TELIASONERA

TeliaSonera
Official Website: http://www.teliasonera.com
Official about page: http://www.teliasonera.com/en/about-us/
Country: Sweden
Location: TeliaSonera, Stureplan 8 106 63, Stockholm
Founded: 1850
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Background

Founded in 1850 as the Royal Eletric Telegraph. 1953 - Telegrafverket changes its name to Televerket. 1991 - Entered the Baltic Market as EMT (Esti MobilTelefon) 1993 - Creation of Telia The Swedish Telecommunications administration, Televerket, was converted to Telia AB 1994 - Telecom Finland was founded. A couple of years later the company's name was changed to Sonera 1997 - Telia North America started is formed with main offices in Washington DC but with an operational center in New York. Telia was the first European telecom operator to obtain a license to construct an IP network in the US. The operation mainly focused on IP-traffic to and from and within the entirety of the United States. GSM is complemented with the 1800 MHZ-band to meet demands. Telia launch telephones that use both bands. 1998 - Telecom Finland becomes Sonera 2000 - Telia manage to obtain the majority of the Norwegian company NetCom, making them the second largest mobile telephone company on the Norwegian market. 2000 is also the year when Unisource is officially dissolved. 2001 - Swedtel is sold as part of the Telefos group to Industrikapital, and further on to Worldtel in England. On the home turf, Telia and Oracle together forms Drutt, which develops the portal Halebop using WAP technology. 2002 - Telia buy's Sonera. New Name: TeliaSonera 2007 - Lars Nyberg, with a background as director of NCR in the United States and Philips in Europe, becomes CEO of TeliaSonera.

Building the company

When TeliaSonera was founded, it was the first time two previous incumbents in two EU countries merged. Historically however, the companies had already worked together on a number of different projects and complemented each other in various ways. TeliaSonera is the fifth largest telecom operator in Europe today and continues building on its pioneering spirit and high technology expertise within both fixed and mobile communications inherited from its predecessors.

Pioneering the future

The Nordic region became the Mecca of the mobile world and had the densest mobile usage in the world. Sweden and Finland set the tone for this work with their expertise and have continued in their pioneering role. But the pioneering spirit was not restricted to mobile technology alone. Televerket was in the international front line in bringing fibre cables into commercial operation. International carrier operations were started to support large international corporate customers, an area where TeliaSonera is still the leading company in Europe and one of the most prominent in the world. Stereo radio transmissions and early activities related to the development of the Internet are also on the list of accomplishments.

Entering new markets

Nordic telecom know-how was indisputable and world renowned far beyond the Nordic national borders. This meant that many countries approached the Nordic companies for assistance when they wanted to open their market to mobile telephony. Sonera, with its eastward links, was able to create successful partnerships and stakes in mobile companies in many Eurasian countries long before the merger. In the Baltic countries, Telia and Sonera joined forces to build both fixed and mobile networks. They were on the scene even before the collapse of the former Soviet Union at the start of the 1990s. Telia also acquired experience of operating mobile companies abroad in the late 1990s, in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe.

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