Difference between revisions of "Timeline of telephony in Finland"

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This is a timeline of telephony in Finland.

Time period	Development summary
1930s	Private telephone companies start being covered by statistics.^[1]

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).

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]

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

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