Nokia (
NOK) this week
revealed that it will end up paying €500 million — about $650 million — in net Windows Phone licensing fees to
Microsoft (
MSFT) over the remaining contract period. At the moment, the platform support fees Microsoft pays to
Nokia are larger than the licensing fees that flow to the opposite direction. This will soon reverse and
by the time the Nokia-Microsoft contract expires, Nokia will end up paying $650 million to Microsoft. This raises two questions: What is the remaining contract period and what happens after that?
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