NextNav Q3 2025 Earnings Report

NextNav EPS Results

• Actual EPS: -$0.12
• Consensus EPS: -$0.14
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$0.02
• One Year Ago EPS: N/A

NextNav Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $0.89 million
• Expected Revenue: $1.13 million
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$245.00 thousand
• YoY Revenue Growth: N/A

NextNav Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q3 2025
• Date: 11/6/2025
• Time: Before Market Opens
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, November 6, 2025
• Conference Call Time: 9:00AM ET

NextNav (NASDAQ:NN), Inc. is a provider of advanced 3D geolocation infrastructure and positioning services in the United States. The company operates a nationwide network designed to deliver real-time horizontal and vertical location data for consumer, enterprise and public safety applications. By leveraging spectrum holdings in the 900 MHz band, NextNav’s network offers precise altitude and position information that complements GPS and other satellite systems, particularly in urban canyons, indoors or underground environments where traditional signals struggle.

At the core of NextNav’s offering is its TerraPoiNT platform, which enables developers, carriers and emergency response centers to integrate high-accuracy vertical location into their applications and workflows. Service tiers range from basic device-location APIs to advanced precision layers that support indoor/outdoor transition detection and sub-meter altitude determination. In addition to location services, NextNav provides managed network solutions—marketed under the Pinnacle vertical network brand—that allow enterprises and wireless operators to deploy local or regional positioning services using NextNav’s infrastructure technology.

NextNav’s network covers all 48 contiguous states, offering continuous service to public safety agencies, wireless carriers, IoT solution providers and verticals such as utilities, logistics and facility management. The company has pursued regulatory approvals and commercial partnerships to integrate its vertical location data into emergency call centers (E911), asset-tracking platforms and smart-building systems. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NextNav continues to expand its infrastructure footprint and develop enhanced location products to meet evolving precision-geolocation requirements.

NextNav Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: NextNav says it has submitted robust technical and economic studies and met with senior FCC staff, urging a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to enable 5G-based 3D PNT, and believes the FCC has sufficient data to proceed.
• Negative Sentiment: The ongoing U.S. government shutdown has halted most FCC work, creating uncertainty around the timing of any NPRM or regulatory milestones despite management's active engagement.
• Positive Sentiment: The company reported major technical milestones toward commercialization, including deriving accurate timing and positioning while simultaneously delivering downlink and uplink over standard 5G equipment and integrating with a GNSS-enabled Grandmaster Clock.
• Positive Sentiment: NextNav highlighted a strong financial position — it repaid a $70M senior secured loan earlier in 2025, ended Q3 with $167.6 million in cash and short-term investments, and recorded ~$23.6M of non‑cash gains that produced modest net income for the quarter.
• Positive Sentiment: The closing of the Telesaurus transaction added 128 active lower 900 MHz licenses (with ~1.2M shares issued), reinforcing management's view that scarce low‑band spectrum is a strategic, value-driving asset amid rising market demand.

Presentation

[Operator]

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and Welcome to The NextNav Q3 2025 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speaker's remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question during that time, press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, today's call is being recorded. I will now turn today's call over to Nev Reilly. Nevin Reilly, please go ahead.

[Nevin Reilly, Head of Investor Relations at NextNav]

Good morning, everyone, and Welcome to NextNav's Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. Participating on today's call are Mariam Sorond, NextNav's Chief Executive Officer, and Tim Gray, NextNav's Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin, let me remind everyone that this call will include certain statements that constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by use of the words may, anticipate, believe, expect, intend, should, could, and similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements, which may relate to NextNav's forecast of future results, future prospects, developments, and business strategies, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions, many of which are outside NextNav's control and could cause actual results to differ. In particular.

[Nevin Reilly, Head of Investor Relations at NextNav]

Such forward-looking statements include the achievement of certain FCC-related milestones and FCC approvals, NextNav's projections, plans, objectives, and expectations, and NextNav's future business strategies and competitive position. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs, as well as a number of assumptions concerning future events. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon the forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made, and NextNav undertakes no commitment to update or revise the forward-looking statements except as required by law. For additional information regarding risks and uncertainties, please refer to the risk factors and other disclosures contained in the company's filings with the SEC. Following prepared remarks, the Company will host an operator-led question-and-answer session. In addition, a replay of our discussion will be posted to the company's Investor Relations website. I'd now like to turn the call over to Ms. Sorond. Please go ahead, Mariam.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Thank you, Nevin. Good morning, and thank you all for joining us today. Before I begin, I want to take a moment to welcome Tim Gray as NextNav's Chief Financial Officer. Tim is an industry veteran bringing a rare combination of deep spectrum knowledge and experience leading the finance function at growth-oriented companies that have technology in the marketplace. We are excited to have him on board for our next chapter of growth as we prepare for commercialization of our technology. Welcome to the team, Tim. I also want to recognize Chris Gates for all his meaningful contributions, particularly in ensuring NextNav leads with a healthy balance sheet and liquidity position. Chris will maximize his expertise in corporate development and increasingly important responsibility as we prepare for the commercialization of our technology and will work closely with Tim on strategic positioning in our next chapter of growth.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

I'll begin with an update on our FCC process. Since the FCC's March 2025 Notice of Inquiry, or NOI, on PNT technologies, NextNav has filed a robust set of technical and economic studies that demonstrate the feasibility and public interest benefits of our proposal to enable 5G-based 3D PNT in the lower 900 MHz band. We continue to proactively contribute to the FCC process and believe the FCC has sufficient data to issue a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, or NPRM. In early September, we met with senior staff from the FCC Wireless Bureau and Office of Engineering and Technology, as well as Arp and Sura, Senior Counsel and Chief A.I. Officer to Chairman Brendan Carr, proactively summarizing the record and urging the FCC to promptly issue an NPRM.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

We were also pleased to see Chairman Carr continue to reiterate the importance of PNT in public remarks over the past few months. We thank Chairman Carr and FCC staff for their continued diligence and consideration of the need for PNT resiliency, given the numerous competing priorities and demands on the FCC's resources. While we cannot speculate on NPRM timing, we note that the FCC C-Band NOI preceded the PNT NOI. Chairman Carr has talked about the FCC's summer 2027 deadline to complete an auction of the C-Band, referring to that as a very compressed timeline given the work that needs to be done. Just last week, Chairman Carr announced that the FCC will vote on a C-Band NPRM at its November 20th Open Meeting. Given the congressional mandate for action, we were not surprised that the FCC continued its work on this issue.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

What we can say on timing is that the ongoing government shutdown has halted most of the work at the FCC, but we continue to actively engage with administration and congressional officials who are not furloughed to advocate for our proposal. In addition to our work with the FCC, we continue to advance our technology and make progress on commercialization independent of the FCC process. First, we are aggressively advancing the technical work needed to deliver a 5G-based 3D PNT solution as a complement to GPS, addressing an urgent national security need. Last month, we reached a major milestone towards enabling a wide-scale commercial 5G-based 3D PNT solution, deriving accurate timing and positioning information while simultaneously delivering both downlink and uplink data transmissions utilizing standard 5G network equipment. This achievement highlights the seamless integration of NextNav's technology and 5G.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Next, in partnership with Oscilloquartz, we were pleased to achieve the successful integration of our 5G-based PNT technology and an Oscilloquartz GNSS-enabled Grandmaster Clock. This achievement marks another significant step towards the commercialization of a GPS complement and backup, serving the needs of national security, public safety, and mission-critical enterprise timing applications. These achievements reinforce the scalability and practicality of a resilient terrestrial complement to GPS, and we are focused on continuing our forward progress towards commercialization. Last month, we also extended our agreement with AT&T relating to our Pinnacle Network operations by two years to October 2028. This network, which operates primarily in partnership with AT&T, is providing public safety applications like Enhanced 911 across all major cellular networks and to FirstNet. This recognition of our continuing technology leadership in Z-axis is an important component of our commercialization for a 5G-based 3D PNT capability.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Finally, in October, we showcased our leadership in location technologies at Mobile World Congress 2025, Las Vegas. Our booth received a lot of traffic from attendees, and we highlighted both our current vertical location capabilities as well as our progress towards commercialization of 5G-based 3D PNT. Looking ahead to the remainder of 2025 and beyond, NextNav remains deeply committed to advancing PNT resiliency in support of national security, public safety, and economic stability. As there is already broad awareness of the need for a terrestrial complement and backup to GPS, we are uniquely positioned to build on our momentum. We remain focused on executing our strategic roadmap and driving innovation in geolocation technology. With that, I will turn things over to Tim for a review of our financials. Tim?

[Tim Gray, CFO at NextNav]

Thank you, Mariam, and good morning, everyone. I'm thrilled to join NextNav and bring my experience for its next chapter of growth as it prepares to optimize the lower 900 MHz band, delivering a win for national security, public safety, and the American Economy. NextNav has a strong financial foundation and a compelling growth story. I look forward to helping NextNav navigate its exciting future and to engaging with shareholders on our journey forward together. In the third quarter, NextNav continued to hold a position of financial strength and strategic advantage with strong liquidity, valuable spectrum assets, and the development and testing of our resilient proven technology. Having repaid our $70 million Senior Secured Debt in March 2025, we have demonstrated consistent, robust financial health. NextNav's remaining convertible notes do not mature until June 2028, and additional capital may also be realized through warrant conversions over the coming years.

[Tim Gray, CFO at NextNav]

The closing of the Telesaurus transaction and subsequent securing of additional spectrum in the lower 900 MHz band has positioned NextNav to continue to create value for our shareholders. Recent low-band spectrum transactions present a positive development for investors, validating spectrum as a highly strategic asset. NextNav's lower 900 MHz spectrum represents a scarce yet valuable asset to enable a 5G-based complement and backup to GPS and to deliver broadband. This transaction added 128 active lower 900 MHz band spectrum licenses and resulted in the issuance of roughly 1.2 million shares at closing. With that, I'd like to address a few additional financial highlights. In the third quarter, we recognized gains of approximately $23.6 million associated with the change in the fair value of the Derivative and Warrants Liability. The impacts of these non-cash gains resulted in net income for the quarter of nearly $500,000.

[Tim Gray, CFO at NextNav]

In addition, we finished the third quarter with $167.6 million in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments. We are continuing to conservatively manage our use of capital as we work to advance our business and develop our assets, taking a deliberate approach to liquidity and commercialization. There is significant runway and funding for NextNav to continue its work on achieving its ambitious goals. With that, I'll turn the call back over to the operator for questions. Operator?

[Operator]

At this time, if you would like to ask a question, press star followed by the number one on your telephone keypad. If the question has been answered and you would like to remove yourself from the queue, press star followed by the number one. We'll pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A Roster. Your first question is from the line of Mike Crawford with B. Riley Securities.

[Mike Crawford, Senior Managing Director and Head of the Discovery Group at B. Riley Securities]

Thank you. Mariam, now that the FCC is through its space month and has started that C-Band auction process, do you think PNT could be next on the priority list?

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Thank you, Mike. Thanks for the question. As you know, the FCC does not provide guidance on their timing. Neither do we provide guidance, but we continue to believe that this is an important issue and a priority for Chairman Carr, and getting C-Band NOI done will actually definitely pave the way for him to focus on his other priorities and for the Commission to focus on their other priorities.

[Mike Crawford, Senior Managing Director and Head of the Discovery Group at B. Riley Securities]

Okay. Thank you. Just shifting gears, in the past, the Company had or has had an international strategy, including some collaboration in Japan, maybe using some donated 800 MHz spectrum to help propagate your solution. Is there anything that's changed or that you can share with what you're doing internationally or how you would potentially port your IP and get paid outside of the U.S. where you hold spectrum?

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

We continue to have the partnership with MetCom, and MetCom has actually achieved significant milestones also in their journey. I would not call it donated spectrum, but just. In spectrum in Japan is. Actually licensed differently here than the U.S. but it is very valuable spectrum that they are also working on, and they are working with their regulator and just recently have had some good progress with the regulator, and we are both working together. They also use our Pinnacle Altitude Solution out in Japan already commercially, so it is not just. Also waiting for that spectrum to go through their regulatory process. That is a great partnership for us. We appreciate it. I think Japan being one of the U.S. Allies to work on national security makes sense.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

It probably would make sense for us also to look at the international market, but right now, we are very focused on making sure that we prove our solution in the U.S.

[Mike Crawford, Senior Managing Director and Head of the Discovery Group at B. Riley Securities]

Okay. Thank you very much.

[Operator]

Your next question is from the line of Brendan Lynch with Barclays.

[Brendan Lynch, Director at Barclays]

Great. Thanks for taking my question. You mentioned the kind of relationship with AT&T and FirstNet. Can you expand on what the relationship is? What other relationships with carriers you could develop and how that might help you build out the PNT solution?

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Thank you for the question. That is a good question, actually. As you may have seen, we just highlighted a key point regarding the extension of our AT&T agreement, which we are very happy about. We are already operating a positioning system in partnership with a major wireless carrier for public safety applications. We are very excited about the extension of that agreement. The solution for that agreement, which is a Z-axis, is already being used in the Verizon network besides the public safety applications that it is being used in. Verizon is using that commercial solution. We have an existing partnership. We do need to expand that partnership, obviously, to do the XY and the rest of our solution. I believe that the FCC considering this a priority and advancing what we are doing will actually be a great milestone in taking those partnerships further.

[Brendan Lynch, Director at Barclays]

Okay. Very good. That's helpful. And then on the recent EchoStar transaction, there's obviously been some movement in the spectrum that's available. How do you see the spectrum's supply and demand dynamic going forward? Obviously, you mentioned some of the considerations around the FCC, but maybe more focused on swaps or sales between owners of spectrum now?

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Yeah. I'm glad you brought up that because this is a great landscape we're seeing right now. Also, just by the way, just this morning, there was another transaction between EchoStar and SpaceX. Just let me say that we are creating a 10-MHz downlink. This is a very rare and already scarce low-band spectrum position. Chairman Carr continues to mention the importance of freeing up even additional spectrum for broadband. The one big, beautiful bill requires freeing up spectrum. None of them are below 1 GHz. I think I also want to highlight one of the things that the AT&T CEO commented post the EchoStar transaction. About the 600 MHz spectrum. 600 MHz spectrum is not in the AT&T network, by the way. He did say that I have never regretted owning low-band spectrum over the course of my career. I agree with him.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

This highlights really the demand for low spectrum. In addition to that AT&T transaction, we obviously saw other transactions with EchoStar. We continue to see the transactions. We believe that low-band spectrum, when it's available, the demand is significant. The fact that we're seeing an expanding universe of participants in the market for spectrum besides the major carriers, which includes the satellite operators, this demand is going to expand. Collectively, we see all of this as positive for our business.

[Brendan Lynch, Director at Barclays]

Great. Thank you.

[Operator]

Your next question is from the line of Ryan Coates with Needham.

[Ryan Coates, Analyst at Needham]

Great. Thanks for the question. I want to ask about any updates you have on your commercialization and partner strategy model for the U.S. relative to mass rollout. Then specifically, how does this Oscilloquartz integration play into that at all? I mean, obviously, timing has a pretty—it's everywhere in the U.S. wireless network today, but probably not proliferated enough to handle, I would guess, your needs for the number of instances around the country.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Thank you, Ryan, for the question. I think there is definitely a high degree of attention to our spectrum and regulatory process, but as a company, we're very focused and really excited about just not only just enabling what we're doing with the spectrum and capacity, but our solution to provide this complementary PNT. Obviously, we've been operationalizing the key technologies, not only on advancing what we're doing with the network side that shows PNT broadband on 5G standard equipment, but also, as you mentioned, the use of the signal. That it provides recently highlighted with the SiTime is—let me just remind everyone—they're a leading provider of timing solutions, so we're super excited about integrating their timing solution into the network, which is significant. And you're right.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

There is a lot of focus on timing in addition to positioning because it remains in the critical infrastructure and is a significant point. We are super excited about moving that partnership forward. I think that is going to definitely be one of the integrations in addition to the future integrations that we need to do to get the operational and commercialized network ready for a backup and complement to GPS.

[Ryan Coates, Analyst at Needham]

Interesting. Thanks. Maybe one more if I could. With regards to any movement of existing networks that are needed to accommodate your solution, have you done any scoping there in terms of those costs and how they'd be funded? I think you guys have talked about toll collection and a few things like that that might need to be repacked.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Okay. So. You're talking about the coexistence in the band and the spectrum users? Yes. We've provided a study to the FCC that thoroughly evaluates the tolls and talks about the minimal impact to them and how they would need retuning. That retuning is not at all going to be a hardware swap. It's a software retuning. We're very confident in our study. We've been working on this, and we provided that to the FCC. Those costs, when you are talking about just software and not rip-and-replace equipment, become extremely minimal, especially with the minimal impact to them. I would not call it a significant cost. As far as the rest of the—we continue to work really well with the Railroads.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

As far as the rest of the unlicensed use of the spectrum, we're not asking anyone to vacate or go to another spectrum, and there is no cost associated with it. As we have shown through our FCC studies, there is also no impact to the unlicensed community.

[Operator]

Your next question is from the line of Peter Supino with Wolf Research.

[Ron Owen, Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Hi. This is Ron Owen for Peter. We recently saw the Department of Transportation awards to Iridium to test its solution with T-Mobile. Can you provide any comments on the implications or opportunities for NextNav? Thanks.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Thank you. Thank you for the question. I mean, what we just recently saw, and this is a little bit of what Ryan brought up on the importance of timing, but let me just say, what we just recently saw, it highlights the importance of having multiple systems. To have a very robust and complement backup to GPS. As a reminder, let me just remind everyone, we had the highest performance in Positioning, Navigation and Timing Technologies in the Department of Transportation's 2021 testing. You may remember that we also received an award under the same program in 2024. It remains the largest award so far. We are very happy to see other solutions also get an opportunity. As we have always said from the beginning, this reiterates this concept of the system of systems and the importance of backup solutions, especially for critical infrastructure.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Which telco is one. When we want to address this issue, we do require the system of systems because GPS is used so broadly. At NextNav, we believe we offer the best path to a wide-scale solution for most of the use cases, but of course, satellite and other potential terrestrial systems also have a role to play. They will create opportunities for seamless integrated solutions as well. Overall, the positive development with the Iridium testing and the partnership with DOT for this entire landscape is reinforcing what we are working to achieve right now, which is we are on the right path.

[Ron Owen, Analyst at Wolfe Research]

Thank you.

[Operator]

At this time, there are no further questions. I will now hand the call back over to our presenters for closing remarks.

[Mariam Sorond, CEO at NextNav]

Thank you. As I mentioned at the beginning of the call, we have continued to proactively advocate for the FCC to take the next steps in its process despite the government shutdown and are pleased with the technological progress we have made as we prepare for commercialization of our technology. NextNav looks forward to enabling a wide-scale future-proof complement and backup to GPS as quickly as possible. We are proud of the work we are accomplishing to bolster the U.S. economy and national security, and we are very grateful to our shareholders for their support. Thank you, everyone.

[Operator]

This concludes today's call. Thank you for joining. You may now disconnect your lines.

Participants

Executives

• Nevin Reilly, Head of Investor Relations
• Tim Gray, CFO
• Mariam Sorond, CEO

Analysts

• Ryan Coates, Analyst at Needham
• Brendan Lynch, Director at Barclays
• Mike Crawford, Senior Managing Director and Head of the Discovery Group at B. Riley Securities
• Ron Owen, Analyst at Wolfe Research