News Nokia to buy Alcatel-Lucent for £11.2 billion

There seems to be a lot of buying going on in the telecommunications world of late.

Also, are they paying 11.2 or 12.2 billion?

 

I have to admit, my first generation nokia dsl modem (working at a mind-boggling 256kbps that time), was really one though piece of equipment.

 

You know what they say, drop an Apple, the Apple breaks, drop a Nokia, the floor breaks.

 

Saying that MeeGo failed to gain traction isn't quite true. Rather, it was abandoned before even one smartphone went to market, because Steven "Trojan Horse" Elop went all-in on Windows Phone and cancelled any further development on Meego.

After that, Nokia released exactly *one* MeeGo-based phone, the N9. More as a fig leaf than anything else. Unsurprisingly, a phone without any future didn't do so well.