Nokia and Microsoft connect force to better contend with Apple and Google ’s Android OS will be honorable for the smartphone grocery store , Vodafone Germany ’s CEO Jan Geldmacher said in aninterviewat the Cebit swop show in Hanover .

For Nokia ’s upcoming Windows Phone - based smartphones to deliver the goods , Microsoft and the Finnish phone maker ask backing from wandering operator , and Vodafone in Germany seems to be on their side , for now .

“ We are very much looking ahead to the new products that will amount from the cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia , ” Geldmacher said .

However , unlike Nokia CEO Stephen Elop , Geldmacher does n’t regard the conflict for smartphone OS supremacy as a three - horse slipstream . He run into the situation as a fight between Apple , Google ’s Android and its backers , Microsoft and Nokia , and Research In Motion , as well .

Elop has repeatedly posit that the conjugation between his company and Microsoft has create “ a three - horse raceway ” , essentially discounting RIM ’s BlackBerry smartphones .

Today , Apple dominates the smartphone marketplace , with Android increase its market part apace . But RIM in the enterprise field is important as well , allot to Geldmacher .

“ We intend that a fourth operating organization , with Nokia and Microsoft will be a positive thing for the market overall , ” he said .

Geldmacher also serve questions about the hustler ’s LTE ( Long Term Evolution ) plans .

At the behest of German authorities , Vodafone and other local fluid operator have taken a dissimilar tack to rolling out connection based on the mesh engineering science . The rollout has set out in rural areas , in an effort expatiate broadband availability . Most other operator are starting in big cities .

The plan is to close remaining white-hot spots , where broadband is n’t useable , by the end of the year , tell Geldmacher . The manipulator will then build out its LTE substructure in the cites , he said , add together that users can expect download speeds between 10 M bps ( bits per second ) and 50 M bps .