Timeline of telephony in Finland
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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] |
| 1980s | The capacities of the NMT networks grow rapidly in the decade.[1] |
| 1990s | 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] |
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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] | |
| 1993 | 94 per cent of all households in Finland have at least one landline telephone.[1] | |
| 1999 (July) | More Finnish households already have a mobile phone than a landline telephone.[1] | |
| 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. |
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How the timeline was built
The initial version of the timeline was written by User:Sebastian.
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