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It seems to have been coined around 1990 by Ted Rappaport while he was a professor at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, alluding to his research program in wireless communications and the location of Blacksburg between the Appalachians and the Blue Ridge Mountains. He later founded Wireless Valley® Communications, which trademarked the phrase "Wireless Valley" in the United States.
Wireless Valley is also a nickname and an attempt to describe the cluster of companies in the information technology industry that located in northern Stockholm, Sweden. This also included a number of companies that saw themselves as belonging to the new information based economy. The nickname was based on an analogy to California's Silicon Valley and reflected the hopes of trying to mimic that success.
Ericsson, the worlds leading supplier in telecommunications has one of its main plants in the Stockholm suburb of KistaKista is a borough of the city of Stockholm in Sweden. Located in the northern part of Stockholm, Kista is divided by the Stockholm Metro line (which runs 20 meters above the ground) into a western part with apartment buildings, and an eastern part, occup. FinlandSuomen TasavaltaRepubliken Finland ( In Detail) ( In Detail) National motto: None Official languages Finnish and Swedish Capital Helsinki President Tarja Halonen Prime minister Matti Vanhanen Area Total % water Ranked 64th 337,030 km˛ 9. 4% Population Tot also has a high-tech area in EspooEspoo Esbo in Swedish) is a city on the Southern coast of Finland sharing a boundary with Helsinki to its east and Vantaa to its north. Together with Kauniainen (which is very small, and entirely enclosed by Espoo) these form the Helsinki Metropolitan Are, sometimes called "Wireless Valley", based around NokiaFor the Finnish town, see Nokia. Nokia Corporation is the world's largest telecommunications manufacturer. It is a Finnish telecommunications company best known for its leading range of mobile phones. Nokia also produces mobile phone infrastructure and ot.