Finland was literally in bed when the news that Nokia sells mobile phone business began cabled out at six o’clock on Tuesday morning.
– This news contains a lot of nostalgia and emotion. Every Finn has a relationship with Nokia, said Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen (National Coalition Party), who received the news by phone as late as the night before.
He still wanted to keep on the optimistic side and categorized the deal as a great day in Finnish industrial history where the purpose after all is to steer the business towards growth and success. From the Finnish point of view, it is also a good news that Microsoft has announced that it will invest 200 million euros in data centers in Finland, as the company hinted that Nokia’s employees will retain jobs despite being released in Microsoft’s favor.
Earlier mobile unit head Anssi Vanjoki called sales shameful but necessary when Helsingin Sanomat reached him in Shanghai.
– The strategy miserably failed but now we hope Microsoft courage enough, the Nokia was not enough.
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town of Salo, where the success story really got its start in 1979, took Mayor Antti Rantakokko received the news with great surprise:
– I’m afraid of what this means but I hope it continues to develop its mobile operations in Salo.
Not that maneuvers from Nokia Kept might really surprise.
As recently as last year for Salo’s former golden calf harshly when it first kicked 1000 people from Salo unit and months later, to the promise of the factory to get composed. The last year has Rantakokkos region instead struggled with high unemployment as a result of Nokia not only finally gave sacked for 1,400 people, but also shut down the factory. It was not just that Salo suffered. In all, the 3700 Nokia employees in Finland message that they terminated.
It’s just a promise Stephen Elop had to eat. Last summer, he dismissed the already flourishing rumors of mobile sales in the Wall Street Journal, saying that there is no logic in selling it.
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And maybe it’s all eaten up words and broken promises that grieves the Espoo residents we meet a few hours after the news broke.
– We knew from the start that he was talking nonsense. It was no surprise that it went like this, says Jani Helenius standing and discussing the matter in Tapiola in Espoo, a short distance from the main stage for yesterday’s shocking news: Nokia headquarters in Keilaniemi.
His friend, Maarit Järvinen, hold my tongue when she finally formulates that sales simply smell bad.
– It has not been able to avoid this thing in Finland today. My only hope now is that they retain the more than 4000 workers still remaining in Finland. It is sad that it went like this for Nokia. I drive myself past the main office every day and it’s been a sort of landmark for Finland.
Been, yes. At the end of last year, Nokia sold the 40,000-square-foot monumental landmark of 170 million and hired instead favor with the new owner.
Agitation and grief is perhaps also more emotional, and goes back to the time when Nokia was actually the proud Finnish national ship in the world. But there is now a long time ago.
– For so there eleven years ago, it felt important Nokia, Finnish. You’d have a Nokia phone. The glow has faded and straight down the drain it went with Elop says Järvinen who had long ago replaced the Nokian with an iPhone.
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