The rise of the Nokia Corporation
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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 |
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Today, Nokia are the biggest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. But back when the Nokia Company was founded, all they made was paper.
The company was formed in Finland in 1871 when paper mill owner and engineer Fredrik Idestam went into partnership with his friend Leo Mechelin and called the new enterprise the Nokia Company, after the town of Nokia, where one of their paper mills was situated. In 1902, they added electricity generation to their list of business activities, which was soon to overtake paper production as the most profitable part of the business.
After the first world war, the Nokia company was facing bankruptcy, and were bought out by Finnish Rubber Works. In 1922, Finnish Rubber Works bought out Finnish Cable Works, makers of telephone, telegraph, and electricity cables. Nokia, Finnish Rubber Works, and Finnish Cable Works were merged into one large company, the Nokia Corporation, in 1967. Over the years, Nokia Corporation made tyres, footwear, paper products, personal computers, televisions, capacitors, aluminium, communications cables and electricity generation machinery at various stages.
In 1990, in anticipation of the telecommunications boom that was to follow, they sold off or abandoned all their other interests in order to fund their burgeoning telecommunications business.
Nokias first electronic device was a pulse analyser for nuclear power plants. They pioneered VHF radio, in conjunction with a company called Salora Oy, and later gave Finland its first mobile phone network. The ARP radio telephone network was one of the first of its kind in the world, and was certainly the most successful of any of the early mobile networks.
Nokia made another telecommunications first in the late seventies, with the invention of the the first digital telephone switch, the Nokia DX200. They bought out Salora Oy in 1984 to form a new mobile telecoms division which was called Nokia-Mobira Oy, capitalising on their previous success with the ARP network. They released the first commercially available radio telephone that could be used outside of a car, the Mobira Talkman, that same year.
In 1987, they introduced the Mobira Cityman 900, one of the first hand held mobile phones, which was a huge success despite its ridiculous weight, bulky dimensions, and exorbitant price tag.
The firm changed their name from Nokia-Mobira Oy to Nokia Mobile Phones in 1989, and soon became the sole focus of the entire corporation. Today they make and sell more mobile phones every year than any other manufacturer, and thanks to the camera phone explosion, is now also the biggest manufacturer of cameras in the world.
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