Timeline of telephony in Sweden
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This is a timeline of telephony in Sweden.
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Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
|---|---|
| 1880s | The Telegraph Administration starts establiching networks all over the country. By the middle of the decade, Stockholm is already Europe’s largest telephone city.[1] |
| 1960s | Ericsson releases one of the world's first hands-free speaker telephones.[2] Swedish Telecom is active in promoting international efforts in the ITU to standardise modems intended for sending digital signals as tones over the analogue telephone network.[3] |
| 1970s | The digital era opens up.[3] |
Full timeline
| Year | Event type | Details | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1878 | Swedish inventor Lars Magnus Ericsson begins making and selling his own telephone equipment. Ericsson would become a major supplier of telephone equipment to Scandinavia.[2] | ||
| 1881 | A dedicated telephone network is installed in Stockholm by the Swedish Telegraph Administration, for central government and government agencies use. Local telephone networks are then started by a mix of organizations in the private and the public sectors.[1] | ||
| 1889 | Rikstelefon, a long distance service, is initiated by the Swedish Telegraph Administration, with the purpose of linking local telephone networks nationally.[1] | ||
| 1911 | Wireless telegraphy to shipping in the North Sea is provided by the Swedish Telegraph Administration’s first coastal radio station in Gothenburg.[1] | ||
| 1918 | The Swedish Telegraph Administration acquires the Stockholmstelefon’s network. A merger of the two large telephone networks in Stockholm takes place. A national de facto monopoly on telephone service is established.[1] | ||
| 1920 | The Swedish Parliament decides to start automating the telephone call switching, to install a nationwide long distance telephone cable transmission system and to install a transatlantic wireless telegraph station for reliable communications with the United States.[3] | ||
| 1920 | A link at Swedish border town Haparanda opens telephony to Northern Finland.[3] | ||
| 1924 | The first large automatic telephone exchange opens in Stockholm. Equipped with LM Ericsson 500 point selector switches, it is developed from designs by engineers of the Telegraph Administration. A rotary dial is added to the telephones so that subscribers can set up their own calls.[3] | ||
| 1928 | The first telephone cable across the Baltic Sea via Åland facilitates telephony between Sweden and South and Central Finland.[3] | ||
| 1930 | Sweden introduces marine radio telephony via short wave. It can be connected to the telephone network, so that sailors at sea can call home. Fixed telephone service to most of the world via short wave radio would become possible towards the end of the decade.[3] | ||
| 1934 | The Swedish Telegraph Administration develops and introduces small crossbar stations. Chosen due to their robustness and little maintenance requirements, the small crossbar stations provide with rural automation to the Swedish telephone network.[3] | ||
| 1938 | A second telephone cable between Sweden and Finland is installed for the Olympic Games.[3] | ||
| 1953 | The Swedish Telegraph Administration changes its name from Telegrafverket to Televerket (Swedish Telecom) amidst the celebration of its centenary.[3] | ||
| 1956 | Ericcson introduces the world's first fully automatic mobile telephone system is introduced in Sweden. Named MTA (Mobiltelefonisystem A), it allows calls to be made and received in a car using a rotary dial.[2] | ||
| 1956 | The first fully automatic mobile telephone system for automobiles, MTA, is introduced in Stockholm and Gothenburg. The system would eventually reach 150 subscribers and last until 1969.[3] | ||
| 1962 | Ericsson upgrades the MTA and the Mobile System B (MTB) is introduced.[2] | ||
| 1962 | The Datel service is introduced in Sweden, providing modems for the transmission of digital information via the telephone network on leased and switched lines.[3] | ||
| 1965 | Fully automatic international telephone traffic is introduced from Sweden to the Nordic countries.[3] | ||
| 1971 | The Mobile System D (MTD) version is launched, opening for several different brands of equipment. The MTD would gain commercial success. | ||
| 1971 | A joint Nordic satellite station for Intelsat is opened at Tanum Municipality.[3] | ||
| 1972 | The last manual exchange in the Swedish fixed telephone network is closed at Arjeplog in Lapland. This brings an almost 50 year long automation period to an end. The automation of the electromechanical and analogue telephone system is then completed.[3] | ||
| 1981 | The Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) network opens in Sweden and Norway. It is the first fully automatic cellular phone system.[4] | ||
| 1982 (December) | The first official meeting of the GSM group is held at Televerket in Farsta.[5] | ||
| 1983 | The MTD becomes obsolete. | ||
| 1987 | The European Commission issues a "green paper", establishing the need for a long-term modernization of the European telecom market.[6] | ||
| 1992 1993 | Swedish Telecom becomes a state-owned limited company.[7] | ||
| 1993 | Televerket becomes Telia AB.[6] | ||
| 2000 | After a failed merger with the Norwegian telecom operator Telenor, almost 30% of the Swedish state´s Telia shares are sold on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. | ||
| 2001 | VINNOVA is established as a Swedish government agency that administers state funding for research and development. It is the third generation innovation agency in Sweden.[7] |
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "1880 – 1920 Manual telephony". teliacompanyhistory.com. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 "1920 – 1980 Automatic telephony and broadcasting". teliacompanyhistory.com. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
- ↑ "Evolution of Mobile Communication from 1(G) to 4G, 5G, 6G, 7G". vitorr.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ↑ "Nordic advantage". teliacompanyhistory.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Liberalization of the telephony markets". teliacompanyhistory.com. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Effects of research on Swedish Mobile Telephone Developments: THE GSM STORY" (PDF). vinnova.se. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
