Telia_sonera

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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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Telia 'should be broken up'

Business & Money: 14 Jun 07
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator Telia Sonera should be forced to separate its Swedish fixed-line network in a separate unit, the Swedish telecom regulator has said. READ »

Dozens caught up in road collapse

National: 21 Dec 06
A landslide in western Sweden caused a 400 metre section of the E6 road to collapse taking with it cars carrying 28 people. A nearby railway also collapsed. It's a miracle we managed to rescue everyone, say the emergency services. READ »

Telia bosses cleared of Mamma Mia bribery

Business & Money: 31 Oct 06
Telia Sonera's CEO Anders Igel and the company's former Sweden boss Marie Ehrling have been found not guilty of bribery after inviting customers to a performance of Mamma Mia in Stockholm. READ »

Telia Sonera profits up

Business & Money: 31 Oct 06
Anders Igel, Telia Sonera's CEO, declares himself 'satisfied and proud' as the Swedish-Finnish telecoms company announces increased profits of over 7.5 billion kronor for the third quarter. READ »

Sweden to raise 150 billion kronor from state sell-offs

Business & Money: 16 Oct 06
The government plans a massive series of privatisations over the next three years and anticipates an income of 150 billion kronor, according to Monday's budget proposals. READ »

Telia bosses on trial for Mamma Mia bribery

Business & Money: 9 Oct 06
The chief executive and and former Sweden boss of telecoms company Telia Sonera have gone on trial accused of bribing customers by inviting them to a performance of Abba musical Mamma Mia. READ »

Ehrling quits Telia Sonera

Business & Money: 18 Sep 06
Marie Ehrling resigned as head of Swedish-Finnish telecoms giant Telia Sonera on Monday amid rumours that she is lined up to take over at airline SAS. READ »

Alliance plans Telia sell-off

Business & Money: 14 Sep 06
Telia Sonera could be broken up and sold off if the opposition Alliance wins the Swedish election on Sunday, say the Centre Party and Christian Democrat economics spokesmen. READ »

Financier chases Telia stake

Business & Money: 31 Aug 06
A Swedish financier is trying to buy a major share in Swedish-Finnish phone company Telia Sonera, it has been reported. The Social Democrats say they will not sell the state's shares. READ »

Telia profits double despite fixed-line problems

Business & Money: 28 Jul 06
Telia Sonera is losing 1,000 fixed line subscriptions a day, but the company's profits still showed a healthy increase thanks to improved margins in mobile operations. READ »

Telia buys Spanish mobile operator

Business & Money: 15 Jun 06
Telia Sonera's shares take a nosedive on Thursday after it announces that it is buying Spanish mobile operator Xfera Móvile. READ »

Sweden's mobile phone use surges

Business & Money: 8 Jun 06
Mobile phone use in Sweden is still on the rise, according to Sweden's National Post and Telecom Agency. Talk traffic on the 3G network has tripled in the last 12 months. READ »

Tele2 loses billion kronor legal dispute

Business & Money: 2 May 06
Tele2 must pay a billion kronor plus interest to competitor Telia Sonera, says Stockholm district court, following a dispute over network charges. READ »

Opposition announces privatisation plans

Business & Money: 6 Mar 06
The conservative alliance will sell off a series of state-owned companies if it wins the election. Telia Sonera, Nordea and SAS top the list of firms worth well over 200 billion kronor. READ »

Internet operators not pleasing customers

National: 10 Jan 06
Over half of households in Sweden now have digital TV, two thirds of internet users shop online and more people are installing firewalls. But people aren't happy with their internet providers, according to a new survey. READ »

Telia Sonera battles for Turkcell

Business & Money: 28 Nov 05
Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera says it is stepping up its fight for Turkey's biggest operator Turkcell, by suing Russia's Alfa Group for alleged wrongful interference with its efforts. An Alfa subsidiary, Alfa Telecom, just snapped up over 13% of Turkcell. READ »

Glocalnet reports Telia Sonera to Competition Authority

Business & Money: 11 Nov 05
Telecoms operator Glocalnet has reported its competitor Telia Sonera, arguing that it breaks competition regulations by abusing its dominant market position. READ »

Telia "abused market position"

Business & Money: 28 Oct 05
The Swedish Competition Authority is seeking 44 million kronor in fines from Telia Sonera after the telecoms company offered former customers better conditions if they came back from the competition. 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 »

Swedish music industry joins file sharing battle

National: 20 Oct 05
Sweden's rumpus between illegal file sharers and the film and games industries rumbles on. But on the same day that the country's music industry throws its hat into the ring, internet service providers put a spanner in the works. READ »

Telia Sonera facing 100m kronor fine

Business & Money: 29 Sep 05
In February, the Swedish National Post and Telecom Agency ruled that Telia Sonera must supply broadband services to their wholesalers without demanding that the end customer has a fixed phone line. So far, they haven't. READ »

Telia to slash 3,000 jobs in Sweden

Business & Money: 3 Aug 05
As second quarter profits fall 45% to 3 billion kronor, the Swedish telecoms giant confirms plans to cut costs drastically over the next few years. READ »

Online declarers given another 24 hours

National: 3 May 05
The Swedish Tax Agency's campaign to boost the number of electronic declarations has generally been a success. But SEB bank's servers failed to cope with the last minute rush for electronic id's and a few thousand tax-payers have been given an extra day to get their declarations in. READ »

Telia faces Russian competition for Turkcell ownership

Business & Money: 31 Mar 05
Russian tele-communictions company Alfa Telecom is fighting Telia for ownership of Turkcell, Turkey's mobile operator. READ »

Vodafone to slash one in ten Swedish jobs

Business & Money: 16 Mar 05
Hans Kuropatwa, the managing director of Vodafone, says that the Swedish mobile market is saturated and announces hefty job losses. And the outlook is no brighter for Telia Sonera employees. 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 »

Hurricane cost Swedish phone company 450 million kronor

Business & Money: 14 Mar 05
Gudrun, the storm that lashed Sweden in January cost Telia Sonera Sverige in the region of 400-450 million kronor, the company announced today. READ »

AMS head requests extra funds

Smörgåsbord: 3 Mar 05
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3,000 jobs to go at Telia

Smörgåsbord: 16 Feb 05
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Volvo concerned at EU spares plans

Smörgåsbord: 10 Jan 05
Sales of new cars in Sweden increased by 1.2 per cent to just over 264,000 last year. READ »

Telia investigation over mobile failure

Business & Money: 7 Dec 04
Telia faces huge compensation costs and possible fines after network problems affected 250,000 customers over the weekend. But it's the lack of communication about the lack of communication that irked the press. READ »

Business Brief

Smörgåsbord: 8 Sep 04
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Thousands conned in mobile phone fraud

National: 9 Jul 04
Users of Telia's mobile service are tricked into making long-distance calls, while pensioners in the west of the country fall foul of a rug scam. READ »


Blog Update: Boston Blatte

18 March 01:36

Bathroom culture: the sewer of the cultural soul. »

"As I stood in line to pee (had to ponder which word to call the “facilities” and decided to skip it entirely–didn’t want to alienate the Canadians, Brits, Irish and Antipodeans) at Berns, a posh night club venue in Stockholm, for the first ever comedy for the International Comedy Night (sheesh, that’s a long sentence..." READ »

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