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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001477932-24-002597"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0000920990"
company_name: "METRO ONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC"
filed_at: "2024-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T15:07:26.671324+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Metro One dismisses auditor BF Borgers after SEC permanent ban; seeking new auditor

## Summary
- Board dismissed BF Borgers as independent auditor on May 3, 2024, following SEC settlement and permanent ban on BF Borgers from SEC practice.
- BF Borgers' reports for FY 2022 and 2021 contained going-concern explanatory paragraph but were otherwise unqualified.
- Company had not yet received FY 2023 audit report from BF Borgers as of termination date.
- No disagreements with BF Borgers on accounting principles or reportable events (except previously disclosed material weaknesses).
- Board is in process of engaging a new public accounting firm; further disclosure to follow.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001477932-24-002597
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0000920990
- company_name: METRO ONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC
- filed_at: 2024-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 4.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/920990/000147793224002597/0001477932-24-002597-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/920990/000147793224002597/wowi_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001477932-24-002597.txt

## Key facts
- Auditor Changes
  METRO ONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC dismissed BF Borgers CPA PC as its auditor.
  - Action: dismissal
  - Auditor: BF Borgers CPA PC
  source text: On May 3, 2024, the Board of Directors of Metro One Telecommunications Inc. (the “Company”), acting in its dual capacity of Audit Committee, approved the dismissal of BF Borgers CPA PC (“BF Borgers”) as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/920990/000147793224002597/0001477932-24-002597-index.htm

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