Telia in Denmark and Telenor create Denmark's best network

Telia in Denmark and Telenor create Denmark's best network

Telia, TeliaSonera's subsidiary in Denmark, has entered into a network
sharing agreement with Telenor in Denmark to create Denmark's best
mobile network. The companies will also establish a common
infrastructure company to operate the joint network. The agreement will
have a significant impact on both the customer experience and financial
results.

The agreement involves the 2G, 3G and 4G networks, and ambitions for the
agreement are high.

“The decision to merge our network investments and network competencies
is a milestone. Together, we will create Denmark's best mobile network
and thereby provide the best customer experience for users of
smartphones, tablets and mobile broadband”, says Håkan Dahlström,
President business area Mobility services, TeliaSonera.

High ambitions in Denmark
With this agreement, the two companies give each other access to
existing towers in areas where they would otherwise have had to build
their own. In addition, future new mobile towers will be built jointly
by Telenor and Telia in Denmark. This will reduce both companies'
spending on mobile infrastructure while at the same time allowing them
to expand the joint network more quickly than they would have been able
to do on their own.

“TeliaSonera have high ambitions in Denmark. To achieve these ambitions,
we need to do two things successfully, we need to provide a world-class
customer experience, and we need to secure the scale of our network to
ensure that it is profitable to do business in Denmark in the long term.
By sharing networks, we are taking a strategically important step on
both fronts, making us better prepared to face the competition”,
concludes Håkan Dahlström.

Customers will begin to feel the effects of the network partnership
right away. As part of the agreement, Telenor and Telia are already in
the process of giving each other access to existing 2G and 3G positions
within the framework of the mobile tower legislation - as well as
planning new joint 2G and 3G positions.

Partners in infrastructure, competitors in products
The partnership only covers the radio access network, i.e. the antennas,
towers and transmission equipment that establish connections to mobile
units. The partnership does not involve the two companies' core networks
where their services are produced - the core networks will continue to
be operated separately. Telia and Telenor will continue as two
independent providers and will in future also compete aggressively for
customers through different products, services and prices. Telenor and
Telia have reported the establishment of the new joint network company
to the Danish Competition and Consumer Authority.

TeliaSonera AB discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the
Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instrument
Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 8 a.m. CET
on June 14, 2011.

For more information, please call the TeliaSonera press office 46-771 77
58 30, press@teliasonera.com (press@teliasonera.com)

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