Private company

Saunalahti

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Finnish mobile phone operator & internet service provider

Saunalahti (previously Jippii) was a Finnish mobile phone operator and an internet service provider.2 It is headquartered in Finland.1 It ceased to exist in 2014.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1996Founded1
  • Industrytelecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersFinland1
  • Legal formjulkinen osakeyhtiö1

Saunalahti (previously Jippii) was a Finnish mobile phone operator and an internet service provider.2

The story

The company was founded in 1996 when three middle-sized internet operators merged.

In 2009 the Helsinki Court of Appeal convicted Jippii leadership of using inside information when selling its own shares, accounting mistakes and too good information of the company finance to public in 2001. The case was brought back to the court in 2012 and all 26 convictions were overturned. The Finnish state was obliged to pay 4 million euros from the trial.

In 2005 Saunalahti merged with Elisa.

Icelandic-led Novator acquired a large share of the company in 2005. Subsequently Elisa acquired all stock and Saunalahti was delisted from the Helsinki Stock Exchange in the first half of 2006.

Elisa joined its marketing brands together as 15 October 2014, and marketing its telecommunications-services to private personal's, as the new joined Elisa-Saunalahti -brand name.

From Wikipedia’s article on Elisa Saunalahti, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Owners

From Wikidata.1

Timeline

  1. 2014Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 2005Acquired Acquired by Elisa1
  3. 1996Founded Founded1

Sources

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