Juho Sarvikas
Analyst · Lake Street Capital Markets
Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us today. This is a very exciting chapter for Inseego and an important step in the company's transformation to diversify revenue and at scale. Over the past year, we have been executing a strategy focused on increasing stockholder value by strengthening the foundation of the company, expanding our product portfolio and customer base, broadening our routes to market and solidifying our leading position as the partner of choice across mobile and enterprise FWA. Last week, we accelerated that strategy in a very significant way with the announcement of a truly transformational acquisition for Inseego. It is the largest revenue deal in the company's history, and it's one that we structured very thoughtfully to meaningfully derisk the profile of the transaction. We view it as a major milestone and important inflection point for the company for three reasons: First, it will more than double the revenues as of the company and take us from a North America-centric player to be the new global leader in wireless broadband in one decisive move as our end markets expand from North America to Asia Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa. Second, it gives us one of the broadest portfolios in the industry across consumer and business markets, including FWA, mobile routers and IoT gateways that we can use to address the expanded TAM. And third, it establishes a unique and strategic partnership with Nokia across go-to-market, AI, 6G and the future of the wireless edge. Before I discuss the acquisition in more detail, I want to first cover our Q1 2026 results and provide color on our operational progress and some challenges in the quarter that we're managing through. Q1 revenue grew 8% year-over-year to $34.3 million. Adjusted EBITDA was $1.8 million, and both revenue and adjusted EBITDA were within our guidance. We also delivered healthy gross margins at 48.9%. As we said on our Q4 call in February, 2026 is a year of investment in carrier ramps, product launches and portfolio expansion in the first half, followed by benefits of greater scale, improving operating leverage and stronger profitability as the year progresses. Q1 played out largely as we expected and in line with what we discussed on our Q4 call. One challenge in Q1 was in FWA. Our large FWA customer overhauled its executive team and changed its approach to enterprise go-to-market, which created disruption for us in the quarter. We are working with them to realign the go-to-market and expect to see progress. Meanwhile, we've secured a commitment for our next-generation FWA platform with that same customer, reinforcing both the strength of that relationship and our position at the leading edge of sever technology. In addition, our recently added Tier-1 customer is ramping very well in FWA. This goes to show the importance of executing on our strategy of diversifying our revenue base. Mobile delivered $16.7 million of revenue. On last quarter's call, we said we had engineering delays in our new mobile hotspot product family, which consists of a model for each of our Tier-1 carriers that would impact Q1. While we have successfully launched two out of three models, the delay in the third is persisting into Q2, we anticipate to launch in late June. I'm happy to share with you that we've executed on our strategy to broaden the mobile portfolio across multiple value tiers and secured a carrier commitment for a new low-tier MiFi product, which is an important step in expanding the portfolio and positioning the category for broader contribution over time. I've made important changes to address the execution issues I mentioned. I've brought in a new Chief Product Officer and launched a search for Head of Engineering. It's important to note that as part of the Nokia FWA acquisition, I will be integrating people and best practices from Nokia, an industry leader in engineering technology, which will help us scale both our existing business and the newly acquired business. We recently welcomed Koroush Saraf as our new Chief Product Officer. Koroush brings more than 20 years of experience across networking, cybersecurity, hardware, software and edge infrastructure with expertise in AI, SD-WAN, cloud security and 5G. He held product leadership roles at ZPE Systems, Accredo, Palo Alto Networks and Fortinet, where he helped bring products to market across connectivity, networking and security. Koroush understands how to build and scale product platforms across hardware and software, and his background is closely aligned with our strategic priorities as we continue expanding the portfolio. So, in summary, Q1 played out as we expected. As we move into Q2, we continue to build our FWA business. And in mobile, while we have launched a new product generation with two out of our three Tier-1 carriers, the additional delay with the third one will impact our Q2 outlook. As it won't launch until late June, it therefore, won't benefit most of the quarter. Moving to the transformational announcement we made last week, the acquisition of Nokia's FWA business. What makes this transaction compelling is what it means for Inseego strategically for our market position, our global reach, our technology roadmap and our ability to lead the wireless broadband edge as AI, 5G evolution and eventually 6G expand the opportunity in front of us. The simplest way to think about this transaction is that it's transformative for Inseego. We are acquiring Nokia's approximately $200 million revenue run rate FWA business. That more than doubles our revenue base, gives us immediate global scale in revenue and reach and positions Inseego as one of the leading global players in FWA with what we believe is the broadest platform in the industry across mobile, fixed, enterprise and consumer connectivity. It also establishes a partnership with Nokia across technology, go-to-market collaboration and ownership alignment. From a scale, reach, financial and technology standpoint of view, this acquisition transforms Inseego and sets us on a greatly accelerated growth trajectory. For Inseego, the strategic logic is very clear. This acquisition materially advances our product roadmap and gives us immediate global presence. It takes what has been a U.S.-centric business and makes Inseego instantly global. It also gives us a strong set of global Tier-1 customers and creates real opportunity to take Inseego products into Nokia's customer base and Nokia FWA products into Inseego's customer base. It gives us a different level of scale from day one and positions us to compete across a much broader set of customer segments, geographies and use cases. This gives us a much stronger position in FWA market, which is growing rapidly and becoming more important globally. The drivers are clear. Operators are increasingly using FWA to monetize 5G, expand broadband access and serve a broader range of consumer and enterprise use cases. At the same time, AI-driven workloads are increasing uplink demand, lowering latency tolerance and pushing more intelligence to the edge, while 5G evolution, millimeter wave and over time, 6G continue to expand what wireless broadband networks can support. We believe this transaction gives us exactly the right platform to capitalize on those key trends. This is also a strong fit for both companies. Nokia is sharpening its focus on AI infrastructure and network leadership. Inseego is building a leadership position at the wireless broadband edge. Bringing these two together creates a very compelling combination and a strong fit strategically for both sides. On a personal level, this transaction means a great deal to me as well. I spent nearly eight years at Nokia, so I know the teams, the products, the customers and the quality in which they operate the business. I also know the depth of technology and the relevance of this business in the broader wireless broadband ecosystem. This is a business we understand, a market we deeply believe in and an opportunity we are generally excited to bring into Inseego. I also want to thank Nokia President and CEO, Justin Hotard, and his team for the partnership and the work they've done to get us to this point. We appreciate the relationship and are excited about what we will build together going forward. It has been one week since we announced the deal. And while there is obviously a lot of work ahead of us, the response we've seen from partners and customers has been overwhelmingly positive. As I mentioned earlier, an important part of this acquisition for me is the ability to add strong Nokia expertise to our company. I'm driving to one global engineering team, one product team and one integrated supply chain. Signing the deal only got us to the starting line. I'm laser-focused on making sure we execute along the way, starting with the overall integration of the business. We are approaching integration the right way with a clear focus on customer continuity, employee integration and building the right culture. We have a dedicated and experienced team leading this effort. Importantly, the business and financial attractiveness of this deal is well aligned. In this regard, this is not a bolt-on. It's about bringing two complementary organizations together with a clear set of opportunities for scale, efficiency and cost synergies over time. The transaction structure is designed to give us the flexibility to integrate thoughtfully, continue investing in the roadmap and optimize the business as we execute. Steven will walk through the structure in more detail. But from my perspective, that operating framework is an important part of what makes this transaction so compelling. At the same time, we remain fully focused on the existing business. We are driving that business forward while preparing to bring these two organizations together as one fully aligned team, serving a much larger global opportunity across mobile, enterprise and consumer wireless broadband. With that, let me turn the call over to Steven to discuss the Q1 financials, Q2 outlook and the Nokia acquisition structure and economics in more detail.