Nokia and Xiaomi Agree Upon Business Collaboration and Multi-Year Patent
- Srijit Sutradhar
Xiaomi Inc., the privately owned Chinese electronics company is one of the most innovative smartphone manufacturers of recent times, ranking them 5th worldwide in the field. Couple that with Nokia, the global telecommunications infrastructure and mobile handset giant since the beginning. Things get saucy from here as the two giants have announced that they have signed a business collaboration agreement, and a multi-year patent agreement. This means that there now will be a cross license to each company's standard cellular essential patents. Xiaomi is also known to have acquired patent assets from Nokia as per the transaction. Although the information has been confirmed by press releases, the exact sum of transaction is not yet disclosed.
As per the business cooperation agreement with Xiaomi, Nokia will provide its telecommunication infrastructure in the collaboration to meet the demands of large datacenter operators and web providers. Nokia here should not be mistaken with HMD Global. HMD just makes the new phones and they have exclusive rights through a license agreement to use the "NOKIA" branding. If you did not know, the old Nokia is not totally dead. It just sold its mobile business to Microsoft, but still has its telecom infrastructure business to itself.
"Nokia and Xiaomi will work together on optical transport solutions for datacenter interconnect, IP Routing based on Nokia’s newly announced FP4 network processor, and a data center fabric solution. In addition, the companies have agreed to explore opportunities for further cooperation, in areas such as Internet of Things, augmented and virtual reality, and artificial intelligence."
Now if you all of a sudden start to imagine a flagship Nokia-Xiaomi hybrid smartphone, let me tell you, you may be in for disappointment. Nokia, Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, serves communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers. Enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging applications in virtual reality and digital health, are currently the projects Nokia is working upon to improve human experience. Xiaomi's extensive involvement in the IoT platform over the years has hence made the agreement to focus exclusively on such fields, rather than on smartphones specifically. Though the patent agreement speaks of cross license cellular standard essential patents, it does not explain what it relates to. All we can do for now is wait and see where Xiaomi and Nokia are headed with their cross-license for each others cellular SEP.
Hope you enjoyed reading. If you don't want to miss out Xiaomi and Nokia's advances, stay tuned. Peace.
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Xiaomi Inc., the privately owned Chinese electronics company is one of the most innovative smartphone manufacturers of recent times, ranking them 5th worldwide in the field. Couple that with Nokia, the global telecommunications infrastructure and mobile handset giant since the beginning. Things get saucy from here as the two giants have announced that they have signed a business collaboration agreement, and a multi-year patent agreement. This means that there now will be a cross license to each company's standard cellular essential patents. Xiaomi is also known to have acquired patent assets from Nokia as per the transaction. Although the information has been confirmed by press releases, the exact sum of transaction is not yet disclosed.
As per the business cooperation agreement with Xiaomi, Nokia will provide its telecommunication infrastructure in the collaboration to meet the demands of large datacenter operators and web providers. Nokia here should not be mistaken with HMD Global. HMD just makes the new phones and they have exclusive rights through a license agreement to use the "NOKIA" branding. If you did not know, the old Nokia is not totally dead. It just sold its mobile business to Microsoft, but still has its telecom infrastructure business to itself.
"Nokia and Xiaomi will work together on optical transport solutions for datacenter interconnect, IP Routing based on Nokia’s newly announced FP4 network processor, and a data center fabric solution. In addition, the companies have agreed to explore opportunities for further cooperation, in areas such as Internet of Things, augmented and virtual reality, and artificial intelligence."
Now if you all of a sudden start to imagine a flagship Nokia-Xiaomi hybrid smartphone, let me tell you, you may be in for disappointment. Nokia, Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, serves communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers. Enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging applications in virtual reality and digital health, are currently the projects Nokia is working upon to improve human experience. Xiaomi's extensive involvement in the IoT platform over the years has hence made the agreement to focus exclusively on such fields, rather than on smartphones specifically. Though the patent agreement speaks of cross license cellular standard essential patents, it does not explain what it relates to. All we can do for now is wait and see where Xiaomi and Nokia are headed with their cross-license for each others cellular SEP.
Hope you enjoyed reading. If you don't want to miss out Xiaomi and Nokia's advances, stay tuned. Peace.
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