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The 1910´s

The 1910s

Cranks are no needed in telephone apparatuses. New exchanges are built in the suburbs. Telephone kiosks become part of the street scene.

Telephone exchanges adopted a new central battery system. The crank and the battery of the telephone apparatus were no longer necessary because the telephone received an electric current from the exchange.
The exchange in Korkeavuorenkatu did not suffice to serve the whole city. A decision was made to build exchanges to suburbs as well. The first ones were the exchange buildings of Kallio and Töölö in 1915. The number of telephones amounted to 3,500.
During the year when Finland declared independence over 40 million calls were made. As HPY's management wanted to keep its distance to the Russian rule, which had increased its oppression, an application for call-specific invoicing was not submitted to the Russianised Senate. Only an annual fee was charged from using the phone.
In 1912, the first telephone kiosks entered the street scene of Helsinki.
In 1918, a telephone connection between Helsinki and Tallinn was opened.

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