According to Chinese online VTech, Microsoft is going to close a unit dedicated to mobile phones, and to license the Nokia brand to the Chinese giant Foxconn.
We are talking about the direction of ordinary mobile phones, while smartphone unit dealing now with the Lumia smartphones, will become part of the team Surface.
Presumably, the Bank will lay off about half of the employees Microsoft Mobile. Note that the former mobile division of Nokia, has been reduced by 18 thousand employees since its sale to Microsoft in 2014.
Under the terms of the transaction for the transfer of the division “Devices & Services company Nokia in the hands of Microsoft, the latter acquired the rights to the Nokia brand in the field of ordinary mobile phones until 2024.