Telia

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UK mag announces Sweden's 'most trusted brands'

Business & Money: 24 Feb 10
Reader's Digest, a UK consumer magazine, has presented its survey listing Sweden's most trusted brands in a raft of categories. READ »

AT&T picks Ericsson for 4G network

Business & Money: 11 Feb 10
US telecoms giant AT&T has selected Sweden's Ericsson and France's Alcatel-Lucent as equipment suppliers for its next-generation, high-speed mobile phone network, the companies said on Wednesday. READ »

Telia Sonera doles out billions on strong report

Business & Money: 11 Feb 10
Swedish-Finnish telecom firm Telia Sonera has reported a profit after financial items of 6.98 billion kronor ($947 million) for the final quarter 2009, with shareholders in line for a bumper pay out. READ »

Ericsson seals TeliaSonera 4G deal

Science & Technology: 13 Jan 10
Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson has secured a deal to supply TeliaSonera's new high speed 4G network in Sweden and Norway. READ »

Swedish state's holdings outperform Stockholm exchange

Business & Money: 30 Dec 09
The value of the Swedish state's stock portfolio grew by 55 billion kronor ($7.66 billion) in 2009, putting its current value slightly higher than it was before the financial crisis hit. READ »

Repairman's vacation keeps Swedish town off the internet

Society: 29 Dec 09
An internet technician’s holiday travels have left a remote mountain village in northern Sweden cut off from the internet, causing a dent in the town’s winter tourism bookings. READ »

Swedes send 76 million Christmas text messages

Science & Technology: 26 Dec 09
Customers from the leading Swedish mobile providers Tele2, Telia, Telenor and 3 sent more than 76 million Christmas greetings via text message, creating a new Swedish record for SMS traffic on Christmas Eve. READ »

TeliaSonera launches 4G mobile broadband in Stockholm

Science & Technology: 14 Dec 09
New 4G mobile services are now available for customers of Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera in Stockholm and Oslo, the company announced on Monday. READ »

Telia forced to reveal file-sharing customer

Business & Money: 4 Dec 09
TeliaSonera has been forced to spill the beans on the identity of a customer, believed to be behind a file-sharing site, after losing a court case in the District Court. READ »

TeliaSonera in new bid to end Turkcell dispute

Business & Money: 12 Nov 09
Nordic telecom operator TeliaSonera and Russia’s Altimo have decided to combine their stakes in MegaFon and Turkcell in an attempt to end a long-running ownership dispute. READ »

Quarterly earnings on target for TeliaSonera

Science & Technology: 28 Oct 09
Telecoms operator TeliaSonera announced solid quarterly results on Wednesday, hitting targets for the year despite difficult conditions in the Baltics. READ »

TeliaSonera's Baltic acquisitions move forward

Business & Money: 13 Oct 09
TeliaSonera has yet to take over full control of Lithuania’s TEO LT as planned, the Nordic telecommunications operator said on Tuesday, but it has acquired nearly all of Estonia's Eesti Telekom. READ »

Tech glitch darkens Swedish websites

Science & Technology: 13 Oct 09
A maintenance error blocked access to hundreds of thousands of Swedish websites for about 30 minutes on Monday night, and caused continuing email problems for many customers on Tuesday. READ »

Spotify and Telia sign two-year deal

Business & Money: 8 Oct 09
Telecoms operator TeliaSonera and Swedish music service Spotify have signed a two-year cooperation agreement that will enable Telia’s customers to use Spotify in computers, mobile phones and TVs in the Swedish market. READ »

Estonia approves TeliaSonera purchase

Business & Money: 25 Sep 09
The Estonian government formally approved the sale of the state's 27 percent stake in telecoms provider Eesti Telekom to the Nordic group Telia Sonera. READ »

TeliaSonera to increase stake in Estonian telecoms firm

Business & Money: 23 Sep 09
Estonia is set to sell its share of leading telecommunications provider, Eesti Telekom, to Nordic group TeliaSonera. 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 »

Film makers tackle ISP over pirated movie files

Science & Technology: 3 Aug 09
Four film companies have filed a motion in a Swedish court to force TeliaSonera to release details about the operators of the Swetorrents file sharing website. READ »

H&M family stock portfolio 'larger than Swedish state's'

Business & Money: 5 Jun 09
The family which owns clothing giant Hennes & Mauritz is now on a par with the Swedish state as the largest shareholder on the Stockholm stock exchange. READ »

'Swedish anti-piracy and privacy laws clash'

Science & Technology: 20 May 09
Sweden’s recently enacted anti-file sharing law will be rendered totally ineffectual when the government implements new rules on the storage of personal data next year, according to the head of a Swedish internet provider. READ »

ISPs refuse to shut down Pirate Bay

National: 18 Apr 09
Internet service providers refuse to cooperate with an entertainment industry group's demand to shut down The Pirate Bay. READ »

Tele2 and Telenor in 4G network cooperation

Science & Technology: 14 Apr 09
Swedish telecom operator Tele2 has joined forces with Norway's Telenor to build a new 4G mobile network, it was announced on Tuesday. READ »

Sweden sees boom in legal downloading

Business & Money: 9 Apr 09
The sale of music via the internet and mobile phones has increased by 100 percent since the Swedish anti-file sharing IPRED law entered into force last week, according to digital content provider InProdicon. READ »

Sweden extends bank rescue plan

Business & Money: 2 Apr 09
Sweden's government announced on Thursday a six month extension to the 1.5 trillion kronor ($183.8 billion) bank rescue plan that was announced in October. READ »

Charges in Sweden's largest insider scandal

Business & Money: 27 Mar 09
Charges were filed on Friday against six men in what is being called the largest insider trading scandal in Swedish history. READ »

'No bonuses at state-owned companies'

Business & Money: 24 Mar 09
The Swedish government has said it wants to end bonuses and variable compensation for executives at state-owned companies. READ »

Telenor to sell iPhones in Sweden

Business & Money: 20 Feb 09
Norwegian telecom operator Telenor has signed a deal with Apple to begin selling the US multinational's popular iPhone in Sweden, Denmark and Norway. READ »

TeliaSonera profits beat expectations

Business & Money: 11 Feb 09
TeliaSonera credited earnings from emerging markets and the Nordic-Baltic region for helping the Swedish-Finnish telecom operator beat fourth quarter net profits expectations when it presented its results on Wednesday. READ »

Government puts off sale of SBAB

Business & Money: 30 Jan 09
The Swedish government announced on Friday it was postponing the sale of state-owned mortgage lender SBAB because of the financial crisis. READ »

Stockholm to get 4G mobile network in 2010

Science & Technology: 15 Jan 09
Mobile broadband users in Stockholm will soon be able to surf the internet on a new high speed 4G network, following the signing of a deal between Ericsson and TeliaSonera. READ »

TeliaSonera announces job cuts in Sweden

Business & Money: 12 Jan 09
Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera gave notice to 1,200 employees in Sweden on Monday as part of the firm's ongoing "efficiency measures". 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 »

Sweden to get Europe’s fastest mobile network

Science & Technology: 9 Dec 08
Sweden is set to receive the fastest mobile network in Europe following upgrades to be carried out by a group of Swedish companies. READ »

Opposition urges state car industry takeover

Business & Money: 2 Dec 08
Leading government ministers have angered unions and the opposition by ruling out the possibility of a state takeover of Volvo Cars should owner Ford elect to sell its Swedish subsidiary. READ »

Post Office CEO to work for no pay

National: 22 Nov 08
Lars G Nordström, President and CEO of the Swedish post office (Posten), has announced that he will forgo his salary in the face of stern media criticism accusing him of being greedy. READ »

Charges dent TeliaSonera profits

Business & Money: 28 Oct 08
TeliaSonera has posted third quarter results that were lower than last year, but the Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator's profits were higher than forecast. READ »

Stockholm exchange down sharply

Business & Money: 10 Oct 08
After approximately five minutes of trading on the Stockholm stock exchange on Friday, the OMXS index had fallen 8.2 percent. READ »

Analysts doubt Sweden will push through SBAB sale

Business & Money: 19 Sep 08
Upheaval in the financial markets will likely complicated plans by the Swedish government to sell off state-owned mortgage lender SBAB in the near future, analysts said on Friday. READ »

Site unmasks hidden info on Swedish celebs

Society: 11 Sep 08
High profile Swedish politicians and prosecutors, famous artists and other celebrities with unlisted telephone numbers and addresses can all be found using a website designed to help people remember friends' birthdays – and there’s nothing the notables can do about it. READ »

Swedish investors cool to risks of stock ownership

Business & Money: 1 Sep 08
Swedes appear to prefer keeping their savings in the bank or under the mattress, rather than risk it in the volatile Stockholm stock market. 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 »

Swedish firms slam UK filesharing measure

Science & Technology: 25 Jul 08
Some of Sweden's largest internet service providers have made it clear that they would not support an agreement to combat file sharing similar to one recently reached in the UK. READ »

TeliaSonera posts solid quarterly results

Business & Money: 24 Jul 08
Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera, which recently snubbed a takover bid from France Telecom, reported strong second-quarter results on Thursday, but slightly missed analyst's expectations. READ »

Nordic neighbours concerned by snoop law

Politics: 11 Jul 08
Denmark, Finland and Norway voiced concerns this week about a new law in Sweden that allows all emails and phone calls to be monitored in the name of national security. READ »

'I want an iPhone so badly'

Science & Technology: 10 Jul 08
Queues have begun to form outside TeliaSonera's stores in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö with just hours remaining before the Apple iPhone makes its long-awaited debut on the Swedish market. READ »

'Snoop law bad for Swedish business'

Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jul 08
Sweden's new surveillance law could prove disastrous for the country's highly regarded technology sector, write the CEOs of eight major IT and telecom companies. READ »

Swedish snoop law targets Russia

National: 9 Jul 08
Sweden's new surveillance law will enable the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) to scan massive quantities of Russian computer and telecom data. READ »

Dropped French bid hits TeliaSonera shares

Business & Money: 30 Jun 08
France Telecom has ditched its plans to acquire Nordic operator TeliaSonera, according to a statement. Telia shares fell more than 12 percent on the news. READ »

France Telecom ups bid for TeliaSonera

Business & Money: 30 Jun 08
France Telecom is back in talks with TeliaSonera following its failed bid for the Nordic operator earlier this month. READ »

Swedes warned over mobile voicemail costs

Business & Money: 25 Jun 08
Mobile phone bills may catch Swedes by surprise after vacations abroad this summer—even if their phones have been turned off. READ »

France Telecom mulls higher cash bid for TeliaSonera

Business & Money: 19 Jun 08
France Telecom said on Thursday it had opened talks about whether to enter formal negotiations with TeliaSonera. READ »

Auditors criticize TeliaSonera sale process

Business & Money: 18 Jun 08
Sweden's National Audit Office has accused the country's government of not being properly prepared to negotiate the highest price for its stake in TeliaSonera. READ »

France Telecom ready to battle Telenor for Telia Sonera

Business & Money: 11 Jun 08
France Telecom is preparing for a possible bidding war for Telia Sonera with Norwegian telecom operator Telenor, according to the Financial Times newspaper. READ »

Swedish government slammed over TeliaSonera sale

Business & Money: 10 Jun 08
Sweden's government is facing accusations from the national audit office that it has mishandled the planned sale of a controlling stake in TeliaSonera. READ »

Analysts: Low initial offer puts TeliaSonera in driver's seat

Business & Money: 5 Jun 08
Swedish-Finnish operator TeliaSonera, having rejected a takeover offer from France Telecom Thursday, should be in a good position to play other potential buyers against each other to push up the bids, analysts said. READ »

TeliaSonera rejects France Telecom

Business & Money: 5 Jun 08
TeliaSonera’s board on Thursday rejected a €33 billion ($51 billion) offer put forward by France Telecom to acquire the Nordic telecoms group. READ »

France Telecom in TeliaSonera bid

Business & Money: 5 Jun 08
France Telecom has made an informal takeover offer for TeliaSonera, people familiar with the situation told the Financial Times. READ »

TeliaSonera sued over false ad claims

Business & Money: 29 May 08
Telecom operator 3 has filed a suit against TeliaSonera for what it argues are deceptive claims about the latter’s mobile broadband coverage. READ »

iPhone coming to Sweden

Business & Money: 27 May 08
TeliaSonera announced a deal on Tuesday to bring Apple's iPhone to the Nordic and Baltic countries. READ »

Eurovision a winner for TeliaSonera

Business & Money: 20 May 08
Sweden’s domestic qualifying competition and the Eurovision song contest finals which follow are big cash cows for TeliaSonera, regardless of who wins. READ »

Telia customers lose network coverage

Business & Money: 17 May 08
Telia's mobile telecoms customers had to survive without their phones on Friday afternoon as a technical fault knocked out most of the network. READ »

What's on in Sweden: May 16 - 22

Lifestyle: 15 May 08
What's on this week in Sweden: Nick Cave in Stockholm, major running event in Gothenburg, musical sailing tour in Malmö. READ »

Sweden awards five 4G mobile licences

Business & Money: 8 May 08
Five bidders paid have paid €226 million ($346 million) for fourth generation (4G) super-fast mobile telephony licences, the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) said on Thursday. READ »

Telenor seeks TeliaSonera merger

Business & Money: 29 Apr 08
Norwegian telecom operator Telenor is aiming for a merger with TeliaSonera, reports the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper. READ »

Ericsson report boosts stock exchange

Business & Money: 26 Apr 08
Strong interim reports from Ericsson, Volvo and Telia Sonera put the Stockholm stock exchange in a bullish mood as the trading week ended on Friday. READ »

TeliaSonera beats profit expectations

Business & Money: 25 Apr 08
Swedish-Finnish telecoms operator TeliaSonera has posted strong first-quarter results. The company is a possible acquisition target for France Telecom. READ »

Strong finish for Stockholm stock exchange

Business & Money: 18 Apr 08
The Stockholm stock exchange finished the trading week higher with TeliaSonera and bank stocks leading the way. READ »

France Telecom confirms interest in TeliaSonera

Business & Money: 18 Apr 08
France Telecom said on Friday it was interested in Swedish-Finnish firm TeliaSonera but added that no talks had been opened with the company at this stage. READ »

France Telecom eyes TeliaSonera

Business & Money: 17 Apr 08
France Telecom has confirmed it is considering a possible bid for Swedish-Finnish firm TeliaSonera. READ »

TeliaSonera shares rise sharply on takeover rumours

Business & Money: 16 Apr 08
Shares in TeliaSonera shot up on Wednesday following speculation of a potential takeover bid. 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 »

Vin & Sprit sale boosts government privatizations

Business & Money: 2 Apr 08
The sale of Absolut vodka maker Vin & Sprit represents a major step forward in the government's privatization programme. AFP's Delphine Touitou looks at which state-owned enterprises might be next on the auction block, and why. READ »

Telia resolves internet dispute

Business & Money: 30 Mar 08
The internet traffic dispute between Telia Sonera and US-based Cogent Communications has been resolved. READ »

Telia internet dispute: 'No end in sight'

Business & Money: 25 Mar 08
Internet traffic between TeliaSonera and US-based Cogent Communications has been cut off for more than ten days while customers continue to suffer. READ »

Telia Sonera 'not concerned' over telecom regulator powers

Business & Money: 18 Mar 08
The government wants to give telecom regulator PTS greater powers, which may have immediate consequences for Finnish-Swedish telecom operator Telia Sonera. READ »

Dramatic end to bourse week

Business & Money: 15 Mar 08
The Stockholm bourse ended the week in dramatic fashion following bad news from New York. READ »

Sweden may delay privatization drive

Business & Money: 12 Mar 08
Sweden's financial markets minister Mats Odell said the government is reviewing its privatization programme in light of the subprime crisis. READ »

What’s on in Sweden: March 7th – 13th

Lifestyle: 6 Mar 08
Värtinnä in Stockholm, Mando Diao in Gothenburg, A Mountain of one in Malmö, and much more besides in our weekly guide. READ »

Something for the Weekend: NaxXxos, Fröken, Montys Loco

Lifestyle: 28 Feb 08
Something for the weekend: Five Stockholm club tips, Strindberg-inspired dance in Gothenburg, pop duo Montys Loco in Malmö. READ »

Sweden welcomes sovereign wealth funds but demands transparency

Business & Money: 26 Feb 08
Minister for Financial Markets Mats Odell has said that Sweden welcomed investment from sovereign wealth funds. 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 »

Stockholm bourse falls on US consumer stats

Business & Money: 16 Feb 08
The Stockholm stock exchange closed down 1.1 percent on Friday on reports of weaker consumer demand in the USA. READ »

Swedish firms’ ads on internet piracy site

National: 13 Feb 08
The companies were unaware that their ads were appearing on a site popular in the illegal file sharing community. READ »

Governments in Sweden shun privatization experts

National: 11 Feb 08
Governments on the right and the left seldom utilize outside advice when selling state assets. 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 »

TeliaSonera to slash 2,900 jobs

Business & Money: 8 Feb 08
Swedish-Finnish telecoms operator TeliaSonera has said it will slash 2,900 jobs to improve efficiency. READ »

Telia Sonera loses millions of emails

Business & Money: 8 Jan 08
Lack of oversight and technical failures cited in a server crash that resulted in nearly 2 million lost emails. 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 »

Market down slightly after turbulent day

Business & Money: 26 Oct 07
The Stockholm Stock Exchange closed down slightly on the week after a turbulent day of trading on Friday. TeliaSonera pleased investors with third quarter profits beating expectations, but engineering company Sandvik proved a disappointment. READ »