According to Hennie KoerKamp, the Chief Executive Officer of Nav4All, its data licensing partner Navteq, a 100 percent Nokia subsidiary has refused to extend their mutual agreement in an unexpected manner. This has forced the Dutch Navigation company to suspend its operations, especially the sale of free sat nav application. He reveals this in a sobbing e-mail to its customers sent on January 28th.
The sudden action has led the 27.6 million Nav4All customers worried. The e-mail also says that it is impossible for the company to implement the data from another supplier for their systems within a short period of time. Nav4All was a free sat nav app that can run on all smartphones. It used Navteq’s data for the purpose.
Reportedly, this move is the consequence of Nokia’s latest decision to sell free sat nav on its mobile phones last month. Nokia bought Navteq for $8.1 billion in 2008. Even though Navteq has stopped its partnership with Nav4All, it has been said that Navteq will continue its operations as an independent unit. Besides, the customers are said to have access to all Navteq data under certain terms and conditions.
Navteq added that it is the failure to reach in an amicable terms and conditions that has led to the closure of the agreement with Nav4All. In fact, Nav4All has become the latest victim of free sat nav offering by Nokia and Google.
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