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by trollied 976 days ago
Completely forgot that they now own Bell Labs.

I wonder what Nokia have as a core revenue stream these days? They really dropped the ball when the iPhone & Android came to market (and to a lesser extent, the Blackberry).

Guess they're still making a killing on telco hardware/software/infrastructure.
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helsinkiandrew 976 days ago
Although they don't make mobile phones (themselves) now, they're deeply involved in everything to do with mobile/wireless hardware and services that the phones connect to. As well as their own products probably just about every other phone manufacturer also pays to use their IP - I think Apple still pay Nokia $8 for every iPhone sold.

https://nokiamob.net/2023/07/01/apple-inc-renews-patent-lice...

> Nokia’s patent portfolio is built on more than €140 billion invested in R&D since 2000. It is composed of around 20,000 patent families, including over 5,500 patent families declared essential to 5G.

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swarnie 976 days ago
From looking in to the company a lot last year i think its mostly 5g and national infrastructure.

Huawei getting black bagged by the US helped a bit.

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