Nokia Siemens Networks has announced a new focus on end-to-end mobile network infrastructure and services, with a particular emphasis on mobile broadband.

It says business areas that aren’t consistent with the new strategy “are planned to be divested or managed for value”.

Everything Everywhere and BT Wholesale are working together to test 4G Long Term Evolution mobile broadband as an alternative to fixed-line broadband in rural areas.

A field trial will start from September, involving up to 100 mobile and 100 fixed-line customers living around the St Newlyn East area of Newquay. This is expected to be the UK’s first customer trial of 4G LTE high-speed broadband.

Nokia Siemens Networks has completed its acquisition of wireless network assets from Motorola Solutions, paying $975 million in cash. Around 6,900 employees will be joining Nokia Siemens Networks.

Responsibility for supporting customers of Motorola Solutions' GSM, CDMA, WCDMA, WiMAX and LTE products and services - a total of 50 operator customers in 52 countries - has been transferred to Nokia Siemens Networks.

Motorola Solutions and Huawei Technologies have agreed to settle all pending litigation between the two parties (assuming certain conditions are met).

It means that Huawei is dismissing its lawsuit against Motorola Solutions and Nokia Siemens Networks.

Today, following plenty of rumour, Nokia has announced plans for a partnership with Microsoft that’ll see Windows Phone being used as Nokia’s main smartphone platform.

Symbian will become what the company describes as a “franchise platform”, with plans to almost double the current base of 200 million Symbian owners to around 350 million in the next few years. MeeGo is becoming an open-source mobile operating system project, although Nokia still plans to ship a MeeGo-related product this year.