{"id":645910,"date":"2013-03-08T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=363504"},"modified":"2013-03-08T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T15:10:38","slug":"whats-behind-nokias-odd-refusal-to-reveal-the-length-of-its-windows-licensing-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/645910","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s behind Nokia\u2019s odd refusal to reveal the length of its Windows licensing deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/nokia-microsoft-license-agreement-analysis-363504\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"427\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/elop-ballmer-2.jpg?w=650&amp;h=427&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Nokia Microsoft Licensing Agreement\" title=\"Stephen Elop, Steve Ballmer\" \/><\/a><\/center>Nokia (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=nok\">NOK<\/a>) this week <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/nokia-windows-phone-licensing-fees-363098\/\">revealed that it will end up paying\u00a0\u20ac500 million<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 about $650 million \u2014 in net Windows Phone licensing fees to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) over the remaining contract period. At the moment, the platform support fees Microsoft pays to <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nokia\">Nokia<\/a> are larger than the licensing fees that flow to the opposite direction. This will soon reverse and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/01\/26\/microsofts-windows-phone-dowry-to-net-nokia-billions\/\">by the time the Nokia-Microsoft contract expires<\/a>, Nokia will end up paying $650 million to Microsoft. This raises two questions: What is the remaining contract period and what happens after that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/08\/nokia-microsoft-license-agreement-analysis-363504\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/Ge5pyHeKw8Q\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nokia (NOK) this week revealed that it will end up paying\u00a0\u20ac500 million\u00a0\u2014 about $650 million \u2014 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}