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NOKIA

*Nokia was founded by a Finnish man named FREDRIK IDESTAM

*Nokia was named after a river named Nokiavirta which mean “marten” and the river was named after a small furry animal once found in the banks of that river named Nokia ,as time progresses the town adopted the name Nokia

*The company started as a wood pulp mill in the southern part of Finland named Tampere

* The Finnish cable and electronics business, The Finnish rubber works made up the Nokia corporation

*Nokia entered into mobile communication in 1963

*In 1992 Nokia launched its first GSM handset, the Nokia 1011

*Nokia was first to introduce car phones to the network, The mobira 450 car phone in 1982, portable mobira talk man in 1986.

*Nokia’s equipment was used to make the world's first Gsm phone call

*Nokia has it own railway station in 1895 and a telephone line cutting across the town of Tampere and Nokia, they got their catchphrase “connecting people” from these development

*Fredrik Idestam died in 1916 on April 8, Nokia manor as he was fondly called was excavated by some archaeologist who said the place has sign of some ancient activities