Nokia Company History

History of establishment of one of the leading companies of the 99s is quite interesting. Nokia's history starts back to 1865. In 1865 Fredrik Idestam mining engineer made the first wood pulp mill in southwestern Finland. Many years later he made the other mill on the banks of the river Nokianvitra, which inspired him to name his company Nokia Ab. This happened in 1871.

In 1967 Idestam Nokia AB decided to merge with Finnish Rubber Works company that manufactures tires, rubber boots and other rubber products. Then they decide also to merge with Finnish Cable Works Ltd., a manufacturer of power cables and telephone founded in 1912. It was given the name Nokia Corporation. So Nokia begins to deal with several types of businesses: rubber, cable,

Also in the same year, the world’s first car phone for the Nordic Mobile Telephone. Also Nokia was develop the GSM (2G) (Global System for Mobile Communications), the second generation mobile technology that could carry data, it was replacement for 1G, first generation. As of 2014 the GSM (2G) operating in over 219 countries and territories, with 90% market share. We can say it is default standard for mobile communication. The first GSM network is delivered to operator Radiolinja in 1989, Finland. The first world's commercial GSM call was made by Prime Minister of Finland Holkeri on 1991 in Helsinki, using Nokia GSM phone, it was prototype. In 1992 first GSM mobile was introduced, the Nokia 1011. The number of model refers to date of introduction, 10 November. This model did not have Nokia’s characteristic ringtone of Nokia, which was presented as a ringtone in 1994 with the Nokia 2100 series. The primary characteristic of GSM mobiles was high quality voice calls. Also it has easy international roaming and support of some services like text messaging. It was worldwide boom in mobile phone use. In 2007, Nokia decides to form a joint venture with Siemens (named Nokia Siemens Networks) in order to become one of the leading provider of telecommunication network, and to provide better services to its customers. In 2011, Nokia united with Microsoft to strengthen its position in the competitive

Its workers were one of the best at building physical devices, which was good, but they did not pay much attention on programs that make devices work. Development process of Nokia was long years dominated by hardware engineers, but software experts were uncared for. For example in 2002 Nokia introduced its Symbian 60 series which had a good market response but with the introduction of iOS (Apple) in 2007 and Android (Samsung) in 2008, the operation system race was completely taken over by the two giants companies. Simply the Symbian OS have the small amount of application that customers need. When Nokia face with competition from Apple and Samsung, they continuously searching for some new staff, but they failed to create something unique that will attract customers. When everything turned against the company, the company decide to sell company to Windows in 2011, it was big mistake of Nokia. If Lumia series were launched on the Android platform, it would been big hit, absolutely. „Jumping to Android was widely advocated as a quick shortcut to making Nokia’s software competitive, but Anssi Vanjoki dismissed that idea as a short-term solution that was no better than "peeing in your pants for warmth in the winter." I was among those who thought him wrong, but the recent financial struggles of HTC, Motorola, and Sony have shown him to be more prophetic than paranoid. Nobody outside of Google, Samsung,