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I guess you haven?t heard of NokiaLand before? The naming NokiaLand has to do with the worlds big-gest handset fabricator Nokia and Finland, the boondocks it comes from.

Nokia

Nokia has not always been a world chairman in chamber phones, digital technologies, telecommunications networks, wireless statistics solutions and prodigal tech gadgets like the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. Some 100 years ago the coterie was manufacturing form, bathroom paper, galoshes, tires and raincoats - all-nokia.net.

Finland

Thanks to Nokia Finland has develop only of the fastest-growing and most wealthy economies in Europe. And Nokia phones have a main demand position on its abode market. This is why Finland is sometimes referred to as NokiaLand.

In the 1980s Finland was best known in favour of its credentials and flesh industries and extensive dull winters. At the same interval Nokia made the determination to budge its performers focus from prospect, tires, and rubber boots to nimble phones. Good pull up stakes - today the company sells more phones than any other assemblage in the world.

The Nokia prosperity story had an stupendous colliding on the finnish economy. Nokia increased the finnish GDP close to more than 1.5 percent in 1999 alone. In 2004 Nokia's dividend of the Finnish GDP was 3.5 percent and accounted for little short of a area of Finnish exports in 2003. Mould year more than 20 000 people were employed through Nokia in Finland which is mercilessly 2 percent of the people in the Finnish concern sector. Also divers tiny companies such as Perlos sooner a be wearing grown into muscular ones as Nokia subcontractors.

As Nokia?s profits grew, the Nokia interest appraisal increased and this also created a in the main number of new extraordinarily loaded households in NokiaLand – thanks to Nokia.

The President

Have faith it or not there was a private chart some 5 years ago in NokiaLand to put Jorma Ollila, CEO of Nokia as president of Finland. This did not task into the open, but if it had we surely would prepare had our NokiaLand. The story was revealed when Sauli Niinist? published his memoirs this summer. He writes that he had asked Jorma Ollila, the chief executive of Nokia, to stir one's stumps with a view president in the 2000 presidential election. According to Mr Niinist?, Mr Ollila pondered on the other side of the matter when Niinist? made him the submit in the shoot up of 1999. As we all be sure Mr Ollila didn?t elapse for it!