February 13, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Broadband":
National: 28 Dec 11
A Swedish mother of two has been linked to Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik after a mobile broadband SIM card registered in her name was discovered in a computer found on Breivik's farm.
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Science & Technology: 5 Dec 11
Blockbuster sales of the Swedish-developed computer war game Battlefield 3 have helped solidify Sweden's reputation as a hotbed for game developers, The Local's Geoff Mortimore discovers.
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Business & Money: 7 Nov 11
Mobile data traffic will likely increase tenfold over the next five years, as smartphones become more commonly used, a new study by Swedish telecom giant Ericsson shows.
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Science & Technology: 27 Oct 11
Social media giant Facebook on Thursday officially unveiled long-rumoured plans to build its first European data centre in Luleå in northern Sweden, near the Arctic Circle.
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Science & Technology: 22 Oct 11
Swedes are among the most dissatisfied customers in the EU when it comes to their mobile phone operators.
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Business & Money: 20 Oct 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson announced on Thursday a 6 percent jump in third quarter net profits, causing its shares to surge in morning trading on the Stockholm stock exchange.
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Science & Technology: 19 Oct 11
It's been 30 years since since Swedish technology and initiative helped launch a bold, but modest initiative which marked the start of he modern era of mobile telephony, The Local's Joel Linde explains.
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Business & Money: 15 Aug 11
A viral clip of babies in conversation is a Swedish broadband provider's latest YouTube-inspired commercial, which premieres on television on Wednesday as the start of their autumn campaign.
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Business & Money: 14 Jun 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has acquired US communications software developer Telcordia for $1.15 billion, the companies announced on Tuesday.
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Business & Money: 27 Apr 11
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson reported a whopping 224 percent rise in profits on Wednesday, surprising analysts and sending its stock up almost 7 percent in early trading.
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Society: 26 Mar 11
An elderly man was found dead in his apartment in Tumba in southern Stockholm last Wednesday with police believing that he could have been dead for over three years without anyone having noticed.
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Business & Money: 22 Mar 11
Swedish fund EQT Monday announced the sale of Kabel BW, a German cable operator, to US-based Liberty Global for 3.16 billion euros ($4.49 billion).
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Business & Money: 8 Mar 11
Malin Frenning, the head of Swedish-Finnish telecom firm TeliaSonera's broadband services unit, has been named Sweden’s most powerful businesswoman by a leading business magazine.
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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.
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Business & Money: 16 Feb 11
Sweden has ranked second in the World's Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011, falling behind Switzerland, but leaping ahead of Singapore and the US.
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Business & Money: 3 Feb 11
Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera announced layoffs within its fixed broadband operations, despite posting a 13 percent rise in net profits for 2010.
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Business & Money: 25 Jan 11
Swedish mobile network giant Ericsson announced increased sales and a sharply higher net profit thanks to mobile broadband sales, although its earnings slightly missed expectations.
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Science & Technology: 21 Jan 11
The number of complaints directed at Swedish mobile and mobile broadband services increased once again in 2010, a consumer advocacy group announced on Friday.
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National: 13 Dec 10
Swedish intelligence officials on Monday said they are "98 percent" certain about the identity of the man who blew himself in central Stockholm on Saturday, adding he was "completely unknown" to intelligence agencies.
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Business & Money: 10 Dec 10
Swedish television and internet company Com Hem is up for sale and expected to fetch 13 billion ($1.89 billion) to 18 billion kronor, according to media reports.
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Business & Money: 6 Dec 10
Ericsson chairman Michael Treschow informed the Swedish telecommunications firm on Monday that he will resign from his post next year or in 2012, according to a company statement.
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Science & Technology: 11 Nov 10
Emails and mobile phone text messages would be stored for six months by internet service providers, according to a bill presented by the Swedish government on Thursday.
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Science & Technology: 31 Oct 10
The angry note, such a common feature of neighbourly grievance in a shared block of flats in Sweden, is being supplemented by the adoption of provocative names for wireless internet networks in a trend dubbed Angry note 2.0.
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Science & Technology: 26 Oct 10
One in two Swedes feel the information society is passing them by despite the country having one of the world's highest rates of internet usage, a new study has showed.
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Science & Technology: 25 Oct 10
Nearly one in four Swedes who use mobile broadband has complained to the provider about the service received, according to findings from the Swedish Quality Index.
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Business & Money: 22 Oct 10
Swedish telecom firm Ericsson on Friday reported a net profit of 3.68 billion kronor ($553 million) in the third quarter, with its shares leaping 6 percent as a result in early trading.
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Politics: 16 Aug 10
The Social Democrats have proposed introducing "metro butlers" to help passengers run errands, the party wrote in an opinion article published in Dagens Nyheter on Monday.
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Business & Money: 16 Jul 10
The number of mobile phones in use worldwide has exceeded 5 billion for the first time due to high demand in India and China, Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has shown in a new study published on Thursday.
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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.
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Business & Money: 30 Jun 10
Swedish broadband operator Comhem wants a district court to seek the advice of the EU Court of Justice over an anti-file sharing law (Ipred) case, after the Supreme Court indicated that a test case was destined for the EU Court.
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Business & Money: 3 Jun 10
Swedes sent a total of 16.3 billion text messages in 2009, an increase of 65 percent on 2008 and more than the number of calls made on the country's mobile telecom networks, a new report shows.
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Business & Money: 18 May 10
Swedish-Finnish telecom giant TeliaSonera has been instructed by the appeals court to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a filesharing website in a landmark anti-piracy law ruling.
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Business & Money: 5 May 10
Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg has said the company has good long-term growth prospects, predicting that the company will work to grow at a faster pace than the market.
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National: 13 Feb 10
Although file sharing over the internet continues to grow in Sweden it is becoming dwarfed by online streaming of TV and and films, according to a new report by the internet company Cisco.
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Science & Technology: 12 Feb 10
Swedes are the world's foremost users of information technology - such as mobile telephones, computers and networks - a new report shows.
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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.
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Business & Money: 25 Jan 10
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson on Monday reported a 92 percent drop in net profits for the fourth quarter, adding that it would now cut 6,500 jobs under its restructuring plan.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jan 10
Broadband speeds in Sweden are quicker than in any other European country bar Romania, a new study shows. But South Korea remains light years ahead in the global internet stakes.
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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.
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National: 6 Jan 10
In a corporate David and Goliath-style case, a Stockholm-based internet operator is fighting a file-sharing lawsuit against a collective of large US film companies.
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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.
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Science & Technology: 12 Nov 09
Virtually every Swede between the ages of 16- and 30-years-old uses the internet on a daily basis, a new report shows.
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Science & Technology: 11 Nov 09
A new service for watching movies over the internet for free has attracted more than a quarter of a million Swedes since its launch two weeks ago.
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Business & Money: 29 Oct 09
Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that broadband provider ePhone is obligated to hand over customer data to five audio book publishers.
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Business & Money: 22 Oct 09
Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer Ericsson announced third quarter pretax profits of 4 billion kronor ($580 million), a 35 percent drop from the 6.2 billion kronor reported for the same quarter last year.
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Science & Technology: 13 Oct 09
Swedish broadband provider ePhone is not obligated to hand over customer information to five book publishers, according to a decision by the Svea Court of Appeal which overturns a lower court ruling.
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Science & Technology: 12 Oct 09
More than one in three Swedes continue to ignore the country’s anti-file sharing laws, according to a new study by a recording industry interest group.
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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.
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Business & Money: 5 Oct 09
Sweden has the highest quality broadband in Europe, and the third best in the world, according to a new study.
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Business & Money: 2 Oct 09
Following months of media coverage on the Pirate Bay, as well the introduction of an anti-piracy law, new figures show more Swedes are opting to download their media legally.
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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.
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Science & Technology: 17 Jul 09
Users of the new Pirate Bay might have to pay a monthly downloading fee, under a business model being considered by the file sharing site's new owners.
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Science & Technology: 15 Jul 09
Swedish broadband provider ePhone has said it will appeal a controversial court ruling obliging it to hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations.
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Business & Money: 13 Jul 09
Swedish phone network giant Ericsson has announced plans to invest $1.5 billion in South Korea over the next five years.
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Science & Technology: 8 Jul 09
Swedish telecoms equipment provider Ericsson has inked deals with two Chinese mobile operators worth $1.7 billion.
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Business & Money: 3 Jul 09
Ericsson has been awarded contracts to provide broadband internet in China in cooperation with three telecom operators, the Swedish mobile phone network supplier said on Friday.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jun 09
A group of audio book publishers has prevailed in the first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law, forcing an ISP to hand over information about its customers.
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Dating: 13 Jun 09
The financial crisis has led more and more Swedes to look for love online, making them among the most internet-dating inclined nationalities in the world.
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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.
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Science & Technology: 6 May 09
The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency is to launch an inquiry into a television, internet and IP telephony outage that affected hundreds of thousands of Com Hem's customers on Tuesday evening.
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Science & Technology: 30 Apr 09
A month into life under tougher anti-internet piracy measures, new statistics suggest that Swedes have abandoned their previous enthusiasm for internet file sharing.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Apr 09
On paper, Sweden became transparent in 1776 with the enactment of freedom of information and freedom of speech laws. About 70 countries have freedom of information laws in use today. On the web, we’re just about getting our feet wet, writes Sweden.se editor Rikard Lagerberg.
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Science & Technology: 16 Apr 09
Broadband operator Bahnhof is continuing to destroy the IP address details of its customers in an open and fully legal bid to undermine Sweden's new anti-file sharing laws.
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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.
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Business & Money: 18 Feb 09
Sweden’s telecom equipment provider Ericsson has been chosen by Verizon Wireless to help build the United States’ first 4G wireless network.
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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.
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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".
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Business & Money: 20 Oct 08
Despite posting a 28 percent drop in third quarter net profits on Monday, Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson beat expectations, sending its stock price soaring in early trading.
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Analysis & Opinion: 1 Oct 08
Pirates, pioneers, or petty thieves? Majsan Boström meets Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, two of the leading figures from file-sharing giant The Pirate Bay.
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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.
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Business & Money: 7 Aug 08
Sales of mobile broadband kits have skyrocketed in Sweden over the last year.
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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.
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Business & Money: 12 Jun 08
For the first time, telecom operators in Sweden have generated more revenues from mobile network services than from fixed telephony, according to a report the Post and Telecom Agency (PTS).
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Business & Money: 5 Jun 08
France Telecom has made an informal takeover offer for TeliaSonera, people familiar with the situation told the Financial Times.
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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.
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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.
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Business & Money: 8 Apr 08
Some of Sweden's main internet operators have entered into a price war over mobile broadband services.
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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.
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Business & Money: 15 Jan 08
The Swedish Space Corporation has formally taken control of the Sirius 4 satellite, which will provide broadband to much of Europe and South Africa.
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Business & Money: 8 Jan 08
Lack of oversight and technical failures cited in a server crash that resulted in nearly 2 million lost emails.
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Society: 30 Nov 07
Sweden is "worryingly" vulnerable to internet attacks, according to a government agency.
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Business & Money: 6 Nov 07
The rising popularity of mobile broadband is leading to a fight between phone operators and television companies over Sweden's airwaves.
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Science & Technology: 3 Sep 07
Internet service providers (ISPs) may soon be required by Swedish law to take greater responsibility for unlawful file-sharing. Providers should be forced "to contribute to bringing all copyright infringement to an end", according to an official inquiry.
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Science & Technology: 16 Aug 07
A church in southern Sweden has refused to allow a broadband antenna to be installed on its tower, after fears were raised that parishoners would surf for porn instead of attending services.
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Science & Technology: 12 Jul 07
A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world's fastest internet connection. 1,500 simultaneous HDTV channels are now hers for the taking.
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Business & Money: 12 Jun 07
Swedish telecoms watchdog PTS is expected to propose a functional separation of TeliaSonera's fixed-line network later this week. The move is intended to promote open access and fair competition.
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Business & Money: 12 Jun 07
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera has sacked CEO Anders Igel in a bid to improve its commercial drive. Igel will leave the company at the end of July, the company said.
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Business & Money: 7 Jun 07
The number of Swedes who make phone calls over the internet has increased markedly, according to new figures from telecoms regulator PTS.
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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.
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Business & Money: 25 Apr 07
Telecoms operator Tele2 has reported a first quarter profit of 104 million kronor, which is lower than the profit for the same period last year.
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Business & Money: 25 Apr 07
A drop in TeliaSonera's share price is thought to have contributed to a dip in trading on the Stockholm stock exchange.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 07
The Swedish government has said it could split TeliaSonera into operator and service companies. The aim would be to improve competition on the Swedish broadband market.
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Science & Technology: 7 Apr 07
There may be no electronic Easter greetings for, or from, many of Telia's customers this year: a fault means the telecommunications giant's customers can neither send nor receive email.
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Business & Money: 13 Feb 07
Northern Europe's biggest telecom operator, TeliaSonera, has reported record results for 2006.
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Business & Money: 1 Feb 07
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court has ruled that TeliaSonera must give up its monopoly on bitstream. Consumers can expect prices to fall as a result.
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Business & Money: 20 Dec 06
Swedish telecoms equipment maker Ericsson has agreed to buy American company Redback networks, which makes broadband routers, for 2.1 billion dollars.
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Business & Money: 18 Dec 06
A couple of enterprising Swedes are heavily involved in a global broadband television service soon to hit computer screens worldwide.
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Science & Technology: 18 Dec 06
One in five Swedish Internet users has used a peer-to-peer file sharing programme at some point, according to new official figures. Young men are the keenest downloaders.
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National: 9 Dec 06
Thousands of broadband customers in Malmö have been able to view each other's internet traffic, including email. They have also been able to see which web pages others have visited.
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Society: 13 Nov 06
The Internet is used more in Sweden than in any other European Union country. Some 80 percent of Swedes are regular net users, according to a new survey.
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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 »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"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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