The following articles have been tagged with "Telenor":
Science & Technology: 28 Feb 13
Swedish charities and NGOs are suffering a downturn in SMS donations, after Sweden's four main mobile network operators introduced mandatory online registration for mobile phone money transfers.
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Science & Technology: 28 Dec 12
Brawling politicians caught on tape, Zlatan’s goal spree against England, and the dying seconds of the US presidential race all caught Swedes attention online during 2012, telecom statistics about surfing behaviour reveal.
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Education: 27 Mar 12
Stockholm is an increasingly popular destination for expatriate workers, and a major effort is underway to accommodate international arrivals. The new International School of the Stockholm Region (ISSR) aims to give foreign children the support they need to thrive in the Swedish capital.
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Science & Technology: 7 Nov 11
Thousands of Swedish parents choose to keep track of their children by help of their mobile phones, despite warnings from experts that this kind of surveillance could be an infringement on the children's privacy.
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Business & Money: 20 Jul 11
Swedish-Finnish telecoms firm TeliaSonera's reported earnings on Wednesday below analyst expectations on the back of a strong Swedish currency and problems in its Turkish operations.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 11
Swedish-Finnish telecom provider TeliaSonera on Tuesday announced a small dip in quarterly net profits as slower growth and currency movements also dented the company's 2011 sales expectations.
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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: 24 Feb 11
Scandinavian mobile technology firm Aspiro has announced the impending launch in Sweden of WiMP, a new music streaming service hoping to imitate the success of pioneering Swedish site Spotify.
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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: 11 Jan 11
Sweden's Ericsson and Chinese telecom giant Huawei have been commissioned by Sweden's TeliaSonera to modernise and expand Norway's entire mobile network, the companies announced on Tuesday.
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Science & Technology: 1 Jan 11
Champagne glass in one hand and a cell phone in the other. This year New Year's Eve broke all previous records in number of text and photo messages sent.
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National: 26 Dec 10
Christmas Eve is no holiday for telephone operators, but this year the number of text messages sent on Christmas Eve has decreased for the first time.
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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: 25 Oct 10
Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera said on Monday that sales of smartphones, coupled with growth in eastern Europe and Asia, boosted third-quarter profits and its outlook for fiscal-year results.
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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: 20 Jul 10
TeliaSonera reported on Tuesday that profit rose in the second quarter near expectations, adding that earnings in the second half of the year would be similar to the first half.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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National: 7 Nov 09
Communications company Telenor will not be forced to block customers from accessing Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay, a court in Norway decided on Friday.
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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.
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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.
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Business & Money: 3 Jun 09
The Swedish business of Norwegian telecom operator Telenor announced plans on Wednesday to slash 400 jobs in Sweden due to disappointing sales figures.
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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: 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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Business & Money: 27 May 08
TeliaSonera announced a deal on Tuesday to bring Apple's iPhone to the Nordic and Baltic countries.
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National: 14 May 08
Swedish telecom giant Ericsson has promised swift action after revelations of dangerous working conditions and child labour at factories operated by its suppliers in Bangladesh.
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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: 29 Apr 08
Norwegian telecom operator Telenor is aiming for a merger with TeliaSonera, reports the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.
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Business & Money: 17 Apr 08
France Telecom has confirmed it is considering a possible bid for Swedish-Finnish firm TeliaSonera.
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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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National: 27 Jul 07
SOS Alarm, which handles all emergency telephone calls in Sweden, is not able to trace half of all the calls it receives from mobile phone users - because of a lack of agreements with operators.
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Science & Technology: 14 Jun 07
British telecoms company Omnifone on Thursday launched MusicStation, a new music download service for mobile phone users in Sweden, beating Apple's iPhone to the global marketplace by two weeks.
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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: 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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National: 15 Jan 07
Storms have claimed millions of acres of Swedish forests and left hundreds of thousands of people without telephones or electricity. Many people could be without services for days.
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Sport: 4 Dec 06
Football fans looking forward to Euro 2008 can tune in to TV4 and Canal Digital. For the first time, SVT does not have the rights to show matches from a major football championship.
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Business & Money: 12 Oct 06
Internet provider Glocalnet is to launch outdoor wireless Internet networks in 20 Swedish towns. The service will be free to all Glocalnet customers.
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National: 6 Sep 06
Customers of Swedish broadband supplier Bredbandsbolaget have been told they must change their internet password after the company sent out the details as part of a direct mail campaign.
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Business & Money: 3 Aug 06
Sweden, which once boasted the highest rate of broadband uptake in Europe, has fallen behind other northern European countries. But an expert says things could soon pick up.
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Business & Money: 15 Mar 06
Telenor ASA says its acquisition of Sweden's Glocalnet AB has been approved by the Swedish competition authorities.
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Business & Money: 14 Feb 06
Bangladesh's leading mobile phone company has awarded a 150 million dollar contract to Swedish equipment maker Ericsson to expand its network and services in the South Asian country.
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Business & Money: 2 Jan 06
Telenor ASA said it would be "nice" if its Swedish operations managed to break even this year but the unit is expected to record another loss.
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Business & Money: 31 Oct 05
British telecom giant Vodafone has sold its Swedish subsidiary to Norwegian company Telenor for over a billion euros.
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Business & Money: 8 Aug 05
State-controlled Norwegian telecoms company Telenor wants to buy Vodafone's Swedish operations, according to reports in a British paper.
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Business & Money: 23 May 05
Norwegian telecoms operator Telenor agrees to buy Sweden's Bredbandsbolaget for 6 billion kronor. And in a Scandinavian double-whammy, the company also snaps up Denmark's Cybercity.
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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.
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