Company: SONM
Filing Date: 2025-11-24
Form Type: PREM14A
Source: 0001493152-25-024848
Chunk: 344

Company: SONIM TECHNOLOGIES INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-24
Form: PREM14A
Chunk 344
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 Research and development expenses include costs incurred for the design and configuration activities of new products to conform to the specific functional requirements of the Company’s wireless carrier customers necessary to prepare the product for manufacture. The Company determined that the NRE technical approval costs and the NRE field test costs are contract fulfillment costs and recognizes the associated NRE asset as these costs are incurred. The Company tracks the NRE assets by product and customer, then amortizes the NRE assets to cost of revenues over a period of three or four years, which is management’s estimated product life for each model phone or connected device, starting from the date of the first significant sales.

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Stock-Based Compensation—The Company measures equity classified stock-based awards granted to employees, nonemployee directors, and consultants based on the estimated fair value on the date of grant and recognizes compensation expense of those awards, net of actual forfeitures, on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period, which is generally the vesting period of the respective award. For awards subject to performance conditions, the Company evaluates the probability of achieving each performance condition at each reporting date and begins to recognize expense over the requisite service period when it is deemed probable that a performance condition will be met using the accelerated attribution method. The fair value of each stock option grant is estimated on the date of grant using the Black-Scholes option pricing model, which is described more fully in Note 8. The fair value of each restricted stock award is measured as the fair value per share of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant.

Warranty—The Company provides standard warranty coverage on its accessories, connected devices, and handsets for one, two or three years, providing labor and parts necessary to repair the item during the warranty period. The warranty coverage is an assurance type warranty and thus is not a separate performance obligation. The Company accounts for the estimated warranty cost as a charge to cost of revenues when revenue is recognized. The estimated warranty cost is based on historical product performance and field expenses.

Utilizing actual service records, the Company calculates the average service hours and parts expense per device to determine the estimated warranty charge. The Company updates these estimated charges periodically. The actual product performance and/or field expense profiles may differ, and in those cases the Company adjusts warranty accruals accordingly.

From time to time, the Company ships mobile devices to its customers as seed stock. The seed stock represents extra units of mobile devices beyond the original mobile devices ordered by the customer and are primarily used to facilitate warranty coverage of mobile devices