Telegrafverket
Telegrafverket was a state-owned Norwegian telephone company. It was founded in 1855 and later got the monopoly on the expansion and operation of public telephone services in Norway. In 1969 the name was changed to Televerket and in 1995 to Telenor . The monopoly on the sale of telephones was abolished in 1988, but the actual telephone monopoly only in 1995.
Surname
The Telegrafverket had a number of different names over the years. Telegrafverket , Den Norske Statstelegraf (or Statstelegrafen ), Rikstelegrafen and Det Norske Telegrafvæsen (or: Telegrafvæsenet ) were names that the company carried until 1933 when it was changed back to Telegrafverket. In 1969 the company was called Televerket again in connection with the establishment of data transmission . On January 1, 1995, the Televerket was transferred to a state-owned company and has been called Telenor since then .
history
background
At the beginning of the 18th century Norway had an optical telegraph system that belonged to the military and covered the entire coast to Folda. After 1814 this system deteriorated more and more, even King Oscar I was unable to revive the business around 1848. At the same time, after a trip to Sweden, Naval Lieutenant Carsten Tank Nielsen declared that the time of the optical telegraph was over and at the same time suggested the installation of an electric telegraph.
After the electric telegraph had long been in use in Europe, a royal commission was set up in 1852, consisting of Lieutenant Colonel MS Wergeland , Lector Ole Jacob Broch and Lieutenant Tank Nilsen . They suggested establishing a telegraph connection across southern Norway and from the imperial border from Fredrikshald to Mandal . These plans were approved by the Stortinget in 1854 .
Telegraph
The Telegrafverket started its operations on January 1, 1855 with a telegraph connection between Oslo and Drammen . At the same time, the construction of the telegraph network began throughout the country.
phone
In 1880 Bell Telephone Co. opened the first Norwegian telephone network with branches in Oslo and Drammen. Not much later, many individual telephone associations, societies, and cooperatives were formed across the country. At the turn of the century, the state intervened so that the Telegrafverket could take over all 200 local and private telephone systems one after the other. In the course of the first half of the 19th century, the Telegrafverket built a nationwide telephone network, the rikstelefon . The first automatic switching center was opened in Skien in 1920 . After the purchase of the last private company in 1974, the Televerk received a monopoly over the telephone network and the last manual switching centers were automated. The international connections were partially automated in 1985. The monopoly on the sale of telephones ended in 1988, and in 1991 both Netcom and Telegrafverket got the license to set up a GSM mobile telephone network in Norway.