The Finnish town of Nokia goes mobile

The Finnish town of Nokia, left in the shadow of its more famous namesake company, is going mobile, according to The Age via Smart Mobs.

"Nokia's municipal workers will be given mobile handsets to replace their landline phones in a move aimed at improving communication, officials said.

"People will be able to call direct to officials' mobile phones," said Martin Andersson, the town's project leader for information technology. "The main aim is to make employees more reachable."

The town of 28,000 in southern Finland, where Nokia Corp started 140 years ago as a wood-pulp mill, will provide 1300 municipal employees with mobile handsets by June, when their landline numbers will automatically connect to the mobiles."

Map from CNN

emily | 8:20 AM | SMS and Politics |
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