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Operator

Hello, and welcome to Inseego Corp’s Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2018 Financial Results Conference Call. Please note that today’s event is being recorded. All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity for analyst to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] On the call today are Dan Mondor, Chairman and CEO; Steve Smith, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; Ashish Sharma, Chief Marketing Officer and Executive Vice President of IoT & Mobile Solutions; and John Weldon, Senior Vice President of Enterprise SaaS Solutions.

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Dan Mondor

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Steve Smith

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Dan Mondor

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Operator

Thank you.

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Michael Walkley

taking Congratulations Great. on Thanks questions. reaching exiting your for adjusted targets EBITDA my XXXX.

Dan Mondor

Mike. Thanks,

Michael Walkley

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Dan Mondor

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Michael Walkley

how on enter going hardware OpEx entering should where about just investments we from Steve, think, business trend the just And the as the ships year, in better your maybe Okay. building exiting maybe about model. – on just margins think How platform at should given you gross you’re how your And where new Foxconn? we the year the levels on? that,

Steve Smith

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Michael Walkley

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Dan Mondor

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Steve Smith

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Michael Walkley

best more taking Okay. my XXXX. for flags in planting wishes Thanks and questions for

Steve Smith

Thank you, Mike.

Dan Mondor

Thank you, Mike.

Operator

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Scott Searle

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Steve Smith

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far as math it, can you your of the As own run on that. size

that? can as second far As you question, repeat the

Scott Searle

and blended the start first-half a Gross you better related impact to of that give about should think new before some and margin how in the we kick mix? products to

Steve Smith

Yes.

shortages the to a we bit in gone and probably, market have of than So otherwise. open the there a find in be on gross would little QX, and because we margin parts obviously, the had had more compression will the paying

Dan Mondor

the this I the and part you expedited because we to after shipments first if up the we were think later to want compressed quarter volume in work there’s quarter. with aspects, to resolved term alternate got in other in and of needed around use the distribute ways product, the make

QX. there’s of – compression margin led to lead I will there couple that So in a in factors think, to that

Scott Searle

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or that bit are color year, a or the current come in you expectations evaluation that an you over looking I wireless would that carriers hotspot as of and in Can are carriers the I focus. can how once what won on of that front? more an But is us fixed many terms in think to XX time, this into are we this give maybe later you of threw idea you’ve out assume point currently your ramp? give most number number at starting get in stage. a second-half year, contribute going of of probably us Thanks. little really to this

Dan Mondor

Scott. thanks, yes, – think I Yes,

We the the Verizon RXXXX. course, about talked hotspot we and Telstra, announced quarter, we we, So, selection. XG of product, previously, announced today. going home previously call Verizon on Optus back gateway discussed the Last

of So that that’s are as about you to our terms – where think so belt, can we speak. in under

by interested XG hotspot. forward, There’s and there Going the get-go. the But XG the both in in interest the provider. across are very – the interest home is interesting. in some on it’s is is leading There gateway doing it there with board, there service interest from depends

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the I frankly, up product, SMB very broadband and a for markets. gateway is in there stack to quite a thing SMB of enterprise. in access our interest other with the The would engagements, say serve ton It’s economical

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our exciting. markets around XG very engaging sub-X markets, It’s millimeter really great there carrier the gigahertz are it’s different bands. and front hotspot So, and a And depending markets go and the on broad wave on as between are a distribution there there’s gateway. you home

to – we both so opportunities we over we the build took was of going you to fully flexible the the since decision made the choice unfold couldn’t took – months. be in, the predict past XX So those in addressing could what

say, product live super So booth, a And I position. Congress in and busy. we’re additionally, interest discussions, having Ericsson reality these I think as demos expectation. and customers beyond those whirlwind was have door. booth on outcome did the the really through way we coming Mobile great on the display. and Verizon we’re I World other were anyone’s The create a think, of We augmented of everything having with robotics on would

We have our industrial gateways.

trackers. We have our

We products have other there.

to leading line, point So is course, of is it’s on actually broader product then which, the great. our conversations entry

Scott Searle

color. Great much. so thanks Okay,

on and guys and how meaningful quarter. of products. XXXX? that stores sounds the the broad-based think, like kind right? show. and there’s of You I industrial about It product level just Just contributes the Thanks, of was in one been you I’m Industrial just gateway, launched Kind that IoT of new I’ll I of the push get some nice Mobile queue. see the more World debut, really think, the revenue lastly, that you expect from it at back in to have when of of are first lot engagement talking at in a it. kind and the and curious terms thoughts with general Congress what that, big

Dan Mondor

much. Scott. very thanks Yes,

So was yes, this aforementioned of one us. particular those that gateway, it impacted on component industrial product the

kind have to been in of was kind what it’s early now a of those, for So QX. QX launch

revenue. of ramp channel So relative efforts, thereafter I distribution direct efforts. answers think a our it’s well that to as our as question And the from sales start

rate, then any there. will But expect see and I ramp we’ll we when at to from when that’s So the happen beginning as… think that’s –

Scott Searle

Great. Thank so much.

Dan Mondor

is Yes, Steve story the the first-half. quite the generally second-half one of will than look a positioned, different bit

of kind cetera. underline point there’s and Aviation, XG well, a factors that fairly think, et I contributing we’ve number IoT, we discussed of

that’s where we the that’s headed we’re So after target – down and going down heads executing.

Scott Searle

thanks. Okay,

Operator

go The question Please with from comes Markets. Northland next Mike ahead. Capital Latimore

Dan Mondor

Mike. Hi,

Mike Latimore

quarter. looks That Yes. great. Congratulations on the

Dan Mondor

Thanks, Mike.

Steve Smith

Thanks, Mike.

Mike Latimore

still the In revenue of the we of second-half should being terms year, the of with the think kind the LTE sort of majority XG growth about of drivers of in XG kind building.

Just of of, XG XG trying versus year? of exiting a LTE sense of kind a kind to the mix get

Dan Mondor

Mike. Thanks, Yes.

build technology through and still is the innings, days, beginning deployments XG the up stated I as dominant, They the tilted toward will will, if format. think, year, now. Early as LTE XG expect. would you is is mix early the everyone, we So, we’ve we’re -- would in

we’ve with LTE beater We’re very happy a that come world a kind of gigabit XG products. out

product. there X is it’s function mill with that the It’s wins, a the and of design ton And function we not Tier of into. capabilities So interest. – XG six a of really running really mentioned it’s a the operators expanded of that we’ve

occur will that So through the year.

customer what a XG fact, not effect. of matter it’s or XG, swap in, we will kicking It’s plus a our as combinational see of of with fact, base a the substitution because effect. broadening In

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Mike Latimore

sense. Enterprise Yes. your of year growing the the second-half be That thought SaaS in year-over-year? that will of Is makes – business the kind

Dan Mondor

improvements if the see there, yes. cost and a Yes, – you We’ve that. look you we function of out taking EBITDA back – was year-over-year it

a putting X will very Europe is second, is, and restructuring this those that so, of well. of Phase aside of Africa I Australia. was for talked And sort we’ve about X. say South the some performing Phase

Australia, been that’s place. in in will, in in been leadership – is you pointed Africa, if leadership in put overhauling, just in sales South that’s new the then put We’re place. And

there’s execution with nothing action wrong in geographies say, of business. those corrective combination, impact again, have taken So issues the we FX put I we we’ve the the and have that some on. fundamentally couple in would a

answer. way build to that’s really for So year. up It the a will long

expect We first-half. than looking much a better second-half

Mike Latimore

and does is associated the Got therewith, some then talked product just network last product – products it. your of for of you��ve And the on that development. sort network go the past, Do certifications capitalized? development or through costs in that about

Dan Mondor

the let accounting Steve to fill that Product as question. going versus certifications as expense I’m of capitalization. far

Steve Smith

be a will will running million be that and expensed about How it piece. $X

Dan Mondor

The on sir. news literally the good universal not we’re the the is, It’s having bands certification, because are carrier, redo Per products. to platform.

Mike Latimore

product it. development Got that – through goes the would line? And that go

Steve Smith

Yes.

Mike Latimore

you. Thank great. Okay,

Dan Mondor

Thank you, Mike.

Operator

question-and-answer like This the for over would and any Chairman CEO, to I concludes conference back our turn Dan to closing session. remarks. Mondor,

Dan Mondor

Thank you, operator.

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Operator

has now conference Thank concluded. for attending presentation. The today’s you

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Inseego (INSG) 7 Mar 192018 Q4 Earnings call transcript