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Every single time there is an article about Nokia I cannot believe how little people actually know about Nokia, the company. * The cellphone division was entir
by ironjunkie 9y ago
Every single time there is an article about Nokia I cannot believe how little people actually know about Nokia, the company.
* The cellphone division was entirely sold to Microsoft ages ago.
* The cellphones coming out today is just a branding agreement with HMD.
* The Nokia of today is a huge company (more than 100.000 people) that focuses on backbone networks and telecom services. Almost every single ISP and provider in the world is using Nokia tecnology. Every other core router or service router on Internet is a Nokia router (or Alcatel-Lucent router that was bought by Nokia couple years ago).
I know the Name Nokia is not Hype like an Apple or Google, but there is very cool stuff happening in the Backbone telecom business.
- digi_owl 9y agoIt is not hype, and it is not American, ergo it is not important...
- bahmboo 9y agoApparently HMD is across the street from Nokia and is run be former Nokia execs. HMD gets the brand, Nokia gets the royalties. Almost like a step-subsidiary. Not sure what the agreement was with MSFT but certainly a great save of their IP and brand given the circumstances.
- jpalomaki 9y agoNokia Bell Labs [1]. I think that's something. Pretty well done considering that they were in very deep troubles before selling the (worthless) mobile phone business to Microsoft for quite a nice price. [1] http://www.bell-labs.com http://www.bell-labs.com