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Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

摘要

芬兰国家通信与运输局局长安德勒・萨里马基于 6 月 30 日接通了芬兰最后一次陆线电话，由爱立信集团 CEO 托皮・马内尔拨打。该通话记录了陆线电话的回忆，并讨论了移动技术的未来。文章介绍，芬兰从 1880 年代开始使用铜线固定线路网络，由于数字革命，手机普及导致陆线被替代。爱立信作为最后一大型固定线路运营商宣布结束服务，其客户仅剩数千计划，无新计划出售。Yle 公共广播公司指出，从当日开始，只有本地运营商仍提供陆线计划，服务少数依赖本地通话的客户。全球其他国家如爱沙尼亚、荷兰、挪威和西班牙已完成类似转型。

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Elisa宣布仅剩几千用户固定线路计划且不卖新计划，标志着铜线网络被光纤取代的实际落地，改变了AI创业者对硬件基础设施从边缘到中心的判断

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Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

Jarkko Saarimaki, head of the Finnish communications agency Traficom, is the last person to pick up a phone call by Elisa CEO Topi Manner in Helsinki. June 30, 2026

Jarkko Saarimaki, head of the Finnish communications agency Traficom, is the last person to pick up a phone call by Elisa CEO Topi Manner in Helsinki. June 30, 2026 - Copyright Lehtikuva *

By Una Hajdari with AFP

Published on 30/06/2026 - 16:24 GMT+2

Finland's last landline call has been made as the Nordic country becomes the latest to retire copper-wire phones in favour of fibre.

Finland on Tuesday pulled the plug on analogue landline phone calls after almost 150 years, the latest country to push forward in a global transition towards digital infrastructure.

Estonia, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain have already made the jump as countries across the world roll out fibre optic cable that can handle both internet services and voice calls.

Finland's fixed-line network began operating in the 1880s, but like everywhere else the digital revolution has swallowed up the old technology based on copper wires.

And the Nordic country, home of mobile phone pioneer Nokia, has seen the use of landline phones gobbled up by mobile technology.

Elisa, the country's last major telecom operator with a fixed-line copper-wire network, marked the end of its service with a call between the firm's CEO Topi Manner and Jarkko Saarimaki, head of the country's communication and transport agency.

The two chatted about their memories of landline phones, with Manner recalling his time as a teenager in London in the 1980s when he would call home once a week at an agreed time to make sure the family were all there.

They also discussed the future of mobile technologies, before ending the call with a casual "kuulemiin", meaning "speak later" in Finnish.

Related

Why are 'copper wire' phones analogue?

Copper wires, the kind of cabling used in landlines for over a century, can only carry a limited amount of data. They carry phone calls as a continuous electrical signal that mimics the original sound wave, which is what makes them analogue.

Phone calls and internet traffic have increasingly moved onto fibre optic cables, which use thin strands of glass to transmit information as pulses of light, allowing for far faster and more reliable connections.

When announcing its decision to retire the network in January — a move its competitors had already made earlier — Elisa said its customers had just a "few thousand" landline-only plans, with no new ones being sold in years.

From Tuesday, only local operators will still offer landline plans in Finland, serving a few thousand customers who rely on local calls, according to public broadcaster Yle.

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