NOKIA COMPANY

Company Information
Nokia Corporation (Nokia) is player in mobile industry. The Company makes a range of mobile
devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video,
television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Nokia also provides equipment,
solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
From January 1, 2004 through March 31, 2007, Nokia had four business groups: Mobile Phones,
Multimedia, Enterprise Solutions and Networks, supported and serviced by two horizontal
groups: Customer and Market Operations and Technology Platforms, in addition to various
Corporate Functions. In June 2008, Nokia completed the transfer of its Adaptation Software
Research and Development (R&D) operations to Sasken Communication Technologies Limited.

In June 2008, Nokia completed the acquisition of Trolltech ASA. In July 2008, Nokia
Corporation completed the acquisition of NAVTEQ Corporation, and Plazes,
History

The Nokia House, Nokia's head office located by the Gulf of Finland in Keilaniemi, Espoo, was
constructed between 1995 and 1997. It is the workplace of more than 1,000 Nokia employees.

Telecommunications era

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The seeds of the current incarnation of Nokia were planted with the founding of the electronics
section of the cable division in the 1960s. In the 1967 fusion, that section was separated into its
own division, and began manufacturing telecommunications equipment.

First mobile phones

Nokia had been producing commercial and military mobile radio communications technology
since the 1960s. Since 1964 Nokia had developed VHF-radio simultaneously with Salora Oy,
which later in 1971 also developed the ARP-phone. In 1979 the merger of these two companies
resulted in the establishment of Mobira Oy. Mobira began developing mobile phones for the
Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT) network standard that went online in the 1980s and in 1982 it
introduced its first car phone, the Mobira Senator for NMT 450 networks.

The Mobira Cityman 200, Nokia's NMT-900 mobile phone from the early 1990s.

Nokia bought Salora Oy in 1984 and now owning 100% of the company, changed the company's
telecommunication branch name to Nokia-Mobira Oy. The Mobira Talkman, launched in 1984,
was one of the world's first transportable phones. In 1987, Nokia introduced one of the world's
first handheld phones, the Mobira Cityman 900. While the Mobira Senator of 1982 had weighed
9.8 kg (22 lb) and the Talkman just under 5 kg (11 lb), the Mobira Cityman weighed only 800 g
(28 oz) with the battery and had a price tag of 24,000 Finnish marks (approximately €4,560).
Despite the high price, the first phones were almost snatched from the sales assistants’ hands.
Initially, the mobile phone was a "yuppie" product and a status symbol.

In 1988, Jorma Nieminen, resigning from the post of CEO of the mobile phone unit, along with
two other employees from the unit, started a notable mobile phone company of their own,
Benefon Oy. One year later, Nokia Mobira Oy became Nokia Mobile Phones and in 1991 the first
GSM phone was launched.
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Involvement in GSM

Nordic Mobile Telephony was the world's first mobile telephony standard that enabled
international roaming, and provided valuable experience for Nokia for its close participation in
developing Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). It is a digital standard which
came to dominate the world of mobile telephony in the 1990s, in mid-2006 accounting for about
two billion mobile telephone subscribers in the world, or about 80% percent of the total, in more
than 200 countries. The world's first commercial GSM call was made in 1991 in Helsinki over a
Nokia-supplied network, by then Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a Nokia phone.

Progression of size in Nokia mobile phones.

In April 2003, the troubles of the networks equipment division caused the corporation to resort to
similar streamlining practices on that side, including layoffs and organizational restructuring.
This diminished Nokia's public image in Finland, and produced a number of court cases and an
episode of a documentary television show critical of Nokia.

On September 22, 2003, Nokia acquired Sega.com, a branch of SEGA which has been the mayor
basis to build up the Nokia N-Gage.[28]

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Despite these occasional crises, Nokia has been phenomenally successful in its chosen field. Its
growth has come mostly during the era of Jorma Ollila as CEO and his team of about six close
colleagues. In June 2006, Ollila left to become the chairman of Royal Dutch Shell. Nokia's new
CEO is Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.

The Nokia 6300, a member of the Nokia 6000 series, Nokia's largest family of phones.