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To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (1180)	12/3/1998 9:32:00 AM
From: P2V	Respond to of 34857

Good Afternoon, Mika.

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (1180)	12/3/1998 11:11:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34857

Nokia K-shares converted to A-shares (December 3, 1998) - Nokia Corporation's Articles of Association provide holders of K-shares the right to convert their holdings to A-shares. For the entire period during which this conversion of shares has been permitted, through December 3, 1998, a total of 199 092 977 K-shares have been converted to A-shares. The total amount of Nokia's shares today is 602 314 558, of which 471 725 044 are A-shares and 130 589 514 are K-shares. Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks including related customer services. Nokia also supplies solutions and products for fixed and wireless datacom, as well as multimedia terminals and computer monitors. In 1997, net sales totaled FIM 52.6 billion (USD 9.8 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on five European Stock Exchanges and on the New York Stock Exchange (NOK.A), has sales in 130 countries and employs more than 42,000 people world-wide. Contact information: Nokia Corporate Communications, tel. +358 9 1807 485 fax +358 9 652 409

To: Mika Kukkanen who wrote (1180)	12/3/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Mika Kukkanen	Respond to of 34857

Nokia manufactures its 100 millionth mobile phone History-making Nokia 9110 Communicator produced in Finland. Number 100,000,001 -the Nokia 6160- produced in Fort Worth, USA. (December 3, 1998) - Nokia announced at an analyst conference in London today that it has now produced its 100 millionth mobile phone. The phone was the Nokia 9110 Communicator, manufactured at Nokia's site in Salo, Finland. The milestone phone will be put on display at the Nokia House in Espoo, Finland. Volume deliveries of the Nokia 9110 Communicator will commence in the beginning of next year. For several weeks this autumn, Nokia's global production of mobile phones has surpassed one million phones a week. Based on its own performance data and coupled with preliminary market information, Nokia announced in October that it believes to have become the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer. "Rising mobile phone penetrations, new technology and lifestyle features of products, and the evolution of value added services are the three main drivers which have resulted in the fast growth of the mobile phone industry", says Matti Alahuhta, President, Nokia Mobile Phones. "The 100 millionth Nokia phone is an important milestone on the road to Wireless Information Society. An increasing part of all personal communications, be it voice, images, data or video, will be mobile in the future. We have estimated that in the developed wireless markets the mobile phone penetrations will soon reach the level of 60-70 percent, and that in the year 2005 there will be one billion mobile phone users in the world." Nokia's largest mobile phone manufacturing site in Fort Worth, USA, produced the 100,000,001st phone, the Nokia 6160. "The United States is the world's largest mobile phone market, with clearly over 60 million subscribers today. The recent shift from analog to digital in the U.S. market has been rapid. Our product portfolio has proven to be very competitive, thus establishing Nokia as the icon of digital mobile communications in the U.S.", says Kari-Pekka Wilska, President, Nokia Mobile Phones, Americas. Nokia has manufactured mobile phones in high volumes since the beginning of the 1990's, when the first digital networks were introduced. Today Nokia's mobile phones are made by eight factories in seven countries around the world. Nokia is the world's leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of mobile and fixed telecom networks including related customer services. Nokia also supplies solutions and products for fixed and wireless datacom, as well as multimedia terminals and computer monitors. In 1997, net sales totaled FIM 52.6 billion (USD 9.8 billion). Headquartered in Finland, Nokia is listed on five European Stock Exchanges and on the New York Stock Exchange (NOK.A), has sales in 130 countries and employs more than 42,000 people world-wide. Contact information: Nokia Mobile Phones Communications Tel. +358 10 5051