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Q1 FY2026 · Earnings Call TranscriptApril 29, 2026

Andreas Joelsson

Good morning, everyone, and welcome to this Q1 presentation with Net Insight. My name is Andreas Joelsson, covering Net Insight here at DNB Carnegie, and with me in the studio, I have Net Insight's CEO, Andreas Eriksson, and CFO, Cecilia Höjgård Höök.

You will provide a presentation of the quarter. You can ask or send in questions on the prompt.

I think it should be done in the screen that you see in front of you. Just type in the question and send it, and I will read it to the company.

With that, I leave the floor to you. I guess, Andreas, you will start.

Andreas Eriksson

Yes. Thank you very much, Andreas.

Great to be here. Let's get go— get started.

We'll go through a quick sort of highlight of the quarter, deep dive into the business overview. I'll hand over to Cecilia for financials, and then we'll wrap wrap up and and open up for Q&A.

If we start with the highlights, I think if you look at the net sales side, we're down a little bit more than 2% year-on-year to about 112 million SEK. If you look at comparable currencies, though, we're up a little bit lower than 5%, around 5% mark there on the net sales side.

We could see during the quarter improved earnings year-on-year, and this has been, primarily reflecting the full effect of the 2025 cost reduction program that we ran. If you look at the the quarter, we've done several portfolio launches, which is about broadening our addressable market.

We've also seen some positive customer traction with media operators sort of winning winning new new customers. That's sort on the on the media side.

If we look at the time synchronization side, as I highlighted in the last report, the focus going into 2026 has very much been around conversion of what we have in the pipeline, as opposed to significantly adding new things into the pipeline. It's sort of been pleasing to see that we've been able to progress along the value or along the sales process into trials and pilots.

As we have signaled before, the sales cycles are, take a bit longer time than we thought before. I think we want also want to highlight that we expect quarterly volatility on the revenue side, because, it's not until we have a a broader portfolio of customers in rollout mode which we expect the, smoother sort of revenue quarter from quarter.

If we then go into a little bit more detail. We we talked last time about, the analysis we've done looking back to 2025.

We we said we're going to take actions in three different areas: we want to enhance the portfolio on the media side, we want to make sure we drive increased sales efficiency on the on the media side again, and as I just said, on the time synchronization, the focus is very much around driving conversion. If you look at progress during the quarter one, then, on the on the first one, we have launched Nimbra 520, which is a new product we have, and I'll cover a little bit more in detail how that fits into the the big portfolio.

That's been one thing. We've done some upgrades to the compression side, we strengthened other parts of the portfolio.

This is all about sort of closing the gap we have on the video compression side, as well as on the internet and and cloud area. If you look at the increased sales efficiency, as you might have seen, we've we've sort of put a new leadership in place across the sales and marketing team.

We have just announced that we will bring aboard a new Chief Product Officer, which is also part of the sort of commercial leadership refresh we're doing. She will join 4th of May.

Then we have won a new customer, a global streaming operator, during quarter one. This has been part of the sort of it's increasing segment we see around sort of global streaming providers globally.

That's been an important win for us. If you look at time synchronization, again focus on conversion has been the really the the key here.

We've been progressing several prospects. I'll I'll outline that a little bit more in detail in a separate slide.

Turk Telekom has, as we've highlighted that they've been through a rollout process, and they have launched 4G now in April— no, 5G, sorry, I should say in April, and progressed now into full operations, sort of moved from rollout into full operations. That's sort of a key progression that we've seen in the time sync area.

I think we've highlighted that, we believe we're taking the right actions, and we're doing, things step-by-step here. I think we also want to, highlight the financial impact will happen step-by-step over time.

If I then go into more detail, we'll start with the media side. As I mentioned, net sales remain sort of pressured pending the impact on the measures we now taking.

On the portfolio expansion side, the Nimbra 520, again, fits into primarily the the cloud and internet delivery area. Here we're moving into more of the new the another type of encoding, HEVC, that we haven't been so active in so far.

We have done an important upgrade on on the other encoding type we have on the JPEG family, where we have now increased sort of the the density, the price efficiency, let's say, on the that compression type, which is very important for as part of our selling proposition. Now we really moved up to become the the leading provider on that in the in the industry.

The next Nimbra Edge next generation, this is about sort of a monitoring and operation system which we have, which we use for the cloud and internet delivery. We we provide compression, but we also then provide this orchestration.

This has been a really important upgrade that we done on that area to make sure we we remain very competitive on that. The combination of the 520 with the Nimbra Edge will be, we believe, a very strong proposition.

Customer traction side, again as I mentioned, we we have now a new relationship during Q1 with a global streaming operator. We also won a deal in Q4 with a global digital media operator, which got established in Q4, and we've actually now seen additional orders coming in from that one in Q1 as well, so that's been pleasing to see.

I just mentioned that we've done some strengthening on commercial and product strategy area. We have Larissa joining us as new Chief Product Officer from 1st of May.

I think as as an overall statement, I think we feel that we're, we're well positioned to benefit from the foundations we're now putting in place over time. We're active in attractive markets, we've got a good good strong heritage of developing, strong innovative leading solutions in in the media area.

If I just just quickly touch on this one, just to position the addressable market that we are active in, and how we look at the launches. As you can see, if you look at the white round sort of marks there, you have the 400G on the managed side.

That's the one we talked about. We we won the first customer on that in in the end of last year.

They that customer has now gone live with the 400G, and in Q1, we actually won another customer for the 400G product, which has been good to see. I talked about the JPEG XS upgrade we done.

That's all on the managed side. On the internet and cloud area, again, the the Nimbra Edge upgrade that we've done as well as the 520 fit into that one.

We now feel that we have a good proposition to attack the internet and cloud more, even more aggressively. If we then jump on leave media and move over to the sync side.

Again, 2026, converting existing opportunities, that's really the focus. We've seen some positive progression on the media on the sync side.

A Latin American operator, two smaller operators have advanced to field trials, and we have a large North American operator which has advanced to pilot installation, some positive progress there. Turk Telekom, as I mentioned, moved to full operations, and, of course, that's strengthening the reference value of that customer for us.

We have we sent out some press a press release around an awarded grant we've gotten from the ESA, and this is, not as significant in terms of financial terms, but, of course, it signals that we have an interesting solution, and we have something that is well aligned with where the market is going, but and of course, it will help us strengthen development of the solution. It's not in terms of financial terms, it's not it's not a significant, amount, I think that's maybe important, but really positive to see.

Again, positive long-term outlook. I think we're signaling the short-term volatility in terms of revenue that we expect until we reach more customers in rollout and full operations, where we will see more sort of stability quarter-through-quarter on the sync side.

This is just want to highlight sort of the the change across the the sales process during the quarter for the sync side. Again, the one additional PoC we have we got in, although it not hasn't been a prime focus, as I mentioned, three customers have moved to field trials.

We have one customer that moved to pilot installation, and we also also won a media customer that's gone straight to rollout. Then, plus one for full operations is the Turk Telekom that's moved to full operations.

Maybe a quick mention around the media customer here. I think it's very pleasing to see that we are able to win customers in media, and we we've signaled that we won that previously.

Of course, it's a positive, that the market is is interested in our sync solution also on that side. Obviously, being strong in the media is is a positive.

If you look at the size of those deals, tend to be smaller. It's not the the the bigger rollout amounts that we will see on on a sync for a 5G operator, but still, good to get more customers on it and and good to get more references out there, of course.

Then with that, I'll hand over to Cecilia to take us through the financials.

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

Thank you. We start with net sales.

In Q1, our net sales amounted to 112 million, and that is a decline with approximately 2% year-on-year. As Andreas said, FX headwinds is still putting pressure on our net sales, in comparable currencies, we had an growth of approximately 5%.

Beyond FX, we still have a market uncertainty, and this has effect of cautious spending. We are pending impact from the measures we have taken.

Again, these measures are expected to give results step-by-step over time. On the right-hand chart, we have a split on the net sales by product group.

Starting with media, net sales for Q1 amounted 105, and that is in line with last year and 8% grow compared to last quarter. Continuing with time synchronization, revenue was 7 million, and that is a drop versus last quarter record-high 20 million.

This reflects the volatility that we will have on the revenue until we have more customer in the rollout and full operation phase. Our gross margin for Q1 was 66%, slightly down year-on-year, reflecting FX and the product mix.

If we continue with our cost side, we now have full impact of the cost-saving program that we launched last year, and operating expenses declined 11% year-on-year, and we continue with cost discipline. This resulted in an EBITA improvement to 20.6 million, despite that we still are pressured by net sales.

In other words, our cost base is structurally lower, and our main lever for further margin expansion will be the revenue recovery. Operating earnings for Q1 was 1.9 million negative, with a margin of a negative of 1.7%.

On rolling 12 months basis, we still have a modest operating earnings of 16 million, with a margin of 3%. This reinforces our focus on scaling on our upgraded product portfolio and the importance of conversion in the time synchronization pipeline.

To cash flow. We had a strong operating cash flow in Q1 of 42 million, and this is supported by the improvement of working capital.

Investment cash flow was a negative of 24 million, and this is mainly our capitalized development expenditures. Financing cash flow was a negative of 2 million.

In total, we had a positive cash flow of 16.4 million, and we ended Q1 with a net cash position of 99 million. We also have an unutilized credit facility of 85 million, in total, we have available cash liquidity of 184 million.

That was it for financials.

Andreas Eriksson

Thanks, Cecilia. Just to summarize, then, this is what we outlined last time when we looked at strategic roadmap, how we then first addressed the current challenges that we have highlighted, as well as then how we work to seize the mid- and long-term opportunities.

Just looking at the left side here, it's really what we talked about. Again, sync here and now and the coming time very much around driving conversion.

On the media side, it's about the enhancement on the media portfolio and then on the sales side, driving really high efficiencies around how we bring products to market in a more effective way, how we upsell to our existing customers, and then how we break into new customers that can become significant over time. To summarize the Q1 for us, we feel we have some really clear progression here on executing on the priorities that we have set, so that's pleasing to see.

We're driving the improvements that we had outlined and that we set for ourselves, enhancement of portfolio, increasing sales efficiency on the media side in particular. The cost actions improved the earnings and the cash flow in the quarter, so that's pleasing to see.

That's both in terms of, obviously, the cost reduction program we ran last year, as well as just being very prudent on how we manage our costs on an ongoing basis. On the net sales side, as highlighted, remains pressured pending the impact on the measures we're taking, but we feel that we expect this net sales to materialize gradually.

On the time sync side, some positive sales funnel progression, as I highlighted. Again, long-term outlook remains positive; short-term revenue, we expect some volatilities from quarter to quarter.

We're stating that the long-term financial target remain unchanged, though timing towards the 2027 timeline is challenging. Again, as a summary of the position for the company, we feel well-positioned.

We're putting this foundation in place over time, and we feel we can really benefit from it over time. We're present in two attractive markets, and we have really a strong heritage and a legacy to really drive innovation into these two new areas.

We feel very optimistic from that perspective that we'll be able to take advantage of that over time as we implement and execute on the measures we've highlighted. With that, I conclude, and we can hand over to Q&A.

Over to you, Andreas.

Andreas Joelsson

Very good. Thank you very much, both of you.

We have a lot of questions coming in, mostly on the time synchronization side. I would like to start with the media side, I will come back to you.

You mentioned these product launches that you have done. Maybe it could be good to explain how the cycle usually works when you launch a new product, how long does it take before it gets traction at the customers and orders may start to come,

Andreas Eriksson

and

Andreas Joelsson

what you see the initial reception from customers.

Andreas Eriksson

Absolutely. Let's talk about the 520, maybe, as sort of one example of that.

I think I just came back from the NAB trade show, which is the biggest sort of Americas-based trade show for our industry last week, and I think that's where we really launched the 520 to the market, and I think we had a positive reception on the 520 products. If you look at the process, then typically what happens in this situation, it will be that people, our customer, new and existing customer, will want to get their hands on the product, maybe try it a bit, maybe do a proof of concept.

It's not as onerous, clearly, as on the sync side, but they want maybe just sort of understand it a bit more. Then they start to, if they're happy with it, start to deploy and buy it then over time.

It depends, then, clearly, on the use case, because some might have a bigger rollout in mind and put it in more places, some will just have a smaller need. Then as the customer grow, and as the need grow, step-by-step, we can ramp up.

I think it's also fair to say we're dealing with product development here as well. When you launch a new product, you still have things that you need to fix with the software and so forth.

This is very software-centric product, for instance, you still need to make sure you have maybe some extra features that's important for some customers, as well as just the stability on the product. That's sort of until you kind of bed that down, and that usually take some time, depends, three to six months, maybe longer depending how complicated it is, and then stability comes and then more customer interest builds over time.

That's typically how it works, Andreas.

Andreas Joelsson

You mentioned in Q4 that you said you need to broaden your customer base and take on more or new type of customers. You highlight this in this report as well.

Andreas Eriksson

Yes, yes.

Andreas Joelsson

Is that a result of the work that you have done, or is it more coincidence that this happens now, to say? Also, just as for the product side, what is the usual sales cycle product process at a new customer?

Andreas Eriksson

If I zoom out and look at the customer segment we are covering. We're sort of big on selling into the service providers, the broadcasters, as well as some of the kind of production companies and so forth.

We've seen now a more new sort of segment coming up which start to buy sporting rights, which is some of these global media operators that we talk about. That's becomes an increasingly important new segment for us, so that's very pleasing that we're able to get into two of those now.

As we said, one in Q4 and one in Q1, so that's sort of one element. Then, of course, if you look at each segment, then we're not selling to all broadcasters and all service providers in the world, we have more to do there to come into more of them.

That's the other aspect of it. We're seeing sort of certainly progress on getting into this new segment, and then also getting traction into breaking into even more new customers.

I think the sales cycle for getting into these new customers can be relatively long. It depends a bit.

If you look at some of the let's say more the internet and cloud area, that might be a quicker decision, and maybe a little bit less. If you're going to go in and displace the competitor, say, on the managed side, that tend to be a little bit more complex, and to come in there.

It also depends on the use case. If you look at a large service provider, you're going to displace in a bigger part of the network, then that's, again, is a longer process.

If you're looking at a broadcaster connecting, let's say, two studios for a broadcaster that have location in two different places in a country, connect them up, that's a smaller decision, a smaller implementation, be a quicker decision. It sort of depends a bit on the scale and also, to some extent, on the type of customer.

That's sort of usually what we see. In terms of coincidence, I think no.

We've done some work during last year to start to break into and build towards getting into some of these new customers. Clearly, hasn't happened in a quarter in terms of from first contact to a sale.

It's a longer time than that to kind of present ourselves and make sure they can do some proof of concept and they get to know us. Not in that sense, it's not been a quick impact now, because we've taking measures on the sales side has been taking also earlier in 2025.

Andreas Joelsson

Yes. Thank you.

Moving into the synchronization side, then. Can you explain why the sales in Sync moved down to 7 million from 20 million when you say that Turk Telekom is in full operation and there will be a number of SynSync deliveries in Q2?

What does that mean, that Turk Telekom now is in full operation? Does that mean that Q2 will have a better opportunity to increase sales again, or how should we see this?

How is revenues recognized within the synchronization side?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

I think that Turk Telekom, what they have done is that they have acquired SynSync for a longer time. In Q4, since they are launched the system now in 1st of April, they bought it in Q4 a larger amount, and they deployed those during Q1.

They had already the equipment that they needed in order to get to the full rollout. They are going to continue, but we see that it's going to be volatile, and that depends on that we need more customers to be in the base with rollout and full operations in order to get an even revenue.

Andreas Joelsson

When you write that it is a larger North American operator and a larger Latin American operator, just to set the expectations right, what do you mean by that? If these customers turn into fully operational rollout, how will that revenue be recognized?

Will be over a longer period of time, so that will sort of smooth out the volatility?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

It's over time. A rollout, it won't be a large order that we receive.

We will receive orders continually during maybe one, two, three years. It will come gradually during that period.

Andreas Joelsson

Perfect. Let's see.

The hardware investments you have done for 2025 for SynSync, is there a risk that they are becoming obsolete, given that it takes time to execute and converge these customers from pilot and field trials to actual orders?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

No, we don't see any obsolete. We have the stock of that is needed for us to be able to deliver to the customers, but we have that in control, no risk of obsolete for the SynSync.

Andreas Joelsson

There were no press releases on this North American customer and nothing on the European media customer. Why is that?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

I think that regarding the press releases, we need to be cautious, because I think that it's the rollout that is the big decision. When they decide to go into rollout, that will be an important press release.

I think that we will continue to be cautious and not say too much until we get these real signals that will impact our revenue.

Andreas Joelsson

Can you comment on the progress in standardization related to SynSync, and can you specify where you are in the process, what milestones remains, and how this impacts the timeline for the ITU decision?

Andreas Eriksson

If you look on the SynSync standardization. In this summer, then there'll be the first sort of key milestone on the synchronization standardization side, so that'll be a key milestone.

Then they'll continue after that for kind of another two years to continue to be standardized. It's not a one-defined milestone in that sense.

It's sort of a number of phases that we go through. I think the next coming milestone will be this summer for the first clear step in terms of the standardization, which is sort of been the plan.

Kind of we're moving according to plan is what you can say.

Andreas Joelsson

You have now operators and you have media and you have mentioned also some utility companies that are in the process, to say. You don't mention anything about critical networks in the report.

It's a hot topic. What do you see in that segment?

Andreas Eriksson

I think we have said, well, let's focus on conversion, and most of the customers we have in the pipeline are in the 5G area, but we do have some other prospects that are outside. We've tried to say, well, let's focus now on the 5G, but we still see opportunities in other areas, in power and sort of government defense and so forth as well.

We do see sort of opportunities in those, but the main focus been on 5G, because that's where our kind of go-to-market machinery is aimed towards. You could say 5G is mission-critical as well.

I think when you look at the mission-critical aspect of different networks, I think 5G is also one of them, clearly. I think it's been pointed out that that's mission-critical for most nations, and that's what we also can see.

That's been the strategic plan to sort of really break in significantly in 5G and then start to move into other segments over time.

Andreas Joelsson

Maybe the slide you had on the process give some indication on this, but what would you say about the interest from potential customers, both new ones and the ones that are within the process? How has that developed during the last three months

Andreas Eriksson

on the sync

Andreas Joelsson

side, yeah?

Andreas Eriksson

On the sync side. I think it's developing positively.

I think the movement indicate that people want to progress throughout the process. They're continue to be rigid in their evaluations of the product.

I think sort of in that sense, it's been positive. I think we have good activity in the different parts.

Of course, with the ones that do not move in a quarter, of course, they are not sitting still. They continue to be mature, which continue to be very active in working with them to respond to questions they have, and continue to run the proof of concepts or the different sort of trials, depending where they are in the process.

It's a lot of activity kind of under the hood on top of the positive progression we have seen.

Andreas Joelsson

I'd like to ask also, before we run out of time, on the gross margin. It is relatively low if you look at history, regardless if you do adjust for the amortization or not.

Why is that? I know FX is part of that, but have you done any calculation how much FX is impacting, and is there any other aspects that we should be aware of, like input costs?

We hear a lot about semiconductor prices coming up and so on. How do you see that going forward, right now and going forward?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

I think that what we have seen is that, looking back, we had an unadjusted margin, that is the margin without amortization, has been around 70%, 69%, 70%, and is down to 66%. It has gone down slightly.

The main effect is the FX, but we also have when we have larger deals, it impacts the product mix that can be more hardware, and then the software-centric will come later, so that will impact as well. Regarding the cost price that you discussion, of course, we see that going ahead, we have those important part of our product that will cost as well.

We have a mix of the hardware and software, we see that since we are growing the software, this can even out the effect of the prices of both the cost of our product going up a bit, but the prices pressure going down, they will even out. We don't expect our gross margin to go down more.

It's more effect of if the US dollar goes up again, we will be able to squeeze it up a bit, but it won't be a huge step up.

Andreas Joelsson

For a simple person like me, you can say that you have a lot of currency exposure on the sales side, but not on the COGS side. No.

How is the business with the operator in Japan that was communicated before? How is that developing?

Andreas Eriksson

That's one of these sitting in sort of that we're working intensely with, so that's also everything is just progressing. We just need to work through kind of the timeline and answer questions and follow their plan as well.

That's still active at the moment. Then

Andreas Joelsson

I get a question, it's maybe leading, but do you feel confident that SynSync will be a success?

Andreas Eriksson

I think we have if you look at the interest, and I spent some time at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a couple of months back, and you can see the mission-critical network banner in most people's stand, and talking about it. Obviously, we all feel the economical or the geopolitical situation in the world happening.

Making sure that the networks are resilient continue to be very important. 5G is now being more and more important, not just for consumer, but over time also for business and enterprise customers, which means that the requirement on the 5G networks to remain resilient and not only have dependency on the satellite and so forth will be important.

Uptime, resilience will be critical, again, from a mission-critical geopolitical aspect, but also from a business aspect for the 5G operators. I think and then you have a lot of momentum in the industry around timing and precision time and so forth.

I think the macro trend is very clear, and we have a lot of interest. We got a number of customers in the pipeline or prospects in the pipeline, as you've seen.

I think we feel very confident. All the data and all the facts that we have is pointing that we're really onto something here.

Yes, we feel optimistic that this could turn into something, but, of course, we just need to push through and make sure we progress more deals in the pipeline to really really prove that out.

Andreas Joelsson

I guess the reiteration of the long-term financial targets is also an indication of that, that you do it again after being CEO now for a couple of more months and still confident. Yes.

Andreas Eriksson

No, and I think what we have said previously is that the financial targets that we have set is really to reach them really dependent on Sync taking off. I think we've been clear on communicating that as well.

Andreas Joelsson

Yep. There is another question just to understand the recognition of sales in the time sync business.

Why is it lower, even if you have a full rollout in Turkey? Should we maybe see that as the strong number in Q4, that this is sort of if we smooth those two out, that's the sort of run rate?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

I think that is hard to say, because a rollout and full operations will not be linear in the demand from the customers. I wouldn't say that this low number is something that is reflecting how it will be in the future.

We will need, in order for to grow more, we will need more customers.

Andreas Joelsson

Question on the cash flow: it was strong, and you released some of the working capital,

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

but

Andreas Joelsson

yet the inventory is almost twice as high as it was last year.

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

The major part of that is still the FPGAs

Andreas Joelsson

that we

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

invested during last year. Those FPGAs, that investment is for the coming years.

It's nothing that is going to happen during this year that it goes down. We will have a higher working capital and inventory for the coming years, but it will go down gradually.

Andreas Joelsson

Has Turk Telekom taking out bigger parts ahead of their rollout, or should we expect continue strong deliverances even though lumpy within that project?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

They still have an order book.

Andreas Joelsson

Do you see a trend that customers awaits standardization before they place orders?

Andreas Eriksson

Not really. I think, of course, that's for a telco and in the telco industry standardization is an important part of it, but we do not see many have moved, as you can see, and that's not really kind of a key ingredients in.

In some, I'm sure it might be a consideration, of course, but I think that's why the progress that we are making is very important that people feel that they got some line of sight and they've got some clarity on where we are and that we're moving ahead. I think everyone working in the industry knows how sort of standardization works.

I think, of course, I cannot exclude that there'll be some customers where might be hesitant and wait, of course. That'll be unreasonable, but I think we don't see it as a big theme in any way into the customer conversations we're having, that they're sort of holding back because of standardization.

Andreas Joelsson

Is there any additional features that SynSync could add, or that you can develop SynSync for, that can expand the sort of usage within both existing and new customers?

Andreas Eriksson

There is an element of that. When you think about, we're on the transportation sort of side, not on the timekeeping, on the sort of clock side in the sync area.

I think, of course, we can develop more and more features that make our product richer, and we come into sort of hybrid environment, for instance. We have a unique technology which no one else has, which is really strength, of course, and then we see that we getting more and more involved in more sort of standard type of requests as well.

That's driven by the fact that we have developed and continue to develop the sync feature set to be able to be coming into more other kind of hybrid requests. Then we have our USPs in terms of our specific technology that we can differentiate ourselves into those requests.

Yes, there is an element of that. I think it'll happen a little bit over time, similar to media, similar to any kind of product development.

Remember, we launched the SynSync product in April 2024, it's two years really out in the market. As we get into RFPs and engage with more customers, we learn exactly what kind of extra features they need as well.

This is sort of ever-ongoing project, and we continue to kind of add more things into the product to make us more competitive and be able to then compete into, let's say, more use cases and more type of customer situations as we get involved with them across the globe.

Andreas Joelsson

Another question on the precision timing: it's gaining traction worldwide, like microchip building new factories and so on. Do you have enough resources to commercialize this opportunity, or are you looking for partners, like joint ventures or licenses or different sales channels?

Andreas Eriksson

We already are working with partners, and partners come really in two different sort of buckets. Bucket number one is go-to-market-driven partners.

Of course, we're a small company, we don't have the reach that is required to get into all the 800 5G operators around the world. We leverage partners that have the insights, the contacts, the reach, and the trust among these 5Gs.

We have more than 20 partners around the world and more coming to handle the go-to-market part, so that's how we kind of scale the go-to-market dimension and the reach. Then the other bucket is the rollout.

Obviously, when we win a deal, rolling out these large products all around the world will not be something we will scale up to do only with our team. We will have a certain expertise, and we will be core in certain parts of it, but the big sort of flex muscle in terms of scaling will come also from rollout partners.

We signed a couple of weeks ago a deal with WWT, which is a big integrator, US-based, but also present around the world in the telecom industry. These kind of partners will, of course, help us probably with both of these, getting into customers, as well as help with rollout, but it's also gives us some level of market-making, that they're trusted and so forth among the customers.

They'll help us sort of build and drive the market as well. That's also something we're mindful about, how do we get sort of more muscles to bring the message out around our unique and strong technology, so that just the word gets out there in a more significant way and not only dependent on the resources we have in the Net Insight business, but actually leverage the other partners to do all these things.

Yes, scaling with partners is fundamental to our strategy for Sync.

Andreas Joelsson

Perfect. We have two questions on the ESA.

Should we see that their involvement means sort of a breakthrough? Secondly, if that helps you avoid a potential new issue?

Andreas Eriksson

I think you should be seeing it as a recognition that, first of all, we're on the core macro trend, that they give a grant because they see what I think we all see in terms of the macro trend around us. I think it's a recognition of that, really.

I think that's how people should read it. Again, as I mentioned, not a significant amount of money in terms of monetary terms, but it signals that this is sort of something that people feel it's on trend.

I think that's how it should be interpreted. Another positive sign, let's say.

Andreas Joelsson

Then on the cash

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

flow,

Andreas Joelsson

you have strong cash flow in the quarter, I guess the ESA is a marginal part.

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

Yes, and we will get cash flow from that over time since we are building the product.

Andreas Joelsson

Final question, I think. No, let's take those on the sync side.

Why are you not showing the order book as you did before?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

I think that the order book that we had was built on the Turk Telekom deal that we set in '21. Going ahead, we see that the orders that we will get from the new customers will not be on the same basis, the order book won't be that relevant going forward.

Andreas Joelsson

Orders will be smaller and booked faster?

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

Yes.

Andreas Joelsson

Some information about SynSync in India?

Andreas Eriksson

India is sort of one of the markets where we're active. It's one of the biggest 5G markets in the world, so, of course, that's an area where we're very active, as well as other core markets.

I think we're active in all the big markets, and India is sort of one of the markets where we are trying to get into customers.

Andreas Joelsson

On the cost reduction program, is it fully up and running? Have you reached your targets, or should we expect more of that going forward?

No,

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

we have reached our targets, and we actually reached it by year-end, and we keeping that going through the year. Of course, we are staying cost-disciplined on all the things that we do now.

I think that the effect is there, and we still continue to look at cost all the time.

Andreas Joelsson

Very good. I think that was covering all the questions.

Was a lot of questions. Very good to see that you are active on the Q&A side.

Thank you so much. Good luck for Q2,

Andreas Eriksson

and

Andreas Joelsson

have a great spring break. What we have here in Sweden when the spring is coming, even though it's very crisp outside today.

Thank you.

Cecilia Höjgård Höök

Thank you.

Andreas Eriksson

Thank you.