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| 1987 || Policy || The Adoption of the Telecommunications Act is enacted, with the purpose of dissociating commercial telecom operations and regulatory functions, and liberalizing the terminal equipment industry. Administration of the telecommunications sector is transferred from the Transport Executive in the department of Economic Affairs to the Ministry of Transport and Communications.<ref name="CASE STUDY NO. 1: MARKET OPENNESS, TRADE  LI BERALISATION AND INNOVATION CAPACITY IN THE  FINNISH TELECOM EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY"/>   
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| 1990 || || Data concerning mobile phones ie added to the Finnish Statistical Yearbook, concurrently with data on transmissions networks.<ref name="From hand-cranked connections to hands-free mobile calls - history of telecommunications in Finland seen through statistics"/>
 
| 1990 || || Data concerning mobile phones ie added to the Finnish Statistical Yearbook, concurrently with data on transmissions networks.<ref name="From hand-cranked connections to hands-free mobile calls - history of telecommunications in Finland seen through statistics"/>

Revision as of 20:49, 25 October 2017

This is a timeline of telephony in Finland.

Big picture

Time period Development summary
1930s Private telephone companies start being covered by statistics.[1]
1970s The Nordic mobile telephony (NMT) standard is developed by the Finland’s state-owned Post, Telegraph and Telephone (PTT), in collaboration with the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish PTTs. Finland would become the first country worldwide to launch a digital network for mobile communications.[2]
1980s The capacities of the NMT networks grow rapidly in the decade.[1] in the mid-1980s, well before its European neighbours, Finland starts deregulating its telecom sector, which would result in a decentralised system of national and foreign - owned telecom operators. An environment of increased competition would provide continuous incentives for upgrading different components of the telecom network and for introducing a variety of technological solutions and innovations among firms participating in the mobile telephony cluster.[2]
1990s The world’s first Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is launched as the successor of the NMT. It would subsequently also become the European standard for mobile telecommunications. As a result, Nokia and other Nordic telecom equipment suppliers would benefit from first mover advantages in the mobile telecom industry worldwide.[2] The number of landline telephones reaches its highest in Finnish households in the first half of the decade. After the peak, the number of households with no landline phone would grow rapidly, as a consequence of young people establishing their own households and deciding not to get a landline connection.[1]

Visual data

Volume of telephone calls made in Finland from 2007 to 2016, by type of connection (in millions).
Proportion of telephone calls made in Finland from 2007 to 2016, by type of connection (in millions).

Full timeline

Year Event type Details
1877 (end of year) The first telephone line is erected in Helsinki towards the end of the year; 18 months after the telephone was patented in the United States.[1]
1882 An early telephone company is founded in Helsinki.[1]
1924 The Statistical Yearbook of Finland starts being published, providing data on the activities of the State telegraph and telephone companies.[1]
1932 The Finnish Yearbook starts publishing data describing the activities of private telephone companies. Private telephony activity is found to be many times more extensive than that of the State. State telephone companies have 227 exchanges whereas private telephone companies have as many as 1,998 of them. Likewise, in the same year the State has 1,763 "subscriber apparatuses" whereas private telephone companies had 133,456.[1]
1939 – 1945 A total of 815 local telephone companies have been set up in Finland by the Second World War.[1]
1980 There are almost twice as many telephones per 100 population in Helsinki as in the rest of the country.[1]
1982 The automatic NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) 450 network first appears in the statistics, with 2,648 subscriptions.[1]
1987 The NMT 900 network first appears in the statistics, with 2,038 subscriptions.[1]
1987 Policy The Adoption of the Telecommunications Act is enacted, with the purpose of dissociating commercial telecom operations and regulatory functions, and liberalizing the terminal equipment industry. Administration of the telecommunications sector is transferred from the Transport Executive in the department of Economic Affairs to the Ministry of Transport and Communications.[2]
1988 Policy The New Radio Act is adopted, allowing for competition in corporate networks and data transmission to be partially liberaliszed.[2]
1990 Data concerning mobile phones ie added to the Finnish Statistical Yearbook, concurrently with data on transmissions networks.[1]
1990 The import of telecom equipment and parts represents 0.8% of Finnish GDP.[2]
1991 The world’s first Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) is launched in Finland as the successor of the NMT. It would subsequently also become the European standard for mobile telecommunications. As a result, Nokia and other Nordic telecom equipment suppliers benefit t ed from first mover advantage s in the mobile telecom industry worldwide.
1993 94 per cent of all households in Finland have at least one landline telephone.[1]
1995 Finland joins the European Union and its Single Market. This would imply a full removal of trade and investment barriers and a substantial increase of trade volumes with other EU member states. Trade in intermediate and finished telecom equipment would be particularly facilitated between Finland and its EU trading partners thanks to the harmonisation of essential product regulations and specifications plus the introduction of the EU Suppliers’ Declaration of Conformity for telecom and electrical equipment and parts among EU countries.[2]
1999 (July) More Finnish households already have a mobile phone than a landline telephone.[1]
2000 The Finnish telecommunications industry as a whole employs some 83,000 people in over 4000 firms, representing 6.9% of the GDP.[2]
2003 Manufacturing of telecom equipment represents 90% of total ICT manufacturing value-added in Finland.[2]
2000 The Finnish telecommunications industry represents 8.4% of the GDP, up from 6.9% in 2000.[2]
2006 The import of telecom equipment and parts represents over 3% of Finnish GDP. In absolute terms, in Finland, imports of telecom equipment and parts has actually almost been multiplied by ten since 1990.[2]
2007 (August) August 2007, only 41 per cent of households still had a landline telephone while 97 per cent had at least one mobile phone.

Meta information on the timeline

How the timeline was built

The initial version of the timeline was written by User:Sebastian.

Funding information for this timeline is available.

What the timeline is still missing

Visual data Visual data [1] [2] [3] book book

Timeline update strategy

See also

External links

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 "From hand-cranked connections to hands-free mobile calls - history of telecommunications in Finland seen through statistics". stat.fi. Retrieved 25 October 2017. 
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 "CASE STUDY NO. 1: MARKET OPENNESS, TRADE LI BERALISATION AND INNOVATION CAPACITY IN THE FINNISH TELECOM EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY" (PDF). http://www.oecd.org/finland/41076976.pdf. Retrieved 25 October 2017.  External link in |website= (help)
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