Note 12 - Leases

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

12. Leases

We lease datacenters, corporate offices and fiber-optic cables under operating leases. The Company does not have any leases classified as finance leases.

Our leases have remaining lease terms of 1 year to 20 years, some of which may include options to extend the leases for up to 5 years, and some of which may include options to terminate the leases within 1 year.

The components of lease expense were as follows (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars):

	*For the three months ended*		*For the three months ended*		*For the nine months ended*		*For the nine months ended*
	*September 30, 2020*		*September 30, 2019*		*September 30, 2020*		*September 30, 2019*
Operating Lease Cost (leases with a total term greater than 12 months)	$	569	$	609	$	1,644	$	2,506
Short-term Lease Cost (leases with a total term of 12 months or less)		76		305		449		708
Variable Lease Cost		164		156		437		520
Total Lease Cost	$	809	$	1,070	$	2,530	$	3,734

Lease Cost is presented in general and administrative expenses and network expenses within our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income.

Information related to leases was as follows (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars):

	*For the three months ended*		*For the three months ended*		*For the nine months ended*		*For the nine months ended*
Supplemental cashflow information:	*September 30, 2020*		*September 30, 2019*		*September 30, 2020*		*September 30, 2019*
Operating Lease - Operating Cash Flows (Fixed Payments)	$	571	$	587	$	1,560	$	2,472
Operating Lease - Operating Cash Flows (Liability Reduction)	$	475	$	466	$	1,273	$	2,117
New ROU Assets - Operating Leases	$	1,030	$	86	$	1,941	$	4,554

Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases:	*September 30, 2020*			*December 31, 2019*
Weighted Average Discount Rate		3.87	%		5.20	%
Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term	8.24 yrs			8.62 yrs

Maturity of lease liability as of September 30, 2020 (Dollar amounts in thousands of U.S. dollars):

	*September 30, 2020*
Remaining of 2020	$	526
2021		2,043
2022		1,976
2023		1,901
2024		1,512
Thereafter		5,259
Total future lease payments		13,217
Less imputed interest		1,846
Total	$	11,371

Operating lease payments include payments under the non-cancellable term and approximately $0.6 million related to options to extend lease terms that are reasonably certain of being exercised.

As of September 30, 2020, we have entered into lease agreements for total payments of$0.5 million that have not yet commenced, and therefore are not included in the lease liability.

In March 2020, the Company modified a corporate office lease to defer its April 2020 rent payment to be paid later in four equal installments from September to December 2020. The modification resulted in an increase to the right of use operating lease asset and right of use operating lease liability of $0.3 million and $0.6 million, respectively, which also included the foreign exchange re-measurement of the right of use asset at the date of modification. Foreign exchange revaluation on both the right of use asset and liability is presented in general and administrative expenses within our consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income.

The Company has elected to use the single exchange rate approach when accounting for lease modifications. Under the single exchange rate approach, the entire right of use asset is revalued at the date of modification in the Company’s functional currency provided the re-measurement is not considered a separate contract or if the re-measurement is related to change the lease term or assessment of a lessee option to purchase the underlying asset being exercised.