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M&A announcement

Apr 30, 2026

Operator

Hello, welcome to Inseego's conference call to discuss its announced acquisition of Nokia's Fixed Wireless Access business and strategic partnership. Please note that today's event is being recorded. All participants today will be in a listen-only mode. Should you need assistance, please signal a conference specialist by pressing the star key followed by zero. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity for Q&A. To ask a question, please press the star key, then the one key on your telephone keypad. To withdraw your question, please press star and then two.

Before we begin, please note that a slide presentation was posted this morning to the investor relations section of the company's website. Participants joining by phone are encouraged to download the presentation to follow along. Those listening via webcast may advance the slides using the controls within the webcast player.

On the call today are Juho Sarvikas, Chief Executive Officer, and Steven Gatoff, Chief Financial Officer. Please be advised that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not historical facts, but rather are based on the company's current expectations and beliefs. For a discussion on factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the expectations, please refer to the risk factors described in the company's Form 10-K, 10-Q, and other SEC filings, all of which are available on the company's website. Please also refer to the cautionary note regarding forward-looking statements section contained in today's press release and in the slide presentation. With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Juho Sarvikas, Chief Executive Officer. Please go ahead.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. Before we get started, we encourage anyone dialed into the conference call to download the slide presentation posted this morning to the investor relations section of our website so that you can follow along. For those listening by webcast, please advance the slides by using the toggle button on the webcast player. As you saw in the press release, Inseego has entered into an agreement to acquire Nokia's global FWA business and establish a strategic partnership with Nokia on go-to-market and next generation wireless innovation centered around AI and 6G.

In addition to the equity-based consideration, Nokia will also make a direct equity investment in Inseego, I'm thrilled to welcome Nokia as a shareholder and a partner. Turning to slide three, we will cover four areas today. First, an overview of the acquisition.

Second, the compelling overall FWA market opportunity. Third, a snapshot of the FWA business that we're acquiring. Fourth, the transaction structure and economics. Diving right into it on slide five. I want to start with the core transaction terms and the key value drivers behind the acquisition. The simplest way to think about this transaction is that it is transformative for Inseego. It gives us immediate global scale in revenue and reach, strengthens our product and market position, and creates a strategic partnership that includes go-to-market and technology innovation. Specifically, we are acquiring Nokia's approximately $200 million run rate FWA business for $20 million in Inseego equity, with Nokia also making an additional $10 million direct investment in Inseego to become an approximately 11% stockholder. There are three primary value drivers in this transaction.

First, the acquisition immediately expands our global reach, total addressable market, and overall scale. It also effectively doubles our revenue base and positions Inseego as a global wireless broadband leader with strong anchor carrier customers, international reach, and a portfolio spanning both enterprise and consumer markets. Second, the transaction includes a compelling financial construct with profitability backstop.

Nokia will provide engineering and development support for the first year, which gives us a clear investment path while maintaining a break-even EBITDA floor for the acquired business. Steven will cover the structure and financial terms in more detail in a few minutes. Third, we are establishing a unique technology and go-to-market partnership with Nokia. That partnership creates a framework for joint commercial activity, technology innovation across AI and 6G, and aligned ownership to support long-term stockholder value creation. Turning to slide six. At a high level, the strategic rationale is straightforward.

This transaction expands Inseego from a U.S.-centric business into a scaled global platform with broader customer exposure, a more diversified revenue base, and a stronger foundation for long-term value creation. On the platform side, we are expanding our global footprint to additional tier one carrier relationships and increasing our relevance across a wider set of use cases as operators continue to invest in 5G monetization.

Importantly, the transaction expands our portfolio globally and brings capabilities and products that allow us to address the consumer market, positioning us to participate more fully in the wireless broadband ecosystem. From a financial perspective, the structure is designed to support the transition while maintaining flexibility. It preserves balance sheet flexibility, aligns incentives between our two companies, and creates a larger platform that we expect will unlock revenue, cost, and operating synergies over time. Turning to slide seven.

The Nokia FWA asset completes our portfolio, giving us a full range of products across both business and consumer connectivity that we can now take to global markets. FastMile is a key addition on the consumer FWA side. With indoor gateways and outdoor receivers designed for in-home broadband deployments across both Sub-6 and millimeter wave. What I like about the portfolio is how deployment-ready it is. Self-install where possible, technician install where needed with integrated Wi-Fi and simple management. These products are already designed for how operators are rolling out FWA at scale. The acquisition also expands our opportunity set by giving us a global customer base, which includes deeper engagement with our existing carrier customers, plus access to new tier one operators in markets where we do not have presence today.

We now have a more complete portfolio to serve customers across more environments with solutions aligned with how the market is evolving. Turning to slide eight. We have developed a clear execution plan for how we intend to drive value from the acquired FWA business and the broader combination over time. On the revenue side, there are three primary levers. First, we will expand our FWA reach and unlock a broader global consumer TAM by driving cross-sell across the combined Inseego and Nokia customer base.

Second, we can take Inseego product lines to new global customers, broadening penetration across consumer, enterprise, and mobility segments. Third, we can expand SaaS solution attach across the acquired portfolio, creating a growth opportunity for Inseego's SaaS device and network management capabilities over time. On the profitability side, there are also three clear levers to drive incremental value.

First, I expect our greater scale to provide more supply chain leverage and purchasing and manufacturing efficiency. Second, we see engineering synergies through technology platform reuse across software, hardware modules, and cloud, as well as product design reuse. Third, the larger revenue base should improve fixed cost absorption and operating leverage across the combined platform.

That's the value creation story. Clear operating levers to drive both growth and profitability over time. Turning to slide nine. Nokia selected Inseego as its partner at the wireless edge and is becoming a meaningful shareholder, which aligns both companies around long-term value creation. Beyond ownership, we will work together on the technology roadmap, including AI-driven connectivity, 6G, and next generation wireless broadband. Commercially, it gives us a path to engage jointly with operators and customers and expands our reach into Nokia's broader customer and partner ecosystem.

The value here is both immediate and long-term. A stronger platform today and a relationship that can create additional technology and go-to-market opportunities over time. Turning to slide 11 and the market drivers. The demand profile for networks is changing. Broadband is no longer just about download speed. Operators and enterprises increasingly need more uplink capacity, lower latency, and more intelligence closer to the edge. That is being driven by AI workloads, cloud applications, industrial connectivity, and mobility use cases that require more distributed network architectures.

FWA fits directly into that evolution. It gives operators a faster, more flexible way to add broadband capacity, while 5G-Advanced, millimeter wave, and eventually 6G expands what wireless networks can support. The scale of the opportunity is significant. These trends are driving demand towards high-performance wireless broadband, exactly where Inseego is focused. Turning to slide 12.

The expected growth in 5G fixed wireless shipments, reaching roughly 47 million units by 2029, reflects increasing operator adoption globally. What's driving this is straightforward. FWA is winning more and more as the primary connectivity option due to cost, time to market, and performance. In addition, it is deployed as a complement to fiber and satellite. It's also important to note that millimeter wave is dramatically increasing the capacity of FWA deployments. The takeaway is that FWA is becoming a core tool for operators to both monetize 5G and expand broadband access. Turning to slide 15. I'm excited about the depth of the portfolio that we're bringing in. What stands out is how complementary it is. It expands our capabilities across indoor, outdoor, and millimeter wave and broadens the environments and use cases that we can address globally.

It also brings a mature device software platform, which is critical for deployments, management, and ongoing performance at scale. Turning to slide 16. This is a defining moment for Inseego. It is the largest transaction in our company's history, and we believe it materially expands our scale, our market opportunity, and our long-term position in wireless broadband. Just as importantly, it validates the strength of our strategy, our technology, and our team. Our job is to execute well, support customers, and drive long-term growth and shareholder value. On a personal note, I spent a significant part of my career at Nokia. I know the quality of the technology, the strength of the customer relationships, and most importantly, the caliber of the people behind the business.

I'm very excited to welcome them to Inseego, and I want to thank Justin Hotard, Nokia's President and CEO, and his team for the ongoing commitment and partnership. With that, I'll turn it over to Steven to walk through the transaction structure and financial details.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Thanks, Juho. Good morning, everyone. Jumping right in on slide 18, there are three overarching dynamics in the acquisition. One, the overall transaction structure. Two, the EBITDA make whole that's in place as we invest in the business and integrate it over the first year. And three, our alignment on driving revenue and profitability of the business moving forward as both parties focus on long-term value creation. On the transaction structure, this is an asset purchase with an aggregate consideration of $20 million. The consideration consists of $15 million in Inseego common stock to be issued to Nokia at closing, along with warrants valued at $5 million.

In addition, as Juho mentioned, Nokia will be making an additional direct investment of $10 million in Inseego for a combination of common stock and warrants, which will bring Nokia's total stock holdings to approximately 2.7 million shares or an ownership interest in the company of approximately 11%. The issued equity is subject to a lockup in which 50% of the shares and warrants are locked up for one year and the remaining 50% is locked up for two years. The second important construct of the acquisition is that it is designed to support the transition of the business to ensure customer continuity and engineering investment with no adverse financial statement impact to Inseego.

This includes a support agreement that provides Inseego with quarterly cash payments from Nokia to offset EBITDA losses of the acquired business so that we can drive the product roadmap and engineering investments of the business and run the business at an EBITDA neutral outcome. This EBITDA is capped at $38 million in aggregate for the first year following closing, which we see as wholly adequate to cover that period's operations and investments. The third dynamic in the transaction is the strong and important strategic alignment of Inseego and Nokia. In addition to the AI and 6G innovation and go-to-market work that the two companies are looking to do together, there's a profit-sharing arrangement in place for year two and year three following the closing.

This will align and provide Nokia with participation in the growth and value creation of the acquired business, where they'll receive a portion of the positive EBITDA of the acquired business as a function of how it performs. We believe these three elements of the transaction structure provide a compelling and disciplined framework for Inseego stockholders, one that supports the transition, preserves financial flexibility, and creates an attractive risk-adjusted path to long-term value creation. As noted at the bottom of the slide, we currently expect the transaction to close in Q4 2026, subject to customary work and closing conditions. Turning to slide 19, we wanted to share some perspective on the financial profile of the soon-to-be combined business and why we think adding this FWA business to Inseego is compelling from both a scale and structure standpoint.

Starting with scale, the Nokia FWA business is on approximately a $200 million revenue run rate based on their Q1 2026 results. On a combined aggregate basis, that brings Inseego to generate roughly $400 million in revenue annually. The product portfolio, customer base, and geographical operations of the acquired business all drive the scale of the FWA business and the attractive nature of the acquisition. In terms of the combined company profitability, the EBITDA break-even backstop that I mentioned on the previous slide for the first year post-close gives us stability during the transition while supporting the upside from the broader synergy opportunity thereafter. Finally, on slide 20, we wrap up with a few key takeaways.

You put this all together, we see a combination that materially increases Inseego's scale, meaningfully expands the TAM of our FWA business, and does so in a way that is structured to be disciplined, supportive of customers and employees through the transition, and is very attractive from a risk-reward standpoint. The acquisition creates a scaled global wireless broadband platform spanning both FWA and mobile. It broadens Inseego's product portfolio and engineering capabilities further across indoor and outdoor and adds millimeter wave solutions to the portfolio. As we talked about, Nokia is an amazing company, the acquisition establishes a compelling and long-term strategic partnership with them on both go-to-market collaboration and joint technology innovation. Finally, the acquisition is structured to support the business financially and create a clear opportunity to unlock revenue, cost, and operating synergies over time as we move forward together.

We see this as a highly complementary business that expands Inseego's scale, broadens our global reach, and creates a disciplined framework for stockholder value creation. We look forward to providing more info as we move forward to close the transaction in the back part of the year. With that, we appreciate your time and support, and we'd of course be happy to open the call for questions. Operator?

Operator

Thank you. We will now begin the question-and-answer session. The first question will come from Scott Searle with Roth Capital. Please go ahead.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking the questions, and congrats on the deal. It's incredibly transformative in terms of what you guys were able to pull off.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Right on.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Maybe quickly, just to dive in a little more financial color in terms of the Nokia asset, can you give us an idea about, you know, if there are top 10% customers, geographic mix? I know it's international, so it broadens the footprint, but maybe a little bit more color on that front. Steven, maybe as well, a little bit in terms of how you're thinking about the gross margin profile, and then I had a couple follow-ups.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Yeah, sure. I think, Scott, we'll look to do more of the financial details as we close the transaction, insofar as how that comes together owning the asset now and just announced the transaction. As Juho talked about, the customer base really is centered around Asia, APAC, and Middle East, and Europe really are in that order, insofar as customer concentration and presence of the business. The business has a nice consumer structure to it, so that growth margin profile is more consistent with that than enterprise. We'll definitely be providing more info on the numbers as we get closer.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Yeah, maybe to add there that across EMEA and APAC, like Steven was saying, there's a set of diversified anchor customers that will be a great platform for us to drive further global growth.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Fair enough. Maybe if I could just to follow up on the cost side of the equation, it sounds like right now currently that business is negative EBITDA, but you've got that $38 million backstop in the first 12 months. Steven, I think you indicated that that should be more than enough to get you to profitability on that business. I'm wondering if you could flush that out a little bit, as well as the comments around the profit share for year two and year three. Are you inferring that just from stock ownership in the company, or is that more there's a split profit-sharing ratio that we're going to see going forward on that business for the first couple of years?

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

To the last one first, very straightforward. The alignment around the business, the profit-sharing in year two and year three, is based on the revenue performance of the acquired business. You know, you buy a business with a belief, a forecast, a view on what it's going to do, and as the business hits those numbers, Nokia is able to participate in the profitability that's generated. That's very straightforward and aligned around, you know, hitting numbers and hitting growth numbers for year two, year three. The first question on the make whole was, we structured that with Nokia.

It was a very good partnership discussion with them around the investments that are going to be made, the spend in year one, which is a big transition and engineering investment. To your point that you flagged, we feel really comfortable with managing the business within that cap so that we expect it to be EBITDA break even zero for the first year.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

We have between now and close to work on the integration planning. Like Steven was saying, that gives us one year to materialize the revenue expansion as well as synergies for the business.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Gotcha. Just to clarify, it sounds like then as we get post year one, that you're expecting this business then to be profitable if you're able to manage it with those integration, those investment issues in the first 12 months of operation. Is that correct?

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

That's exactly right.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

I think the easiest way to look at that is that we'll come out of year one with one combined most comprehensive portfolio in the industry and one team executing on it with one technology asset.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Gotcha. One last one, if I could, and then I'll get back in the queue, and this is probably not fair as probably any growth questions might be at this point in time, given the newness of the announcement. Looking at the core Inseego business today in terms of mobile hotspots, how big of an opportunity is that for cross-sell within that base? Have you started to explore some of that with your initial due diligence with some of the customers? Thanks.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Thanks, Scott. Great question. Like, like I think we've had this discussion before as well, like the mobile or the hotspot market, very attractive also outside of North America, which is exclusively our focus today. The other thing I would point out that if you look at this FWA, particularly the consumer segment, which operates under the exact same laws of physics as mobile, where it's large carrier, large RFP-based, we definitely will leverage this new global, let's call it infrastructure, to take our mobile portfolio to the global markets as well.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Great. Thanks so much, and congrats again on the deal.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Thanks, Scott.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Thanks, Scott. Thank you.

Operator

The next question will come from Christian Schwab with Craig-Hallum Capital Group. Please go ahead.

Christian Schwab
Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group

I guess I'd like to echo Scott's comments. Congrats on the deal. The commentary regarding sharing and success in year two and year three with Nokia, I guess, it sounds like that's more revenue-based. Is there any minimal profitability or EBITDA expectations in those payments to make sure that the profitability of the business is there, despite revenue? I guess I wasn't clear what that meant.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Yeah. The, the metric, the trigger is revenue performance of the business. Based on that, it's driven off of profitability. It's a percentage of EBITDA for that business, Christian. Obviously, the incentive for us is to, you know, maximize profitability of the business. We're meaningfully focused on that and on growing revenue together, right? Without the revenue, you can't cut your way to growth. We're pretty well aligned with them on driving the revenue as the key metric for the business, managing the cost structure so that it's profitable.

Christian Schwab
Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Okay, great. Those exact details will be released at closing, I assume then?

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Yeah. We plan to file an 8-K today, and that will have the asset purchase agreement with terms in it. This is all transparent and will be filed.

Christian Schwab
Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Perfect. We can stop talking about that then. I guess my last question, and thanks for all the detail in the presentation. Does this change, Steven, any of your previous investment plans to broaden your own portfolio beyond servicing, you know, enterprise class customers and trying to go into the distribution channel and kind of expand your presence there? Will you be making any changes to your previous spending plans to expand that now that you will have a very broad-based distribution and consumer product portfolio in the not too distant future?

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Hey, Christian. Great question. Thank you. Obviously, we'll have a much broader now global set of opportunities competing for the same investment dollars. I think that's kind of a fair statement to say and why you're asking the question. The key thing to note about the U.S. market, a part of our success with the three large carriers here in enterprise FWA is the fact that they can draw a broader portfolio or draw value-added services from the channel. We view that as a meaningful standalone investment itself for driving standalone, top line growth from the channel, but it's also very critical and instrumental, complementary asset differentiator for our carrier-focused enterprise FWA.

Some of the global markets operate on different dynamics, but this is a success formula for us here in U.S., that we will maintain.

Christian Schwab
Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group

Great. No other questions. Thank you.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Thanks so much.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Thanks, Christian.

Operator

The next question will come from Tyler Burmeister with Lake Street Capital Markets. Please go ahead.

Tyler Burmeister
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets

Thanks, guys, for letting me ask a question and congrats on the significant announcement here. Maybe first, obviously early, you know, with the deal not expected to close until Q4, wondering if you could give any color on your early thoughts of unlocking the revenue as well as cost synergies. If you don't wanna quantify them at this point, maybe just, you know, what's some of the lowest hanging fruit to be addressed there?

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

We'll, we'll tag team on it as usual, Tyler. It's a good question. We're in the process of forming our integration plans and implementation plans on both sides. Obviously, there's some arm's length that needs to be maintained there till we actually close and own the asset. But as you would suspect and as Juho just said and mentioned earlier, there's a lot of synergy opportunity in how the business is run with a product management organization that's horizontal and global. This is not a bolt-on of the business and similarly with engineering. Some of the G&A aspects of this are a bit greenfield in so far as how we approach the servicing and support of that business, but more so on the operating side.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

I think the big thing for me, just from a technology platform standpoint of view, and when I say technology platform, I mean that in a broader sense, whether it's the connectivity module that today both of us create independently or the device OS, which again, we both create independently. Like, you know, 5G advances in releases. As this next modem generation comes about, we intend to pull the whole global portfolio across consumer and enterprise, mobile and fixed on a single technology platform. That point in time is a very critical element for us, and that's actually from a timing standpoint, we got the work excellent. The other thing is then the from a revenue synergy standpoint of view, cross-sell would be the first thing that comes to mind.

Once the deal is closed, you will see us engage the North American market with the acquired assets from Nokia and vice versa with Inseego on the global markets.

Tyler Burmeister
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets

Great. Great. Maybe just last one for me. You know, as an asset purchased, you know, what kind of head count do you think about bringing over? What kind of OpEx expenses are, you know, roughly attributed to this business?

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

I mean, the OpEx profile is kind of what you would expect across R&D and sales and marketing and G&A that we're putting together. As I mentioned earlier, there's an existing business that's coming over. On the engineering and product side, and the G&A side, will be more of a greenfield investment and synergy with the existing business. We'll definitely be going into that as we move through and get to closing and have some time to work on the transition with the team. We'll definitely provide more color on how that starts to come together.

Tyler Burmeister
Analyst, Lake Street Capital Markets

Sounds great. Congrats again. That's all from me, guys. Thanks.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Awesome.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Thanks, Tyler.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Thanks, Tyler.

Operator

The next question will come from Jonnathan Navarrete with TD Cowen. Please go ahead.

Jonnathan Navarrete
Analyst, TD Cowen

Thank you. What would you say are the key milestones over the first 12 months, once the deal closes that would give confidence the acquired business can sustain at least break even once the support rolls off?

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Hey, Jonathan, I apologize. It could be our speaker.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Around the key milestones between now and a call and integration and accomplishing.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Yeah. The, I mean, the integration, you know, begins now as an independent company, right? There are all sorts of requirements about not directing each other's business, so that's, you know, regulatory construct. As we plan ahead, Juho mentioned this, the most important dynamic is probably at least three, right? On the customer go-to-market integration, that there's some really compelling aspects of that. Then the big synergy drivers, the big, on how you run one global horizontal company come on engineering, you know, dev and on product management. The G&A tends to be a little bit more business-centric, regional, geographically centric, you know, with operations overseas that are additive.

The big milestone is how we bring them together and then how we start seeing how the operations become more efficient over time on the engineering side and on the product management side over the first year.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Maybe the other thing I would add there, I think it's a great answer, is scale in supply chain. If you just look at the manufacturing value add, the volume of units that we'll be producing and what leverage that gives us is quite frankly new to Inseego. We do command good volume, but we're operating in the enterprise and mobile segments only today. The second part will be our relevance to the key component vendors in the industry. We will be able to drive also procurement synergy. That one integrated team, integrated process and purchasing power across the supply chain is very important.

Jonnathan Navarrete
Analyst, TD Cowen

Got it. You know, an expanded global footprint increases exposure to cross-border hardware supply chains. Do you expect any tariff or political challenges you'll have to maneuver given just how sensitive networking equipment is? Thank you.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

I'm sorry. We're gonna have to ask again. Repeat the question.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Sorry, Jon, our speaker's a little scratchy. It's tough to hear on our end. Apologize for that.

Jonnathan Navarrete
Analyst, TD Cowen

It's I get it. Just because how sensitive networking equipment is, do you expect any tariff or political challenges once, you know, the asset is acquired in the fourth quarter?

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

If you look at the U.S.-specific question, obviously, what would be the implications of this asset and bringing this asset to U.S., the category in itself is tariff exempt. Just like our product line today is, the same will apply also on the new acquired lines of business. The other thing to note is that we have a very diversified set of countries of origin. Like, you know, many of our customers require TAA compliancy, we have good flexibility on that side. If you look at the international market, I'm not sure if you're familiar, Europe actually has very similar considerations on cybersecurity as you've seen emerge here in U.S.

That's something that could possibly be a tailwind given that we're a Western player, and the Europe market presents a great opportunity for the category.

Operator

The next question is a follow-up from Scott Searle of Roth Capital. Please go ahead.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Hey, guys. Thanks for taking the follow-up. Hey, Juho, I wanna dive in a little bit in terms of 6G and AI development with Nokia. Does that mean they're gonna have some committed resources on that front, either engineering, NRE or otherwise? Also on the SaaS front, given that they're more consumer-oriented, I'm wondering if you could flesh out maybe where you see some of those hidden opportunities. I'm not sure if this is a fair question given that you're reporting first quarter earnings next week, but I'm just kind of wondering if you could give us a quick update in terms of what you're seeing in the memory market and how you guys are contemplating dealing with that. Thanks.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Yeah. Excellent. I'll start with the partnership part of the question. We will, of course, resource and partially acquire a global go-to-market team across sales, technical pre-sales, customer engineering, operations, everything that you need to run the business globally. But I also acknowledge that there's a massive opportunity in partnering with Nokia on their very large global sales infrastructure or sales teams. If you look at the end customer here, and one of the key considerations for Nokia right out the gate was the customer continuity, the customer experience. Because we will be selling to the same customers that are the biggest and most important one for Nokia now as they focus on the infrastructure.

What you should expect to see is a joint sales process, pipeline management, all of that. We're also looking at Inseego incentivizing the Nokia sales team to incentivize and train to make sure that we have business continuity for the customers also in terms of how they're used to interacting with the broader end-to-end that Nokia offers. The latest advancements on the edge, be that 5G-Advanced, 6G or millimeter wave right now, which has been a key focus area for the assets that we're acquiring. They pull network equipment. There's also a natural benefit for both parties to showing up together. That's how I look at the go-to-market.

When it comes to AI and 6G or pilots with key customers on prospect deployments for that matter, we're looking at co-locating Inseego resource together with Nokia so that we can work as one on these key initiatives and push the boundaries of wireless broadband at the edge. That's how I would think about the partnership, the resourcing, the commitment, and what we're looking at building together. On the memory market side, maybe we'll talk about that more next week. Like everything that we've stated in terms of how we plan for this eventuality and prepare, remains true. I don't really have anything new to share on the memory side. Scott, I believe you also had a question on consumer.

Would you mind repeating that?

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Yeah. Sorry, Juho, just in terms of expanding some of the SaaS opportunities within to the Nokia base, given it's more consumer-centric?

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Got it.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

How do you see that unfolding?

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

First of all, consumers also need manageability. Or if you're doing a large deployment for consumers, you need manageability. And there are carriers who have built their own, there are existing solutions out there, but what we can bring together is one unified payload with the all of the investments that we put to API, et cetera. I look forward to developing our portfolio towards a direction where in addition to the amazing capabilities and ease of use that we have for enterprise deployment, the same platform deployable also for consumers. I think there's a lot to be said in terms of how we could do even more on the cloud, on the AR side with these new large customers, and the existing ones for that matter.

Scott Searle
Analyst, Roth Capital

Great. Thanks so much and congrats again.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Appreciate it. Thanks so much.

Steven Gatoff
CFO, Inseego

Thanks, Scott.

Operator

This concludes our question and answer session. I'd like to turn the call back over to Juho for closing remarks.

Juho Sarvikas
CEO, Inseego

Thank you for the thoughtful questions. Today marks a truly transformational step in Inseego's business and long-term trajectory, and we're excited about the opportunity ahead. We look forward to talking with you again next week on our Q1 earnings call on May 7th.

Operator

The conference has now concluded. Thank you for attending today's presentation. You may now disconnect.

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