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To: elmatador who wrote (14492)	4/17/2006 12:01:36 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

Town of Nokia Giving Up Landlines By Associated Press - April 14, 2006 Nokia, Finland will outfit all its municipal workers with mobile phones. [FAC: Now the big question that is being asked by the town's leading bureaucrats is, Where can we hide now? It's suddenly not too far fetched to envisage why some would resort to this: tinyurl.com Can you imagine the same treatment being applied to your own city or town's elected representatives and civil service personnel? As a side note, the TV series Law and Order: Criminal Intent aired an episode about six months ago, which is only now making the rerun circuit, which featured, in addition to the use of a Cringles can as an antenna, a wall paint that was used for the same RF-blocking purpose as outlined in my reference above. I remember commenting to myself at the time of the MIT TR release that here we had a case where the TV show scooped the MIT Tech Review account of the same topic by a couple of months. The Cringles can, by that time, was already old fare.] technologyreview.com HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- The Finnish town of Nokia, left in the shadow of its more famous namesake company, is going mobile. Nokia's municipal workers will be given cellular 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 1,300 municipal employees with mobile handsets by June, when their landline numbers will automatically connect to cell phones. Switching to mobile phones will also save landline phone costs and will not be more expensive for customers calling town officials, Andersson said. ''For some time now, many town officials have been more easily reached on their cell phones anyway,'' he said, adding that the town hall's only landline numbers will be a few dozen fax machines. The Nokia company shifted from pulp to gum boots, car tires and cables when it was based in the town, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Helsinki. It also made televisions and home electronics products before becoming the world's leading mobile phone maker in 1998. Nokia Corp., which no longer has a presence in Nokia and had no role in the town's decision, moved to Helsinki in 1991 and is now based in Espoo, near the Finnish capital.