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Nokia paying Microsoft $60 per Windows Phone royalty

20 July 2012 •

Potentially crippling cost of Nokia's Windows Phone licence revealed

Nokia is paying about $60 (£40) per phone to licence the Windows Phone operating system from software giant Microsoft. The news is buried within the company's latest quarterly report in which it...

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