Nokia's Windows Phone licence costs set to soar as quarterly sales disappoint

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Lumia sales still not big enough to justify Windows Phone licence fee

Nokia's net costs for adopting Windows Phone as its smartphone operating system platform are set to rocket as Microsoft's "platform support payments" to Nokia start to decline, while Lumia sales ha...

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