Nokia

Nokia to buy Infinera for $2.3B

Aims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America

Networks28 Jun 2024 | 2

Nokia to sell submarine network business to France in $375M deal

Comms giant to dump undersea internet cable unit by early 2025

Networks27 Jun 2024 | 17

Nokia demos upper 6 GHz band for mobile, but UK wants it shared with Wi-Fi

Splitting hotly contested spectrum could get messy

Networks05 Jun 2024 | 39

Ten years ago Microsoft bought Nokia's phone unit – then killed it as a tax write-off

Retrospective When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

Personal Tech05 May 2024 | 162

Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible

Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake

Personal Tech18 Apr 2024 | 57

Reddit gets a call from Nokia about patent infringement ahead of going public

That's a juicy-looking IPO you've got there. Be a shame if someone took a licensing bite

Networks19 Mar 2024 | 40

Nokia brainwave turns cell towers into cash cows with backup batteries

Lower operator energy costs or sell power back to grid for $$$

Networks22 Feb 2024 | 28

Telco giants show it's tough selling 5G kit right now

Ericsson straps in for rough year, while Nokia bets on recovery in second half

Networks25 Jan 2024 | 12

Nokia walks the walk about its RAN to play on Uncle Sam’s China fears

Comment It pays not to be Huawei, and the US military can be lucrative, too

Security17 Jan 2024 | 8

Still got a job at the end of this week? You're lucky, as more layoffs hit the tech industry

Kettle 'Beatings will continue until morale improves'

Personal Tech21 Oct 2023 | 71

Nokia to erase up to 14,000 employees from payroll

Profits plunge, sales down in Q3. Multi-year cost cutting drive means staff will be decimated

Networks19 Oct 2023 | 10

Pacific telco backed by Australia, Japan, US bins Huawei

Nokia looks a more diplomatic choice at Digicel

Cybersecurity Month05 Oct 2023 | 2

HMD offers Nokia phone with novel concept: Designed to be repaired by its owner

With spares and tools coming from iFixit, no less

Personal Tech27 Feb 2023 | 46

NIST dreams of cellular networks free from 5G vendor lock in, supply chain pain

Nokia radio units working with Ericsson distribute units? What's next? Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

Government Tech Week26 Jan 2023 | 5

Ericsson sells Russian network support biz to local managers

Transfers group of employees to new owners, makes 400 other local staff redundant

Networks15 Dec 2022 | 7

Was Nokia's Microsoft switch deal win a reward for SONiC contributions?

Supply-chain constraints and code for network OS played a role, analyst tells El Reg

Networks06 May 2022 | 5

Nokia quits Russia over Ukraine invasion

Will the last Western tech biz in Moscow please turn out the lights?

Networks12 Apr 2022 | 24

Nokia Bell Labs gets funding to cool down data centres

Data centre workloads going up, so US govt agency gives $$ for better thermal architecture

On-Prem21 Feb 2022 | 21

O-RAN Alliance: Nokia downplays decision to take breather as critics worry over fate of key industry groups

Backs away from potential Entity List security issues related to Chinese alliance members

Networks02 Sep 2021 | 1

Daimler and Nokia settle long-running patent spat over cellular tech

No more appeals as lawyer gravy train pulls into station

Legal01 Jun 2021 | 6

Nokia inks Radio Access Network collaboration deals with Microsoft, AWS, Google

The 5G prog rock supergroup nobody asked for

Networks17 Mar 2021 | 2

Nokstalgia: HMD Global introduces yet another homage to the past – a 4G rework of the Nokia 6300

Remake of noughties classic

Personal Tech13 Nov 2020 | 28

Beloved US telco Verizon puts arm around Nokia, Microsoft, preps enterprise 5G for Europe, APAC

Lucky old us. Plus: Azure Edge biz service software bundled in

Networks20 Oct 2020 | 5

NASA hires Nokia to build first 4G network on the Moon as part of plan to boldly go back to lunar surface by 2024

And 5G hype goes out of this world

Networks19 Oct 2020 | 56

Nokia snuggles up with Google Cloud as it aims to switch off on-prem servers within next two years

Yep, there it is. 'Digital transformation'

SaaS14 Oct 2020 | 5

UK mobile network EE plumps for Nokia to provide that all-important 5G RAN equipment

Is that a £500m Huawei-shaped hole you're looking to plug? The big rip 'n' replace begins

Networks29 Sep 2020 | 16

Nokia rolls out midrange 5G mobile, but will struggle to fight off Motorola and pals. Plus: New platform for suits with bulk-ordered SIMs

Also two new budget blowers including £99 MicroUSB unit

Personal Tech23 Sep 2020 | 8

Happy birthday to the Nokia 3310: 20 years ago, it seemed like almost everyone owned this legendary mobile

Possibly the first of the 'dumb' phones that didn't suck

Personal Tech01 Sep 2020 | 87

Nokia licensor HMD Global scores $230m from Google, Qualcomm, and, er... Nokia

Phone maker to plough cash into 5G, cracking US market, and diversification

Personal Tech11 Aug 2020 | 11

HPE opens 5G kit-testing lab where vendors can play with the toys, see what works best

Tech emphasises interoperability, but here firms will find out if it's ready for the prime time

Networks23 Jul 2020 |

It's a process: Nokia pushes out its first private 5G standalone product, eyes industrial types

Fancy integrating next-gen tech into your IoT, cameras, sensors, and robots? Well do you?

Networks21 Jul 2020 | 7

Nokia 5310: Retro feature phone shamelessly panders to nostalgia, but is charming enough to be forgiven

Review At under £30, it'll do as a burner or mp3 player. Also, Snake

Personal Tech20 Jul 2020 | 122

With a wave of Nokia's wand, behold as your 4G network magically becomes... 5G

Finnish comms biz says it's ready to go on a million radios already, despite what outgoing CEO said previously

Networks14 Jul 2020 | 16

Show a little spine? Nokia whips out SR Linux, a new routing network OS for cloud clients

Finnish firm might do best with telco clouds, says analyst

Networks09 Jul 2020 |

Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150

Review Seems to be great for productivity

Personal Tech07 Jul 2020 | 65

Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine

No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste

Personal Tech29 May 2020 | 42

We're not Finnished yet: Nokia chalks up €200m sales hit to 'COVID-19 issues'

Insists: It was the supply chain! We'll get the sales back later this year

Networks30 Apr 2020 | 6

HMD Global pokes head out of quarantine to show off 3 new Nokia mobiles

Bet you never thought you'd see a 5G Nokia

Personal Tech19 Mar 2020 | 26

HMD Global revamps infamous commuter-botherer, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic

The budget feature phone that reminds you of Ministry of Sound sounds and football fighting Brits... maybe

Personal Tech19 Mar 2020 | 20

Brit MPs, US senators ramp up pressure on UK.gov to switch off that green-light for Huawei 5G gear

Fears grow that letting Chinese giant into Blighty has left it 'utterly friendless'

Networks04 Mar 2020 | 64

We're Finnished: Nokia replaces CEO Rajeev Suri in industry Lundmark decision

Man who steered firm from burning platform now steps away: 'I want to do something different'

Networks02 Mar 2020 | 3

Nokia said to be considering sale or merger as profits tank

That US investment would sound pretty good right about now

Networks27 Feb 2020 | 37

Orange has an elegant solution to Huawei question in France: We'll stick with Nokia and Ericsson for 5G networks

C'est simple comme bonjour!

Networks04 Feb 2020 | 24

Nokia 2.3: HMD flings out €109 budget 'droid with a 2-day battery

But get ready to flip your cables cos it's microUSB

Personal Tech06 Dec 2019 | 31

'Big three' 5G kit maker Nokia downgrades profits as returns from next-gen networks fail to show up

Soz shareholders, no dividend for you

Networks24 Oct 2019 | 4

The great leveller: Nokia waves magic wand over unfair wage differences, and *poof* they're gone

One wonders how the 100k-plus staff are taking it

Legal29 Jul 2019 | 16

Haha! Conformist 'Droids! Yep, that's what's most profitable these days, says Nokia

♫ We were always being boring

Personal Tech05 Mar 2019 | 13

Nokia 9: HMD Global hauls PureView™ out of brand limbo

MWC Five shiny lenses at a sensible price

Personal Tech25 Feb 2019 | 28

A few short packets: Cisco still Switchzilla, a neat Wi-Fi hack and more

Networks roundup Also: AT&T inks open source pact with Nokia, ZTE 5G pass, Equinix expands

Networks14 Jan 2019 | 1

The week in networking? It's SD-WAN all the way down

Also: Huawei cloud lands in Africa, Nokia OpenStack, Cisco Nexus BIOS bugs

Networks16 Nov 2018 |

Nokia's open SDN, SoC-it-to-me open 'Chiplets', Verisign exits the DDoS protection biz, and more

Roundup Quantum boffinry, SS7 acquisition, Arista results

Networks05 Nov 2018 | 1

Nokia layoffs possible, Broadcom waves new network silicon, Arista goes 400G and more

Roundup The week in networking

Networks26 Oct 2018 | 3

Nokia reinstates 'hide the Notch' a day after 'Google required' feature kill

Phone maker keen to settle 'Notch-gate'

Personal Tech07 Sep 2018 | 70

It's been 5 years already, let's gawp at Microsoft and Nokia's bloodbath

Special Report Rewind and replay in slowmo

Personal Tech07 Sep 2018 | 100

EU tosses Nokia a small loan of €500m, tells it to go crazy with 5G R&D

Cites being left behind by US and China in tech stakes

Networks28 Aug 2018 | 5

It's a phone with a peel, but you'll have to wait a bit more for retro Nokia

Meanwhile, fakes fill the banana-shaped void

Personal Tech08 Aug 2018 | 44