DCLT Data Call Technologies Inc (PK)

PART I

Cautionary Statement regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This Annual Report on Form 10-K of Data Call Technologies, Inc. (hereinafter the “Company”, the “Registrant”, “we”, “us”, or “Data Call”) includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Registrant has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the Registrant that may cause its actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “would,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “continue,” or the negative of such terms or other similar expressions. Factors that might cause or contribute to such a discrepancy include, but are not limited to, those described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K/A and in the Registrant’s other Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of our assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in the forward-looking statements. For a more detailed discussion of the foregoing risks and uncertainties, see “Risk Factors”.

ITEM 1. DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS. Table of Contents

Data Call Technologies, Inc. was incorporated under the laws of the State of Nevada as Data Call Wireless, Inc. on April 4, 2002, and is sometimes referred to herein as “we”, “us”, “our”, “Data Call” or the “Company.” On March 1, 2006, we changed our name to Data Call Technologies, Inc. Since our inception, we have been engaged in the business of offering real-time information/content via digital signage and kiosk networks to our clients, who we consider to be our partners rather than simply as customers.

Our mission is to continue to exponentially grow our offering of our proprietary subscription services by integrating cutting-edge information/content delivery solutions to and within the control of retail and commercial resellers CMS manufacturers and end-users. Our Company’s services put its clients in control of real-time news, sports, weather and other dynamic content, displayed within one or multiple locations, spanning from local, regional to global end points, through Digital Signage and Kiosk networks.

Our business plan continues to focus on growing our client base by effectively offering this real-time and licensed information/content displayed through Digital Signage and Kiosk networks, seeking to improve the delivery, security, and variety of information/content services to the growing Digital Signage and Kiosk community.

Overview - What Is Digital Signage?

You’ve seen Digital Signage, it’s everywhere. Whether you’re shopping, trying to find your way through the airport, in a taxi, or even along the highway on your way home, it’s there. LED and LCD displays are continually replacing printed marketing materials such as signs and placards, as well as the old-school whiteboard, for product and corporate branding, marketing and assisted selling. The appeal of instantly updating product videos and promotional messages on one or thousands of remotely located displays is driving the adoption of this growing marketing platform. Digital Signage presentations are typically comprised of repeating loops (playlists) of information used to brand, market or sell the owner’s products and services or corporate messaging. But once viewed, this information becomes repetitive and the viewer tunes it out, resulting in low retention of the client’s message. As digital signage has matured, the characteristics of the digital signage presentations have taken center-stage requiring fresh, relevant and dynamic content mixed within the marketing messages. Dynamic Content is key.

Digital Signage Matures

We are experiencing the Digital Signage Industry (back then called connected signage) steadily maturing and Data Call, through its multiple industry specific relationships, continues its engagement and influence in the direction of the Digital Signage industry. Data Call has been performing in this space for well over a decade. Our company has staked claim in assisting the industry’s birth and maintains its prime position to enjoy and benefit from this industry’s growth.

Early on, a business desiring to achieve commercial benefits from the use of digital signage was often confronted by a plethora of hardware and software solutions, all offering their own “standard” of what digital signage should be. Typical customers for digital signage were most-often offered expensive hardware to present digital signage with a very minimalistic content management solution (CMS), lacking the full package of content with which to build and tailor their systems for their target customer base.

Those early adopters of digital signage, often had to realize that their digital signage hardware vendors lacked the acumen to fully provide best practice of content strategy. The tools to manage content were provided, but not the content. From our inception, Data Call recognized that early signage providers and their typical customers lacked that key component - the offering of a comprehensive content package.

As the cost of platforms supporting infrastructure and digital displays have fallen significantly, digital signage has become more accessible to a wider range of potential users. Companies in our industry have come to understand, as we have preached since our inception, that the cost of Data Call’s integrated, content-flexible subscription service is extremely cost effective - and licensed for redistribution over their networks. The benefit that Data Call continues to provide our client base, in the form of ongoing content development, is expected to continue to provide our customers with desirable user-friendly content and content services.

The Need for Speed - Active Content

Active and dynamic content is the integral part of digital signage presentations that must be constantly updated with timely and relevant information to attract and retain target viewers to the products, services, or messaging offered by typical Digital Signage clients. For instance, a typical presentation may contain ten 15-second loops that provide the primary message of the presentation, but the active dynamic content, such as that provided by Data Call, is updated with new information constantly throughout the day. Those seeking to add active and dynamic content to their digital signage presentations are educated and advised to subscribe to Data Call’s dynamic content rather than attempting to illegally “cut and paste” or “scrape” broadcast content or RSS Feeds “not for commercial use” of others into their digital signage presentation.

By integrating Data Call’s content as a meaningful component of digital signage presentations, our clients can legally provide the entertainment and information content necessary to enhance the target customer’s information retention without disrupting the core message of the presentation. Some of the Infotainment categories provided by Data Call include news, sports, weather, financial data, the latest traffic alerts, among many others. With such a broad range of offerings, our clients have access to this active and dynamic content they need, regardless of the target customers and market they are addressing.

Our Business Opportunities

Our many opportunities for client development in the digital signage industry are growing exponentially. While many companies in our industry have traditionally outsourced all or part of their content creation, Data Call serves as a provider of dynamic active content to clients on a tailored basis. Whether a client desires general entertainment information for customers, such as news, sports, stock market quotes, etc. or location-specific content, such as local weather, traffic, etc., our research and experience has validated our long-held mantra that dynamic content draws and retains our clients’ target viewers to their digital signage and keeps viewers engaged throughout the client presentation.

Since our inception, management has developed and maintains strong relationships working with the leaders and associations of the digital signage industry. Collaborative efforts have successfully created, now industry standard, data formats and methods to facilitate the delivery of our dynamic content more easily and efficiently for integration into most hardware and software products.

Partners, Not Customers

Data Call’s enduring approach to our clients is to build long-lasting partnerships by creating client relationships that we believe are unique in the digital signage industry. We understand that each client has their own content requirements. In developing dynamic content for individual digital signage clients, we have identified three content-related factors: (i) reliability; (ii) objectivity; and (iii) ease of implementation. To address the reliability requirement, we are engaged in multiple license arrangements with the leading providers of news, weather, sports and financial information, among other client-desired content rather than either: (i) downloading and repackaging content sourced from the Internet (which may be illegal); or (ii) Scraping RSS feeds from news organizations (which may come and go at the provider’s whim - not to mention this practice is also illegal).

Licensing data from these premier providers has also served us by satisfying the second criteria, objectivity. Because it is commonly recognized that Internet content may often be unreliable, unverifiable and biased, early on, we determined that we could not simply use unfiltered Internet content for delivery to our clients. Our proper licensing of data facilitates the standard of delivery and implementation by our client/partners. Data Call does the heavy lifting by taking care of not just the licensing, but the proper formatting of that data for consumption by the industry utilizing our multiple formats offered. Data Call has understood that it’s Digital Signage and Kiosk clients needed a more complete service than to endeavor the sourcing of active content from multiple vendors. As a result, our flexible content plans permit our clients to do “one stop shopping” for all dynamic content requirements by licensing subscriptions through us.

We empower our clients to receive customized dynamic content subscriptions to be displayed in a multitude of ways (banners, tickers, scrolls or visualizations integrated with the overall presentations). We have created “Playlist Ready” offerings and produced and distribute multiple sets of common data layouts in the industry-standard formats such as XML (extensible markup language), JSON 　(JavaScript Object Notation), JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), RSS (Rich Site Summary, often called Really Simple Syndication), MRSS (Media RSS) and MPEG (Moving Pictures Expert Group). With the advent of HTML5 (5 ^th version of Hypertext Markup Language), even more delivery methods have been made available to our clients, many of whom have found any one or a combination of these formats to be easily integrated into their products. Nevertheless, we have also produced customized data formats and visualizations to the exact and specific requirements of our clients/partners, which, we believe ensures a higher level of reliability and ease of implementation.

Market demand, opportunity and technology converge at a single point in time, and Data Call continues hold its position. Our integrity persistently builds our business. Digital signage platforms steadily evolve to meet mass market requirements, costs for hardware and software are falling to the point of becoming commodities and the markets for digital signage are clarifying through historical trial and error.

Business Operations

March of 2017, we released our Direct Lynk Manager (DLManager) customer portal at the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. The DLManager incorporates In the Direct Lynk Media platform with major enhancements and options that enable the client to self-serve in a webstore environment. This is a moderated space that allows proper “white glove” treatment by our staff that our clients have come to expect and appreciate. Once the client is comfortable with navigation of the portal, they may then set up multiple groups and displays within their account for testing results in a demo fashion free of charge. Upon completion of their content selections and distribution points, the client may purchase the proper number of licenses needed to support their sections through various plans offered within the portal.

Some of the current types of data and information, for which a client may subscribe to through the Direct Lynk System, in multiple formats include:

We continually add different types of content per client requests. We provide our DLM services to our clients and other potential customers through the Internet. All DLM Services are real-time information services providing a wide range of up-to-date information for display. These services are designed to work concurrently with customers’ existing digital signage systems. The Direct Lynk Messenger product is scheduled to be sunset within the next 12 months, as DLMedia gradually moves into a legacy status with the DLManager portal taking the forefront.

Since our inception in 2002, we have come to deeply understand that this industry provides an exciting platform for advertisers, including our clients, to promote, inform, educate, and entertain their customers and employees regarding their business products, services, and corporate communications. Through Digital Signage, and Digital Out of Home (DOOH) businesses can use a single display or a complex, networked series of displays and video walls to market their products and services directly at their facilities and elsewhere to their customers and employees in real time. Additionally, because the core of Digital Signage advertising takes place in real time, businesses can change their marketing and messaging efforts literally from moment to moment and over the course of a day or such other period as they may determine.

We believe that the ability of our clients to display in real-time, the information and content we deliver, better allows our clients to tailor their products, services, advertising and messaging to individual and target-group customers, thereby advertising and offering, for example, inventory and sales discounts that may be designed to appeal to those individual customers and target customer groups, increasing sales and revenues. We believe that the benefits of on-site, real-time Digital Signage displays compared to regular print or video advertising are substantial and include, among other advantages, being able to immediately change digitally-displayed images/advertisements depending on our client’s customers own situation, not simply being restricted by in-store print circulars produced days, weeks or even months in advance, which may become stale or obsolete prior to or shortly after publication and dissemination.

We specialize in enabling our clients to create their own Digital Signage content feeds which are delivered online directly to their chosen, electronic digital display devices at their various facilities. The only requirements our clients must have are: (i) a supported, third-party Digital Signage or Kiosk equipment solution - through a CMS or a standalone player, or similar device, which receives the data from our servers online; and (ii) an Internet connection. Our DLM System is supported by various, readily available third-party systems, varying in costs from inexpensive monthly cloud-based licenses to much more extensive and expensive content management/playback systems. Our Systems allow customers to select from their pre-determined data and information subscriptions offered. We enable our clients to also select location specific content they wish to receive based on how and where their Digital Signage network is configured.

In December of 2017 the company completed the arduous task of reconstructing our back-end systems architecture. This task was initialized to exploit the latest technology advances within our space, utilizing our data center efficiencies to further streamline our processes. One of the greater culminations of this effort yielded the Data Call API (Application Programming Interface) allowing our enterprise channel partners to embed our products within their offerings to further widen our reach.

Data Call continues to grow its client base through relationships that are gained through industry events such as seminars and trade shows. Our company has become a leader in syndicated content and custom content development for Digital Signage. Our licensed content is utilized on thousands of screens in hundreds of deployments. We are truly excited of our continued growth through our resellers, CMS manufacturers and end users.

Dependence On A Few Major Customers

At December 31, 2018, we had customer/subscribers for our Direct Lynk System, which customers are relatively small, paying cumulatively an average monthly fee to Data Call of up to $1,000. We also have several larger new potential partner/clients that are testing our Digital Link Media products, and we expect that some or all of them may be expected to become significant clients in the near future. During the year ended December 31, 2018, we were dependent upon two major customers, who accounted for approximately 74% of our revenues. During the year ended December 31, 2017, we were dependent upon two major customers, who accounted for approximately 81% of our revenues.

Notwithstanding the forgoing, based upon recent communications with several potential clients who are volume users and/or wholesale distributors of digital signage content and content management systems, we believe that during 2019, several new clients will contribute significant revenue which should materially reduce our reliance on our three major customers to less than 50%. As a result, we believe that that we should become far less reliant on a few business clients for our source of revenue. However, there can be no assurance that our belief will prove to be justified or, if justified, that such trend will continue for any future period, if at all.

Employees

At December 31, 2018, we had 4 full-time employees, including our two executive officers. Depending upon our level of our growth, if any, we expect that we may or will be required to hire additional personnel in the areas of sales and marketing, software design, research and development and otherwise, during 2018 and continuing into 2019. However, we will be dependent upon revenue growth and profitability, of which there can be no assurance, to fund any increase in staff. None of our employees are covered by a selective bargaining agreement

Estimate Of The Amount Spent On Research And Development Activities

Since our inception in April 2002, the majority of our expenditures have been on research and development to create our Direct Lynk Messenger Systems, including software and hardware development and testing costs. The amount spent on this research and development from inception through December 31, 2018 is approximately $3,000,000.

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS. Table of Contents

Investing in our common stock, while providing investors with an equity ownership interest, involves a high degree of risk, including the potential loss of all or a significant portion of their investment. Shareholders will be subject to risks inherent in our business relative to, among other things, general economic and industry conditions, market conditions and competition. The value of the investment may increase or decrease and could result in a loss, the size and extent of which cannot be predicted. An investor should carefully consider the following factors as well as other information contained in this annual report on Form 10-K for our year-ended December 31, 2018.

This annual report on Form 10-K also contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including the risk factors described below and the other factors described elsewhere in this Form 10-K.

Since our inception, we have had a history of generating operating losses. However, in the past two calendar years, we have reversed that trend and have been able to generate positive cash flow from operations. We anticipate being profitable in the near future. We currently expect to significantly increase our revenues by increasing our client base and/or generating additional revenue streams by offering new and enhanced products and services. However, there can be no assurance that our plan will be successful, either in whole or in part. If we fail to grow our revenues, our ability to achieve and fulfill our business plan may be delayed, which could adversely impact our results of operations.

Unforeseen events.

There can be no assurance that unforeseen events, such as: (i) the length of time necessary to generate increasing market acceptance of our Direct Lynk Systems; (ii) any unexpected material increased development costs; (iii), the general economy in the markets where we offer our Direct Lynk Systems.

We have competition.

There are many different sectors in the Digital Signage industry, including but not limited to (i) content Management providers, (ii) content Creation services, (III) hardware manufacturers, (iv) network management providers and (v) installation service providers. These sectors are extremely vas and well capitalized. We are in the content sector within a more specific niche of providing subscriptions of dynamic content. We provide subscription service of a wide variety of dynamic infotainment to the industry. As the leader in our subsector of the industry, other companies have attempted to duplicate us and we expect competition to increase in the future. To be competitive, we must continue to invest significant resources in research and development, sales and marketing and customer support. Few have sufficient resources to make these investments or are unable to make the technological advances necessary to continue to remain the leader, our competitive position may suffer. Increased competition could result in price reductions, fewer customer orders, reduced margins and loss of market share. Our failure to compete successfully against current or future competitors could adversely affect our business and financial condition.

We rely on key management personnel.

We are highly dependent upon the services and efforts of key persons, as follows: Tim Vance, our founder and full-time CEO and Chief Operating Officer. Our ability to operate and implement our business plan is heavily dependent upon the continued services of Mr. Vance to grow as anticipated, our ability to attract, retain and motivate qualified, newly-hired, full and part-time personnel. The loss of Mr. Vance, in particular, and our inability, in the future to hire and retain qualified sales and marketing, software engineers and additional management personnel, as needed, could have a material adverse effect on our business and operations. We do not have “key man” life insurance on Mr. Vance.

We are highly dependent upon our ability to successfully market Direct Lynk System to subscribers.

We are dependent on the abilities of our sales and marketing activities to generate new clients for subscriptions to our Direct Lynk Systems and to broaden our customer base. While the number of paying subscribers for our Direct Lynk System increased during December 31, 2018 compared to December 31, 2017, there can be no assurance that our sales and marketing efforts will be able to market acceptance for our Direct Lynk System and increase our customer base to a level that will permit continued profitable operations. If our sales and marketing cannot continue to achieve market acceptance for our Direct Lynk Systems, and increase our customer base to a level that will permit profitable operations. If our sales and marketing efforts are unable to continue to generate new customers, we may not be able to generate sufficient revenues to continue with planned research and development on new products and improve our current products.

Difficult and volatile conditions in the capital, credit and commodities markets and general economic uncertainty have prompted companies to cut capital spending worldwide and could continue to materially adversely affect our business.

Disruptions in the economy and constraints in the capital markets have caused companies to reduce or delay capital investment. Some of our prospective customers may cancel or delay spending on the development or roll-out of technology projects with us due to continuing economic uncertainty. Our financial position, results of operations and cash flow could continue to be materially adversely affected by continuing difficult economic conditions and significant volatility in the capital. The continuing impact that these factors might have on us and our business is uncertain and cannot be predicted at this time. Such economic conditions have accentuated each of the risks we face and magnified their potential effect on us and our business. The difficult conditions in these markets and the overall economy affect our business in a number of ways. For example:

●     Market volatility has exerted downward pressure on our stock price, which may make it more difficult for us to raise additional capital in the future. Economic conditions could continue to result in our customers experiencing financial difficulties or electing to limit spending because of the declining economy, which may result in decreased revenue for us.

●     Difficult economic conditions have adversely affected certain industries in particular, including the automotive and restaurant industries, in which we have major customers. We could also experience lower than anticipated order levels from current customers, cancellations of existing but unfulfilled orders, and extended payment terms. Economic conditions could materially impact us through insolvency of our suppliers or current customers.

●     Economic conditions combined with the weakness in the credit markets could continue to lead to increased price competition for our products, and higher overhead costs as a percentage of revenue.

If the markets in which we participate experience further economic downturns or slow recovery, this could continue to negatively impact our revenue generation, margins and operating expenses, and consequently have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. If customer demand were to decline further, we might be unable to adjust expense levels rapidly enough in response to falling demand or without changing the way in which we operate. If revenue were to decrease further and we were unable to adequately reduce expense levels, we might incur significant losses that could adversely affect our overall financial performance and the market price of our common stock.

Potential future government regulation of the Internet may adversely affect our business.

We are dependent upon the Internet in connection with our business operations and the delivery of content for our Direct Lynk Systems. The United States Federal Communications Commission (the “FCC”) does not currently regulate companies that provide services over the Internet, as it does common carriers or tele-communications service providers. Notwithstanding the current state of the FCC’s rules and regulations, the potential jurisdiction of the FCC over the Internet is broad and if the FCC should determine in the future to regulate the Internet, our operations, as well as those of other Internet service providers, could be adversely. Compliance with future government regulation of the Internet could result in increased costs and because of our limited resources; it would have a material adverse effect on our business operations and operating results and financial condition.

We are dependent on the security of the Internet to serve our customers; any security breaches or other Internet difficulties could adversely affect our business.

We offer the majority of our services through, the secure transmission of confidential information over public networks are a critical element of our operations. A party who is able to circumvent security measures (hacker) could misappropriate proprietary information or cause interruptions in our operations. If we are unable to prevent unauthorized access to our users’ information and transactions, our customer relationships could be irreparably harmed. Although we currently have in place security measures that we feel are adequate to protect our business and those of our customers, these measures may not prevent future security breaches. Nature’s events placed on our systems could cause our systems to fail or cause our systems to operate at speeds unacceptable to our users, in which event we could lose customers and experience a material impact on our financial condition.

We must rely on other companies to maintain the Internet infrastructure if we hope to be successful.

Our future success depends, in large part, on other companies maintaining the Internet system infrastructure, including maintaining a reliable network backbone that provides adequate speed, data capacity and security. If the Internet continues to experience anticipated significant growth in the number of users, frequency of use and amount of data transmitted, as well as the number of malicious viruses and worms introduced onto the Internet by hackers and others, the infrastructure of the Internet may be unable to support the demands placed on it at any particular time or from time-to-time. Because we rely heavily on the Internet and our limited capital, any disruption of the Internet could adversely affect us to a greater degree than our competitors and other users of the Internet.

Our website and systems are hosted by a third party and we are vulnerable to disruptions or other events that are beyond our control.

Our website and systems are hosted by a third party. We are dependent on our systems’ ability to distribute information over the Internet to customers. If our systems fail, it would harm our reputation, resulting in a loss of current and potential future customers and could cause us to breach existing agreements. Our success depends, in part, on the performance, reliability and availability of our services, which in turn are dependent on our third-party provider. Our systems and operations could be damaged or interrupted by fire, flood, power loss, telecommunications failure, Internet breakdown, break-in, earthquake and similar events. We would face significant damage as a result of these events. As a result, we may be unable to develop or successfully manage the infrastructure necessary to meet current or future demands for reliability and scalability of our systems, which would have a negative impact on our business and financial conditions.

Our Direct Lynk Systems use sophisticated software which could be found to contain bugs or could be compromised by viruses. While we have not experienced any material bugs and viruses to date, if such event could occur, it could be costly for us to identify and repair, and until such bugs or viruses, if any, are fixed, they could cause interruptions in our service, which could cause our reputation to decline and/or cause us to lose clients.

Risk Factors Related to Our Common Stock

We are subject to financial reporting and other requirements for which our accounting, other management systems and resources may not be adequately prepared.

As a public company, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses, including costs associated with reporting requirements and corporate governance requirements, including requirements under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and rules implemented by the SEC.

If we identify significant deficiencies or material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting that we cannot remediate in a timely manner, investors and others may lose confidence in the reliability of our financial statements, and the trading price of our common stock and ability to obtain any necessary equity or debt financing could suffer. In addition, if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to rely on our internal control over financial reporting in connection with its audit of our financial statements, and if it is unable to devise alternative procedures in order to satisfy itself as to the material accuracy of our financial statements and related disclosures, it is possible that we would be unable to file our annual report with the SEC, which could also adversely affect the trading price of our common stock and our ability to secure any necessary additional financing.

In addition, the foregoing regulatory requirements could make it difficult or costly for us to obtain certain types of insurance, including directors’ and officers’ liability insurance, and we may be forced to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. The impact of these events could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors, on board committees or as executive officers.

Market prices of our equity securities can fluctuate significantly.

The market prices of our common stock may change significantly in response to various factors and events beyond our control, including the following:

●     the other risk factors described in this Form 10-K;

●     changing demand for our products and services and ability to develop and generate sufficient revenues;

●     any delay in our ability to generate operating revenue or net income;

●     general conditions in markets we operate in;

●     issuance of a significant number of shares, whether for compensation under employee stock options, conversion of debt, potential acquisitions, additional financing or otherwise.

There is only a limited trading market for our common stock.

Our Common Stock is subject to quotation on the OTC market. There has only been limited trading activity in our common stock. There can be no assurance that a more active trading market will commence in our securities as a result of the increasing operations of Data Call. Further, in the event that an active trading market commences, there can be no assurance as to the level of any market price of our shares of common stock, whether any trading market will provide liquidity to investors, or whether any trading market will be sustained.

State blue sky registration; potential limitations on resale of our securities.

Our common stock, the class of the Company’s securities that is registered under the Exchange Act, has not been registered for resale under the Securities Act of 1933 or the “blue sky” laws of any state. The holders of such shares and persons, who desire to purchase them in any trading market that might develop in the future, should be aware that there may be significant state blue-sky law restrictions upon the ability of investors to resell our securities. Accordingly, investors should consider the secondary market for the Company’s securities to be a limited one.

It is the intention of the management to seek coverage and publication of information regarding the Company in an accepted publication which permits a manual exemption. This manual exemption permits a security to be distributed in a particular state without being registered if the Company issuing the security has a listing for that security in a securities manual recognized by the state. However, it is not enough for the security to be listed in a recognized manual. The listing entry must contain (1) the names of issuers, officers, and directors, (2) an issuer’s balance sheet, and (3) a profit and loss statement for either the fiscal year preceding the balance sheet or for the most recent fiscal year of operations. Furthermore, the manual exemption is a nonissuer exemption restricted to secondary trading transactions, making it unavailable for issuers selling newly issued securities.

Most of the accepted manuals are those published in Standard and Poor’s, Moody’s Investor Service, Fitch’s Investment Service, and Best’s Insurance Reports, and many states expressly recognize these manuals. A smaller number of states declare that they “recognize securities manuals” but do not specify the recognized manuals. The following states do not have any provisions and therefore do not expressly recognize the manual exemption: Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont and Wisconsin.

Dividends unlikely on our common stock.

We do not expect to pay dividends for the foreseeable future. The payment of dividends, if any, will be contingent upon our future revenues and earnings, capital requirements and general financial condition. The payment of any dividends will be within the discretion of our board of directors. It is our intention to retain all earnings for use in our business operations and accordingly, we do not anticipate that the Company will declare any dividends in the foreseeable future.

Compliance with Penny Stock Rules.

Our securities will initially be considered a “penny stock” as defined in the Exchange Act and the rules there under, since the price of our shares of common stock is less than $5. Unless our common stock is otherwise excluded from the definition of “penny stock,” the penny stock rules apply with respect to that particular security. The penny stock rules require a broker-dealer prior to a transaction in penny stock not otherwise exempt from the rules, to deliver a standardized risk disclosure document prepared by the SEC that provides information about penny stocks and the nature and level of risks in the penny stock market. The broker-dealer also must provide the customer with current bid and offer quotations for the penny stock, the compensation of the broker-dealer and its sales person in the transaction, and monthly account statements showing the market value of each penny stock held in the customer’s account. In addition, the penny stock rules require that the broker-dealer, not otherwise exempt from such rules, must make a special written determination that the penny stock is suitable for the purchaser and receive the purchaser’s written agreement to the transaction. These disclosure rules have the effect of reducing the level of trading activity in the secondary market for a stock that becomes subject to the penny stock rules. So long as the common stock is subject to the penny stock rules, it may become more difficult to sell such securities. Such requirements, if applicable, could additionally limit the level of trading activity for our common stock and could make it more difficult for investors to sell our common stock.

Shares eligible for future sale.

As of December 31, 2018, the Registrant had 155,997,103, shares of common stock issued and outstanding of which 46,861,850 shares are “restricted” as that term is defined under the Securities Act, and in the future may be sold in compliance with Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Rule 144 generally provides that a person holding restricted securities for a period of six months may sell every three months in brokerage transactions and/or market-maker transactions an amount equal to the greater of one (1%) percent of (a) the Company’s issued and outstanding common stock or (b) the average weekly trading volume of the common stock during the four calendar weeks prior to such sale. Rule 144 also permits, under certain circumstances, the sale of shares without any quantity limitation by a person who has not been an affiliate of the Company during the three months preceding the sale and who has satisfied a six-month holding period. However, all of the current shareholders of the Company owning 5% or more of the issued and outstanding common stock are subject to Rule 144 limitations on selling.

The Nevada Revised Statutes and our articles of incorporation authorize to issue additional shares of common stock and shares of preferred stock, which preferred stock having such rights, preferences and privileges as our board of directors shall determine.

Pursuant to our Articles of Incorporation, as amended and restated, we have authorized capital stock of 200,000,000 shares of common stock and 10,000,000 shares of preferred stock. As of the December 31, 2018, we have 155,997,103 shares of common stock issued and outstanding and 800,000 shares of preferred A stock issued and outstanding and 10,000 shares of preferred B stock issued and outstanding. Our Board of Directors has the ability, without shareholder approval; to issue a significant number of additional shares of common stock without shareholder approval, which if issued would cause substantial dilution to our then common shareholders. Additionally, shares of preferred stock may be issued by our Board of Directors at their sole discretion and without shareholder approval, in such classes and series, having such rights, including voting rights and super-majority voting rights, and such preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, powers and privileges as determined by our Board of Directors from time-to-time. If shares of preferred stock are issued by our Board of Directors having super-majority voting rights, or having conversion rights to convert their preferred stock into a number of shares of common stock at a ratio of greater that one-for-one, holders of our common stock would be subject to dilution that may be significant.

During the quarter ended September 30, 2014 the Company amended its Articles of Incorporation to authorize 1,000,000 shares of Series B Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 (the “Series B Stock”), 10,000 shares of which were issued to our CEO, Tim Vance. The Series B Stock, which may be issued in one or more series by the terms of which may be and may include preferences as to dividends and liquidation, conversion, redemption rights and sinking fund provisions, has the right to vote, in the aggregate, on all shareholder matters, equal to 51% of the total shareholder vote on any and all shareholder matters. The Series B Stock is entitled to this super-majority, 51% voting right no matter how many shares of common stock or other voting stock of Data Call stock is issued and outstanding in the future. The voting rights of the Series B Stock make a change in control without the approval of Timothy Vance, our CEO, impossible.

ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS. Table of Contents

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ITEM 2. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY. Table of Contents

On January 9, 2013, the Company entered into a one-year lease agreement with Bridwell Property Group Inc., our landlord, for office space of 700 square feet located at 700 S Friendswood Drive, Suite E., Friendswood, TX 77546. The property changed ownership on February 1, 2014 and the Company and the new owner, Berkenmeier Properties, LLC mutually agreed to extend the lease for additional years at the same monthly rent of $900. We believe that these facilities are sufficient for our present level of operations including the growth we anticipate during the next twelve months. In the event that we need additional space, we believe that it will be available in the same property at comparable rates.

ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. Table of Contents

None.

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURE. Table of Contents

None.