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
