Elisa Oyj is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882 that was known until July 2000 as HPY. Elisa Oyj employs about 3000 people and in 2007 had revenue of about €1.57 billion. The mobile operations of Elisa were previously known as Radiolinja; Elisa has a co-operation agreement with Vodafone for mobile telephony.
HPY got started on 6 June 1882, by connecting 56 phone numbers. By 1884 the number of yearly calls surpassed one million.
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Elisa Oyj is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882 that was known until July 2000 as HPY. Elisa Oyj employs about 3000 people and in 2007 had revenue of about €1.57 billion. The mobile operations of Elisa were previously known as Radiolinja; Elisa has a co-operation agreement with Vodafone for mobile telephony.
HPY got started on 6 June 1882, by connecting 56 phone numbers. By 1884 the number of yearly calls surpassed one million.
Elisa launched the first commercial GSM service in 1991 and the world's first commercial UMTS900 network on November 8, 2007.
Until 2000 Elisa was a telephone cooperative known as Helsingin puhelinyhdistys (HPY). HPY started expanding during the 1930s by merging with smaller cooperative telephone operators. The company reached its current geographical operating field in 1958. The original form of incorporation, a mutual association, was changed to a legal cooperative (Helsingin puhelinosuuskunta) in 1995. The cooperative was finally...
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