ITEM 1. BUSINESS
OVERVIEW
Spectral Capital Corporation is a technology company focused on the identification, acquisition, development, and financing of technology that has the potential to transform existing industries. We look for technology that can be protected through patents or laws regarding trade secrets.
In December 2021, the Company began providing telecommunications and data and switching services. Specifically, Spectral is providing international long distance reselling services on a business-to-business (“B2B”) basis. The Company is currently providing these services for select customers.
Spectral offers a complete selection of wholesale services for carriers and enterprises on our high-performance robust Voice & IP network and provides high-quality Session Initiation Protocol (“SIP”) trunking, termination and origination through our platform. We make it easy for companies to operate with little to no investment or overhead allowing those companies to focus on serving their customers. Spectral has built a robust network and provides the applications and services to meet the needs of our telecommunications and data customers.
CORPORATE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT
We were incorporated in the State of Nevada on September 13, 2000 as Galaxy Championship Wrestling, Inc., a media and entertainment company focused on developing, producing and marketing live entertainment in the professional wrestling sphere.
On March 31, 2004, unable to generate sufficient revenues to sustain our professional wrestling business, we ceased operations in this field and began exploring other business opportunities.
Also, on March 31, 2004 our controlling shareholders entered into a certain private stock purchase agreement, wherein they sold an aggregate of 5,750,000 of our common shares, representing a sixty-two and seventeen twentieths percent (62.85%) controlling interest, to an unrelated third party.
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By certificate of amendment filed June 17, 2004, we changed our name from Galaxy Championship Wrestling, Inc. to FUSA Capital Corporation.
During the period from March 31, 2004 until March 7, 2005 we had no meaningful operations and did not carry on any active business, focusing instead on identifying and evaluating the merits of alternative potential business and acquisition opportunities which might allow us to restart operations.
On March 7, 2005 we entered into a certain plan and agreement of reorganization with FUSA Technology Investments Corp. (“FTIC”), a Nevada corporation engaged in the emerging growth field of audio and video search engine technology, whereby we acquired all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of FTIC in addition to obtaining certain intellectual property concepts related to search engine technology as developed by FTIC and its principals. In March of 2005 we also entered into a three for one stock dividend payable to our shareholders.
From April 2005 until September 2010, we were engaged continuously in the development and operation of consumer focused media search engine technologies and portals. During the last nine months of 2009, we began to substantially curtail our operations and ongoing technology development as a consequence of (i) having completed a substantial portion of our planned principal technology development work and (ii) being unable to raise sufficient funds through revenue or sales of debt or equity securities to continue our previous levels of operation and development. We ceased operating our Internet properties in December 2010.
We had consistently lost money on our on-line consumer media properties due to the expenses involved in hosting, promotion, development and management of those sites. In an effort to maintain as much traffic as possible on our most popular media site, www.searchforvideo.com, which was also responsible for a large proportion of our expenses, we contracted with Brass Consulting Ltd. to maintain the site in exchange for net revenue produced from the site. This agreement was cancellable after 30 days’ notice. We cancelled this agreement in September 2009. We were not able to operate the site properly internally or through an external provider.
On June 29, 2009, our Board of Directors (“Board”) resolved to amend the Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Nevada Revised Statues 78.207 to decrease the number of authorized shares of our common stock, par value $0.0001, from 500,000,000 to 333,333 shares. Correspondingly, our Board of Directors affirmed a reverse split of one thousand and five hundred (1,500) to one (1) in which each shareholder was issued one (1) share in exchange for every one thousand and five hundred (1,500) common shares of their currently issued common stock. The record date for the reverse split was July 6, 2009.
On July 27, 2010, our shareholders voted to change our name to Spectral Capital Corporation and to increase the number of shares of our authorized common stock from 333,333, par value $0.0001 to 500,000,000, par value $0.0001.
In early 2013, Spectral Capital Corporation moved into a new line of business where it would focus on the identification, acquisition, development, and financing of technology that has the potential to transform existing industries.
On February 26, 2013, Spectral Capital Corporation, through its subsidiary, Spectral Holdings, Inc., signed a definitive Technology Acquisition Agreement (“Agreement”) to acquire mobile search engine and mobile sharing technology from Fiveseas Securities Ltd. Under the Agreement, Spectral issued Fiveseas 5,000,000 common shares of Spectral Capital Corporation, par value $0.0001. The Agreement called for the technology to reside within a newly formed entity called Noot Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which Spectral is a 60% owner of and Fiveseas is a 40% owner of. Fiveseas was granted a right of first refusal for any subsequent sale of the technology.
On December 1, 2013, Spectral Capital Corporation, through its subsidiary, Spectral Holdings, Inc., signed a definitive Technology Acquisition Agreement (“Agreement”) to acquire a technology application and service that enhances the way people find, consume, analyze, share and discuss financial news and topics, equities, commodities and currencies on the web from TL Global Inc. Under the Agreement, Spectral issued TL Global Inc. 5,000,000 common shares of Spectral Capital Corporation, par value $0.0001. The Agreement called for the technology to reside within a newly formed entity called Monitr Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation, which Spectral is a 60% owner of and TL Global Inc. is a 40% owner of. TL Global Inc. was granted a right of first refusal for any subsequent sale of the technology.
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On June 19, 2022, our Board of Directors approved an increase in the number of authorized shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, from 500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 (the “Increase in Authorized Capital”) and a reverse stock split of the Company’s common stock whereby every ten (10) shares of issued and outstanding common stock would be combined into one (1) share of issued and outstanding common stock (the “Reverse Stock Split”), and submitted both resolutions for stockholder approval. On June 20, 2022, the holder of a majority of the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock approved the Increase in Authorized Capital and Reverse Stock Split by written consent. The Certificate of Amendment was filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada on November 22, 2022 to effectuate the Increase in Authorized Capital and Reverse Stock Split, which became effective on December 2, 2022.
Our principal executive offices are located at 4500 9th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington 98105. Our phone number is (206) 385-6490.
PRINCIPAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Spectral is focused on the identification, acquisition, development, and financing of technology that has the potential to transform existing industries.
Companies within the technology development and commercialization sector have a variety of areas of principal competence. Some companies focus on aggressively developing a portfolio of intellectual property and then licensing that property and defending it through litigation. Others focus on a technology embodied in a software product or device which has the potential to be acquired by businesses and/or consumers at a profit. Others seek to develop and commercialize technology that attracts a significant number of users who can be monetized through advertising. Of course, technology development and commercialization is a vast and complex field. Spectral has had an initial focus on information technology with a direct value proposition to businesses or consumers.
Like all companies that seek to develop a portfolio of high impact technologies and the corporate and organizational structure to monetize those technologies, Spectral must do the specialized work of lowering the risk profile of the commercialization of a particular technology to the point where it is able to grow at a reasonable customer acquisition cost.
Our business differs from those companies whose capital reserves, successful previous ability to monetize technology and scale, efficiencies and existing customer base allow them to select and develop technology by flooding the technology with financial and human resources. Spectral’s approach is much more targeted. We only develop technology that we believe has a very specific fit with our expertise and limited capital. We develop technology that does not require massive investments in sales and marketing in order to reach an initial audience.
We have interests in telecommunications, data and switching services, specifically providing international long distance reselling services on a B2B basis. We form partnerships to expand our business as well as seek technological advancement opportunities that may provide us with a substantial advantage over our competition. Additionally, Spectral has majority ownership of two non-operating technology companies: Noot and Monitr. We believe the underlying technology for Noot with its foundation in mobile search and Monitr with its foundation in trend detecting software for stock trading analysis has the potential to create profitable businesses on their own but require substantial capital to upgrade their software to become competitive. Spectral currently does not have the financial means for these required upgrades.
Competition
We compete with a wide variety of parties in connection with our efforts to: (i) attract users to our various Analytics, Search & Software portfolio companies and the ones we intend to develop; (ii) develop, market and distribute our current and anticipated B2C (“Business to Consumer”) and B2B software applications (“Applications” or “Apps”) as developed by our portfolio companies; (iii) attract third parties to distribute our Applications and related technology; and (iv) attract advertisers. In the case of our anticipated search services generally, our competitors include Google and other destination search websites and search centric portals (some of which provide a broad range of content and services and/or link to various desktop applications), third party toolbar, convenience search and applications providers, other search technology and convenience service providers (including internet access providers, social media platforms, online advertising networks, traditional media companies and companies that provide online content). When we market our portfolio search and analytics services, we compete against a variety of established players and new entrants.
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Moreover, some of our current and potential competitors have longer operating histories, greater brand recognition, larger customer bases and/or significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. As a result, they have the ability to devote comparatively greater resources to the development and promotion of their products and services, which could result in greater market acceptance of their products and services relative to those offered by us.
The telecommunication industry is growing market and new entrants into this industry arrive frequently. Entering the reselling industry does not require substantial capital in most cases. The most successful companies have developed long-lasting relationships with data carrier traffic providers and can utilize these relationships for high traffic within their networks. Spectral is a new entrant to this industry and must form relationships in order to grow and develop its customer base. Providing carriers with technology advancements for better connections and high quality customer service will be part of Spectral’s mission in order to gain a competitive advantage.
Marketing and Customers
Spectral is providing international long distance reselling services on a B2B basis. The Company is currently providing these services for select customers through our efforts of partnership development.
Spectral’s wholesale voice services provide global routing solutions and direct bilateral connections with major PTTs, Tier-1 carriers and mobile operators around the world. We seek partners that can further expand our network and improve voice quality experience in order to increase the number of carriers and mobile operators around the world who utilize Spectral’s network solutions.
Noot is no longer a working mobile application, however, its foundation of mobile search and machine learning is still relevant today. Given adequate funding to upgrade its software, we believe there are alternative markets in which Noot could enter. The mobile search sector has much room to grow.
With the growth of financial technology (“Fintech”), Monitr has a growing list of competitors, however, we believe that Monitr´s trend detecting software could perform well relative to the competition. Monitr will require substantial additional investment into its software to become competitive in the growing marketplace.
Principal Agreements Affecting Our Ordinary Business
We do not have any current long-term agreements that impact our business.
Information Technology Governmental Regulation
Our operations are subject to various rules, regulations and limitations impacting the information technology industry as whole. We are subject to numerous United States (U.S.) federal, state, and foreign laws and regulations covering a wide variety of subject matters. Like other companies in the technology industry, we face heightened scrutiny from both U.S. and foreign governments with respect to our compliance with laws and regulations. Many of these laws and regulations are evolving and their applicability and scope, as interpreted by the courts, remain uncertain.
Our compliance with these laws and regulations may be onerous and could, individually or in the aggregate, increase our cost of doing business, make our products and services less useful, limit our ability to pursue certain business models, cause us to change our business practices, affect our competitive position relative to our peers, and/or otherwise have an adverse effect on our business, reputation, financial condition, and operating results.
Environmental Matters
We do not anticipate any significant impact of environmental regulations on our business.
OPERATIONS
Spectral is focused on the identification, acquisition, development, and financing of technology that has the potential to transform existing industries. Spectral has acquired significant stakes in two technology companies as well as interests within telecommunications, data and switching services, specifically providing international long distance reselling services on a B2B basis.
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The majority of our operations consist of fostering partnerships for the expansion of our telecommunication reselling business as well as the development and commercialization of portfolio technology; including attendant information security needs and providing consistent and reliable access to our applications/technology.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
For the year ended December 31, 2022, we have not incurred research and development expenses related to the development of our current software products and for our previous technology business.
COMPETITION
Overview
Some of the largest and most technologically sophisticated and financially successful companies in the world compete in the search engine and software development space. Capital requirements in this space can easily run into the hundreds of millions of dollars and Spectral is in no way able to compete directly against its larger and more well-financed competitors with respect to technology brands which require hundreds of millions of dollars to be spent either on technology development or sales and marketing. Instead, we tend to compete against much smaller companies, with limited capital resources, who are all looking at early-stage technology companies which require 1-4 years of development and $2-$5 million dollars in financing in order to reach critical mass in an important market.
Therefore, Spectral, like its smaller competitors within this space, can compete only by having a low enough overhead, a flexible enough risk profile, patience, a willingness to secure expensive management and technological resources on a flexible project basis and the utilization of equity-based incentives to attract talented personnel who find the risk reward profile of emerging growth companies appealing.
The telecommunications, data and switching services industry is highly competitive, with many companies vying for market share. These companies include large telecommunications providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Verizon as well as a number of smaller companies that specialize in specific areas of the industry, such as fiber-optic networks or cloud-based data services. The competition in this industry is intense, with companies constantly striving to innovate and improve their service in order to attract and retain customers. This competition has led to lower prices and better overall service for consumers, as well as the development of new technologies and services.
Data reselling is a competitive market in which companies purchase wholesale access to telecommunications and data networks from large providers and then resell those services to their own customers. These resellers often compete on price, service quality, and the specific services they offer. Some resellers may specialize in certain types of services, such as business-class internet or virtual private networks, while others may focus on serving a specific geographic area or customer demographic. The level of competition in this market can vary depending on the size and concentration of the players involved, as well as on the regulatory environment.
Failure of Competitors
Many of our smaller competitors fail because of improperly architected technology, excessive spending on sales and marketing, information technology security problems, the failure to secure required development capital, the inability to efficiently develop a customer acquisition program cost effectively and the inability to efficiently and cost effectively manage technology development.
Our Competitive Position
We believe that Spectral’s competitive advantage is our ability to find partners who together we can create technology and other services that provide a missing component in an existing market. We look for partners who have a similar work ethic to ours as well as the drive for creating opportunities through technological innovations. Spectral must create a platform where entrepreneurs want to partner with us. The difficulty lies in our ability to offer substantial pay packages so we need to attract entrepreneurs who will work for future payouts based on success.
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SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS AND SUPPLIERS
We are not particularly dependent on any one customer or supplier.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Overview
Our intellectual property consists almost exclusively of trade secret protectable software code and proprietary information technology architecture.
We regard our intellectual property rights, including trademarks, domain names, trade secrets, patents, copyrights and other similar intellectual property, as critical to our success.
The businesses within our Noot Search and Monitr´s trend detection software rely upon trade secrets, including algorithms for the generation, organization and presentation of search results.
Trademarks
We no longer intend to apply for registration of a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office given the Company’s current status.
Trade Secrets
Whenever we deem it important for purposes of maintaining the secrecy of information, such as sensitive and valuable search algorithms, we require parties with whom we share, or who otherwise are likely to become privy to, our trade secrets or other confidential information to execute and deliver to us confidentiality and/or non-disclosure agreements. Among others, this may include employees, consultants and other advisors, each of whom may require us to execute such an agreement upon commencement of their employment, consulting or advisory relationships. These agreements generally provide that all confidential information developed or made known to the individual by us during the course of the individual’s relationship with us is to be kept confidential and not to be disclosed to third parties except under specific circumstances.
As of the date of this annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, we have executed non-disclosure agreements with key employees, consultants or advisors.
HUMAN CAPITAL
For the year ended December 31, 2022, we had one full-time employee.
We are not subject to any collective bargaining agreements and believe that our relationships with our employees and consultants are good.
Available Information
Our common stock is quoted on the OTC Markets Pink Sheets, under the symbol “FCCN”. We file annual, quarterly, and current reports and other information with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). These filings are available to the public on the Internet at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. We do not maintain a website where our annual, quarterly, and current reports, and amendments to those reports if any, are available free of charge.