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Sweden completes new spectrum auction

Business & Money: 4 Mar 11
Sweden has completed the auction of its 800 MHz bandwidth, paving the way for three telecom firms to expand their mobile broadband services. READ »

3 and Tele2 top mobile broadband providers

Business & Money: 7 Jul 10
Mobile operators 3 and Tele2 have the best coverage for mobile broadband in Sweden, according to a new test by monthly magazine Mobil. READ »

Tele 2 doubles profits

Business & Money: 21 Apr 10
Swedish mobile telecoms operator Tele 2 posted a pre-tax first quarter profit on Wednesday of 1.588 billion kronor ($220 million), beating market expectations and doubling last year's total for the period. READ »

Every third driver texts behind the wheel

National: 21 Dec 09
Every third Swedish driver occasionally reads or sends text messages while behind the wheel, according to new Sifo statistics. Experts say that texting can impair driving ability even more than extreme intoxication. READ »

Chinese firm beats Ericsson to 4G deal

Business & Money: 18 Dec 09
Ericsson's Chinese competitor Huawei has made deep inroads into the Swedish company's home turf after securing a deal to deliver a major 4G network in Sweden. READ »

Cartel probe into division of Sweden's 4G network

Business & Money: 22 Sep 09
Competition authorities are looking into whether the division of the Sweden's new 4G network by the country's five big mobile operators may have been an attempt to exclude other players from entering the market. READ »

Swedes break New Year text greeting record

Science & Technology: 1 Jan 09
The traditional Christmas card has been declared dead and buried as the text message is confirmed as the holiday season greeting's medium of choice. READ »

Broadband speeds 'much lower than claimed'

Business & Money: 8 Aug 08
High speed mobile broadband services in Sweden are rarely as fast as telecoms companies claim, according to a new survey. READ »

Ikea founder: sons as CEO 'not an option'

Business & Money: 28 Jul 08
Ingvar Kamprad, the founder of Swedish furniture chain Ikea, has revealed it is unlikely that one of his sons will take over as CEO when the incumbent CEO Anders Dahlvig leaves. READ »

GE figures sink Stockholm bourse

Business & Money: 12 Apr 08
A weak report from General Electric sank the Stockholm bourse as the trading week ended on Friday. The OMXS index closed down 1.5 percent. READ »

Price war erupts over mobile broadband

Business & Money: 8 Apr 08
Some of Sweden's main internet operators have entered into a price war over mobile broadband services. READ »

Stockholm bourse ends week down

Business & Money: 23 Feb 08
The Stockholm stock exchange ended a stable week with a fall on Friday as the OMXS index closed down 1.2 percent due to concerns over the economic outlook. READ »

Losses for mobile operator Tele 2

Business & Money: 12 Feb 08
The company’s CEO isn’t worried about pre-tax losses of 25 million kronor. READ »

Bourse closes down after Telia report

Business & Money: 9 Feb 08
The Stockholm stock exchange closed down 0.2 percent on Friday, down 5.7 percent for the week. A poor report from Telia was to blame. READ »

Early year slide persists on Stockholm stock exchange

Business & Money: 7 Jan 08
The Stockholm stock exchange slumped for the fourth consecutive day of trading on Monday. READ »

Sweden's financial families ride economic rollercoaster

Business & Money: 7 Dec 07
Two of Sweden's most powerful financial families, the Wallenbergs and the Stenbecks, have had a bumpy ride on this year's turbulent stock market. READ »

Stockholm shares on the up

Business & Money: 20 Aug 07
Share prices in Stockholm rose sharply on Monday following rises in Asia and a positive end to trading in New York on Friday. READ »

Pirate Bay faces block over child porn

National: 7 Jul 07
File sharing site The Pirate Bay could be blocked after Swedish police alleged that it harbours child pornography. The owners deny the charge, describing the police's strategy as "an abuse". READ »

Telenor leads push for faster broadband

Business & Money: 18 May 07
Telenor is to enter into discussions with Telia on how best to implement new technology that would provide almost two million Swedish households with ultra high speed broadband. READ »

Swedish 3G operators face billion kronor fines

Business & Money: 24 Oct 05
Two years after Sweden's 3G operators were meant to have finished building their networks, 15% of the population still has no coverage. Now the National Post and Telecom Agency has had enough. Get a move on, or pay the price, it tells operators. READ »

Tele2 to delist from NASDAQ

Business & Money: 21 Mar 05
Telecom operator Tele2 AB today announced that it has decided to delist from the NASDAQ National Market. READ »

Ericsson signs US defence deal

Business & Money: 15 Mar 05
Ericsson pulls off two 3G deals in quick succession. The Swedish company will deliver a 3G-based communcation satellite system to US defence concern General Dynamics while at home it will develop Telia Sonera and Tele 2's 3G capability. READ »

3,000 jobs to go at Telia

Smörgåsbord: 16 Feb 05
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Bonnier mounts counteroffensive

Smörgåsbord: 29 Dec 04
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »

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Blog Update: Julie's Nordic Island

12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »

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Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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