Nokia, Siemens and Alcatel were trail-blazing European companies: they went toe-to-toe with Motorola and... I was going to say Nortel, but they were Canadian. N

Nokia, Siemens and Alcatel were trail-blazing European companies: they went toe-to-toe with Motorola and... I was going to say Nortel, but they were Canadian. Nokia (handset division) and Alcatel were bought-out by American companies (or merged). The EU let American money buy-out their crown jewels.