Elisa Oyj

:"HPY" redirects here. For the airport, see Baytown Airport."

Infobox Company
company_name = Elisa Corporation
company_
company_type = Public (OMX|HEX24254|ELI1V)
foundation = 1882
location_city = Flagicon|Finland Helsinki
location_country = Finland
key_people = Risto Siilasmaa (Chairman of the board), Veli-Matti Mattila (President and CEO)
industry = Telecommunication services
products = Retail and Wholesale fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services,Internet services
revenue = €1.568 billion (2007)cite web |url=http://www.elisa.com/english/docimages/attachment/Elisa%20Annual%20Report%202007.pdf |title=Annual Report 2007 |accessdate=2008-04-11 |publisher=Elisa]
net_income = profit €220 million (2007)
num_employees= 3,015 (2007)
homepage = [http://www.elisa.com/english/ www.elisa.com/english]
intl = yes

Elisa Oyj (Elisa) is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882 (known until July 2000 as "HPY" or "Helsingin puhelinyhdistys"). Elisa Oyj employs about 3000 people. The company's revenue for 2007 was about €1.57 billion. Mobile operations of Elisa were known as Radiolinja before. Elisa works together in co-operation with Vodafone.

Until 2000 Elisa was a telephone cooperative. HPY got started on the 6th of June 1882, by connecting 56 phone numbers. By 1884 the number of yearly calls surpassed one million. HPY started expanding during the 1930s by merging with smaller cooperative telephone operators. The company reached its current geographical operating field in 1958. The original form of incorporation, a mutual association, was changed to a legal cooperative (Helsingin puhelinosuuskunta) in 1995. The cooperative was finally demutualized in 2000.

The world's first GSM call was made in Finland with Radiolinja's GSM-network on March 27, 1991.

See also

* Vodafone

References

External links

* [http://www.elisa.com/english/ Official website]