After Windows 8.1, Windows Phone will discount up to 70%?

To promote its mobile operating system to continue to grow, Microsoft is likely to start drastically reducing Windows Phone licensing fees for its partners in the near future.

After Windows 8.1 , Microsoft's move to lower Windows Phone could be seen as a strong market hit by Android and iOS rivals.

In an interview with PCMag at MWC, Infosonics CEO Joseph Ram revealed that, " we have heard about Microsoft planning to reduce licensing fees quite a lot [for Windows Phone. ], about 70%, this will make their products more competitive in price ".

Infosonics ' company Ram is one of many cheap Android phone makers participating at Mobile World Congress this year. The company is the Verykool phone manufacturer, which is sold from Latin American carriers, and is primarily sold with the unlocked version in the US.

With the move to reduce this license fee for software giant, Infosonics will definitely consider producing Windows Phone phones, Ram said. This statement of Ram took place a few days after Microsoft announced a new list of low-cost phone manufacturing partners, including Longcheer and Gionee in China, or Karbonn and Xolo in India. New Windows Phone phones that will run on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 platform are designed to compete with devices like Nokia X, with a retail price of US $ 122 ( about VND 2.5 million ).

In 2012, ZTE said that Windows Phone will have a licensing fee of $ 23-30 per device, but last December, The Verge said, Microsoft is considering a full fee waiver. license for Windows Phone.

Microsoft has not released any comments on this information yet.