Symbian Ltd Reduce Fees to 2.50

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Symbian Ltd. announced it will cut its licensing fees in half in a bid to counter encroaching competition from Windows Mobile and Linux.

Symbian currently charges handset makers $5 per phone (for shipments of more than 2 million units) to use its Symbian OS. That number is now half to $2.50 per phone.

Symbian has long been discussing its plans to get into the "feature phone" market, which comprises the vast majority of handset sales. Most Symbian-based phones today are lumped into the "smart-phone" market, which represents a relatively small part of the 800-million-unit-per-year mobile phone industry. Although Nokia Corp. continues to lend its support to Symbian, the company has largely failed to attract other licensees.

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