Elisa (company)

Elisa Oyj, listed on the OMX Helsinki, is a telecommunications company from Finland. The company is in its origins back to 1882, founded at that time under the name HPY ( swedish HTF ) or Helsingin puhelinyhdistys ( swedish Helsingfors Telefonförening ) by the year 2000., It employed 3,772 employees as of December 2011. The company's sales amounted to € 1,530 million at year end 2011. Elisa Oyj cooperates with Vodafone.

The mobile division of Elisha was formerly known under the name Radiolinja. The world's first GSM call was made ​​in Finland by Radiolinja GSM network.

In Germany Elisa was represented on the company Tropolys but which has been sold in mid-2004 to the financial investor Apax.

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