Re:Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6B
by chipotle_coyote on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @01:32PM
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I think you -- and others who haven't checked, which is understandable -- imagine that after Nokia sold their handset business to Microsoft, nothing was left but a tiny little husk. If that were true, your assumption would probably be correct, but it isn't. Nokia ended 2014 with over 60,000 employees worldwide and nearly €13B in revenue. They're still a really big company. Sure, they make some money from patent licensing -- as do all companies of that size -- but the vast majority of their revenue comes from network equipment and services.
Re:Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6B
by simonturvey on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:53AM
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Just because you can't see the Nokia logo on the cell towers and base stations doesn't mean we don't make them. I'll take physical evidence and a balance sheet over dumb stuff like this.
Re:Nokia Agrees to Buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6B
by Aloha on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @02:30PM
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For example, If you use T-Mobile in some markets, that's Nokia-Siemens, if you use AT&T, thats also NSN, plus ALU - Verizon, ALU, Sprint, Samsung, Ericsson or ALU depends on market.
They make very very real, very expensive products.
Produce little to nothing and just sue for royalties on other manufacturers.