(Telecompaper) Nokia plans to re-enter the mobile phone business by licensing the brand to a manufacturer from next year CEO Rajeev Suri told Germany's Manager Magazin. When the Finnish company sold its mobile business to Microsoft in 2013, it entered into a contractual obligation to stay out of the business until the second half of 2016. Nokia has already granted a licence to Taiwan's Foxconn for the production of tablets and released the N1 Android tablet last year.