Wireless Watch 667: Nokia growth plan

Key Issues: Nokia’s Recovery Strategy

Verticals and a device comeback: Nokia fights to return to growth in 2017 2

 Deepfield buy highlights the challenges of turning networks to software 3

 Nokia eyes “adjacencies” in vertical sectors and IoT, to restore its revenues 5

 The iconic brand returns, as HMD unveils an old-style Nokia featurephone 9

Wheeler leaves FCC with the legacy of his creative chairmanship in doubt 11

Comment:

• Brillo becomes Android Things, as Google reins in Nest 16
• Sprint pushes HPUE standard and claims 30% boost in TD-LTE coverage 18
• Virtualized EPC will wrest control of the cellular network away from MNOs 22
• Radical 5G rules proposed, but UK can address woeful coverage right now 25

M&A Watch:

US operators need to snap up content providers, not one another 28

IoT Watch:

Leading MNOs could generate €1bn each from IoT next year 30

Mobile Enterprise Watch:

BlackBerry pins hopes on mobile ‘Enterprise of Things’ 31

Standards Watch:

Thread and Zigbee get closer – surely merger will happen in 2017? 32

WiFi Watch:

Stanford researchers look forward to battery-free WiFi IoT devices 33

Devices and Components:

BlackBerry’s brand to live on with TCL licensing deal 34