Fourteen weeks ago, the Steel City Re reputation metrics suggested Nokia's prospects were bleak. Nokia is not getting any better. Reputation vital signs recorded late last week are consistent with a company on life support. Think of those movie scenes where the heart monitor switches from a series of pings to a monotonous tone, and the  display switches from peaks and valleys to a flat line.

All current vital sign metrics are below the 10th percentile. The historic reputational volatility metric is in the 92nd percentile. Diagnosis: recent violent reputational trajectory with evolving terminal failure of life support systems. (Note that the reputational metrics anticipated the market price failure by a few weeks.).