It must've been so terrible for the Nokia mothership to receive north of 7 bln. without forfeiting the two key assets Nokia mobile held (HERE Maps and, respectively, the brand itself). Many tears were shed when the unsuspecting ignoramuses up there in Helsinki realised that they would not have to fire thousands of people and pay severance charges themselves while also potentially upsetting the government of their home country, which is rather friendly. Evil Microsoft and its Elop trojan horse came in and stole that privilege from them. Indeed, they must've hoped they'd at least get the great pleasure of paying their debts towards employees in China and India and the governments of those respective countries, thus closing off rather troublesome legal matters. Alas, it was not to be, for the sly Elop took that away as well and threw it at the foot of the devious Microsoft, with an evil laughter, and they sat out to sort those issues out, making faces at Nokia. The heart stops upon merely thinking about this horror, poor Nokia board actually having to live it.
It's clear that they entered deep depression, gasping over what little remained of their poor company, and sought poor consolation paying off +15 bln to acquire Alcatel-Lucent and strengthen an irrelevant business where they are still competing for the top. Unlike the phone business that had bombed for ages (basically eversince it started missing every possible train in a changing landscape) and which would have brought them great success through synergising sustained losses with increased irrelevancy if only it was allowed to be the umpteenth Android handset maker that has neither the cost structure that the Chinese companies have nor is Samsung, so as to be competitive in that space. If only we would have gotten to see yet another perfectly similar Android handset that is not the same coming from Nokia. If only...