ACCESS Newswire
02 Mar 2021, 03:31 GMT+10
QUEBEC, QC / ACCESSWIRE / March 1, 2021 / NuRAN Wireless Inc. ('NuRAN' or the 'Company') (CSE:NUR)(OTC PINK:NRRWF)(FSE:1RN) is pleased to announce the Company's operational and consolidated financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year-ended October 31, 2020. Although fiscal 2020 was a very challenging year for NuRAN due to the economic upheaval brought on by the COVID-19 global pandemic and general market conditions that lead the Company to significantly restructure and streamline its operations over the year, it also proved to be transformational as the company successfully improved its working capital position and signed a number of key strategic contracts significantly improving its potential for sustained growth. The efforts of management to restructure the company in fiscal 2020 have put NuRAN in a much stronger financial position and management anticipates continued improved financial performance through Fiscal 2021.
'We are very pleased to have turned this important corner and look forward to the future. We appreciate the patience of our stakeholders and shareholders in supporting us through this process. Management is focused on the success ahead as demonstrated by our recent major contract announcements. We expect to continue to drive forward aggressively and achieve both our financial goals but as importantly meet our goal to bring connectivity to areas around the globe which continue to lag far behind by not having the most basic tool of mobile and internet connectivity; as essential as clean water in this increasingly digitized world' states Francis Letourneau, CEO of NuRAN.
Key Financial and Operational Highlights for fiscal 2020:
2021 Outlook and Significant Corporate Milestones
'It has been a pleasure to take part in the dramatic turnaround of the Company's fortunes over the last several months. As we continue to execute our strategic plan over the next few years, our focus remains on technological development, execution efforts on our major NaaS contracts and increased expansion to adjacent markets. We are confident that continued focus on these markets will provide sustainable and profitable growth opportunities for NuRAN. I firmly believe that as we improve our core wireless infrastructure solutions, the advancements we are implementing will provide significant expansion opportunities in the future,' stated Jim Bailey, CFO of NuRAN.
Marketing Service Agreement
The Company also entered into a general marketing services agreement with Loud Market Media Inc. for the purpose of providing certain digital marketing services for a term of four months in consideration of a payment of $83,000 during the term of the agreement.
Covid-19 Outlook and Assessment
In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic. To date, the contagious disease outbreak has spread to every part of the world, has forced the authorities of virtually every country to impose severe containment measure effectively creating a widespread shutdown, and adversely affected the global economy.
On April 7, 2020, NuRAN announced that, as a provider of telecommunications infrastructure, the Company operates commercial activities considered essential to the population and the economy, and therefore has been able to maintain most of its operations throughout the period. In order to protect its employees from the risk of being exposed to the virus and to slow its propagation, following the guidelines of public health, all except a few employees have been working from home since March 16, and will continue to do so for as long as social distancing measures imposed by the government remain in place. During this time, the Company continues to support the operation of mobile operators and to develop its set of infrastructure solutions. Since a large portion of the development is based on software, no major disruption has occurred. NuRAN has experienced supply chain challenges due to exceptional merchandise import and export measures taken by governments in reaction to the pandemic. Those measures have since been lifted or relaxed, allowing the Company to resume business which had been temporarily hindered. This situation has affected the delivery of certain milestones associated to the Marshall Islands contract, which created execution delays of approximately three months. The global situation may cause other disruptions which could affect the Company's ability to deliver its backlog. NuRAN has taken measures to mitigate the risk of such occurrences and minimize the impacts. The Company also announced that some of its plans to connect its mobile infrastructure solutions to the core network of African mobile operators had incurred delays due to COVID-19. Of the two projects impacted, one has resumed at the beginning of June, while the other is yet to resume.
In March 2020, the government of Canada has announced an emergency wage subsidy as a relief measure to all Canadian companies being affected by the pandemic. The subsidy has contributed, and will continue to contribute, to lower the Company's salary expenses throughout the period. While it is impossible at this stage to accurately predict the impact that COVID-19 may have on NuRAN's business in the future, based on its own assessment and its customer's assessments, none of the expected business and plans are currently foreseen to be adversely affected. The pandemic and its consequential shutdown have highlighted the importance of connectivity throughout society, but especially for the underserved. The increased awareness may play favorably for the Company given it may stimulate connectivity projects, through government actions as an example.
About NuRAN Wireless
NuRAN Wireless is a leading supplier of mobile and broadband wireless infrastructure solutions. Its innovative radio access network (RAN), core network, and backhaul products dramatically drop the total cost of ownership, thereby creating new opportunities for established, as well as emerging mobile network operators. Indoor coverage, isolated rural communities, offshore platforms and ships, NuRAN Wireless helps its customers reach everyone, everywhere.
Additional Information
For further information about NuRAN Wireless: www.nuranwireless.com
Francis Letourneau, Director and CEO
[email protected]
Tel: (418) 264-1337
Frank Candido
Investor relations
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Tel: (514) 969-5530
Cautionary Statement: Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Market Regulator (as defined in the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward Looking Statements:
This news release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as, 'expects', 'is expected', 'anticipates', 'intends', 'believes', or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results 'may' or 'will' be taken, occur or be achieved. Forward-looking statements include those relating to the Company's NAAS agreements and the Company's proposed build out of network sites and ability to obtain project financing in relation to same. Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results projected, expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Although the Company has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements, such as the uncertainties regarding include risks such as the uncertainties regarding the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, and measures to prevent its spread, risks relating to NuRAN's business and the economy generally; NuRAN's ability to refinance its long term debt that is currently in default; NuRAN's abilty to adequately restructure its operations with respect to its new model of NAAS service contracts; the capacity of the Company to deliver in a technical capacity and to import inventory to Africa at a reasonable cost; NuRAN's ability to obtain project financing for the proposed site build out under its NAAS agreements with Orange and other telecommunication providers, the loss of one or more significant suppliers or a reduction in significant volume from such suppliers; NuRAN's ability to meet or exceed customers' demand and expectations; significant current competition and the introduction of new competitors or other disruptive entrants in the Company's industry; NuRAN's ability to retain key employees and protect its intellectual property; compliance with local laws and regulations and ability to obtain all required permits for our operations, access to the credit and capital markets, changes in applicable telecommunications laws or regulations or changes in license and regulatory fees, downturns in customers' business cycles; and insurance prices and insurance coverage availability, the Company's ability to effectively maintain or update information and technology systems; our ability to implement and maintain measures to protect against cyberattacks and comply with applicable privacy and data security requirements; the Company's ability to successfully implement its business strategies or realize expected cost savings and revenue enhancements; business development activities, including acquisitions and integration of acquired businesses; the Company's expansion into markets outside of Canada and the operational, competitive and regulatory risks facing the Company's non-Canadian based operations. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward looking information. Other factors which could materially affect such forward-looking information are described in the risk factors in the Company's most recent annual management's discussion and analysis that is available on the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The estimates included in this news release relating to the calculation of the gross revenue of the agreements with Orange are based on multiplying an average population per site by the expected penetration rate which yields the number of mobile customers. This is then multiplied by the average revenue per customer per month (ARPU) to derive total revenue. Orange's direct costs associated with this revenue are deducted and the resulting amount is shared by both parties. The revenue share only applies to revenue in excess of a guaranteed amount which is the minimum paid to NuRAN. A penetration rate reduction factor has been used to mitigate risk. The base data used to calculate the total potential revenue of this agreement was provided by Orange based on average population, penetration rate and ARPU. Management of the Company believes that the estimates have been prepared on a reasonable basis, reflecting best estimates and judgments, and based on a number of assumptions management believes are reasonable as well as information provided to the Company by Orange. However, because this information is highly subjective and subject to numerous risks, including the risks discussed above, it should not be relied on as necessarily indicative of future results. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the estimates prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein as intended, planned, anticipated, believed, estimated or expected.
SOURCE: NuRAN Wireless Inc.
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