tax assets when management is uncertain as to the ultimate realization of the asset.

 

Use of estimates

 

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

3.  Income taxes:

 

From inception through June 30, 2005, the Company has generated net losses from operations, therefore no provisions for income taxes have been recorded. Deferred tax assets of approximately $10,000 and $72,000 at June 30, 2004 and 2005, respectively, arose primarily from net operating tax losses that expire in 2024 and 2025, respectively. In recognition of the uncertainty regarding the ultimate amount of income tax benefits to be derived, the Company has recorded a full valuation allowance against such deferred tax assets at June 30, 2004 and 2005.

 

4.  Related party transactions:

 

A related party purchased $25,000 principal amount of 6% notes on June 20, 2005 and $37,500 principal amount of 8% notes subsequent to June 30, 2005 in the private placement, and also received an aggregate of 58,333 private warrants in connection with such purchases for the same purchase price as all other investors in the private placements and received identical registration rights with respect to his securities (Note 8 and 9).

 

Certain marketing services are being provided to the Company by Future Marketing whose sole stockholder is also the sole stockholder of The Future, LLC, which owns 18.1% of the Company’s stock. Future Marketing, among other things, assists in the development and execution of the Company’s marketing plans, manages the accounts, assists in product development and handles back-office vendor functions.

 

As compensation for its services, effective as of the consummation of the IPO, Future Marketing will be paid monthly for the periods indicated on the basis of the following annualized base fee schedule beginning on the consummation of the IPO:

 

Period ended June 30, 2006

   $ 164,000

July 1, 2006 through December 31, 2007

   $ 184,800

 

In addition to such monthly fees, Future Marketing will be entitled to the following fees based on net sales (defined as revenues collected during a period less allowances granted to retailers, markdowns, discounts, commissions, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses):

 

    one percent of the amount by which net sales during fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 exceed $5,000,000;

 

    one percent of the amount by which net sales for fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 exceed net sales for fiscal year ended June 30, 2006; and

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

 

4.  Related party transactions: — (Continued)

 

    one percent of the amount by which net sales for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007 exceed net sales during the six-month period ended June 30, 2007.

 

The fees described above for any period will be limited to an amount no greater than 75% of Future Marketing’s base fees paid during such period.

 

Future Marketing will also be entitled to the following fees based on net profits defined as net income, after taxes, as determined in accordance with GAAP:

 

    one percent of net profits for each of the fiscal years ended June 30, 2006 and June 30, 2007, respectively; and

 

    one percent of net profits for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007.

 

In no event may the aggregate supplemental fees paid to Future Marketing from net sales and net profits during any period described above exceed 112% of the base fees paid during such period.

 

Future Marketing will receive 25,000 options and 50,000 performance accelerated restricted stock (PARS) pursuant to the Company’s 2005 stock option plan.

 

The Company has entered into a five-year agreement with David Feuerstein (a principal stockholder of the Company) pursuant to which, in consideration for helping to establish its service provider relationship with IDT and, going forward, maintaining and expanding its relationship with each of IDT and SunRocket, the Company will pay him one quarter of one percent of all net revenues collected by the Company during each year of the term of the agreement directly attributable to the sale of (i) digital cordless multi-handset phone systems, (ii) multi-handset VOIP telephones and (iii) related telephone hardware components ((i), (ii) and (iii), collectively, “Hardware”), subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $250,000 for such year. Under the agreement, such net revenues mean gross amounts of billing on Hardware sold to retailers less (I) sales and other taxes, postage, cost of freight and disbursements included in such bills and (II) allowances granted to such retailers including, without limitation, advertising and promotional allowances, markdowns, discounts, returns and commissions. The Company will also pay to Mr. Feuerstein five percent of all net revenues collected by the Company from IDT Puerto Rico & Co (“IDT”) during each year of the term of and directly attributable to the Company’s service agreement dated as of November 25, 2003 with IDT (the “IDT Agreement”), subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $250,000 for such year. Under the agreement, such net revenues mean payments to which the Company is entitled and collect under the IDT Agreement less service provider deductions provided such under agreement including, without limitation, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses. The Company will also pay to Mr. Feuerstein two percent of all net revenues collected by the Company from SunRocket during each year of the term of and directly attributable to the Company’s June 7, 2005 service agreement with SunRocket, subject to a maximum aggregate amount of $250,000 for such year; provided, however, that any revenues attributable under the SunRocket agreement from the provision of Internet-based communications services relating to “subscriber bounty,” “advertising co-op” and “key-city funds” are excluded in any computation of such net revenues. Under the agreement, such net revenues mean payments to the Company to which the Company is entitled from SunRocket less service provider deductions provided under the SunRocket agreement including, without limitation, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses. The agreement may be extended for an additional five-year term if the Company is profitable for three of the first five years of the initial term. If so extended, Mr. Feuerstein will be entitled to a reduced revenue sharing allocation. The agreement also provides for certain revenue sharing allocation reductions if certain conditions are not satisfied during the initial term.

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

 

5.  Issuances of common stock:

 

During the years ended June 30, 2005 and 2004, the Company issued 195,000 and 1,805,000 shares of common stock at par value to its principal shareholders as well as others who provided services to the Company. The Company estimated fair values of common stock issued for services as of the grant dates which were immaterial in the aggregate. Capital contributions of $69,176 and $23,253 in 2005 and 2004, respectively, represent expenses paid on behalf of the Company by its principal shareholders.

 

6.  Commitments:

 

Employment Agreements

 

Effective as of the consummation of this offering, Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will enter into employment agreements. Each of the employment agreements will be for a term through December 31, 2007.

Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will be paid monthly for the periods indicated on the basis of the following annualized base salaries:

 

    

Period Ended

June 30, 2006


   Period Ended
December 31, 2007


Bruce Hahn

   $ 200,000    $ 230,000

Bruce Layman

   $ 125,000    $ 137,500

Adam Somer

   $ 125,000    $ 137,500

Yu Wen Ching

   $ 144,000    $ 158,400

 

Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will be entitled to the following bonuses based on the Company’s net sales (defined as the Company’s revenues collected during a period less allowances granted to retailers, markdowns, discounts, commissions, reserves for service outages, customer hold backs and expenses):

 

    one percent of the amount by which net sales during fiscal year ended June 30, 2006 exceed $5,000,000;

 

    one percent of the amount by which net sales for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 exceed net sales during the Company’s fiscal year ended June 30, 2006; and

 

    one percent of the amount by which net sales for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007 exceed net sales during the six-month period ended June 30, 2007.

 

The bonus described above will be limited to an amount no greater than 75% of the recipient’s then current base annual salary.

 

Messrs. Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will also be entitled to the following bonuses based on net profits (defined as net income, after taxes, as determined in accordance with GAAP):

 

    one percent of net profits for each of fiscal years ended June 30, 2006 and June 30, 2007, respectively; and

 

    one percent of net profits for the six-month period ended December 31, 2007.

 

The employment agreements will further provide that Mr. Hahn’s aggregate bonuses from net sales and net profits for any bonus period will in no event exceed 150% of his base salary during such period and each of Messrs. Layman, Somer and Ching’s aggregate bonuses from net sales and net profits for any bonus period will in no event exceed 112% of his base salary during such period.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, Mr. Burstein will receive a salary of $80,000 per year in his capacity as chairman of the board of directors.

 

7.  Stock Options:

 

The Company has adopted the 2005 stock option plan. In addition to stock options, the Company may also grant performance accelerated restricted stock (PARS) under the plan. The plan will become effective prior to consummation of this offering and will terminate ten years after the date of effectiveness.

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

 

7.  Stock Options: — (Continued)

 

Under the plan, 600,000 shares of the Company’s common stock are available for stock-based award grants, subject to adjustment.

 

Upon consummation of the IPO, each of Messrs. Burstein, Hahn, Layman, Somer and Ching will receive 25,000 options under the plan, 12,500 of which will vest on the first anniversary of employment and the remaining 12,500 of which will vest on the second anniversary of employment. Future Marketing will receive 25,000 options upon consummation of this offering, 12,500 of which will vest on the first anniversary of its consulting relationship with us and the remaining 12,500 of which will vest on the second anniversary of its consulting relationship with us. The options will be exercisable at $5.05 per share. The Company estimates the fair value of the stock options vesting in each year of employment at $183,000 at the grant date. The Company will remeasure the fair value of the stock options vesting in the second year of employment. The fair values of the stock options will be amortized over their vesting period. Management estimated volatility of 50%, no dividend and a discount rate of 4.21%.

 

Upon consummation of this offering, Mr. Hahn will receive PARS in the amount of 75,000 shares, and each of Messrs. Burstein, Layman, Somer and Ching and Future Marketing will receive PARS in the amount of 50,000 shares under the plan. Of the total PARS granted to each executive officer, Mr. Burstein and Future Marketing, 25% will vest only if net sales equal or exceed $20 million during fiscal 2006 and another 25% will vest only if net profits equal or exceed $1 million during fiscal 2006. An additional 25% will vest only if net sales equal or exceed $50 million in fiscal 2007 and the final 25% will vest only if net profits equal or exceed $5 million during fiscal 2007. If the performance conditions are not met in the first year, no PARS will vest in such year. If the performance conditions are not met in the second year but cumulative amounts are achieved by the second year representing 80% or more of the cumulative target amounts for both years for a respective condition, then a percentage of the unvested PARS for both years will nevertheless vest in the second year in respect of such condition. In such event, the percentage of unvested PARS that will vest in the second year in respect of a particular performance condition will equal the percentage that such aggregate amount achieved in the first and second years represents of the aggregate amount required to be met by the respective condition for both years. The Company will record stock based compensation expense equal to the fair value of the PARS over the earnings period.

 

8.  Convertible Note:

 

On June 20, 2005, the Company issued convertible notes aggregating $50,000, including $25,000 to a related party (see Note 4), with an interest rate of 6%. The convertible notes included 1.3334 warrants for each dollar of principal which are convertible at the option of holders at the lower of $3.00 or the IPO price. The Company incurred $10,000 of direct costs in connection with the issuance of these notes. Additionally, $40,000 of relative fair value was ascribed to warrants issued with the notes and a beneficial conversion feature attributable to such notes. Management estimated volatility of 50%, no dividend and a discount rate of 4.21%. The amortization of the issuance cost, including the fair value of warrants and beneficial conversion feature, was $1,000 for the year ended June 30, 2005 (Note 9). The net amount of the notes included in accrued expenses and other at June 30, 2005 was $1,000.

 

9.  Subsequent event:

 

During the period from July 2005 through September 2005, the Company issued and sold in a series of private transactions an aggregate of $2,113,500 principal amount of its 8% senior convertible notes due July 14, 2007. The notes bear interest at the rate of 8% per annum, and are ranked senior to all indebtedness of the Company, other than permitted indebtedness, as defined. Repayment of the convertible notes is collateralized by a lien upon, and security interest in, all of the Company’s assets, subject only to the prior lien of the permitted indebtedness.

 

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AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES, INC.

(A DEVELOPMENT STAGE COMPANY)

NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS — (Continued)

9.  Subsequent event:(Continued)

 

The notes are convertible, at any time, at the option of the holder, into shares of the Company’s common stock at a conversion price equal to the lower of (i) $3.00 per share or (ii) the per share price at which the common stock is sold to the public in the Company’s contemplated initial public offering. In the event that the Company consummates its initial public offering at a price that exceeds the then applicable conversion price by at least 130%, then the principal amount of the notes and accrued interest thereon shall automatically convert into shares of the Company’s common stock at the conversion price.

 

The purchasers of the convertible notes received redeemable warrants at a rate of 0.667 of a redeemable warrant for each $1.00 in principal amount of the convertible notes, covering an aggregate total of 1,409,000 shares of the Company’s common stock. The redeemable warrants are exercisable through July 14, 2011 at an exercise price equal to the lesser of (i) $5.05 or (ii) the IPO Price, if the IPO price is less than $5.05.

 

The carrying value of the convertible notes at their issuance date will be reduced by direct issuance costs and, the fair value of the redeemable warrants and beneficial conversion feature of the notes. The fair value of the redeemable warrants and beneficial conversion feature amounting to approximately $1.6 million will be credited to additional paid in capital. The deferred debt issuance cost will be amortized as interest expense in the statement of operations over the life of the notes.

 

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You should rely only on the information contained in this document or other documents to which we have referred you. We have not authorized anyone to provide you with different information. This document may only be used where it is legal to sell these securities. The information contained in this document is current only as of its date.

 


 

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Prospectus Summary

   1

Summary Financial Information

   5

Risk Factors

   6

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

   14

Use of Proceeds

   15

Dividend Policy

   16

Dilution

   17

Capitalization

   18

Selected Financial Data

   19

Plan of Operations

   20

Business

   25

Management

   34

Certain Transactions

   38

Principal Securityholders

   40

Description of Securities

   42

Underwriting

   46

Legal Matters

   49

Experts

   49

Where You Can Find More Information

   49

Index to Financial Statements

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Until                     , all dealers that effect transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to the dealers’ obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as underwriters and with respect to their unsold allotments or subscriptions.

 




 

2,800,000 shares of

common stock

 

2,800,000 redeemable

warrants to purchase shares

of common stock

 

LOGO

 


 

PROSPECTUS

 


 

HCFP/Brenner Securities LLC

 

                    , 2005

 




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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. The selling securityholders may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

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Subject to Completion, dated November 1, 2005

 

Preliminary Prospectus

 

American Telecom Services, Inc.

 

2,225,596 Shares of Common Stock

 

1,475,666 Warrants

 


 

This prospectus relates to the offer and sale from time to time of up to 2,225,596 shares of our common stock and up to 1,475,666 warrants by the persons described in this prospectus, whom we call the “selling securityholders.” Of such 2,225,596 shares, 749,930 shares are being offered for resale by current securityholders and 1,475,666 shares are being offered for resale upon exercise of warrants held by certain of the selling securityholders. We are registering these shares as required by the terms of registration rights agreements between the selling securityholders and us. Such registration does not mean that the selling securityholders will actually offer or sell any of these shares. We will receive no proceeds from the sale of any of these shares by the selling securityholders.

 

We are also offering 1,475,666 shares of our common stock for issuance upon the exercise of warrants originally purchased by one or more selling securityholders but held at the time of exercise by persons other than the selling securityholders.

 

Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of our common stock at a price of $5.05. Each warrant is exercisable from the date of this prospectus until                      , 2010 [five years from the date of this prospectus], or earlier upon redemption. The warrants are redeemable at the Company’s option, with the consent of the representative of the underwriters, as set forth in this prospectus.

 

Investing in our securities involves a high degree of risk. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page [    ] of this prospectus for a discussion of information that should be considered in connection with an investment in our securities.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


 

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Prospectus Summary

 

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The Offering

 

Common stock offered by us

1,475,666 shares(1)

 

Common stock offered by selling securityholders

2,225,596 shares(1)

 

Common stock to be outstanding after this offering

7,025,596 shares(2)

 

Warrants offered

1,475,666 warrants

 

Warrants to be outstanding after this offering

3,975,666 warrants(3)

 

Warrant Terms

 

Exercisability

Each redeemable warrant is exercisable for the purchase of one share of our common stock.

 

Exercise price

$5.05 per share, subject to adjustment in the event of a stock dividend or split, reorganization, recapitalization or similar event.

 

Exercise period

The warrants are exercisable immediately and will expire on                     , 2010 [five years from the date of this prospectus], or earlier upon redemption

 

Redemption

Subject to the prior consent of HCFP/Brenner Securities, we may redeem the outstanding redeemable warrants:

 

    in whole and not in part;

 

    at a price of $0.05 per warrant;

 

    upon a minimum of 30 days’ advance written notice of redemption;

 

    if, and only if, the last sales price per share of our common stock equals or exceeds 190% (currently $9.60) during the first three months after consummation of this offering, or 150% (currently, $7.58) thereafter, of the then effective exercise price of the redeemable warrants for all 15 of the trading days ending within three business days before we send the notice of redemption; and

 

    if, and only if, we then have an effective registration statement covering the shares issuable upon exercise of the redeemable warrants.

 

Proposed Nasdaq Capital Market symbols for our:

 

Common stock

“ATEL”

 

Warrants

“ATELW”


(1)

We are offering our common stock for issuance upon the exercise of warrants originally purchased by one or more selling securityholders but held at the time of exercise by persons other than the selling

 

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securityholders. The number of shares issued by us upon the exercise of such warrants will reduce by a like number the number of shares of common stock being offered by the selling securityholders.

(2) Based upon our issued and outstanding shares of common stock as of June 30, 2005, as adjusted to reflect the assumed conversion of $2,163,500 principal amount of our outstanding notes (and all interest due thereon) into 749,930 shares of common stock subsequent to June 30, 2005, and as further adjusted to reflect the issuance of 2,800,000 shares of common stock in our initial public offering. This number excludes 600,000 shares reserved for option grants and other stock-based awards under our 2005 stock option plan.
(3) Assumes no warrants are exercised.

 

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Use of Proceeds

 

We will not receive any proceeds from the sale of our common stock offered and warrants by the selling securityholders. If all of the warrants are exercised, we will receive proceeds of $7,452,113 before payment of any solicitation fees that may become due. We intend to use such proceeds for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

 

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SELLING STOCKHOLDERS

 

This prospectus relates to our registration, for the account of the selling securityholders indicated below, of an aggregate of 2,225,596 shares of our common stock and 1,475,666 warrants. The 2,225,596 shares of common stock includes 1,475,666 shares underlying warrants. Such securities are being registered for resale pursuant to registration rights granted by us to the selling securityholders. We have agreed to pay all expenses and costs to comply with our obligation to register the selling securityholders’ shares of common stock. We have also agreed to indemnify and hold harmless the selling securityholders against certain losses, claims, damages or liabilities, joint or several, arising under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

Selling Securityholders of Common Stock

 

The following table presents information concerning the common stock offered for resale by the selling securityholders. We believe, based on information supplied by the following persons, that the persons named in this table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of common stock that they beneficially own. The last column of this table assumes the sale of all of our shares offered by this prospectus. The registration of the offered shares does not mean that any or all of the selling securityholders will offer or sell any of these shares. Except as set forth in the notes to this table, there is not nor has there been a material relationship between us and any of the selling securityholders within the past three years.

 

Name of Selling Securityholder


  

Number of Shares

Beneficially

Owned


  

Common Stock

Offered by

Selling

Securityholder


  

Shares Beneficially

Owned After

Offering


         Number

   Percent

Jim and Lynn Scoroposki Foundation

   126,666    126,666    0     

Burton Koffman

   253,333    253,333    0     

Israel Feit

   101,334    101,334    0     

Silverman Partners, LLC

   506,666    506,666    0     

Meadowbrook Opportunity Fund, LLC

   253,333    253,333    0     

Joseph Catalano

   30,400    30,400    0     

Melvin Paikoff

   30,400    30,400    0     

John F. Cattier

   15,200    15,200    0     

Barry Lawrence Goldin IRA

   25,334    25,334    0     

HRG Trust

   51,680    51,680    0     

Lawrence Burstein (1)

   79,958    79,958    0     

Steven Millner

   41,958    41,958    0     

Norman Leben

   25,334    25,334    0     

MG Realty Investors, Inc.

   25,334    25,334    0     

William Feldman

   25,334    25,334    0     

Roni Rosenstock

   76,000    76,000    0     

David Thalheim

   76,000    76,000    0     

Jack Kane

   25,334    25,334    0     

Gutman Family Foundation

   152,000    152,000    0     

Ed Gutman IRA

   152,000    152,000    0     

Harry Pelz

   50,666    50,666    0     

Dov Schwartz

   50,666    50,666    0     

Allan R. Lyons

   50,666    50,666    0     

(1) Mr. Burstein is Chairman of our Board of Directors.

 

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Selling Securityholders of Warrants

 

The following table presents information concerning the warrants offered for resale by the selling securityholders. The last column of this table assumes the sale of all of our warrants offered by this prospectus. The registration of the offered warrants does not mean that any or all of the selling securityholders will offer or sell any of these warrants. Except as set forth in the notes to this table, there is not nor has there been a material relationship between us and any of the selling securityholders within the past three years.

 

Name of Selling Securityholder


  

Number of Warrants

Beneficially Owned


  

Warrants Offered

by Selling

Securityholder


  

Warrants Beneficially

Owned After Offering


         Number

   Percent

Jim and Lynn Scoroposki Foundation

   83,333    83,333    0     

Burton Koffman

   166,666    166,666    0     

Israel Feit

   66,667    66,667    0     

Silverman Partners, LLC

   333,333    333,333    0     

Meadowbrook Opportunity Fund, LLC

   166,666    166,666    0     

Joseph Catalano

   20,000    20,000    0     

Melvin Paikoff

   20,000    20,000    0     

John F. Cattier

   10,000    10,000    0     

Barry Lawrence Goldin IRA

   16,667    16,667    0     

HRG Trust

   34,000    34,000    0     

Lawrence Burstein (1)

   58,333    58,333    0     

Steven Millner

   33,333    33,333    0     

Norman Leben

   16,667    16,667    0     

MG Realty Investors, Inc.

   16,667    16,667    0     

William Feldman

   16,667    16,667    0     

Roni Rosenstock

   50,000    50,000    0     

David Thalheim

   50,000    50,000    0     

Jack Kane

   16,667    16,667    0     

Gutman Family Foundation

   100,000    100,000    0     

Ed Gutman IRA

   100,000    100,000    0     

Harry Pelz

   33,333    33,333    0     

Dov Schwartz

   33,333    33,333    0     

Allan R. Lyons

   33,333    33,333    0     

(1) Mr. Burstein is Chairman of our Board of Directors.

 

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PLAN OF DISTRIBUTION

 

We are registering the common stock and warrants on behalf of the selling securityholders, as well as on behalf of their donees, pledgees, transferees or other successors-in-interest, if any, who may sell such securities received as gifts, pledges, partnership distributions or other non-sale related transfers. All costs, expenses and fees in connection with the registration of the common stock and warrants offered hereby will be borne by us. Brokerage commissions and similar selling expenses, if any, attributable to the sale of the common stock and warrants will be borne by the selling securityholders.

 

Sales of the common stock and warrants may be effected by the selling securityholders from time to time in one or more types of transactions (which may include block transactions) on any securities exchange, in the over-the-counter market, in negotiated transactions, through put or call option transactions relating to the common stock and warrants, through short sales of such securities, short sales versus the box, or a combination of such methods of sale, at fixed prices, market prices prevailing at the time of sale, prices related to market prices, varying prices determined at the time of sale or at negotiated prices. Such transactions may or may not involve brokers or dealers. The selling securityholders have advised us that they have not entered into any agreements, understandings or arrangements with any underwriters or broker-dealers regarding the sale of their securities, nor is there an underwriter or coordinating broker acting in connection with the proposed sale of the common stock and warrants by the selling securityholders.

 

The selling securityholders may effect such transactions by selling the common stock and warrants directly to purchasers or to or through broker-dealers, which may act as agents or principals. Such broker-dealers may receive compensation in the form of discounts, concessions, or commissions from the selling securityholders and/or the purchasers of the common stock and warrants for whom such broker-dealers may act as agents or to whom they sell as principal, or both (which compensation as to a particular broker-dealer might be in excess of customary commissions). In effecting sales, broker-dealers engaged by the selling securityholders may arrange for other broker-dealers to participate.

 

The selling securityholders and any broker-dealers that act in connection with the sale of the common stock and warrants might be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act of 1933, and any commissions received by such broker-dealers and any profit on the resale of the common stock and warrants sold by them while acting as principals might be deemed to be underwriting discounts or commissions under the Securities Act. The selling securityholders may agree to indemnify any agent, dealer or broker-dealer that participates in transactions involving sales of the common stock and warrants against certain liabilities, including liabilities arising under the Securities Act.

 

Because selling securityholders may be deemed to be “underwriters” within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act, the selling securityholders will be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act. We have informed the selling securityholders that the anti-manipulative provisions of Regulation M promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 may apply to their sales in the market.

 

The selling securityholders also may resell all or a portion of the common stock and warrants in open market transactions in reliance upon Rule 144 under the Securities Act, provided they meet the criteria and conform to the requirements of such Rule.

 

Sales of any common stock and warrants by the selling securityholders may depress the price of the common stock and/or warrants in any market that may develop for such securities.

 

If we are notified by a selling securityholder that any material arrangement has been entered into with a broker-dealer for the sale of the common stock and warrants through a block trade, special offering, exchange distribution or secondary distribution or a purchase by a broker or dealer, we will, if required, file a supplement to this prospectus or a post-effective amendment to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part under the Securities Act, disclosing:

 

    the name of each such selling securityholder and of the participating broker-dealer(s);

 

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    the number of common stock and/or warrants involved;

 

    the price at which such common stock and/or warrants were sold;

 

    the commissions paid or discounts or concessions allowed to such broker-dealer(s), where applicable;

 

    that such broker-dealer(s) did not conduct any investigation to verify the information set out or incorporated by reference in this prospectus; and

 

    other facts material to the transaction.

 

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PART II

 

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

 

The following table sets forth various expenses that will be incurred in connection with this offering as it relates to this Registration Statement:

 

SEC filing fee

   $ 6,407

NASD filing fee

     5,943

Nasdaq SmallCap Entry and Application fees

     40,000

Printing and engraving expenses

     100,000

Blue sky fees and expenses (including legal fees)

     50,000

Legal fees and expenses

     200,000

Accounting fees and expenses

     100,000

Transfer Agent fees

     5,000

Miscellaneous expenses

     12,650
    

Total

   $ 520,000
    

 

Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

 

The Registrant’s certificate of incorporation provides that all directors, officers, employees and agents of the registrant shall be entitled to be indemnified by us to the fullest extent permitted by Section 145 of the Delaware General Corporation Law.

 

Paragraph SEVENTH of Registrant’s certificate of incorporation provides:

 

“(a) The Corporation shall, to the full extent permitted by Section 145 of the GCL [Delaware General Corporation Law, as amended], from time to time, indemnify all persons whom it may indemnify pursuant thereto.

 

(b) A director of the Corporation shall not be personally liable to the Corporation and to its securityholders for monetary damages for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except for liability (i) for any breach of the director’s duty of loyalty to the Corporation or its securityholders, (ii) for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, (iii) under Section 174 of the GCL, or (iv) for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

 

(c) Each person who was or is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to or is involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (hereinafter a “proceeding”), by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person of whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director or officer of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, whether the basis of such proceeding is alleged action in an official capacity as a director, officer, employee or agent or in any other capacity while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Corporation to the fullest extent authorized by the GCL, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (but, in the case of any such amendment, only to the extent that such amendment permits the Corporation to provide broader indemnification rights than said law permitted the Corporation to provide prior to such amendment), against all expense, liability and loss (including attorneys’ fees, judgments, fines, ERISA excise taxes or penalties and amounts paid or to be paid in settlement) reasonably incurred or suffered by such person in connection therewith and such indemnification shall continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of his or her heirs, executors and administrators; provided,

 

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however, that except as provided in paragraph (d) hereof, the Corporation shall indemnify any such person seeking indemnification in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if such proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the board of directors of the Corporation. The right to indemnification conferred in this Paragraph SEVENTH shall be a contract right and shall include the right to be paid by the Corporation the expenses incurred in defending any such proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that if the GCL requires, the payment of such expenses incurred by a director or officer in his or her capacity as a director or officer (and not in any other capacity in which service was or is rendered by such person while a director or officer, including, without limitation, service to an employee benefit plan) in advance of the final disposition of a proceeding, shall be made only upon delivery to the Corporation of an undertaking, by or on behalf of such director or officer, to repay all amounts so advanced if it shall ultimately be determined that such director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Paragraph SEVENTH or otherwise. The Corporation may, by action of its board of directors, provide indemnification to employees and agents of the Corporation with the same scope and effect as the foregoing indemnification of directors and officers.

 

(d) If a claim under sub-paragraph (c) of this Paragraph SEVENTH is not paid in full by the Corporation within thirty days after a written claim has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may at any time thereafter bring suit against the Corporation to recover the unpaid amount of the claim and, if successful in whole or in part, the claimant shall be entitled to be paid also the expense of prosecuting such claim. It shall be a defense to any such action (other than an action brought to enforce a claim for expenses incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition where the required undertaking, if any is required, has been tendered to the Corporation) that the claimant has not met the standards of conduct which make it permissible under the GCL for the Corporation to indemnify the claimant for the amount claimed, but the burden of proving such defense shall be on the Corporation. Neither the failure of the Corporation (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or its securityholders) to have made a determination prior to the commencement of such action that indemnification of the claimant is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in the Delaware General Corporation Law, nor an actual determination by the Corporation (including its board of directors, independent legal counsel, or its securityholders) that the claimant has not met such applicable standard or conduct, shall be a defense to the action or create a presumption that the claimant has not met the applicable standard of conduct.

 

(e) The right to indemnification and the payment of expenses incurred in defending a proceeding in advance of its final disposition conferred in this Paragraph SEVENTH shall not be exclusive of any other right which any person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, by-law, agreement, vote of securityholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

 

(f) The Corporation may maintain insurance, at its expense, to protect itself and any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise against any such expense, liability or loss, whether or not the Corporation would have the power to indemnify such person against such expense, liability or loss under the GCL.”

 

Pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Registration Statement, the Registrant has agreed to indemnify the Underwriters and the Underwriters have agreed to indemnify the Registrant against certain civil liabilities that may be incurred in connection with this offering, including certain liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.

 

Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

Since its inception on June 16, 2003, the Registrant has issued the following securities that were not registered under the Securities Act of 1933:

 

Upon our inception in June 2003, we issued a total of 9,600 shares of our common stock, including 5,280 shares to I Net Financial Management Ltd, 2,400 shares to Madison SP Holdings, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company 50% owned by Adam Somer and 50% by David Feuerstein, and 1,920 shares to The Future, LLC, all at $.001 per share.

 

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On June 22, 2004, we effected a stock split in the form of a stock dividend at the rate of 91.9271 shares of our common stock for each then issued and outstanding share of our common stock.

 

On June 22, 2004, we issued 20,000 shares to Lawrence Ho for services rendered.

 

On July 7, 2004, we issued 60,000 shares of our common stock to Lawrence Burstein at $.001 per share.

 

On July 7, 2004, we issued 37,500 shares to Larry E. Verbit in consideration of his agreement to allow us to defer payment of legal fees then owing to him and his law firm.

 

On March 22, 2005, we effected a stock split in the form of a stock dividend at the rate of two shares of our common stock for each then issued and outstanding share of our common stock.

 

On June 20, 2005, we issued $50,000 in 6% Convertible Notes and 66,666 Warrants including $25,000 of such notes and 33,333 of such warrants to Lawrence Burstein.

 

On July 14, 2005, we issued $125,000 of 8% Convertible Notes and 83,333 Warrants to Jim and Lynn Scoroposki Foundation.

 

On July 19, 2005, we issued $350,000 in 8% Convertible Notes and 233,333 Warrants, including $250,000 of such notes and 166,666 of such warrants to Burton Koffman and $100,000 of such notes and 66,666 of such warrants to Israel Feit.

 

On August, 3, 2005 we issued $825,000 in 8% Convertible Notes and 550,000 Warrants, including $500,000 of such notes and 333,333 of such warrants to Silverman Partners, LLC; $250,000 of such notes and 166,667 of such warrants to Meadowbrook Opportunity Fund, LLC; $30,000 of such notes and 20,000 of such warrants to Joseph Catalano; $30,000 of such notes and 20,000 of such warrants to Melvin Paikoff; and $15,000 of such notes and 10,000 of such warrants to John F. Cattier.

 

On August 12, 2005, we issued $475,000 of 8% Convertible Notes and 316,666 Warrants, including $150,000 of such notes and 100,000 of such warrants to each of the Gutman Family Foundation and the Ed Gutman IRA; $50,000 of such notes and 33,333 of such warrants to each of Harry Pelz, Dov Schwartz and Allan R. Lyons; and $25,000 of such notes and 16,667 of such warrants to Barry Lawrence Goldin IRA.

 

On September 1, 2005, we issued $188,500 of 8% Convertible Notes and 125,668 Warrants, including $51,000 of such notes and 34,000 of such warrants to HRG Trust; $37,500 of such notes and 25,000 of such warrants to Lawrence Burstein; and $25,000 of such notes and 16,667 of such warrants to each of Norman Leben, MG Realty Investors, Inc. and William Feldman

 

On September 27, 2005, we issued $175,000 of 8% Convertible Notes and 116,667 Warrants, including $75,000 of such notes and 50,000 of such warrants to each of Roni Rosenstock and David Thalheim and $25,000 of such notes and 16,667 of such warrants to Jack Kane.

 

Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

 

(a) The following is a list of Exhibits filed herewith as part of the registration statement:

 

Exhibit

Number


  

Description of Exhibit


1.1   

Underwriting Agreement by and between registrant and HCFP/Brenner Securities LLC

3.1    Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Registrant
3.2    Bylaws of Registrant
3.3    Audit Committee Charter
4.1*    Specimen of Common Stock Certificate

 

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Exhibit

Number


  

Description of Exhibit


  4.2*    Specimen of Redeemable Warrant Certificate
  4.3    Form of Securities Purchase Option to be granted to the Representative
  4.4    Form of Warrant Agreement between Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company and Registrant
  5.1*    Opinion of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, including consent
10.1    2005 Stock Option Plan of Registrant
10.2*   

Form of Employment Agreement between each of Bruce Hahn, Bruce Layman, Adam Somer and Yu Wen Ching and Registrant

10.3*    Marketing Agreement between Future Marketing, LLC and Registrant
10.4**    Letter Agreement between IDT Puerto Rico & Co. and Registrant, dated November 25, 2003.
10.5**    Letter Agreement between SunRocket, Inc. and Registrant, dated September 28, 2005
10.6    Agreement between Gain Star International Limited and Registrant, dated June 22, 2005
10.7   

Trust Account Agreement between Gain Star International Limited and Registrant, dated June 27, 2005

10.8    Sales Contract between Gain Star International Limited and Registrant, dated June 27, 2005
10.9    Factoring Agreement between CIT Commercial Services and Registrant, dated July 6, 2005
10.10   

Assignment Agreement among The CIT Group, Commercial Services, Inc., Gain Star International Limited and Registrant, dated July 7, 2005

10.11    Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant
10.12    Form of Senior Convertible Note
10.13   

Form of Subscription/Registration Rights Agreement between each holder of Convertible Notes and Registrant

10.14    Agreement between David Feuerstein and Registrant, dated October 22, 2005
10.15    Form of Financial Advisory Agreement between HCFP/Brenner Securities, LLC and Registrant
10.16   

Form of Merger, Acquisition and other Business Arrangement Agreement between HCFP/Brenner Securities, LLC and Registrant

10.17   

Services and Distribution Agreement between Databyte Technology, Inc. and Registrant, dated October 24, 2003, inclusive of Amendments dated October 12, 2004 and September 6, 2005.

23.1    Consent of BDO Seidman, LLP
23.2*   

Consent of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (contained in their opinion included under Exhibit 5.1)

23.3    Consent of Elliot J. Kerbis
23.4    Consent of Donald G. Norris
23.5    Consent of Robert F. Doherty
24.1    Power of Attorney (comprises a portion of the signature page of this Registration Statement)

* To be filed by amendment to this Registration Statement
** Confidential treatment requested for certain portions of this Exhibit pursuant to Rule 406 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, which portions are omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

(b) Financial Statement Schedules—Not Applicable

 

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Item 17. Undertakings

 

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:

 

(1) That for purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by Registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

 

(2) That for the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3) To provide to the underwriters at the closing specified in the underwriting agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of Registrant as described in Item 14 of this Part II to the registration statement, or otherwise, Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act, and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of Registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, Registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Industry, State of California, on the 31st day of October, 2005.

 

AMERICAN TELECOM SERVICES INC.

By:

 

/s/    BRUCE HAHN        


   

Bruce Hahn

Chief Executive Officer

 

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints Bruce Hahn and Lawrence Burstein, and each or either of them, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities to approve, sign and file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and any other appropriate authorities the original of any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this Registration Statement and any other documents in connection therewith, granting unto each said attorney-in-fact and agent full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact and agent, or any of them, or his substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 


 

In accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement was signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates stated.

 

SIGNATURE


  

TITLE


 

DATE


/s/    LAWRENCE BURSTEIN        


Lawrence Burstein

  

Chairman

  October 31, 2005

/s/    BRUCE HAHN        


Bruce Hahn

  

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

  October 31, 2005

/s/    BRUCE LAYMAN        


Bruce Layman

  

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

  October 31, 2005

 

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