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Secured Credit Facility
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2014
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Note 4 – Secured Credit Facility


We have a credit facility with CoBank. Under the credit facility, we entered into separate Master Loan Agreements (MLAs) and a series of supplements to the respective MLAs.


On September 5, 2014, NU Telecom entered into an agreement with CoBank to amend the second supplement of its MLA. CoBank agreed to increase the size of its MLA Second Supplement from $10 million to $12 million. The loan is due on December 14, 2014 and is secured by the Company’s assets. The increase in this loan allowed the Company to accommodate additional working capital needs relating to its network expansion.


NU Telecom and its respective subsidiaries also have entered into security agreements under which substantially all of the assets of NU Telecom and its respective subsidiaries have been pledged to CoBank as collateral. In addition, NU Telecom and its respective subsidiaries have guaranteed all obligations under the credit facility.


Our loan agreements include restrictions on our ability to pay cash dividends to our stockholders. However, we are allowed to pay dividends (a) (i) in an amount up to $2,050,000 in any year and (ii) in any amount if our “Total Leverage Ratio”, that is, the ratio of our “Indebtedness” to “EBITDA” (in each case as defined in the loan documents) is equal to or less than 3:50 to 1:00, and (b) in either case if we are not in default or potential default under our loan agreements. As of September 30, 2014, per our loan agreements, we do not have any restrictions on our ability to pay cash dividends to our stockholders.  


Our credit facility requires us to comply with specified financial ratios and tests. These financial ratios and tests include total leverage ratio, debt service coverage ratio, equity to total assets ratio and maximum annual expenditures tests.


Per our MLAs with CoBank our current outstanding debt has a balloon maturity date on December 31, 2014. At December 31, 2013, all of our outstanding debt became current. Due to the balloon maturity, we notified CoBank that we would be in violation of our debt service coverage ratio in our loan covenants and also notified them that it is our intent to refinance the debt prior to December 31, 2014. Due to these circumstances, CoBank provided a waiver letter of the debt service coverage ratio in our loan covenants effective December 31, 2013. With this waiver letter, we are in compliance with all the stipulated financial ratios in our loan agreements as of September 30, 2014. 


As described in Note – “Interest Rate Swaps”, we previously had entered into interest rate swaps that effectively fixed  our interest rates. As of June 30, 2013 the remaining swap matured and we currently have no interest rate swaps in effect. The remaining debt of $45.0 million ($3.2 million available under the revolving credit  facilities and $41.8 million currently outstanding) remains subject to variable interest rates at an effective weighted average interest rate of 2.08%, as of September 30, 2014