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05/08/2008 12:30:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
TeliaSonera has been awarded nationwide 4G frequencies to build a next generation super-fast mobile network in Sweden. This became clear when the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency, PTS, today announced the winners of the now concluded auction. The commercial launch will take place in 2010 and the network will provide customers with access speeds of more than 100 Mbits/second.
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05/08/2008 08:39:49 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
TeliaSonera was one of the winners in the auction for 4G, the new generation mobile network in Sweden, which was concluded today. With the frequencies that TeliaSonera in Sweden now has been awarded, the company will be able to build a next generation super-fast mobile broadband network, offering access speeds of more than 100 Mbps.
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05/07/2008 09:07:57 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
The number of users of Sonera’s electronic invoicing services has grown rapidly during the spring. At present, about 160,000 consumer customers receive their bills electronically. Sonera customers can receive their bills electronically directly at their own web bank. They can also pay their bills on Sonera’s web site through the Omat Sivut (My Pages) service or receive them by email.
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05/05/2008 12:01:08 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
Akelius Fastigheter, one of Sweden’s largest private owners of housing accommodation, has signed an agreement with Telia for the build-out of a fibre optic network that will deliver triple play services to all its apartment buildings in Sweden. The agreement is for a nine-year period and is estimated to be worth SEK 700 million.
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05/05/2008 10:02:18 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
The Sonera Next Generation team of athletes is proceeding successfully towards the Beijing Olympics. Of the 23 athletes in the NG team, five have already qualified or earned a country slot to the Games. The sponsorship model launched in 2003 to support talented athletes aims at promoting not only their success in sports but also their growth into elite athletes.
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04/28/2008 14:33:09 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Business Services Finland will launch negotiations with the employee representatives on streamlining its operations. Concentrating the resources directly on the customer interface and reorganizing the background and support functions are estimated to lead to the termination of up to 80 jobs in the Business Services sales division and up to 25 jobs in DataInfo Oy, a distribution chain specialized in B2B sales. According to the practice followed by the company in Finland, holders of jobs to be terminated will not be dismissed.
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04/25/2008 07:25:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Good growth with improved EBITDA
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04/23/2008 10:52:20 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
The coverage area of wireless broadband has expanded so rapidly that increasingly more people in Finland can now acquire broadband access to their homes, holiday cottages, boats and caravans. On the first of May, Sonera lowers the barrier of acquiring wireless broadband by dropping the charge for broadband access provided through Digita’s @450 network to 39.90 euros a month.
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04/22/2008 10:01:50 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera is the first company in Finland to launch a nationwide technical support service. Helpson provides support for installation of IT equipment and for fault situations both over the phone at 0200 600 600 and on site. The charged service is targeted at all Finns who wish to use the equipment they have purchased as efficiently as possible.
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04/17/2008 15:01:50 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Tampereen Sähköverkko Oy and TeliaSonera Finland have made agreed on a procurement of remote reading system for electricity meters and related reading services. The value of the agreement in the whole contract period is over EUR 20 million. The installation will begin in autumn 2008 and continue until 2010, providing more than 100,000 power consumption sites in Tampereen Sähköverkko’s supply area with remote readable meters. The benefits brought about by the new system include more accurate, customer-specific usage data and more efficient distribution network management.
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04/16/2008 14:03:09 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
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04/16/2008 14:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
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04/11/2008 09:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
As The Supreme Court in Sweden on April 4, 2008, refused Tele2 leave to appeal, Tele2 must now, after a dispute of several years, pay approximately SEK 500 million to TeliaSonera. This ruling will have a positive impact of some SEK 500 million on TeliaSonera’s cash flow when Tele2 makes the payment. The penalty interest included in the court decision will positively affect TeliaSonera’s financial items in the first quarter, 2008, by approximately SEK 275 million.
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04/09/2008 08:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Kim Ignatius, Executive Vice President and CFO of TeliaSonera AB, is leaving his current position after eight years with the company to take up a similar position outside TeliaSonera.
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04/03/2008 08:30:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
TeliaSonera hereby presents, ahead of the Interim Report January-March 2008, restated historical financial information and operational data for the financial years 2007 and 2006 for the business areas Mobility Services and Broadband Services as well as for Other operations. For restated data see www.teliasonera.com/investor_relations
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04/03/2008 08:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Cygate, a TeliaSonera subsidiary specialising in systems integration, is acquiring Avansys AB in Sweden for SEK 120 million (enterprise value). The acquisition will strengthen Cygate in the business communications area with services such as server management, data storage and security services.
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04/02/2008 09:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
In a move to further increase market confidence and trust, TeliaSonera has set up a committee to promote impartial business practices, the Equality Access Board (EAB). EAB will objectively and impartially follow and monitor how successfully TeliaSonera lives up to its decision to deal with all wholesale customers in an equal manner. TeliaSonera President and CEO Lars Nyberg has appointed EAB’s two external directors: Professor Ulf Körner of Lund University’s Faculty of Engineering and former Vice President of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Per-Arne Sandström.
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04/01/2008 08:25:23 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera upgrades its e-mail system and moves its customers’ e-mail services back to Finland at the end of April. At present, the servers are running on TeliaSonera’s shared e-mail platform in Sweden. Later this spring, the size of Sonera’s mailboxes will be increased tenfold in response to customer wishes.
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03/31/2008 18:13:50 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Today’s Annual General Meeting of TeliaSonera AB (publ) approved the income statement and balance sheet for 2007.
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03/31/2008 13:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
Tomorrow it will be up to 53 percent cheaper for Telia customers to surf the web and use mobile broadband in Europe. The price reduction applies to the networks of selected mobile operators in 26 countries.
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03/31/2008 08:33:11 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera launches a new number inquiry, Sonera 0200 1000, which assists customers with the help of a number and contact data base covering the whole country. In this affordably-priced service, calls may be switched and information received by SMS on the mobile phone free of charge.
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03/28/2008 11:57:33 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera’s service model for consumer customer service changes as of 2 May 2008. With the change, the aim is to improve customers’ service experience by minimizing queuing times and the number of call transfers and by introducing a call-back feature during spring. In the future, calling one of the service numbers will be subject to the local network or mobile call charge.
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03/26/2008 09:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Sergel Kredittjänster acquires UAB Creditcollect of Lithuania. Sergel is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TeliaSonera, is one of the leading companies in the debt collection industry in the Nordic countries.
“Our expansion in the Nordic countries has been successful, and the Baltic countries are the natural next step for us,” says Magnus Melberg, CEO, Sergel Kredittjänster.
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03/17/2008 21:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
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03/14/2008 08:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera International Carrier)
TeliaSonera International Carrier provides the second largest computer party in the world, the Gathering event, with Internet access via a three gigabit network connection. The Gathering event has always been a hub for young creative people to battle it out in many types of competitions; demo-coding, music, graphics, animation, game and hardware-modification, to name a few.
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03/14/2008 07:39:48 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera safeguards voice and broadband services in sparsely-populated areas by switching over to modern and cost-effective wireless technology. In accordance with its original plan, Sonera undertakes to meet the conditions that the Ministry of Transport and Communications has set for the change of technology. The company will see to it that all its fixed-network services function normally until the customers have been ensured access to wireless telecom services that are of at least the same quality as the services currently provided to them in the fixed network.
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03/13/2008 09:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
TeliaSonera Sweden is now launching one of the largest infrastructure projects in the company’s history. Over a period of five years, the fixed broadband network will be upgraded to meet today’s and tomorrow’s demands for speed and capacity. The initiative will involve between 1.5 to 2 million households and enterprises all over Sweden.
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03/10/2008 08:30:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
TeliaSonera is signing an agreement with Posten for fixed and mobile telephony as well as for the modernization of Posten’s internal network. The order value is approximately SEK 280 million distributed over three years.
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03/07/2008 10:00:21 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
An arbitration tribunal of the International Chamber of Commerce in Vienna has issued an award finding that Cukurova has violated certain share transfer restrictions in the shareholders’ agreement between Cukurova and TeliaSonera relating to Turkcell Holding.
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03/04/2008 09:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
Starting today, Telia is the first television operator in the Nordic countries to offer its customers a brand-new type of television channel package that includes programming from Discovery and the Disney Channel. In addition to offering programming based on TV listings, each package includes an on-demand service that gives customers access to a library of movies, documentaries and series from each company. The material is available anytime on a 24-hour basis, at a fixed monthly rate.
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03/03/2008 12:38:26 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera accelerates its investments and increases its lead in high-speed broadband access. This year Sonera will multiply its last year’s broadband investments. Within one year, the high-speed broadband network will extend to approximately 400,000 households in all. The latest objects of Sonera’s fibre optic efforts are Turku, Hämeenlinna and Vaasa where about 50,000 households will be covered by a broadband network enabling speeds of up to 100 MB within one year.
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02/29/2008 13:52:39 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Launched on January 15, the negotiations under the Act on Co-operation within Undertakings to adopt a new business model in the Mobility Services business area were brought to an end on February 29. As a result of the negotiations, Mobility Services will adopt a new business model as of March 1 and 123 employees will be transferred to the company’s Competence Pool.
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02/26/2008 11:41:52 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
TeliaSonera will launch a service by means of which corporate telephones can be managed remotely as easily and effectively as computers. Software can be upgraded on phones in a centralized manner, and data saved in the phone can be restored upon loss or breakdown of the phone. Remote management is part of the service by means of which companies can purchase all their mobile communications as a ready-made package.
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02/26/2008 06:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
The Annual General Meeting of TeliaSonera AB (publ) will be held on Monday,
March 31, 2008 at 3 p.m. Swedish time at Stockholmsmässan in Älvsjö,
Stockholm. Please find the notice below.
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02/25/2008 08:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera International Carrier)
TeliaSonera International Carrier expands its extensive international backbone into Eastern Europe and sets up its first point of presence in Kiev. Customers will benefit from the availability of high quality IP services and the ability to connect locally to Europe’s largest and fastest growing IP-backbone.
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02/15/2008 09:08:15 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera welcomes about 53,000 of its fixed-network customers as users of modern, wireless voice and broadband services. Sonera improves the voice and data communications services in sparsely populated areas with the aim of migrating from fixed voice to wireless voice services within a year and to wireless broadband services by the end of 2009, implementing these services in a cost-effective manner.
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02/13/2008 10:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
Now all representatives of the Svenska Spel gaming company in Sweden will have the opportunity to become part of Telia’s nationwide network of surf zones for high-speed mobile broadband with the Telia HomeRun service. Stationary PC-based surfing stations will also be installed by Telia at a number of the representatives, which total 6,300 throughout Sweden.
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02/13/2008 10:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
TeliaSonera will start trials with 3G Femto technology to explore the possibilities of fixed-mobile migration of voice, video and data services in homes and small offices. The 3G Femto technology improves indoor mobile coverage and capacity and customers will be able to use any 3G mobile phone or 3G terminal to connect to the 3G Femto base stations. The trials start in Lithuania and Denmark.
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02/13/2008 10:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
Today, it will be simpler and faster for Telia’s mobile customers to surf the Internet on their mobile phones. Telia is now introducing a brand new surfing function that automatically adapts ordinary web pages to fit the screen format of a mobile phone. The new function also makes it easier to navigate, search content and save favourite pages, thanks to a brand-new search tool that is also being launched today.
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02/13/2008 08:59:10 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera launches the Sonera DDos Protection information security service which detects and prevents distributed denial-of-service attacks against Internet services before they reach the customer’s Internet connection, LAN or servers. The new service is cutting edge in the industry and the only one of its kind on the Finnish and Swedish markets. The service is suitable for both businesses and public sector entities, and it is available either as a continuous service at a fixed monthly charge or as a separate cleaning project.
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02/12/2008 14:05:05 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
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02/12/2008 10:02:55 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera will expand the availability of wireless broadband services aggressively in spring and summer 2008 by investing over ten million euros in the 3G network and dropping the price of the broadband access provided through Digita’s @450 network. The 3G network will expand to cover about 200 population centres, and the @450 network will bring broadband service to areas where broadband access has not been available before.
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02/11/2008 10:02:35 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Showcase in Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today
Today, a group of key operators, infrastructure and device vendors comprised of Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefónica, TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung, announced a joint effort to facilitate the evolution of mobile communication towards rich communication.
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02/11/2008 09:05:45 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
Sonera’s customers can receive their invoices electronically at the online bank. The customer can also pay the invoice through the Omat Sivut service at Sonera’s web site or receive it by e-mail at his or her own mailbox. Paying invoices electronically is easy, and electronic payment helps to avoid mistakes, as customers need not type in the invoice details manually. Reduced usage of paper also saves the environment. Sonera’s paper invoices for broadband subscriptions become subject to a charge on April 1, 2008.
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02/11/2008 08:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
From April 1st, 2008, TeliaSonera makes it much cheaper for customers to use mobile data in Europe. The new roaming service EuroConnect will dramatically lower the prices of mobile data services. Initially, EuroConnect will be introduced in the TeliaSonera mobile networks in the Nordic and Baltic countries and with other selected mobile operators in various European countries. The service is based on a flat rate model resulting in between 50 and 70 percent lower prices.
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02/08/2008 07:58:18 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Two weeks before the annual general meeting on March 31, 2008, TeliaSonera is releasing its annual report at teliasonera.com. The initiative is yet another step in the company’s continued efforts to reduce its impact on the environment.
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02/08/2008 07:30:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
TeliaSonera invests in the future
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02/07/2008 15:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
On February 6, 2008, TeliaSonera AB has in connection with ongoing discussions with the Republic of Latvia regarding the future shareholdings of Latvian Mobile Telephone Company (LMT), and Lattelecom, reconfirmed its strong interest to acquire 100 percent of both LMT and Lattelecom.
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02/07/2008 09:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
Cecilia Edström is the new Group Vice President and Head of Group Communications, TeliaSonera. She succeeds Ewa Lagerqvist who left the company October 10, 2007.
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02/04/2008 09:24:15 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
TeliaSonera offers its customers a centralized identity management environment for operational information systems designed for electronic transactions. This new managed service makes it easy for companies to ensure that the users of their information networks and systems have access only to the information and services that they are authorized to use. By buying access rights management as a centralized service companies can significantly improve their efficiency and information security and save costs.
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01/30/2008 13:30:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
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01/30/2008 13:30:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
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01/29/2008 16:45:00 CET (TeliaSonera AB)
TeliaSonera has directly and via its subsidiary Fintur closed two transactions in Eurasia, in order to streamline ownership structures and to strengthen its positions and influence in the Georgian and Uzbek markets.
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01/24/2008 10:13:15 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
At a gala celebration held last night in Stockholm, winners of the 2007 SurfPort Awards – the Nordic and Baltic region's best mobile content services for SurfPort – were announced. The winners were chosen from six different categories.
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01/23/2008 10:12:42 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
Today, Telia is introducing a flat monthly rate for Internet surfing on mobile phones. For SEK 99 per month, Telia’s customers can mobile surf as much as they want, and as often as they like, with their mobile phone in Sweden. This unlimited surfing can be done on Telia’s mobile portal, SurfPort, as well as the mobile Internet.
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01/15/2008 10:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
The number of customers choosing Telia’s digital television service in Sweden is accelerating at record speed. The 300,000 mark was appropriately passed right at the beginning of the year. At the same time, there was a big jump in movie rentals during the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period with customers renting 68,000 films. During the spring, digital television customers can expect more TV channels, a wider range of films and increased interactivity.
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01/15/2008 09:25:29 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
TeliaSonera’s subsidiary Cygate will assume total responsibility for the monitoring and maintenance of Finpro’s data network, which extends to 57 offices and 43 countries. Implementing concentrated management of global communications connections from Finland is especially demanding. By concentrating the monitoring on Cygate, Finpro gains a more cost-efficient solution and can better serve its own customers.
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01/14/2008 09:00:00 CET (TeliaSonera Sverige AB)
Finnish karaoke, Swedish weather and Norwegian banking have a chance to win this year’s SurfPort Awards. In this competition, TeliaSonera will award the companies that have developed the best content services for mobile phones during 2007. A total of 30 companies from six countries have been nominated. The winners will be announced on January 23 in Stockholm.
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01/10/2008 10:43:59 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
TeliaSonera Finland Oyj and YH-Yhtymä Länsi Oy have agreed that the residential buildings owned by YH-Yhtymä Länsi Oy, its subsidiaries, and Pirkanmaan YH-Asunnot Oy will be provided with broadband connections enabling transmission rates of up to 100 Mbps. The agreement covers more than 6,000 apartments the majority of which will have the fibre optic connections up and running by September 2008.
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01/09/2008 12:34:47 CET (TeliaSonera Finland)
TeliaSonera’s Mobility Services business area will launch negotiations with the employee representatives on changeover to a new operating model in Finland. The changeover to a more customer-focused and less complicated operating model is estimated to lead to the termination of up to 165 jobs. According to the practice followed by the company in Finland, the holders of jobs that are to be terminated will not be dismissed.
= Stock exchange release