Largest shareholders are Finnish national institutions (State Pension Fund, City Councils of Helsinki and Vantaa, Solidium Oy, Föreningen Konstsamfundet).

[4] Elisa provides environmentally sustainable services for communication and entertainment, and tools for improving operating methods and productivity of organisations.

Novator tried to revamp Elisa in December 2007, but was opposed by Finnish institutions such as Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company.

[12] On 27 June 2018, Elisa launched the world's first commercial 5G network in the Finnish city of Tampere and in the Estonian capital of Tallinn.

[18] In February 2022, Elisa received a EUR 3.9 million grant from the Finnish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment to support its investment in a Distributed Energy Storage (DES) solution based on intelligent management of the backup power of mobile base stations.

The aim is to build 150 MWh of storage capacity, making it the largest distributed DES project in Europe.