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| 1980 || || There are almost twice as many telephones per 100 population in Helsinki as in the rest of the country.<ref name="From hand-cranked connections to hands-free mobile calls - history of telecommunications in Finland seen through statistics"/> | | 1980 || || There are almost twice as many telephones per 100 population in Helsinki as in the rest of the country.<ref name="From hand-cranked connections to hands-free mobile calls - history of telecommunications in Finland seen through statistics"/> | ||
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| + | | 1982 || || The automatic NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) 450 network first appears in the statistics, with 2,648 subscriptions.<ref name="From hand-cranked connections to hands-free mobile calls - history of telecommunications in Finland seen through statistics"/> | ||
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| + | | 1987 || || The NMT 900 network first appears in the statistics, with 2,038 subscriptions.<ref name="From hand-cranked connections to hands-free mobile calls - history of telecommunications in Finland seen through statistics"/> | ||
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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"/> | ||
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Revision as of 13:26, 25 October 2017
This is a timeline of telephony in Finland.
Contents
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| 1930s | Private telephone companies start being covered by statistics.[1] |
Visual data
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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] | |
| 1990 | Data concerning mobile phones ie added to the Finnish Statistical Yearbook, concurrently with data on transmissions networks.[1] |
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
