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Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the PC-Tel fourth quarter 2008 conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will open the call for your questions. Instructions for queueing up will be provided at that time. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded for replay purposes. I will now turn the all over to Jack Seller, Director of Marketing.
- Director, Marketing
Thank you for joining us today, February 26th, 2009, for the PC-Tel financial results conference call for the fourth quarter 2008. On today's call will be Marty Singer, Chairman and CEO and John Schoen, Financial Officer, and Bob Suastegui, Vice President of Sales.
Today's call will contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Comments concerning our future financial performance and expectations regarding the future growth of our wireless RF business are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Safe Harbor. Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of risks and uncertainties including the ability to successfully grow our wireless products business, implement new technologies and obtain protection for the related IP. Additional discussion of these other factors affecting the Company's business and prospects is contained in the periodic SEC filings. These statements are made only as of today and we disclaim any obligation to update information, to reflect the subsequent events.
I would now like to turn the conference call over to Marty Singer.
- Chairman, CEO
Thank you, Jack and good afternoon to all of you. For those of you who have not had a chance to read our press release, I would like to recap some of the non-GAAP highlights from the quarter on a continuing operations basis.
We achieved revenue of $18.3 million, gross profit margin was 47%. Non-GAAP operating margin was 12%. Non-GAAP net income was $568,000, or $0.03 per diluted share. And cash and investments were $78 million. I would also like to add that in January PC-Tel made another small strategic acquisition. We acquired Wi-Sys Communications, a Canadian based company specializing in GPS, antenna and receiver technology. I will discuss that acquisition later in the call.
At this point, I would like to turn the call over to John Schoen, our CFO who will discuss our financial performance in some detail. Later I will comment on our progress over the past quarter and what we see in the future. John?
- CFO
Thank you, Marty. And good afternoon, or evening to everyone.
Our investors will note that the Company presents non-GAAP financial information in its earnings releases. The Company believes that the presentation of operating profit and net income excluding restructuring charges, noncash based expenses including stock and stock option-based compensation, amortization, and impairment of intangible assets and goodwill related to the Company's acquisitions, gains or losses on the sales product lines and noncash base income tax expense provides meaningful supplemental information to both management and investors.
The non-GAAP financial analysis reflects the Company's core results and facilitates comparisons across reporting periods. For more information on our non-GAAP financial results and reconciliation to GAAP measures, please refer to our earnings release that's been filed under Form 8-K with the SEC. The release can be found on our web site at PCTEL.com, under investor relations. My discussions of the results will be based on our non-GAAP financial results.
As a reminder, the Company closed the sale of its mobility solutions software group or MSG to Smith Micro on January 4th, 2008. The Company's financial statements have been revised to reflect MSG as a discontinued operation. My discussion of financial results will address continuing operations.
Let's turn to revenue. Fourth quarter 2008 revenue from continuing operations was $18.3 million, compared to $19.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2007, a decrease of approximately 5%. Revenue was lower for both scanning receivers and antenna products. Scanning receiver revenue was lower on reduced carrier capital expenditure levels worldwide. Antenna revenue was lower in both the distribution and the OEM channels.
Non-GAAP gross margin from continuing operations for the fourth quarter was 47%, versus 49% in the same period last year. Both scanning receiver products and antenna products experienced declining margins versus the same period last year, as a result of less favorable product mix and lower volume over fixed costs.
With regards to our operating expenses, fourth quarter non-GAAP, research and development, and SG&A from continuing ops were $6.6 million, down $200,000 from the same quarter last year. Research and development expense was higher by $300,000 on engineering investments in both scanning receivers and antennas. For example, this is the first full quarter of expenses related to our new antenna design team in China.
SG&A expense is $500,000 lower through efficiencies resulting from our decision to divest our software business and better control of our sales and marketing expenses. The [connects in] royalty of $200,000 was lower than last year by $50,000. As the contractual quarterly cap is lower in 2008. Non-GAAP operating income from continuing operations in the fourth quarter was $2.1 million, or 12% of revenue, compared to $2.9 million, or 15% of revenue in the same period last year. The results reflect lower gross profit margin on lower revenue, partially offset by lower operating expenses.
Let's turn to other income. Other income and expense was an expense of $1.5 million in the fourth quarter compared to income of $200,000 a year ago. There are two factors contributing to this significant decline. As I will outline in more detail in the balance sheet review, we are heavily invested in federal government agency paper and prerefunded municipal notes for safety. The yields on that move to safety are very low compared to the commercial paper we were invested in a year ago, before the credit market turmoil.
Secondly, the Company recorded a $1.7 million mark-to-market loss in the quarter from the Company's remaining investment in the Columbia strategic asset portfolio and enhanced cash funds sponsored by the Banc of America. I will discuss the Colombia fund in more detail during my review of the balance sheet and income statement guidance.
With regard to the income taxes, the non-GAAP income tax rate is 17%, and we expect it to remain at that level in 2009. Non-GAAP net income from continuing operations for the fourth quarter 2008 was $568,000, or $0.03 per diluted share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $3.1 million or $0.15 per diluted share in the fourth quarter of 2007. To summarize the differences, net income from continuing operations was lower from decreased gross profit on lower revenue that was partially offset by lower operating costs. In addition, we recorded a non-operating mark-to-market loss on our investments.
Now, let's turn to the balance sheet. Cash and investments ended the quarter at $78 million, of which $15 million is classified as long term. This is a sequential decrease of $2 million from the third quarter this year. The largest contributing factor to the change was the Company's repurchase of 497,000 shares of its common stock during the quarter for approximately $4.5 million. A $1.5 million loss on investments net of interest earned, which was partially offset by $4 million of cash generated from all other sources.
Of the roughly $78 million in cash and investments on hand at the end of the fourth quarter, the company had approximately $1 million in operating bank accounts, $44 million in AAA money market funds which are in turn invested 100% in short-term US federal government agency securities or bank re-po agreements collateralized by the same. $24 million in tax exempt pre-refunded municipal notes and $8.6 million in the Columbia strategic cash portfolio fund. The Columbia fund is in the process of liquidation. Since year end we have received an additional liquidation payment from Columbia and the current balance stands at $7.2 million.
Now, we would like to discuss the guidance for the first quarter 2009. Marty will discuss guidance as well in his prepared remarks. We anticipate revenue for first quarter to be in a range of $14 million to $15.5 million. The Company is seeing weaker order booking rates due to the global economic environment, specifically from our major antenna distributors. We are also seeing postponement or delay of some important OEM antenna projects.
Non-GAAP gross profit percent for the first quarter is expected to be in a range of 45% to 47%. As a result of less fixed cost leverage on lower volume. Non-GAAP, research and development and SG&A from continuing operations are expected to be between $7.1 million and $7.3 million for the first quarter. Up sequentially from the fourth quarter due to the Wi-Sys acquisition, anticipated trade show expense and a slight increase in R&D spending. The connects in royalty is expected to be $200,000 unchanged from the fourth quarter 2008.
Other income is expected to range between income of $200,000 and $400,000 in the first quarter, before any potential mark-to-market losses from our investments in the Columbia fund. The quarter to date mark-to-market loss due today on our Columbia investment is immaterial. As I mentioned before, the non-GAAP effective income tax rate remains unchanged at 17%. That concludes the financial review.
I would like to turn the call over to Marty for his summary comments.
- Chairman, CEO
Thanks, John. John's review of our financials tells an essential story of PCTEL in this environment. Although the recession has impacted revenue growth, there's still exciting growth prospects in several markets and we have been proactive with respect to operational effectiveness cutting OpEx in 2008, and getting to a cost structure that permits to us deliver profits in a challenging environment. The $78 million in cash and investments that we have maintained on our balance sheet also distinguishes PCTEL from other companies that are dealing with the global recession.
Let me address cost structure. During 2008, we have reduced G&A from 2007 levels a percent of revenue by 3% from 13.3 to 10.5. During the same period, we have reduced sales and marketing costs by 1.6%, from 14.5% to 12.9% of revenue, while maintaining our gross margins in the 46% to 48% range. We continue to closely manage our expenses. In 2009, my executive team and all significant managers will be accepting either a reduction in pay or a salary freeze. It is likely that the wage freeze will extend to a broader employee population. We have identified areas that we can operate with fewer resources and we have taken limited focused action in the first quarter.
Although the current recession creates challenges, we believe that there are outstanding opportunities for PCTEL in this environment. As previously announced, we acquired Wi-Sys a Canadian-based provider of GPS antenna's for $2.1 million. Wi-Sys which will be fully integrated has ten significant customers that should be interested in PCTEL's broad antenna portfolio. There are opportunities in defense, agriculture, and asset tracking that we can exploit as we focus on expanding our footprint in key GPS markets. We have been pleased with our progress to date in achieving our revenue targets with this new product line.
Our cash and investments position currently $78 million with no debt, puts us in an enviable position to navigate through this recession and to identify and acquire additional technology and product assets. We are working actively with our investment bankers to identify companies whose future could brighten with adequate capitalization, and help us to expand our market penetration and footprint. We are looking at both antenna and scanning receiver companies and hope to make at least one additional acquisition in 2009.
We are bullish on our organic opportunities as well. It is easy to lose sight of our sales accomplishments under the shroud of recessionary gloom, but we are excited about several developments. For example, in the fourth quarter, we made a significant sale of scanning receivers to China Telecom, and signed an OEM agreement with significant infrastructure vendors in that country. This progress should yield great benefits as China's cellular market continues to expand and become increasingly complex with multiple technologies and congestion.
Our scanning receiver business launched the new CDMA, EVDO version of its flagship SeeGull EX scanning receiver, which immediately gained traction in the United States, and in Latin America. We recorded other important wins with [Callabase] Nextel Partners and we made a clarified sale in Chile. We continue to sell Insight solutions, the software associated with our scanning receiver products and in this past quarter, we penetrated both Thailand and Indonesia with our solutions.
Antenna products group also posted major sales accomplishments in the fourth quarter. We shipped over 3500 WiMAX antennas into international markets, including Russia, leveraging our relationship with both Alvarion and Motorola. We landed a major GPS contract in China for network timing and another for defense application. Surprisingly, given the litany of discouraging news we achieved record sales to Motorola in the fourth quarter. It was just 18 months ago that we invested in a Director of Global Accounts and we believe these results reflect the wisdom of that investment.
There's also some evidence suggesting that our PCTEL [Max-Rad] and [Blue Wave] antenna brands continue to gain recognition. We added five new distributors and nine new OEM's in the fourth quarter and our Blue Wave YAGI antenna product line displaced key competitors at OEM and systems integrators. We have been satisfied with our progress in integrating and expanding the Blue Wave product line since the acquisition last April.
With respect to development, for those of you who attended the GSMA mobile world Congress in Barcelona, you know that we unveiled several new products most notably our LTE scanning receiver and our new [REP] technology for WiMAX and Wi-Fi and our expanded GPS product line. The new LTE scanning receiver has already been integrated into the testing measurements solution provided by one of our key OEMs and we have great expectations for this industry-leading product. All of our new products were well received and should position PCTEL for strong performance as the economy recovers.
As John already mentioned, the economic uncertainty and the state of telecom market makes it extremely difficult to offer year-end guidance. We will continue to guide to revenue and gross margin results one quarter out, and we currently project stable gross margins and revenues as John already mentioned of $14 million and $15.5 million. This forecast reflects what we see as a 15% to 25% decline in distributor demand for antennas, as well as some collateral weakness associated with certain OEMs experiencing delays in new technology and network rollouts.
Although we believe that the industry is experiencing a broad decline, our OEM antenna business remains strong with key customers and our scanning receiver business continues to gain market share. The decline in the distributor sales reflects almost exclusively the decline in government purchases at local state and federal levels, as their budgets are strained. Recent earnings announcements from other industry participants suggest that we are not alone in experiencing a downturn in revenue.
These are challenging times for sure, but no more so than the post bubble environment of late 2001 to 2003. We have successfully navigated through a number of economic and competitive challenges. And while this is certainly more challenging than anything we have seen in a while, we believe that with our strong product lines, good market coverage and excellent cash position, we are well positioned to weather the current economic challenges and at the same time build our business through acquisition and with strong organic programs.
We are prepared, experienced and positioned favorably to navigate through these challenges. It is important in these times to manage to a longer range horizon with a strong sense of mission and commitment to our technology leadership and market expansion, we will manage through but not to near term limitations.
We have set aside 30 minutes for your questions. Operator?
Operator
(Operator instructions). We will pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from Matt Robison with Pacific Growth Equity.
- Analyst
First, Marty, you mentioned the state and local government. You didn't really say much about the outlook for RFS, although you -- you described the wins. How do you -- how do you see the business for the scanning receivers in the next few months?
- Chairman, CEO
Well, first, thanks for joining the call, Matt and also thanks for the invitation to speak at your conference in March at Red Bush in New York.
- Analyst
Thank you.
- Chairman, CEO
What we see is continued strength in that business. We doubt the if it will be a growth year for us, but the first quarter is going along reasonably well in scanning receivers. And as we have discussed before on these calls, there are certain aspects of a recession that are not necessarily bad for scanning receivers. In other words, if the CapEx budgets for major operators decline during a period of financial pressure, then engineering teams for those carriers are put in a position of trying to get more out of less -- or more out of the same. They try to optimize the performance of the existing cellular network. And when they do that, they need tools. And those tools are the types of test equipment sold by a Knight and [SwissQual and Tems] and others and we provide scanning receivers to those vendors.
- Analyst
Okay. You mentioned the Motorola sales being so strong in the fourth quarter. Should we expect that to continue, or would we likely see some weakness associated with what you are seeing for this season with the state and local governments?
- Chairman, CEO
It's a little bit bit different. For example, one of the areas of strength was [Canopy] and then we also had some Motorola Israel business. That has to do with their -- their projects for different companies with intelligent devices on trucks and so on and they have communication systems, the LMR systems for those purposes.
Canopy has sort of been a beneficiary of the the delay in WiMAX. And while there are economic pressures on those types of operators, we see more Canopy throughout the rest of the year. The other thing I will tell you is that there were some projects that were delayed. For example, we talked last year with [Axtel] where it rolled out initially as sort of a data only network and then had to be refreshed as a data and voice network. We see those issues getting resolved and we think that networks like Axtel that were in that situation, will start to deploy and utilize antennas.
- Analyst
Those are WiMAX networks, I guess?
- Chairman, CEO
Right. I guess you have to remember when we are talking about vendors like Motorola and Alvarion, we are not talking about cellular. We are talking about broadband wireless and there are different dynamics there.
- Analyst
John, can you comment on operating cash flow and CapEx? It looks like your operating cash flow is pretty strong, but there was also a pretty substantial increase in taxes payable and accounts payable. Can you comment on those items and how you can see cash for the current quarter?
- CFO
Yes, I would expect cash to be a plus or minus a million of $78 million, what we are doing is -- as the revenue comes down, we were already seeing a decrease in our receivables from bringing cash in. As a matter of fact, as of today, I'm sitting at $77.5 million in cash, versus the $78 million I ended with. With plus/minus zero is where I expect to the end the quarter.
- Analyst
Plus/minus one.
- CFO
I'm sorry, yes. Plus minus one, with very little change during the quarter.
- Analyst
I know you are very good at managing cash, but that's a lot of precision.
- Chairman, CEO
It's good I'm here to help John out with those math questions.
- Analyst
What was the operating cash flow and the CapEx?
- CFO
CapEx plus or fine us a couple of tenth runs about 4% of revenue.
- Analyst
All right.
- CFO
In any given quarter, and what was the other question?
- Analyst
Operating cash flow.
- CFO
Operating cash flow, I didn't work out all of it, but it's pretty close to that $4 million. We did a pretty good job of mining the working capital balance sheet with the sequential decline from Q3 to Q4 and that all dropped right into operating cash flow.
- Analyst
Okay. All right. That's it for me for now.
- Chairman, CEO
We look forward to seeing you in New York.
- Analyst
Yes, glad you are going to make it. That's March. You are on March 12th, right?
- Chairman, CEO
Yes, I am the 12th.
- Analyst
Very good.
Operator
The next question come from Mike Crawford with B. Riley & Company.
- Analyst
Thank you.
- Chairman, CEO
Hi, Mike.
- Analyst
Hi. You mentioned the scan receiver contract with China Telecom are you working with the other two major carriers in China?
- Chairman, CEO
We are active in all of the bids there, but we -- we prefer not to talk about our progress in either one of those. It's a highly competitive situation.
- Analyst
When are those bids expected to be determined?
- Chairman, CEO
There are bids for different aspects of network tools going on all the time. Bob, do you want to comment at all?
- VP, Sales
My understanding is that the -- the tenders are out there and that the expectation is that within the next 60 to 90 days that they are going to come back with further requests. But other than that, they have been very, very quiet as to the specifics on the timing.
- Analyst
Maybe further, if you were to win some of these, would you expect that to be meaningful boost to revenues in the back half of the year?
- Chairman, CEO
Could be.
- Analyst
Okay. And kind of a related question, I know you are only guiding out to one quarter at a time, but what does the bottom look like in this business? Do you think you will know when it's occurring or if it's occurring now, or if you expect things to get worse? What does it look like?
- Chairman, CEO
I personally do not expect things to get worse. I think that during the first quarter, we are feeling the full brunt of declining tax revenues. And that in turn is being felt by the large distributors particularly in the US. And I think there's also been a decline in visibility for some major projects. And I think we will start -- I hate to get into the same business as everybody in the -- Congress and the administration, about forecasting the end or the bottom or whatever. But I do believe that we have some pretty good opportunities that will be helpful in the second half of the year.
- VP, Sales
Well, these -- this is Bob Suastegui. These are challenging times, no doubt, but let me assure you that we do have a very robust that the sales funnel that the sales organization and the product organizations we are working on. We fully expect to be able to convert many of those sales funnel opportunities within the next nine to 12 to 15 months.
- Analyst
Okay. And so with -- just turning back to the guidance a bit. I think if you take the low end of your guidance, you come out to about $500,000 to $1 million in EBITDA, so you said -- you mentioned -- you did mention that operating expenses are going to be up this quarter. I mean, is there room to cut much further into your fixed costs now to get rid of those if there is a new reality, a new revenue reality?
- Chairman, CEO
We -- we have taken action and we are taking additional action and we have some alternatives for the second quarter. If this continues, and I -- I think that if you followed us for a while, you know that this is a management team that has been able to find ways to cut costs when business conditions require reductions.
- Analyst
Okay. Great. And this final question is with the share repurchase early in the quarter, let's see that brough your dilutive count down to $17.5 million, if your price were to stay around here, where would you expect your diluted share count to be in Q1?
- CFO
Well, give than we do our annual grant of equity in the March time frame, it will creep up maybe 200,000 shares, 177 maybe.
- Analyst
Okay. Great. Thank you.
- Chairman, CEO
Thank you, Mike.
Operator
Your next question comes from Ken Muth with Robert W. Baird & Company.
- Analyst
This is Patrick [Snell] on for Ken.
- Chairman, CEO
Hi, Pat.
- Analyst
Just kind of interested, you talked about some weakness in public sector antennas. Do you see any hope that maybe this stimulus package might give a boost to that sector?
- Chairman, CEO
Absolutely. As a matter of fact, one of the things that was specifically called out in the President's stimulus package was the focus on smart meters, as an example. Part of utility reading meters, part of SCATA applications, that could be an advantage. I also think that the general shot in the arm into state and local budgets from the stimulus package should -- should give some relief and should result in some confidence in spending by state and local entities. So we are hopeful that that will make a difference in the latter part of the year.
- Analyst
Okay. And then just we all know it's fairly difficult out there, just kind of interested if you could give a little taste of how your orders trended over the quarter? Did you see them continue to deteriorate was there some stabilization there?
- Chairman, CEO
We saw weakness from the distributors from the beginning of the calendar year and it has remained weak. Everything else has been in the category of okay. It really is the major North American distributors, a little bit in South America that has been a big disappointment.
- Analyst
Okay. Great. That's it for me.
Operator
(Operator instructions). Your next question comes from Robert Katz with Senvest.
- Analyst
Hi, Marty and John, how are you doing.
- Chairman, CEO
Hi, Robert. How are you doing?
- Analyst
Not bad. I had a question, how did revenues break out between scanners and antennas this quarter versus last?
- CFO
Well, while we'll speak to relative changes we typically don't break out that because it's killer competitive information.
- Analyst
Okay.
- CFO
But, as I said before, they both showed declines year-over-year. But I don't want to get into specifics because people can back into those numbers and most of our competitors or private companies that don't have to tell us what theirs is.
- Chairman, CEO
I will say this, in our scanning business, Robert, in the past our really strong quarter has been the third or fourth quarter. This year our really strong quarter was the second quarter. We get lumpy orders. And so although scanners were down in the fourth quarter year-over-year, the overall year was huge increase year-over-year and we had an outstanding year in that area.
- Analyst
Right. And the weakness in Q1 is coming more from antennas than scanner?
- Chairman, CEO
Yes, and specifically --
- Analyst
From LMR.
- Chairman, CEO
From the distributors and LMR.
- Analyst
And do you think your sales into distributors is lower than sales out of [distributors] in Q1?
- Chairman, CEO
Say that again. You broke up a little bit there.
- Analyst
Do you think -- do you think that you are under shipping the real end demand in Q1?
- Chairman, CEO
No. Not at all. No. We get access to the sell through data from our close distributors and it's -- it's clear that they are challenged as well.
- Analyst
Okay. So that the inventory in the channel is not really coming down then?
- Chairman, CEO
That is one of the I issues is inventory in the channel.
- Analyst
Right. So Q1 doesn't solve that issue?
- Chairman, CEO
Correct.
- Analyst
Okay. And how much did you spend on your acquisition and how much revenue -- what size company was this?
- Chairman, CEO
We spent -- well, we spent two and then 2.1 all-in with expenses and so on. And we could do anywhere -- I think we gave a general range of 2.3 or so. And it could be better than that, but this an exciting area for us, not just because of the absolute revenue, but for two other reasons. GPS tends to have higher gross margins than our other antenna products and with this acquisition of Wi-Sys, we really developed the opportunity to build a strong product family and specialization in GPS. And GPS is going to continue to be one of our focus areas. We are looking for other acquisitions in that space.
- Analyst
Right So you said they had about $2.3 million revenues?
- Chairman, CEO
Yes. That's reasonable.
- Analyst
Okay. And at what point does LTE impact your business or --
- Chairman, CEO
It it could impact it this year. As we said earlier in the call, we demonstrated at Mobile World Congress, our LTE scanning receiver. And we talked to a few of the LTE operators who are going to have a need for that this year. When you deploy a network, and you still don't have mobile devices, you need scanning receivers so the base stations can talk to something and get -- and the engineers can get feedback on the how the network is performing.
So we're hoping to get some positive financial returns from our LTE investment this year. We also think longer term, but not likely this year, the remote electrical tilt antenna that we have designed with this innovative phase shifter for WiMAX will be something that we can apply to LTE. But in the early stages of deployment having to fool around with cell size, either through tilt or [asamath] will not be much of a requirement.
- Analyst
Okay. And WiMAX seems to be doing okay for you.
- Chairman, CEO
WiMAX is doing okay in the area of point-to-point and point-to-multi point. So point-to-point would be all of your back call applications.
- Analyst
Yes.
- Chairman, CEO
Point-to-multi point would be dominantly the last mile application where WiMAX is a substitute for cable. But I think as we all know from companies that are discussed in the newspapers a lot and from knowledge of deployments by major infrastructure providers, that mobile versions, fully mobile versions of WiMAX have been very slow to take off. You still see some flux in the 16e standard and right now that is a distant third application.
- Analyst
All right. Do you -- do you foresee LTE becoming a much more meaningful business for you than mobile WiMAX?
- Chairman, CEO
Well, I would say -- oh, oh, in terms of mobile WiMAX?
- Analyst
Yes.
- Chairman, CEO
I would have to say, yes. LTE will look more like cellular. WiMAX will look like something different.
- Analyst
Again, that's more of a 2010 story on the LTE to be meaningful?
- Chairman, CEO
Well, I think that you will see LTE scanning business being immediately important whereas, there's not a -- you don't really need scanning receivers for fixed networks.
- Analyst
Right.
- Chairman, CEO
When you have point-to-point, there's limited demand. There's some demand there's some applications that are important. But the applications for scanning receivers are far greater when you have a fully mobile network. And LTE is going to really come out of the blocks as a fully mobile network. And they will need to begin the testing of that in trial networks this year.
- Analyst
Right. When you reference the 3500 WiMAX, was that antennas?
- CFO
Yes.
- Chairman, CEO
And scanning receivers, we would report a different revenue line, Robert. Yes, that was antennas.
- Analyst
That was antennas and do you have an LTE antenna opportunity?
- Chairman, CEO
Not really.
- Analyst
Not really.
- Chairman, CEO
Not in the near future. As I said, ultimately when there's demand for a remote electrical tilt, we might hop into that. But we are going to leave the bay station/cellular antennas largely to others. Now, I will tell you there's an LTE opportunity for us, but it's in GPS. And the opportunity is for timing antennas.
- Analyst
Okay. All right. Thanks very much, and good luck, Marty. See you in New York.
- Chairman, CEO
Hope to see you.
- Analyst
Yes.
Operator
And you have a follow-up question from Matt Robison with Pacific Growth Equity.
- Analyst
[Wedbush] Did you say interest income $200,000 to $400,000 this quarter.
- CFO
I did.
- Analyst
Do you think you can sustain that level this year?
- CFO
It all depends on the mark-to-market adjustments that we get out of Columbia.
- Analyst
Okay.
- Chairman, CEO
I think what John said was a $200,000 to $400,000 without knowing yet what the mark-to-market adjustments will be from Columbia.
- CFO
Like right now, quarter to date, I'm plus or minus $20,000 of -- I'm actually up a little bit but that number can move $100,000 in a day.
- Analyst
Yes. What do you think -- will you pay any taxes this year?
- CFO
Well, whatever we -- I have a feeling from a tax return basis, we'll be very close to zero at the previous guidance number we had given and what I see out there for the Wall Street analysts in revenue. So what I would do is -- if I do end up with a GAAP -- as example, a GAAP loss or non-GAAP, this should continue, I will get a full tax credit because I will able to carry it back to 2008.
- Analyst
Okay.
- CFO
So thats 17% tax rate will hold whether I make money or lose money on a non-GAAP basis. Either as a credit or an expense.
- Analyst
Got it. Okay. Thanks.
- Chairman, CEO
Thanks, Matt.
Operator
We have no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Marty Singer.
- Chairman, CEO
Thank you, Nicole. Well, I want to thank all of you for joining us on this call and webcast. We are planning to attend the Wedbush Morgan management access conference for microsmall and midcap companies in New York on March 12th. And also the B Reilly 10th annual Las Vegas investor conference March 18th. And we hope to see many of you at those events. Thank you, and we look forward to updating you at our next earnings call.