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Nokia gears up to make a comeback in mobile market

by Jussi Rosendahl |Aug 10, 2015

Once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, the Finnish firm was wrongfooted by the rise of smartphones and eclipsed by Apple and Samsung. It sold its handset business to Microsoft in late 2013 a...

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Apple denies plan to sell mobile services directly to consumers

by Eric Auchard |Aug 5, 2015

There were reports that the company was testing a so-called MVNO service in the US, which would involve it renting capacity from network operators to sign up customers to its own phone and data plans.

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Nokia buys Alcatel-Lucent in all-share deal valued at USD 16.6 bn

by Jussi Rosendahl |Apr 15, 2015

The deal will be finalised in the first half of 2016 and is expected to result in 900 million euros of operating cost savings by the end of 2019, the companies said.