Samsung will make payments to Nokia from Jan. 1, but the companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.

Nordic rival Ericsson last year also reached an agreement on 5G patents with Samsung, ending a dispute that hit its quarterly revenue.

Nokia's patent portfolio is made of around 20,000 patent families, including over 4,500 patent families declared essential to 5G.

(Reporting by Supantha Mukherjee in Stockholm; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)