What is Mobile 101 tv series
Mobile 101 – The true story of Nokia, The TV series that leads the public to discover the origins of Nokia lands on Disney+ in Italy from 25 January.
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Based on true events, this series tells the surprising story of close events and uncertain first steps of a small Finnish electronics company on its way to becoming a global titan of the mobile phone industry.
What is Mobile 101 about, the plot
In 1988, Nokia Corporation is a small but ambitious Finnish company hoping to conquer the world with its new mobile phone technology. Unfortunately, due to a series of reckless expansions in the home electronics sector, Nokia finds itself on the verge of bankruptcy. Katarina Tammi – an idealistic and ambitious lawyer – finds herself alongside Aki Makkonen – her friend from university days and a bit chaotic – in trying to make sense of patent laws in the fledgling mobile phone department of Nokia .
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The company – led by CEO Kari Kairamo – seems much more interested in pursuing aggressive acquisitions in the home electronics sector. An internal opposition arises within the company and the desire for something new breaks out among the employees. The company’s young financial director Jorma Ollila finds himself between two fires. At the same time, the US giant Motorola, annoyed by the competition represented by the Finnish company, suddenly sues Nokia for patent infringement. Meanwhile, Risto Salminen, a brilliantly minded Nokia engineer, sets about designing a better, smaller, more efficient mobile phone.
Katarina and Aki, who have just graduated in law, are given the arduous task of defending the company in the lawsuit brought by Motorola against Nokia: everything takes on the connotations of a sort of Goliath against David. Risto becomes absolutely obsessed with his engineering project, but not having the support of the management, he decides to take matters into his own hands by working on the project whose code name is, in fact, “Mobile 101”. Risto also receives an interesting job offer to join the Swedish company Ericsson, the rival of Nokia. Katarina and Aki travel to the United States to defend Nokia and the future of the company. Their longtime friendship begins to disintegrate, as Katarina is fed up with Aki always willing to renege on her responsibilities.
The tensions arising from the lawsuit will end up risking compromising the friendship between Katarina and Aki, and the former will consider leaving the company. Jorma will discover the potential of the project developed by Risto and the possibility of using GSM technology which will represent a turning point in the “dematerialisation” of telecommunications.
Mobile 101 cast, actors and characters
The cast of the TV series includes Satu Tuuli Karhu (Katarina Tammi), Emil Kiihlström (Aki Makkonen), Aku Sipola (Risto Salminen), Oona Airola (Vuokko Salminen) and Sampo Sarkola (Jorma Olilla).
Mobile 101 episodes, how many are there
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The drama series in 6 x 50-minute episodes was made in Finland by Rabbit Films in co-production with Aurora Studios, and was first broadcast in April last year by local network MTV3 Finland. Maarit Lalli is directing the series, whose budget amounts to 3.75 million euros.
When does Mobile 101 come out
The complete first season of the series is available in our country on Disney+ in the Star section starting January 25th.
Mobile 101 trailer
Where to stream Mobile 101
The series is a Disney + exclusive in the territories where the service is active, with the exception of the Scandinavian and Baltic countries where the first window rights belong to CMORE.
Will Mobile 101 2 be there?
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This is a project with character limited series, it is unlikely that there will be a second season of Mobile 101. If not, the producer Rabbit Films will announce it.
