Just a couple of days back the Nokia C5 was unraveled by the company, styled in three beautiful shades of blue, green and white. Today, Nokia and Motorola have enunciated that they have signed a 4G license agreement. Although both of them haven’t shed any light on the details of this agreement.
“We are pleased to extend our existing IP licensing agreement with Nokia to include 4G technologies and are confident this agreement will help foster continued innovation and technological advancement for the telecommunications industry,” asserted Kirk Dailey, corporate vice president of intellectual property, Motorola Mobility. “Motorola is committed to leveraging the strength of its industry-leading intellectual property portfolio for the benefit of its customers, partners, shareholders and licensees.”
“We are pleased to conclude this extension of our IP licensing agreement, which is a great example of the value that Nokia realizes from our industry leading patent portfolio,” commented Paul Melin, vice president, intellectual property of Nokia. “This agreement also shows that the industry is making fast progress in resolving LTE licensing issues between the major patent holders. LTE has now become a key element of Nokia’s licensing program, and we expect strong returns for our pioneering development.”
However, the companies have elucidated on their plans to extend their existing intellectual property licensing agreement to add-in 4G products such as Long-Term Evolution, WiMax and Long-Term Evolution Advanced. This announcement comes in the light of several network operators gearing up to proffer 4G services to their consumers.
Sprint currently provides WiMax services in several markets along with smartphones like the HTC Evo 4G and the Samsung Epic 4G that are compatible with these speeds. On coming to other carriers, it is speculated that Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile and AT&T should come with their own 4G services by next year. This amalgamation would help both the manufacturers launch 4G devices faster.