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You might like to know that on June 30th Finland closed down its last remaining line-phone network.

From YLE’s website of Finnish news in English:

From Wednesday, the country’s landlines will fall silent as telecom operator Elisa retires its fixed-line network for both private customers and businesses.

Elisa’s competitor Telia discontinued its own landline service in 2019, while DNA stopped supporting landline networks at the start of this year.

Finland has had a landline telephone network since the 1880s, and Finns were eager early adopters. By the 1960s, Finland rose to seventh place in Europe for landline subscriptions, and the number of landline phones in Finnish homes peaked in the early 1990s.

The numbers started to steadily decline after that however, with the advent of mobile phones, especially as Finnish firm Nokia became a world leader in the new technology.

Presumably that means the last remaining line of public phones in Helsinki, at the central railway station, has disappeared.

Or maybe they disappeared years ago, along with telegrams and ceefax.