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.