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.

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rickdeckard 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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."

	▲	motionlessveloc 12 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Citation needed. Nokia Networks and Nokia Mobile Phones (NMP) were run like entirely separate kingdoms within Nokia and their conflicts were legendary. It's often forgotten that Microsoft didn't buy "Nokia", they bought the NMP division, and the Networks bit is alive and kicking to this day.

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wil421 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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