Very interesting keyword searches below (Sirius, Agero, HERE) and reading between the lines/trying to connect the dots.
Seems like Nokia L&C and HERE have been chummy with Agero and SiriusXM for at least the last year. SiriusXM is one of the few successful cross-OEM partners and Agero was quickly becoming the second. Looks like SiriusXM is the #1 by a long-shot now- perfect circumstances when they decide to build out some form of a global LTE platform.
America HERE recently had its "coming out campaign", wants to be the dominant in-dash center stack provider, and recently opened up to all OSs. SiriusXM was L&C's largest data distributor partner before. The L&C branding efforts and wanting to directly market capabilities beyond maps appeared to conflict with "partners and white labels" which made it an acquisition target or spin-off probability.
Could this be the real reason why Microsoft bought Nokia's devices division and Nokia left HERE alone? Maybe the white label technology is embedded already? It looks like Softy is already trying to exert its force by trying to nix some of Nokia's upcoming line-up despite not merging until Q1. Softy says its a redundant line-up but I'm skeptical.
Nokia's new line-up of devices are said to be coming out 22 Oct and one device is codenamed 'Sirius'. I have a hard time thinking that this is coincidence. I'm also still waiting on the "revolutionary web 2.0" that Mel Karmazin boasted about and this Christmas, in addition to T-3, would seem to be as good a time as ever.
https://www.strategyanalytics.com/de...earch&q=sirius
https://www.strategyanalytics.com/de...search&q=agero
https://www.strategyanalytics.com/de...=search&q=HERE