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DNA

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Finnish telecommunications company

DNA Plc (natively DNA Oyj) is a Finnish telecommunications company. It was founded in 2000, and refounded in 2007 after a merger. DNA offers cellular phone services, FTTx, ADSL, terrestrial television (DVB-T/DVB-T2), cable television (DVB-C) and regular (landline) telephone service.2 It employed 1,427 people in 2012.1 It is part of Telenor.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

2000Founded1
  • Industrymobile phone industry, telecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersHelsinki1
  • Websitewww.dna.fi
  • Legal formjulkinen osakeyhtiö, osakeyhtiö1
  • LEI7437003Y73DAKAXYJV213
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusIssued and current3
  • Registered addressPL 10, FI-01044 Dna, Finland3
  • Registered withFinnish Patent and Registration Office, 0592509-63

DNA Plc (natively DNA Oyj) is a Finnish telecommunications company. It was founded in 2000, and refounded in 2007 after a merger.2

Corporate structure

DNA is part of a group headed by Telenor. 71 entities, 21 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

The story

DNA traces its beginnings to the "Suomen 3P" mobile phone operations division of the Finnet (fi) group of telephone cooperatives (of which the latter was originally founded in 1921 as a grouping of the over 400 privately owned telephone cooperatives which then existed in Finland in competition with the Finnish PTT agency (fi)) after there was a split-up in the association. The Helsinki Telephone Association (now Elisa Oyj) left Finnet and they needed to find a new owner, which they did in 2001.

In 2007, there began to be new difficulties between the remaining Finnet companies. The largest members merged themselves with DNA and left the association.

In 2012, DNA challenged a long-time dominated Digita Oy in the Finnish terrestrial television network markets, and construction of its own competing digital-terrestrial television network with DVB-T2 technology.

In 2013, DNA acquired the monopoly (in the Finnish market) pay-per-view television provider PlusTV, from the Swedish state owned radio and television network operator Teracom AB. PlusTV offers pay-per-view television services on Digita's and DNA's own digital terrestrial television networks, with DVB-T/MPEG-2 and DVB-T2/MPEG-4 technologies.

In 2014, DNA and Sonera (now Telia Finland) established a joint venture company called Suomen Yhteisverkko Oy, of which its purpose is to build and deploy a shared 4G LTE mobile network in remote Northern and Eastern Finland using the 800 MHz (LTE Band 20) "digital dividend" band. DNA owns 49% of this joint venture.

In 2016, the lower-cost MVNO Moi Mobiili started operations using the DNA/Yhteisverkko mobile network. DNA acquired Moi Mobiili in January 2019.

97.87 percent of DNA is owned by the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, which acquired DNA in April 2019.

From Wikipedia’s article on DNA Oyj, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5

Products and brands

  • retail

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Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Subsidiaries

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Acquisitions

  1. 2019Moi Mobiili became a subsidiary1

Employees over time

  • 20121,4271

Timeline

  1. 2019Acquired Acquired by Telenor1
  2. 2016Went public Listed on Nasdaq Helsinki Ltd1
  3. 2000Founded Founded1

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