Nokia eyes ‘return to consumer world’

Don’t call it a comeback yet. But Nokia is thinking about how to revive its brand name in consumer markets just months after selling off its former flagship mobile phones business to Microsoft for more than $7bn (€8.7bn).

“I think you can expect our brand will return to the consumer world,” Nokia’s chief executive Rajeev Suri saidyesterday when asked about rumours that the networks equipment maker was looking to re-enter the handset market.

Suri told investors at a presentation in London that his company will look to licensing the brand name to other firms rather than starting up a new handset business itself.