I have just looked on Google whether there is anything negative about Nokia in the news outside of Germany.....but I could not find any stories at all - concerning the closure of the factory in Bochum.

A quick summary of what has happened:

Nokia decided to close down a factory in Germany (near Bochum) that actually makes a profit....they don't close it down because it is inefficient, just because they have want to save even more money by going to Romania.

Additionally Nokia receives lots of money from the EU and the German government when they built the factory and now they receive money again from the EU as they build a new factory in Romania.

Many people and politicians in Germany now discard all their Nokia phones:

Must be something in the air Toby, ...Viking an office depot company, thats just up the road from me recently fired hunfreds of telesales workers and relocated to Romania.


As you say it's all about saving money.

maybe Romania is the new India in the world of corporate business and profit margins?

Its happening all over the place. But that's going to happen in a new open Europe. Its is better to have a stronger Europe but then again when you look at the Lisbon Treaty coming up its not all good, well not for the small countries anyway.

IPCom is currently suing Nokia for patent right violations.....for 12 billion Euros.
Nokia has obviously "stolen" ideas from Bosch that were protected by patent rights. IPCom has bought those patent rights from Robert Bosch GmbH.