Elisa (company)

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Elisa Oyj

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legal form Osakeyhtio
ISIN FI0009007884
founding 1882
Seat Helsinki , FinlandFinlandFinland 
management Veli-Matti Mattila ( CEO )
Number of employees 4,787
sales 1.832 billion euros
Branch telecommunications
Website www.elisa.com
As of December 31, 2018

Elisa Oyj , listed in OMX Helsinki 25 , is a telecommunications group from Finland . The company's origins go back to 1882, when it was founded under the name HPY ( Swedish HTF) or Helsingin puhelinyhdistys ( Swedish Helsingfors Telefonförening) until 2000. Elisa Oyj cooperates with Vodafone .

Elisa’s cellular phone division was formerly known as Radiolinja . The world's first GSM call was made using the Radiolinja GSM network in Finland.

In Germany, Elisa was represented by the company Tropolys , which, however , was sold to the financial investor Apax in mid-2004 .

Individual evidence

  1. Corporate Executive Board
  2. a b Elisa: Financial Results 2018. (PDF) January 31, 2019, accessed on February 3, 2019 (English).