Comment by itsamario
8 hours ago
I noticed nokia pop up in telecom infrastructure around the same time I noticed nokia phone users using something else.
My guess is they didn't realize what telecom was preparing for and decided a foothold in that industry was an investment in telephone future.
Like Ericsson and Alcatel, Nokia originally only built the phones to sell the infrastructure.
They pushed devices with new telecom features into the market to create the benefit for carriers to buy new infrastructure, e.g. "with this new revision of GSM, devices can negotiate the polling period with the network to double the battery runtime. But only if you have the infra to actually answer the device."
They were doing phone switching in the 70s. The Nokia DX 200 had a couple of firsts on the wiki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_DX_200