Elisa Oyj
Elisa Oyj (Elisa) is a Finnish telecommunications company founded in 1882 (known until July 2000 as HPY or Helsingin puhelinyhdistys). Elisa Oyj employs about 5600 people. The company's annual turnover for 2004 was of about €1.36 billion.
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 buying smaller Telephone operators. The company reached its current geographical operating field in 1958.
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