HISTORY
A legend of technology, the king of producing mobile phone…Those are beautiful words when talk about the legend named Nokia some years ago. All of the time from 1990 to 2000, Nokia became a star in the global technology: biggest mobile phone producer in the world, many biggest thing in world when talk about Nokia. At that time, the word “Nokia” can become the synonym of mobile phone.
Nokia is a multinational company which has a headquater in Espoo, a city near the capital of Finland, Helsinki. Almost people think that Nokia is a mobile company but just a few people know that Nokia was a paper pulp company. In 1865, an Finnish engineer, Fredrik Idestam founded paper pulp company in Tammerkoski Rapids of South West Finland area. 6 years later, he opened a second company beside the Nokianvirta river. The name Nokia was inspired by this river name. Early time after founding, Nokia is just a multicompany. In 1898, Eduard Polón founded Finnish Rubber Works Ltd in Helsinki, which produce rubber shoes, rubber tyre. Up to now, many rubber shoes under Nokia brand still exist. Until 1912, Arvid Wickström founded Finnish Cable Works, which lay the foundation for cable business and electronic facilities of Nokia later. In 1967, three companies include Nokia Ab, Finnish Cable Works, Finnish Rubber Works Ltd were official merged. Twelve years later, 1979, Nokia founed the wireless telephone company, Mobira Oy under a joint-venture company with a top Finnish TV producer at that time is Salora. 1981 marked the launch of Nordic Mobile Telephone(NMT – one of the 1G mobile networks), the first international mobile networks around the world. After that, Nokia introduced the first phone in the world for using in cars named Mobira Senator. In the same year, Nokia established DX200, a digital switch which used to connect calls. In 1987, Nokia established Mobira Cityman, the