The people at Redmond had this planned from the beginning and the greedy selfish board of Nokia didn't see this coming. Elop's job was to renovate Nokia to a shadow of its former glory, to lower its market value enough for Microsoft to just grab and eat it like a little part of breakfast. There will be no more manufacturing jobs in "expensive" Finland, just what the greedy people in Redmond do not want. Maximize profits.
What I would like to see here is something that the people at Microsoft would not expect....if one of the others, the Big Ones, that still perhaps conduct "ethically", would go ahead and purchase Nokia in front of Microsoft..
Broadband prices in Finland are getting lower by the year and at the same time speeds are really getting faster. A few years ago I was happy with my 8/1 Mbit ADSL with a "hefty" 40€/month ($52 USD) price attached to it and then my ISP decided to raise the speed to 24/1 Mbit and lower the price to 29.90€/month ($39 USD).. which was nice. There is no cap on the connection here - only on those 3G broadbands on which P2P connections are not allowed.
Not long ago I got a letter from my ISP saying that there now is VDSL connection available in my area, a 50/10 Mbit connection - a 2 year contract, 1st year 9.90€/month ($13 USD) and the 2nd year 29.90€/month ($39 USD). Needless to say, I jumped on that in a instant.
The only thing that I was a bit puzzled is that how are that kind of speeds even possible on such an old copper-wiring.. the apartment building was built in 1984 and to my knowledge nothing has been done to the phonecabling. These days you are more than likely to get a 100/10 Mbit connection in relatively new apartment buildings, the ones that have Cat5 cabling.....and the price of that is anything from as low as 10€/month ($13 USD)
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The people at Redmond had this planned from the beginning and the greedy selfish board of Nokia didn't see this coming. Elop's job was to renovate Nokia to a shadow of its former glory, to lower its market value enough for Microsoft to just grab and eat it like a little part of breakfast. There will be no more manufacturing jobs in "expensive" Finland, just what the greedy people in Redmond do not want. Maximize profits. What I would like to see here is something that the people at Microsoft would not expect.. ..if one of the others, the Big Ones, that still perhaps conduct "ethically", would go ahead and purchase Nokia in front of Microsoft..
Broadband prices in Finland are getting lower by the year and at the same time speeds are really getting faster. A few years ago I was happy with my 8/1 Mbit ADSL with a "hefty" 40€/month ($52 USD) price attached to it and then my ISP decided to raise the speed to 24/1 Mbit and lower the price to 29.90€/month ($39 USD).. which was nice. There is no cap on the connection here - only on those 3G broadbands on which P2P connections are not allowed. Not long ago I got a letter from my ISP saying that there now is VDSL connection available in my area, a 50/10 Mbit connection - a 2 year contract, 1st year 9.90€/month ($13 USD) and the 2nd year 29.90€/month ($39 USD). Needless to say, I jumped on that in a instant. The only thing that I was a bit puzzled is that how are that kind of speeds even possible on such an old copper-wiring.. the apartment building was built in 1984 and to my knowledge nothing has been done to the phonecabling. These days you are more than likely to get a 100/10 Mbit connection in relatively new apartment buildings, the ones that have Cat5 cabling.. ...and the price of that is anything from as low as 10€/month ($13 USD)