Nokias foundations, incredible as it may appear, lie in the cable, rubber and paper industries. A Finnish Engineer by the name of Fredrik Idestam established a paper mill besides the river Nokianvirta, in southern Finland and soon attained success with the burgeoning requirement for cardboard and paper through the industrial revolution. Soon after, Finnish Rubber Works was opened in the same area, assuming Nokia as a brand name for a few of its rubber products including footwear and tires. It invested cleverly and obtained majority shares in Finnish Cable Works, a business opened in the early twentieth century, which attained success in the post World War II age due to a burgeoning requirement for telephone and electric related services.

The actual birth of Nokias mobile business can be traced to 1960 when Finnish Cable Works initiated its first electronics unit, whose top most aim was to vend and manage computers. A few years later, Finnish Cable Works and Finnish Rubber Works joined together to found the Nokia Group. At this time the electronics division contributed less than five percent of all turnover and it was not until the eighties that Nokias mobile venture really began to grow.

The era of mobile phones started in 1981 when the initial international cellular network, Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT), was set up and Europe had by then deregulated its telecommunication industry. Morbia Oy, a joint venture between Nokia and a chief Finnish television producer, launched its first portable phone, the Morbia Talkman, followed by the Morbia Cityman, the pioneer hand held phone that could be used on the Nordic network. By the end of the 1980s Nokia was well positioned to guide the world in mobile communication.

The early part of the 1990s observed the birth of the Global System for Mobile Communication or GSM and Nokia was used to make the first GSM call in global history. It was at this time that Nokias top leadership decided to purposefully pay attention for the most part on telecommunication and dismantle its other irrelevant units. The period was a important one for Nokia with central occasions such as the introduction of its first GSM phone, the introduction of the famous Nokia Tune and Snake game and the launch of the worlds first Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) phone with the ability to browse the internet. But most critically, Nokia was now the international leader in the mobile phone sector having quickly inaugurated many well-acknowledged models.

Nokia hung on to its lead in the twenty first century with the debut of its earliest 3G phone in 2002. 3G services empowered mobile users to gain more progressive services including wireless internet and video calls. Gaming and multimedia had also become a sizeable industry and Nokia launched multiplayer gaming options in its more sophisticated phones like the N-Gage, while the fashionable N series gratified the assorted video and audio requirements of its reliable consumers. By 2005 Nokia had sold almost one billion phones almost half the number of international cellular subscriptions of two billion.

At present Nokia is accepted as the one of the most valued corporations on the globe with lucrative businesses in mobile phones, wireless data services, multimedia terminals and telecommunication networks. It has continually launched innovative services like the Ovi, a website which empowers users to download worthwhile Nokia applications and save and transport digital data, through the years to build up the user experience. No wonder massive numbers of Nokia cellular phone users across the planet look at it not just as a mobile phone, but an essential part of our daily life.

Clive depends heavily on his mobile Nokia phone to deal his day to day tasks.

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