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KonaTel (OTCQB: KTEL) revenue drops in 2025, shifting to hosted POTS

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KonaTel, Inc. reported a sharp downturn for fiscal 2025. Revenue fell to $8,452,885 from $15,503,251 in 2024, as the company shifted focus toward its hosted services platform and cellular-based wholesale POTS replacement offering.

The company swung to a net loss of $2,647,053, compared with net income of $4,801,601 in 2024, when results were boosted by the sale of a 49% interest in IM Telecom. Total assets declined to $2,464,279 and stockholders’ equity dropped to $384,205 as of December 31, 2025.

Management highlighted more than 700 POTS replacement installations through wholesale partners and sees long-lived recurring revenue potential as major carriers retire copper-wire networks and commercial customers migrate to internet and wireless-based solutions.

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  • Revenue and profitability deteriorated materially, with 2025 revenue dropping to $8.45M from $15.50M and net results moving from a $4.80M profit in 2024 to a $2.65M loss, while equity fell to $0.38M.

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Revenue halved and profits reversed as KonaTel pivots to hosted POTS services.

KonaTel saw revenue decline to $8.45M in 2025 from $15.50M in 2024, while net income of $4.80M turned into a net loss of $2.65M. The prior year benefited from a one-time gain on selling a 49% interest in IM Telecom.

Total assets fell to $2.46M and stockholders’ equity shrank to $0.38M, indicating a much smaller balance sheet and reduced cushion. Operating expenses declined but still exceeded gross profit, producing an operating loss of $2.68M.

Strategically, management is emphasizing wholesale POTS replacement via its hosted platform, citing more than 700 installations and a large addressable market of commercial POTS lines. Actual financial impact will depend on the pace of installations and recurring revenue growth disclosed in future periods.

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure Disclosure
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Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits Exhibits
Financial statements, pro forma financial information, and exhibit attachments filed with this report.
Revenue 2025 $8,452,885 Year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue 2024 $15,503,251 Year ended December 31, 2024 (restated)
Net income (loss) 2025 ($2,647,053) Year ended December 31, 2025
Net income 2024 $4,801,601 Year ended December 31, 2024 (restated)
Stockholders’ equity 2025 $384,205 As of December 31, 2025
Stockholders’ equity 2024 $2,822,181 As of December 31, 2024 (restated)
Installations supported 700+ installations Wholesale POTS replacement through partner network
Sale of IM Telecom interest $9,558,509 Other income from sale of 49% interest in 2024
POTS replacement services financial
"With the advent of POTS replacement services, like ours, carriers and resellers are more aggressively moving their customers"
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"We continue to monitor the FCC’s Lifeline reform, which started to accelerate in Q1-2026."
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"Apeiron Systems ... employing a dynamic “as a service” (“CPaaS/UCaaS/CCaaS/PaaS”) platform."
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Net income (loss) ($2,647,053) vs $4,801,601 in 2024
Basic EPS ($0.06) vs $0.11 in 2024
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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of earliest event reported: April 16, 2026

 

KonaTel, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

N/A

(Former name or address, if changed since last report)

 

Delaware   001-10171   80-0973608

(State or Other Jurisdiction

Of Incorporation)

  (Commission
File Number)
 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification Number)

 

500 N. Central Expressway, Suite 202

Plano, Texas 75074

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

 

(214) 323-8410

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Section 7 - Regulation FD

 

Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

 

See Item 9.01, Exhibit 99.

 

The information contained in this Item 7.01 and in Exhibit 99 is being furnished, and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to liability under such Section 18. Furthermore, the information contained in this Item 7.01 and in Exhibit 99 shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into our filings under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), or the Exchange Act.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits:

 

Exhibit No.   Description of Exhibit
     
99   Press Release dated April 16, 2026.
104   Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)

 

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SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

  KonaTel, Inc.
   
Date: April 16, 2026. By:  /s/ D. Sean McEwen
    D. Sean McEwen
    Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director

 

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Exhibit 99

 

KonaTel Reports Fiscal Year 2025 Results

 

Positioned for Hosted Services Growth in 2026 and Beyond

 

DALLAS, April 16, 2026 — KonaTel, Inc. (OTCQB: KTEL) (www.konatel.com), a voice/data communications holding company, today announced financial results for the year ended December 31, 2025.

 

Full Fiscal Year 2025 Financial Highlights (2025 vs. 2024)

 

Revenues of $8.5 million compared to $15.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024. The decrease in revenue was due to fewer activations within the Company’s Mobile Services segment as a result of reduced government subsidized revenues due to the cancellation of the Affordable Connectivity Program (the “ACP”) on June 1, 2024.

 

Gross profit of $2.61 million or 30.9% gross profit margin compared to $3.41 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, or 22.0% gross profit margin. The increase in gross profit margin percentage was directly related to a focus on higher margin product offerings during the year.

 

GAAP net loss $(2.6) million, or $(0.06) per diluted share, compared to net income $4.8 million, or $0.11 per diluted share, in the year ended December 31, 2024, which includes the IM Telecom 49% ownership sale.

 

Non-GAAP net loss of $(2.5) million, or $(0.06) per diluted share, compared to a non-GAAP net loss of $(3.6) million, or $(0.08) per diluted share, in the year ended December 31, 2024, which excludes the proceeds from the IM Telecom 49% ownership sale in 2024.

 

Cash and cash equivalents declined from $1.7 million in 2024 to $704,867 as of December 31, 2025.

 

Quarterly Financial Highlights (Q4 2025 vs. Q4 2024)

 

Revenues of $1.97 million, a decrease of 17.0% compared to $2.38 million. This decrease was directly related to the decline in government subsidized revenues within the Mobile Services segment.

 

Gross profit was $721,040 or 36.6% gross profit margin, compared to $677,723, or 28.5% gross profit margin. The increase in gross profit was directly related to a decrease in customer acquisition costs and a focus on higher margin product offerings.

 

Total operating expenses decreased from $1.8 million in Q4 2024, compared to $1.2 million in Q4 2025. This decrease was due primarily to decreases in payroll and application development costs.

 

GAAP net loss was $(496,765), or $(0.01) per diluted share compared to $(1.3) million, or $(0.03) per diluted share. The loss for the three months ended December 31, 2025, was impacted by reduced total operating expenses.

 

Non-GAAP net income was $259,171, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net loss of $(113,082), or $(0.00) per diluted share. This improvement came primarily from a decline in stock-based compensation and legal expenses in Q4 of 2025.

 

Sean McEwen, Chairman and CEO of KonaTel stated, “Ending in late 2024 and throughout 2025, we dedicated substantial software development resources to expand our recurring revenue, hosted services telecommunications platform to include a variety of enhanced and new wholesale services. As previously discussed, we have focused our primary development effort on the expansion of our cellular-based wholesale POTS (“Plain Old Telephone Service”) solution.

 

“We continue to monitor the FCC’s Lifeline reform, which started to accelerate in Q1-2026. When complete, we will evaluate our Lifeline opportunities at that time. In the meantime, we spent 2025 on initial deployment of our POTS service, including the development of logistical processes and a national installation/deployment solution tailored specifically for the reseller market. After installation, we collect monthly recurring revenue which we expect to last for many years as these types of commercial communication lines have very little churn.

 

 

 

 

 

“We now support over 700 installations through our wholesale partner network. Now that we have validated our recurring revenue model, we plan to substantially expand our base throughout 2026 and beyond.

 

“From the FCC and industry reports, at the start of 2025, there were estimated to be approximately 40 million traditional (i.e., “copper wire”) POTS lines in the USA. Of those 40 million lines, about 22 million were estimated to support commercial solutions, including elevator phones, monitoring systems, fire alarms, point-of-sale, and other systems that require analog access to the national telephone network.

 

McEwen continued, “After the FCC deregulated mandatory POTS support in 2019, wireline carriers and resellers started to shift their POTS customers to alternative non-wireline solutions. In fact, in January 2026, AT&T announced that it received FCC approval to terminate approximately 30% of its national copper-wire voice network by the end of this year. With the advent of POTS replacement services, like ours, carriers and resellers are more aggressively moving their customers to new internet/wireless based POTS solutions before portions of the national copper wire voice network are discontinued and negatively impact their clients.

 

“With national wireline carriers, including AT&T, Lumen, and Verizon signaling retirement of their copper-wire voice networks through the end of the decade, along with over 2,000 national Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs”) and wireline resellers that need to replace copper wire POTS lines, the opportunity to capture a meaningful portion of the POTS replacement market will continue to accelerate.

 

McEwen concluded, “Rather that pursuing end-user opportunities (i.e., one customer at a time), our wholesale POTS marketing approach is based on customized partnerships with national CLECs and wireline resellers who bring us large scale deployments. We believe this strategy gives a competitive advantage and the fastest path to growth.”

 

About KonaTel

 

KonaTel provides a variety of retail and wholesale telecommunications services including mobile voice/text/data service supported by national U.S. mobile networks, mobile numbers, SMS/MMS services, IoT mobile data service, and a range of hosted cloud services. KonaTel’s subsidiary, Apeiron Systems (www.apeiron.io), is a global cloud communications service provider employing a dynamic “as a service” (“CPaaS/UCaaS/CCaaS/PaaS”) platform. Apeiron provides voice, messaging, SD-WAN, and platform services using its national cloud network. All Apeiron’s services can be accessed through legacy interfaces and rich communications Application Programming Interfaces (“APIs”). KonaTel’s other 51% owned subsidiary, IM Telecom, dba “Infiniti Mobile” (www.infinitimobile.com), is an FCC authorized wireless Lifeline carrier with an FCC approved wireless Lifeline Compliance Plan, authorized to provide government subsidized cellular service to low-income American families. KonaTel is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

 

Safe Harbor Statement

 

This Press Release contains 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. Forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance or results and will not necessarily be accurate indications of the times at, or by, which such performance or results will be achieved. Forward-looking statements are based on information available at the time the statements are made and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from the information expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this Press Release. This Press Release should be considered in light of the disclosures contained in the filings of KonaTel and its “forward-looking statements” in such filings that are contained in the EDGAR Archives of the SEC at www.sec.gov.

 

Contacts

 

D. Sean McEwen

inquiries@konatel.com

 

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KonaTel, Inc.

Consolidated Balance Sheets

 

   December 31, 2025   December 31,2024 
       (Restated) 
Assets          
Current Assets          
Cash and Cash Equivalents  $704,867   $1,679,345 
Accounts Receivable, Net   284,167    1,533,015 
Inventory, Net   272,229    163,063 
Prepaid Expenses   109,442    94,496 
Other Current Assets   15,063    112,170 
Total Current Assets   1,385,768    3,582,089 
           
Property and Equipment, Net   4,453    15,128 
           
Other Assets          
Intangible Assets, Net   634,251    634,251 
Right of Use Asset   217,432    319,549 
Notes Receivable   150,000    1,000,000 
Other Assets   72,375    74,328 
Total Other Assets   1,074,058    2,028,128 
Total Assets  $2,464,279   $5,625,345 
           
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity          
Current Liabilities          
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses  $1,668,244   $2,277,597 
Right of Use Operating Lease Obligation - Current   51,736    113,740 
Income Tax Payable   184,051    184,051 
Total Current Liabilities   1,904,031    2,575,388 
           
Long Term Liabilities          
Right of Use Operating Lease Obligation - Long Term   176,043    227,776 
Total Long Term Liabilities   176,043    227,776 
Total Liabilities   2,080,074    2,803,164 
Commitments and Contingencies          
Stockholders’ Equity          
Common stock, $.001 par value, 50,000,000 shares authorized 43,979,064 outstanding and issued at December 31, 2025 and 43,503,658 outstanding and issued at December 31, 2024   43,979    43,504 
Additional Paid In Capital   10,424,369    10,215,767 
Accumulated Deficit   (10,084,143)   (7,437,090)
Total Stockholders’ Equity   384,205    2,822,181 
Total Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity  $2,464,279   $5,625,345 

 

 

 

 

KonaTel, Inc.

Consolidated Statements of Operations

 

   Years Ended December 31, 
   2025   2024 
       (Restated) 
Revenue  $8,452,885   $15,503,251 
Cost of Revenue   5,840,675    12,088,944 
Gross Profit   2,612,210    3,414,307 
           
Operating Expenses          
Payroll and Related Expenses   3,090,237    4,317,814 
Stock Option Expense   126,578    992,735 
Operating and Maintenance   8,082    6,086 
Credit Loss   43,558    1,448 
Professional and Other Expenses   708,781    1,646,755 
Utilities and Facilities   177,946    210,438 
Depreciation and Amortization   10,525    9,056 
General and Administrative   292,582    213,149 
Marketing and Advertising   13,580    99,759 
Application Development Costs   716,910    140,880 
Taxes and Insurance   101,813    315,258 
Total Operating Expenses   5,290,592    7,953,378 
           
Operating (Loss)   (2,678,382)   (4,539,071)
           
Other Income and Expense          
Sale of Interest in IM Telecom (49%)   -    9,558,509 
Interest Expense   (539)   (104,737)
Other Income, net   31,868    70,951 
Total Other Income and Expenses   31,329    9,524,723 
           
Income Before Income Taxes   (2,647,053)   4,985,652 
Income Tax Expense   -    184,051 
Net Income (Loss)  $(2,647,053)  $4,801,601 
           
Earnings (Loss) per Share          
Basic  $(0.06)  $0.11 
Diluted  $(0.06)  $0.11 
Weighted Average Outstanding Shares          
Basic   43,706,214    43,402,219 
Diluted   43,706,214    43,526,417 

 

 

 

 

FAQ

How did KonaTel (KTEL) perform financially in fiscal year 2025?

KonaTel reported weaker 2025 results, with revenue of $8,452,885 and a net loss of $2,647,053. In 2024, it generated $15,503,251 in revenue and net income of $4,801,601, helped by a gain on selling a 49% interest in IM Telecom.

Why did KonaTel swing from profit in 2024 to a loss in 2025?

KonaTel moved from net income of $4,801,601 in 2024 to a net loss of $2,647,053 in 2025 primarily because 2024 included a large gain from selling a 49% interest in IM Telecom, while 2025 reflected lower revenue and ongoing operating losses.

What was KonaTel’s revenue trend between 2024 and 2025?

KonaTel’s revenue declined significantly, falling to $8,452,885 in 2025 from $15,503,251 in 2024. Management attributes its focus to expanding a recurring revenue hosted services platform and wholesale POTS replacement offerings rather than legacy revenue streams.

What is KonaTel’s strategy for hosted POTS replacement services?

KonaTel is expanding a cellular-based wholesale POTS replacement platform targeting commercial lines such as elevators, alarms, and point-of-sale systems. It supports over 700 installations through wholesale partners and aims to scale recurring revenue as copper-wire networks are retired.

How strong is KonaTel’s balance sheet at December 31, 2025?

At December 31, 2025, KonaTel reported total assets of $2,464,279 and total liabilities of $2,080,074, resulting in stockholders’ equity of $384,205. This represents a substantial decrease from equity of $2,822,181 at the end of 2024.

What role did the IM Telecom transaction play in KonaTel’s 2024 results?

In 2024, KonaTel recorded $9,558,509 from the sale of a 49% interest in IM Telecom. This one-time gain significantly boosted 2024 other income and helped produce net income of $4,801,601, contrasting with the 2025 net loss without a similar transaction.

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