| The Swedish State and the Finnish State |
| The Swedish State currently owns 37.3 percent and the Finnish State 13.7 percent of the outstanding shares in TeliaSonera AB. The remaining 49.0 percent of the outstanding shares are widely held. |
| The TeliaSonera Group's services and products are offered to the Swedish and the Finnish State, their agencies, and state-owned companies in competition with other operators and on conventional commercial terms. Certain state-owned companies run businesses that compete with TeliaSonera. Likewise, TeliaSonera buys services from state-owned companies at market prices and on otherwise conventional commercial terms. Neither the Swedish and Finnish State and their agencies, nor state-owned companies represent a significant share of TeliaSonera's net sales or earnings. |
| The Swedish telecommunications market is governed mainly by the Electronic Communications Act and ordinances, regulations and decisions in accordance with the Act. Operators that have a significant publicly available communications network are required to pay a fee to finance measures to prevent serious threats and disruptions to electronic communications during peacetime. The required fee from TeliaSonera was SEK 57 million in 2007 and SEK 58 million in 2006. In addition, TeliaSonera, like other operators, pays annual fees to the Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) to fund the Agency's activities under the Electronic Communications Act and the Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Act. TeliaSonera paid fees of SEK 48 million in 2007 and SEK 60 million in 2006. |
| The Finnish telecommunications market is governed mainly by the Communications Market Act and the Act on the Protection of Privacy and Data Security in Electronic Communications as well as by regulations, decisions and technical directions in accordance with these acts. In 2007 and 2006, TeliaSonera paid EUR 1.7 million and EUR 2.1 million, respectively, for the use of radio frequencies and EUR 0.8 million and EUR 0.9 million, respectively, for the use of numbers. In 2007 and 2006, TeliaSonera paid EUR 0,1 million and EUR 0.2 million, respectively, for data privacy supervision and EUR 0.8 million and EUR 1.1 million, respectively, as communications market fee, i.e. a general fee paid for the regulatory activities of the Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA). |
| Associated companies and joint ventures |
| TeliaSonera sells and buys services and products to and from associated companies and joint ventures. These transactions are based on commercial terms. Sales to as well as purchases from these companies mainly related to the Telefos Group through its subsidiaries in the Eltel Group in Sweden and Finland, and Svenska UMTS-nät AB in Sweden, and comprised network construction services bought and sold and 3G capacity bought. Telefos AB divested the Eltel Group in August 2007. |
| Summarized information on transactions and balances with associated companies and joint ventures was as follows. |
| As of December 31, 2007, TeliaSonera's pension funds held 1,450,483 TeliaSonera shares, or 0.03 percent of the voting rights. For information on transactions and balances, see Note 23 "Provisions for Pensions and Employment Contracts." |
| Commitments on behalf of related parties |
| TeliaSonera has made certain commitments on behalf of group companies, associated companies and joint ventures. See Note 30 "Contingencies, Other Contractual Obligations and Litigation" for further details. |
| See section "Remuneration to corporate officers" in Note 32 "Human Resources" for further details. |
