Nokia History

Said Nokia originated from the name of a community living in the river emakoski in Finland. Nokia was established as a pulp mill by Fredrik Idestam in 1865. Finnish Rubber Company then set up factories in the surrounding region in the early 20th century and start using the Nokia brand.

Shortly after immediately following World War I, Finnish Rubber Company acquired the Nokia Wood Milling Company and Finnish Cable Company (a manufacturer of telephone and telegraph wires). These three companies were merged into the Nokia Corporation in 1967. Later developed into the machine pulp and paper manufacturer in 1920 and is a leading paper manufacturer in Europe.

In the 1950's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Björn Westerlund predict that future growth in some sectors of the pulp and paper will be limited and instead built an electronics division in Helsinki cable factory, from where the embryo start leads to seluluer sector. For 15 years probation Nokia electronics experience from a variety of errors. However, of all the mistakes and experiment, it gradually awakened substantial skills of a group of talented experts. In the 1970s Nokia and Salora TV manufacturers joined forces to develop a mobile phone (cell phone).

In the 1980's the whole Salora integrated into Nokia. At the same time Nokia obtain the operation of the telephone network Televa Government Telecommunications Company. However, not all efforts made Nokia a leading mobile phone manufacturer in the world a success. In the 1980s the company bought German television manufacturer, SEL, but was forced to leave because it did not go smoothly.

In early 1981, Nokia successfully launched a product called Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT). NMT is the first multinational cellular network in the world. Therefore, throughout the 1980s, NMT was introduced to a number of countries and received overwhelming response.

Then in the early 1990's, Nokia had experienced a crisis, but the new CEO, Jorma Ollila, decided to focus on mobile phones and phone networks. As a result, the first GSM phone in the world appeared in Finland in 1991. Then the global mobile phone market is growing very rapidly in the mid-1990s and a number of Nokia products into one.

Now, as 2100 series phones Nokia gain success. Target sales of 500 thousand units were achieved in 1994. With a workforce of 54 thousand people, Nokia products sold in over 130 countries. Now maybe everyone knows a cell phone that is easy to operate was Nokia, because that's the motto of Nokia.

Since the first country Finland is highly dependent on the outcome of its forests in the form of wood, just as has been said by one of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Jyrki Vesikansa, "We used to live out of the woods, but now we can add the Nokia".

On August 15, 2007, Nokia centers conduct a recall of the type BL-5C battery, one of the most popular battery for Nokia mobile phone at the moment.