Noki's Beginnings and Climb to Fame

Nokia’s starting points, though hard to believe, lie in the cable, rubber and paper industries. A Finnish Engineer by the name of Fredrik Idestam established a paper mill adjacent to the river Nokianvirta, in southern Finland and soon achieved success with the budding need for paper all through the industrial revolution. Soon after, Finnish Rubber Works was opened in the same area, borrowing Nokia as a brand name for some of its rubber products including footwear and tires. It invested prudently and obtained majority shares in Finnish Cable Works, a corporation opened in the early twentieth century, which gained success in the post World War II period due to a budding need for telephone and electric related services.    The proper onset of Nokia’s mobile business can be followed to 1960 when Finnish Cable Works initiated its first electronics section, whose principal aim was to vend and run computers. A few years later, Finnish Cable Works and Finnish Rubber Works fused together to found the Nokia Group. At this time the electronics division contributed less than five percent of total revenues and it was not until the eighties that Nokia’s mobile venture really commenced to bud.The era of mobile phones began in 1981 when the initial international cellular network, Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT), was formed and Europe had by then deregulated its telecommunication industry. Morbia Oy, a joint venture between Nokia and a chief Finnish television producer, launched its first portable phone, the Morbia Talkman, followed by the Morbia Cityman, the primary hand held phone that could be used on the Nordic network. By the end of the 1980s Nokia was well positioned to command the world in mobile communication.The early part of the 1990s watched the birth of the Global System for Mobile Communication or GSM and Nokia was used to make the first GSM call ever in the history of mankind. It was at this time that Nokia’s main leadership decided to deliberately concentrate mainly on telecommunication and dissipate its other unassociated sections. The period was a distinguished one for Nokia with chief occasions such as the inauguration of its first GSM phone, the introduction of the famous Nokia Tune and Snake game and the debut of the world’s first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phone equipped to browse the internet. But most vitally, Nokia was now the universal leader in the mobile phone sector having quickly introduced several well-branded models.Nokia kept its lead in the twenty first century with the debut of its primary 3G phone in 2002. 3G services empowered mobile users to get hold of more superior services including wireless internet and video calls. Gaming and multimedia had also become a notable industry and Nokia launched multiplayer gaming options in its more sophisticated phones like the N-Gage, while the fashionable N series satisfied the assorted video and audio requirements of its staunch consumers. By 2005 Nokia had sold around about one billion phones almost half the number of international cellular subscriptions of two billion.In the present day Nokia is renowned as the one of the most valued corporations amongst all countries in the world with winning businesses in mobile phones, wireless data services, multimedia terminals and telecommunication networks. It has continually launched innovative services like the Ovi, a website which empowers users to download nifty Nokia applications and save and transmit digital data, through the years to upgrade the user experience. No wonder many thousands of Nokia cellular phone users across the planet look at it not just as a mobile phone, but an indispensable part of life.