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TeliaSonera announces ‘best ever’ quarterly earnings

Swedish-Finnish telecommunications operator TeliaSonera said on Friday its third quarter net profit increased 8.1 percent to 6.2 billion kronor (675.2 million euros, 969 million dollars), against 5.75 billion in the same period of 2006.

Published: 26 October 2007 11:12 CEST

The company’s turnover increased seven percent to 24.8 billion kronor, against 23.16 billion last year.

“Group earnings were the best ever in the third quarter, driven by strong sales growth and substantial profit contributions from our minority owned operations in Eurasia,” CEO Lars Nyberg said.

The company also announced a 10 billion kronor extraordinary dividend for 2007.

In opening deals TeliaSonera shares were up 6.9 percent at 62 kronor following the news, on a Stockholm stock exchange which was 0.5 percent higher.

PRIVACY

Telia leaks customers’ private phone logs

Swedish telecom firm Telia has come under fire after the company published customers' private information, leaked their bills online, and revealed lists of SMS and phone call recipients.

Published: 13 August 2013 11:57 CEST
Telia leaks customers' private phone logs

Several customers of Telia, the Swedish subsidiary of Swedish-Finnish telecom company TeliaSonera, learned this week that their information had been leaked for several months and was still available on Google cached documents. One of those affected was 28-year-old Madelene Dalebrand Wachler from Hudiksvall in eastern Sweden.

“[Swedish tabloid] Aftonbladet rang me and explained that my billing statements were viewable online… you could come in directly and see it all – all the calls I’d made and all the people to whom I had sent an SMS,” she told The Local.

The information came with names, addresses, telephone numbers and even lengths of the phone calls.

“It’s terrible. Some of the people I had contacted had private and unpublished numbers, and all of this has been leaked by Telia,” she added.

Wachler has since contacted authorities at Sweden’s Data Inspectorate (Datainspektionen) who have promised to launch an investigation into the matter.

“I’m also looking into getting compensation from Telia. Information shouldn’t be available like this, it’s horrible and it’s quite scary actually. And it makes it harder to trust all these big companies,” she said.

Telia spokesman Hans G. Larsson was shocked to learn of the leaks, confirming that only a few people were affected.

“This in unacceptable, of course, and it’s something we will be looking into. We do offer our customers confidentiality and this involves the data protection act,” he told Aftonbladet.

He explained that the system had been shuttered later on Monday night, which meant no customers were able to see their own statements online at the time.

“If you need to pay a bill over the coming days, you can log into My Pages [Mina sidor] on Telia to see the statements,” Larsson told the TT news agency.

“Thank goodness, this seems to have been very limited. Nothing points to it being a large group of customers being affected, but it’s bad enough already,” Larsson told the TT news agency.

Oliver Gee

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