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ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2020
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS |
ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 1.ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS OPERATIONS ​ The Company is a holding company that, directly and through its subsidiaries, owns and operates telecommunications businesses in North America, the Caribbean and Bermuda as well as a renewable energy business in India. The Company was incorporated in Delaware in 1987, began trading publicly in 1991 and spun off more than a half of its operations to stockholders in 1998. Since that time, the Company has engaged in many strategic acquisitions and investments to help grow its operations, using the cash generated from its established operating units 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 has built, and seeks to maintain, resources to support its operating subsidiaries and to improve their customer acquisition, retention, and satisfaction while maintaining optimal operating efficiencies. The Company looks for businesses that offer growth opportunities or potential strategic benefits, but require additional capital investment in order to execute on their business plans. The Company holds controlling positions with respect to some of its investments and non-controlling positions in others. The Company’s investments in earlier stage businesses frequently offer a product and service development component in addition to the prospect of generating returns on its invested capital. ​ The Company has 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. The Company’s international telecom segment offers services to other telecom providers (“Carrier Services”), such as international long-distance, roaming from other carriers’ customers roaming into the Company’s retail markets, and transport and access services, as well as fixed internet and voice services and retail mobility services to customers in Bermuda, Guyana and the US Virgin Islands. The Company also offers fixed video services in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and the US Virgin Islands. In addition, the international telecom segment offers managed information technology services to enterprise customers.
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| ● | US Telecom. In the United States, the Company offers Carrier Services, including wholesale roaming services, site maintenance and the leasing of critical network infrastructure such as towers and transport facilities, as well as fixed and mobile communications services to the Company’s retail customers in the Southwestern United States, and communications services provided to enterprise customers.
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| ● | Renewable Energy. In India, the Company provides distributed generation solar power to corporate, utility and municipal customers.
​ The following chart summarizes the operating activities of the Company’s principal subsidiaries, the segments in which the Company reports its revenue and the markets it served as of March 31, 2020: ​
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Segment |  | Services |  | Markets |  | Tradenames |
International Telecom |  | Mobility |  | Bermuda, Guyana, US Virgin Islands |  | GTT+, One, Logic, Viya | ​
​ |  | Fixed |  | Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Guyana, US Virgin Islands |  | GTT+, One, Logic, Viya | ​
​ | ​ | Carrier Services | ​ | Bermuda, Guyana, US Virgin Islands | ​ | GTT+, One, Logic, Viya | ​
​ | ​ | Managed Services | ​ | Bermuda, US Virgin Islands | ​ | Fireminds, One, Logic, Viya | ​
US Telecom |  | Mobility |  | United States (rural markets) |  | Choice, Choice NTUA Wireless, Commnet, WestNet, Geoverse | ​
​ | ​ | Fixed | ​ | United States | ​ | Commnet, Choice, Choice NTUA Wireless, Deploycom, WestNet | ​
​ | ​ | Carrier Services | ​ | ​ | ​ | Commnet, Essextel | ​
​ |  | Managed Services |  | ​ |  | Choice | ​
Renewable Energy | ​ | Solar | ​ | India | ​ | Vibrant Energy | ​
​ 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 ​ In March 2020, the World Health Organization declared a novel strain of coronavirus, now referred to as COVID-19, as a pandemic, as the virus spread globally to multiple countries, including the United States and other countries in which the Company has substantial operations. The Company is continuing to monitor and assess the effects of the 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 2020. ​ 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 COVID-19 as of March 31, 2020 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 its goodwill and other long-lived assets, financial assets, valuation allowances for tax assets and revenue recognition. While 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 quarter ended March 31, 2020, the Company’s future assessments of the impacts of COVID-19, as well as other factors, could result in material impacts to the Company’s consolidated financial statements in future reporting periods. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic ultimately impacts the Company’s business, financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, and liquidity may differ from management’s current estimates due to inherent uncertainties regarding the duration and further spread of the outbreak, its severity, actions taken to contain the virus or treat its impact, and how quickly and to what extent economic conditions normalize and more customary operating conditions resume. Actual results may materially differ from these estimates.

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