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NOKNew deal, bigger ambitions
Inseego and Nokia just hit send on a deal that could reshape Inseego from a specialist into a much broader wireless broadband player. Inseego says it will acquire Nokia’s Fixed Wireless Access CPE business, giving it a bigger product menu across fixed wireless, mobile broadband, and cloud-managed connectivity.
That’s not just corporate word salad. It means Inseego is trying to bulk up fast and look less like a one-trick pony. If the deal closes, the company says revenue could roughly double and its business would have a lot more global reach — which is the kind of sentence that makes investors sit up a little straighter.
Why the market cares
For shareholders, the headline question is simple: can Inseego turn this into actual scale without turning the integration into a circus? Acquisitions can be rocket fuel, but they can also become a very expensive group project if systems, customers, and operations don’t mesh.
Still, this is the sort of move that can change the narrative. Instead of talking about a smaller broadband hardware business, investors now have a story about a company trying to become a global wireless connectivity platform. Big picture: if the closing goes smoothly, this could be a meaningful step up in both size and relevance.