Nokia has announced that it will offer new mobile phone models through U.S. carriers in the coming months to try to increase its share of this lucrative market. Nokia’s global market share in the mobile phone market is about 40 percent of all phones sold, but in the U.S. it holds about 10 percent of the market share. 

Part of this has to do with the fact that U.S. mobile phones are locked to the carrier that sells the mobile phones and offers the wireless contract, and another factor is that Nokia has dropped production of phones using CDMA technology, which is popular in the U.S.

Finland’s daily news, Helsingin Sanomat, quoted Nokia Chief Designer, Alastair Curtis, as saying mobile design cooperation with U.S. carriers will be mutually advantageous, "In the next few months (U.S.) operators will carry a lot of new products from us," Curtis told the paper.

Nokia indicated that it would introduce a number of new models in the U.S. this year, which will include CDMA phones, phone models custom tailored for U.S. carriers and phones that are already sold globally.