Tele2 AB : Change in the number of votes in Tele2 AB

Stockholm - Tele2 AB (Tele2), (NASDAQ OMX Stockholm: TEL2 A and TEL2 B) today
announced that as of 31 August 2012 the number of shares in Tele2 AB amounts to
448,783,339 shares of which are 20,987,981 Class A shares, with ten votes each,
and 423,746,358 Class B shares and 4,049,000 Class C shares with one vote each.
The total number of votes in the company amounts to 637,675,168.

In August the number of shares in the company was unchanged compared to previous
month. However, the number of votes in the company has decreased with 7,875 as a
consequence of the reclassification of 875 Class A shares into Class B shares.
Contacts

Lars Torstensson, Investor Inquiries, Telephone: +46 702 73 48 79
Pernilla Oldmark, Press Inquiries, Telephone: +46 704 26 45 45


TELE2 IS ONE OF EUROPE'S LEADING TELECOM OPERATORS, ALWAYS PROVIDING THE BEST
DEAL. We have 36 million customers in 11 countries. Tele2 offers mobile
services, fixed broadband and telephony, data network services, cable TV and
content services. Ever since Jan Stenbeck founded the company in 1993, it has
been a tough challenger to the former government monopolies and other
established providers. Tele2 has been listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm since
1996. In 2010, we had net sales of SEK 41 billion and reported an operating
profit (EBITDA) of SEK 11.2 billion.

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