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Business & Money: 17 Jun 13
TeliaSonera's new head Johan Dennelind believes he is the right man to restore the Swedish telecom giant's reputation after the company's Uzbek bribery scandal.
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Business & Money: 7 Jun 13
Prosecutors are seeking to force Sveriges Television to hand over documents believed to bear the handwriting of the Uzbek dictator's daughter Gulnara Karimova in connection with an ongoing bribery probe.
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Business & Money: 1 Jun 13
It has become easier to make SMS payments and charity donations in Sweden as WyWallet has decided to scrap its maligned registration policy introduced in February.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 May 13
Internet policy experts gather in Stockholm this week to grapple with online data protection and surveillance issues that everyone who surfs the web should care about, reports technologist Stefan Geens.
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Business & Money: 22 Apr 13
Spotify founder Martin Lorentzon, brought in to revitalize the profile of bribery-accused Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera, has avoided millions in taxes to Sweden through a shell company in Cyprus.
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Business & Money: 19 Apr 13
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera on Friday reported a first quarter decline in sales and profit amid strong competition and a drop in revenue from texting and traditional voice traffic in relation to data services.
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National: 18 Apr 13
A family from western Sweden whose house burned down to the ground is steaming mad after learning the sky high price of having their telephone service reconnected.
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Business & Money: 18 Apr 13
The smartphone revolution in Sweden has come at the price of mobile phone coverage, reveals a new report that argues that the operators' coverage maps are out of date.
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Business & Money: 4 Apr 13
TeliaSonera's new CEO Marie Ehrling has ordered a thorough review of the state-owned telecom firm's dealings in all markets abroad, as a new board was elected after a year under tough scrutiny over bribery allegations in Uzbekistan.
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Society: 5 Mar 13
In our series profiling foreigners who've moved to Sweden, The Local speaks with Ronia Virginia about the transition from being a full-time homemaker to helping Swedish firms trying to enter the Indian market.
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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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National: 1 Feb 13
TeliaSonera CEO Lars Nyberg announced on Friday he was stepping down from the Nordic telecom firm, which remains under fire over allegations of bribery stemming from its business dealings in Uzbekistan.
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Business & Money: 1 Feb 13
A law firm hired by TeliaSonera to investigate bribery allegations stemming from the Nordic telecom firm's business deals in Uzbekistan has found there is no evidence to support the claims.
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Business & Money: 31 Jan 13
Swedish-Finnish telecom operator TeliaSonera reported an 8 percent rise in 2012 net profits on Thursday, but still plans to reduce the size of its workforce in Sweden.
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National: 22 Jan 13
The Stockholm District Court on Tuesday ordered an unprecedented 1.8 billion kronor ($277 million) asset freeze for the Uzbekistan-based partner of Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera as part of an ongoing bribery investigation.
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Business & Money: 9 Jan 13
TeliaSonera will not order senior managers accused of corruption stemming from the Nordic telecom giant's dealings in Uzbekistan to take time off, despite calls by a Swedish minister who called recent revelations "very serious".
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Science & Technology: 4 Jan 13
A Swedish engineer credited with developing modern mobile telephony standards is among the recipients of the prestigious Draper Prize, awarded annually for engineering achievements that have had a positive impact on society.
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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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Lifestyle: 14 Dec 12
There are lots of things to keep track of when you move home. The Local has teamed up with our friends at Adressändring to provide you with a guide to the most important things to think about.
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Business & Money: 12 Dec 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera confirmed on Wednesday that two senior staff members are under criminal investigation for bribery following September’s revelations of the details surrounding its licensing deal in Uzbekistan.
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Politics: 5 Nov 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera has been hit with new revelations about another business deal with Uzbekistan, which came after a request from the daughter of the country’s president who “needed more money”.
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Business & Money: 17 Oct 12
TeliaSonera will shed 2,000 workers as part of a 2 billion kronor ($300 million) savings package, the Swedish-Finnish telecoms giant announced on Wednesday along with its third quarter results.
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Science & Technology: 15 Oct 12
A Stockholm court on Monday ordered more than $30 million held in a Swedish bank by an Uzbek company with ties to Swedish-Finnish telecoms giant TeliaSonera be frozen as part of an ongoing money-laundering probe.
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Business & Money: 11 Oct 12
Nordic telecom firm TeliaSonera has been hit with new revelations about suspicious business practices in Asia, this time stemming from a complex deal with a firm tied to the former ruling family in Nepal.
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Business & Money: 10 Oct 12
TeliaSonera CEO Lars Nyberg will be leaving his post early in the wake of bribery scandals and the Nordic telecom firm's dealings with dictators. A search for his replacement is already underway.
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Business & Money: 9 Oct 12
Sweden has seen a decrease of around 10 percent in cash usage nationwide over the past five years, a trend that has prompted more and more shops to accept only cards at the counter.
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Business & Money: 26 Sep 12
Swedish prosecutors have launched a corruption investigation into the circumstamces surrounding how telecom operator TeliaSonera acquired licences in Uzbekistan, the company announced on Wednesday.
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Business & Money: 25 Sep 12
A Stockholm-based manager from Swedish-Finnish telecom giant TeliaSonera is under investigation for corruption in a scandal that reportedly involves expensive mobile phones, ice hockey and sex club visits.
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Business & Money: 24 Sep 12
Swedish telecom operator Telia has backtracked on a proposal from March to block mobile phone users in Sweden from making free calls using services like Skype and Viber, but has instead announced a hike in data prices.
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National: 20 Sep 12
The CEO of telecom giant TeliaSonera, of which the Swedish state is the largest owner, said he was prepared to resign should new money laundering and bribery accusations related to the firm's contracts in Uzbekistan prove true.
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Education: 24 Apr 12
When Han Zhang came from China to study a Masters at Stockholm University in 2009, it put her on the path to a career at a top Swedish law firm. She is one of many overseas students for whom studies in Stockholm have led to careers in Sweden.
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Business & Money: 22 Apr 12
Stockholm municipality is currently a Telia Sonera customer, but has threatened to change providers following the revelation of Telia Sonera’s cooperation with several dictatorships, losing the company some 40,000 subscriptions.
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Science & Technology: 18 Apr 12
TeliaSonera, the successor to Sweden's state telecom monopoly, has given state security services access to systems it operates in the former Soviet Union in order to secure lucrative contracts there, according to Swedish media reports.
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Business & Money: 28 Mar 12
Swedish telecom operators want to implement technologies that will block mobile phone users in Sweden from making free calls using services like Skype and Viber.
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Business & Money: 9 Mar 12
The new Apple Ipad will not be compatible with the Swedish 4G network as it is adapted for North American 4G, which operates at different frequencies to the Swedish network.
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Business & Money: 3 Feb 12
Nordic telecoms giant TeliaSonera reported a 14-percent drop in net profit for 2011 on Thursday but said that their analysts still forecast a modest rise in sales for 2012.
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Business & Money: 10 Jan 12
Sweden’s national debt office stated on Tuesday that the country’s budget surplus from 2011 stood at 68 billion kronor ($9.85 billion).
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Science & Technology: 2 Jan 12
Text messaging seems to have become a thing of the past when social media - savvy Swedes wanted to wish their loved ones a Happy New Year.
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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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National: 28 Nov 11
Some 80,000 households remained without electricity in southern Sweden on Monday morning in the wake of the weekend's storm, while rail and air traffic continued to suffer disruption.
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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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Analysis & Opinion: 29 Sep 11
A year has passed since the Sweden Democrats became Sweden’s newest parliamentary party and The Local’s Peter Vinthagen Simpson has a look at what has been achieved, what has not and what has changed.
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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: 20 May 11
Former post office head Lars G Nordström has been proposed as the new Vattenfall head, when the company elects its third chairman in as many years.
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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: 24 Mar 11
Swedish-Finnish telecom firm TeliaSonera has opened legal action against the chairperson of Turkcell, a firm in which it has a 38 percent stake, over a dispute regarding the make up of the Turkish telecom operator's board.
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Politics: 16 Mar 11
The Swedish Alliance coalition government has lost the right to sell off stakes in a slew of state-owned companies after a parliament decision on Wednesday afternoon, suffering its most high profile setback since regaining power.
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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: 1 Mar 11
A Riksdag committee said on Tuesday that it wants to halt the sale of the state's shares in a number of state-owned companies, reversing a previous decision giving the government a mandate to do so.
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Politics: 4 Feb 11
The Swedish government confirmed on Friday that it had raised 19 billion kronor ($2.94 billion) on the sale of 255 million of its shares in Nordic banking giant Nordea.
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Politics: 3 Feb 11
The Swedish government announced on Thursday its intention to sell more than 250 million shares of its holdings in Nordea bank.
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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: 21 Jan 11
Sweden's ruling minority Alliance coalition may lose yet another vote in parliament after the Sweden Democrats announced their intention to support a motion to stop or restrict the sale of state-owned enterprises.
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Business & Money: 19 Jan 11
The number of Swedes playing the stock market dropped in 2010, according to new statistics, while telecom firms Ericsson and TeliaSonera topped the list of Swedish firms with the most shareholders.
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Society: 13 Jan 11
Sweden's television and radio licence fee system may appear confusing to new arrivals to the country, especially to those who come from countries that collect revenue for public broadcasting through taxation.
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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: 2 Jan 11
Sweden has a key role in Europe as the U.S. prepares for future cyber-warfare, classified documents released by WikiLeaks indicate.
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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: 21 Dec 10
Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera confirmed on Tuesday that it has filed an appeal against a Russian court decision blocking the merger of its stakes in two mobile phone operators with Moscow-based Altimo.
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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: 8 Nov 10
Swedish telecom firm Ericsson announced on Monday that it had claimed a contract to supply a a fourth-generation (4G) communications network to Danish operator TDC.
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Science & Technology: 3 Nov 10
A Stockholm hotel has launched a new pilot security system enabling guests to open their rooms, and even check in and out, with the help of their mobile phones.
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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: 29 Oct 10
A subsidiary of Swedish phone giant TeliaSonera has enabled Mount Everest climbers to surf the web from their mobile phones and make video calls back home from the top of the world’s tallest peak.
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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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National: 19 Oct 10
Sweden's new financial markets minister Peter Norman was on Monday unwilling to promise that share holdings in Nordea, SBAB and Telia, would be sold off during the mandate period
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Politics: 12 Oct 10
Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg presented a budget for 2011 on Tuesday morning including 13 billion kronor ($2 billion) in new measures, promising to move Sweden from "crisis to full employment".
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Analysis & Opinion: 6 Sep 10
Here's a look at the centre-right Alliance, which is looking to win another term as Sweden's ruling coalition.
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Politics: 26 Aug 10
The ruling Alliance coalition has promised its fifth in-work tax credit if it wins the election next month, it promised as it rolled out its manifesto on Thursday.
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Politics: 8 Aug 10
Minister for Finance Anders Borg has indicated that the government intends to raise 100 billion kronor ($14 billion) by selling off the state’s shareholdings in a number of companies if voted back into power in September.
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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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Business & Money: 2 Jul 10
The 57 Swedish state-owned firms are estimated to have increased their total worth by 24 percent or 120 billion kronor ($15.77 billion) to 620 billion kronor in 2009, according to new government estimates.
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National: 19 Jun 10
Today's the day that Crown Princess Victoria will get her man of the people. We'll be following the whole thing live - with reporters around Stockholm providing the latest news, reactions and (hopefully) informed speculation from the Royal Wedding.
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Business & Money: 18 Jun 10
Green Party spokesman Peter Eriksson believes that state power company Vattenfall is a major problem and is willing to sell off parts of the company.
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Politics: 10 Jun 10
The Christian Democrats believe the government should continue selling off state-owned companies.
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Business & Money: 21 May 10
Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website.
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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: 12 May 10
Forbes Magazine has included 30 Swedish companies on its list of the world's most successful major companies, including Nordea Bank, ABB and H&M.
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Business & Money: 20 Apr 10
TeliaSonera declared a return to profits on Tuesday while the Nordic telecoms giant reported a drop in sales for the first quarter 2010.
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Business & Money: 15 Apr 10
Swedish-Finnish telecom firm TeliaSonera has landed in a tax battle in Georgia after its Geocell subsidiary was served with a 450 million kronor ($63 million) penalty.
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Politics: 8 Apr 10
Swedish-Finnish telecom firm TeliaSonera voted at its AGM on Wednesday to ban bonuses for senior staff after a proposal from the Swedish state's representative.
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National: 1 Apr 10
A year after the adoption of Sweden's IPRED anti-piracy legislation, new figures show that file sharing is growing in popularity, internet traffic has rebounded strongly, and only a small handful of cases have been brought before the courts.
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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.
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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: 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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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: 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.
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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.
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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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