How to cut down your holiday phone bill
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The Nokia Corporation, based in Finland, are currently the biggest cell phone manufacturer in the world, but like so many other major companies, they started out doing something very different indeed.
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The Nokia Corporation, based in Finland, are currently the biggest cell phone manufacturer in the world, but like so many other major companies, they started out doing something very different indeed.
The Nokia company was started in 1871, when Finnish engineer and paper mill owner Fredrik Idestam decided to go into partnership with his friend, the Finnish statesman Leo Mechelin. The new company was named after the town of Nokia, the site of one of Idestams paper mills. They expanded into electricity generation in 1902, which quickly overtook paper as the core business.
The first world war crippled the Nokia finances, and the firm had to be rescued by a firm known as Finnish Rubber Works, who produced galoshes and other rubber products. In 1922, the company also bought Finnish Cable Works, makers of telephone, telegraph, and electricity cables, although the three firms remained separate despite their shared ownership. In 1967, the three firms merged to form the Nokia Corporation. Between 1967 and 1990, the Nokia Corporation were involved, through their various divisions, in making a wide variety of products, including Wellington boots, automobile tyres, paper products, computers, TVs, capacitors and communications cables.
However, by the 1990s, they decided to sell off or abandon their other business interests in order to provide greater resources for the telecommunications side of the business, which they saw as being the future of the company.
The first electronic device to be manufactured by Nokia was a pulse analyser for use in nuclear power plants. Alongside a firm called Salora Oy, they pioneered VHF radio in the mid 60s, and later introduced an in-car radio telephone network, called ARP, which used this technology. This network was the first of its kind in Finland and was certainly the most successful of its type in the world at that time.
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.
Three years later, they brought out one of the first hand held mobile telephones, the Mobira Cityman 900, which was a massive seller despite weighing a ton and costing a fortune. It earned the nickname The Gorba when Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was seen in a news broadcast phoning his communications minister in Moscow from Helsinki on one of the units.
Nokia-Mobira Oy changed their name to Nokia Mobile Phones in 1989, and went on to dominate the mobile phone market of the 1990s and 2000s. Almost incidentally, thanks to the massive popularity of their camera phones, Nokia is now the biggest camera manufacturer in the world, ahead of such established names as Nikon and Olympus.
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