ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2021

ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

1.ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS

The Company strives to be a leading platform for the operation of, and investment in, smaller and specialty market communications services and technology companies.  The Company has a long track record of delivering critical infrastructure-based solutions to underserved markets. The Company’s majority-owned operating subsidiaries provide facilities-based communications services, along with related information technology solutions, in the United States, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. The Company also has non-controlling investments in several communications and technology companies, and it continues to consider opportunities to make controlling and minority investments in businesses that it believes have the potential for generating substantial and relatively steady cash flows over extended periods of time or have technologies or business models that might prove valuable to the Company’s main operating subsidiaries or create significant longer term growth potential for the Company as a whole.

At the holding company level, the Company oversees the allocation of capital within and among its subsidiaries, affiliates, new investments, and stockholders. The Company also has developed significant operational expertise and resources that it uses to augment the capabilities of its individual operating subsidiaries. Over the past ten years, the Company has built a platform of resources and expertise to support its operating subsidiaries and to improve their quality of service, and customer acquisition, retention, and satisfaction while maintaining optimal operating efficiencies. The Company has a number of shared service functions, including billing, network and engineering and customer service, and the parent company also employs personnel with specialized skills that provide greater economies of scale and expertise than would typically be available at the operating subsidiary level.

The Company was incorporated in Delaware in 1987, began trading publicly in 1991 and spun off more than half of its operations to stockholders in 1998. The Company actively evaluates potential acquisitions, investment opportunities and other strategic transactions, both domestic and international, and generally looks for those that it believes have the potential for generating steady excess cash flows over extended periods of time. In addition, the Company considers non-controlling investments in earlier stage businesses that it considers strategically relevant, and which may offer long-term growth potential for us, either individually, or as research and development businesses that can support the Company’s operating subsidiaries in new technology, product, and service development and offerings. The Company has used the cash generated from its established operating units, and any asset sales, to re-invest in its existing businesses, to make strategic investments in additional businesses, and to return cash to the Company’s investors. The Company provides management, technical, financial, regulatory, and marketing services to its subsidiaries and typically receives a management fee calculated as a percentage of their revenues, which is eliminated in consolidation. For further information about the Company’s financial segments and geographical information about its operating revenues and assets, see Notes 1 and 14 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Report.

Through March 31, 2021, the Company had identified three operating segments to manage and review its operations and to facilitate investor presentations of its results. These three operating segments are as follows:

● International Telecom. Businesses contained in the Company’s international telecom segment offer a mix of fixed data, internet and voice services (“Fixed”) as well as retail mobility (“Mobility”) services to customers in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, Guyana and the US Virgin Islands. The Company offers fixed video services in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the US Virgin Islands and managed information technology services (“Managed Services”) to enterprise customers in all its markets. The Company also offers services to other telecom providers (“Carrier Services”), such as international long-distance, transport and access services, and roaming from such telecom providers’ customers traveling in its network service areas.

● US Telecom. In the United States, primarily in the Southwest, the Company offers Carrier Services, including wholesale roaming services, the leasing of critical network infrastructure such as towers and transport facilities, and site maintenance. The Company also provides Fixed, Mobility, and Managed

Services to its retail and enterprise customers, and private network services to enterprise customers, municipalities and other service providers.

● Renewable Energy. In India, the Company provided distributed generation solar power to commercial and industrial customers through January 27, 2021. See Sale of Renewable Energy Operations for further details

The following chart summarizes the operating activities of the Company’s principal subsidiaries, the segments in which it reports its revenue and the markets it served during the three months ended March 31, 2021:

Segment	Services	Markets	Tradenames
International Telecom	Mobility	Bermuda, Guyana, US Virgin Islands	One, GTT+, Viya
	Fixed	Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Guyana, US Virgin Islands	One, Logic, GTT+, Viya
	Carrier Services	Bermuda, Guyana, US Virgin Islands	One, GTT+, Viya
	Managed Services	Bermuda, Cayman Islands, US Virgin Islands, Guyana	Fireminds, One, Logic, GTT+, Viya
US Telecom	Mobility	United States (rural markets)	Choice, Choice NTUA Wireless, Geoverse
	Fixed	United States	Commnet, Choice, Choice NTUA Wireless, Deploycom
	Carrier Services	United States	Commnet, Essextel
	Managed Services	United States	Choice
Renewable Energy (1)	Solar	India	Vibrant Energy

(1) See Sale of Renewable Energy Operations for further details.

The Company actively evaluates potential acquisitions, investment opportunities and other strategic transactions, both domestic and international, that meet its return on investment and other criteria. In addition, the Company considers non-controlling investments in earlier stage businesses that it considers strategically relevant, and which may offer long-term growth potential for the Company, either individually, or as research and development businesses that can support the Company’s operating subsidiaries in new product and service development and offerings. The Company provides management, technical, financial, regulatory, and marketing services to its subsidiaries and typically receives a management fee equal to a percentage of their revenues which is eliminated in consolidation. For further information about the Company’s financial segments and geographical information about its operating revenues and assets, see Note 13 to the Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Report.

COVID-19

The Company is continuing to monitor and assess the effects of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on its commercial operations, the safety of its employees and their families, its sales force and customers and any potential impact on the Company’s revenue in 2021.

The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements requires the Company to make estimates, judgments and assumptions that may affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, equity, revenues and expenses and related disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, the Company evaluates estimates, judgments and methodologies. The Company assessed certain accounting matters and estimates that generally require consideration of forecasted financial information in context with the information and estimates reasonably available to the Company and the unknown future impacts of COVID-19 as of March 31, 2021 and through the date of this report. The accounting

matters assessed included, but were not limited to, the Company’s allowance for credit losses, the carrying value of the Company’s goodwill and other long-lived assets, financial assets, valuation allowances for tax assets and revenue recognition. The Company assessed the impacts of COVID-19 on its consolidated financial statements as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2021, in particular the impacts on lines of revenues, operating expenses as well as the deferral and savings on other operating expenses and capital expenditures. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, while the Company’s International Telecom segment experienced strengthened demand for both its Mobility and Fixed services, its Carrier Services revenue declined as a result of a reduction in roaming revenue due to pandemic-related travel and stay-at-home restrictions in these markets as compared to the same period in 2020. Such restrictions also resulted in decreased Mobility and Carrier Services revenues within the Company’s US Telecom segment during the three months ended March 31, 2021 as compared to the same period of 2020. However, in response to certain anticipated impacts, the Company was able to implement operating expense savings during 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, particularly with respect to the Company’s International Telecom segment, that when coupled with Company-wide travel expense savings and capital expenditure deferrals, acted to offset much of the revenue loss or additional credit loss allowances caused by anticipated customer non-payment activity in the year. As a result, the Company’s assessment did not indicate that there was a material impact to the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2021. However, the Company’s future assessments of the impacts of COVID-19 for the remainder of 2021 or the Company’s ability to realize continued operational expense savings, as well as other factors, could result in material impacts to the Company’s consolidated financial statements in future reporting periods. For example, the local economies of many of the Company’s Caribbean markets are tourism-dependent and the decline in global travel activity resulting from COVID-19 may continue to impact the Company’s revenue and cash flows for certain services in these markets as the Company’s retail and enterprise customers may be unable to pay for services, and the Company’s international roaming revenue may decline. Apart from government issued travel restrictions, we currently cannot assess how COVID-19 may influence our subscribers’ procurement behavior for our services or how that behavior will impact our revenues in the foreseeable future.