3rd generation networks however took years to catch on and Sonera ended up as a part of TeliaSonera, then simply Telia.

France Telecom proposed a 33 billion Euro acquisition offer for TeliaSonera on 5 June 2008, which was promptly rejected by the company's board.

In March 2008, the media claimed that France Télécom wanted to take over on the Scandinavian company TeliaSonera.

Sweden's TeliaSonera NMT network was suspended on 31 December 2007.

The permission for TeliaSonera to continue operation of NMT-450 ended on 31 December 2007.

TeliaSonera and Cukurova agreed on a binding shareholders ' agreement in 2005, depriving Cukurova from the right to sell Turkcell shares without the prior consent of TeliaSonera, and with the latter company's right of first priority to buy eventual shares from Cukurova.

SUNET together with Sprint and TeliaSonera took part in a 40 Gbit / s transmission on a single wavelength between Luleå, Sweden and New York using TAT-14.

When Radiolinja launched, Finland's incumbent mobile operator, Telecom Finland ( later changed to Sonera, now part of Sweden's TeliaSonera ) was already operating a first generation mobile network on the NMT technology.

In April 2000 TeliaSonera entered the market with its own network under the brand of Moldcell and thus became the second carrier in the country.

On February 2012 the national operator Rostelecom has selected TeliaSonera International Carrier to operate and manage its new backbone network between Kingisepp, Russia and Stockholm.

During the 2006 Riksdag elections the new Alliance for Sweden ( which subsequently won the election, to form a coalition government ) stated a policy aim to sell its stake in TeliaSonera.

TeliaSonera has declared that it will dismantle a part of its countryside land-line networks in sparsely-populated areas.

In 2011, TeliaSonera released its new purple pebble logo to the corporation and its affiliate brands.

Cable and Wireless later sold its shares to TeliaSonera, as a result of which 51 % of the company ’ s shares are presently owned by the Latvian government, but 49 %-by TeliaSonera.

Cable and Wireless later sold its stake to TeliaSonera, which now owns 49 % of the company.

Thus, the website did not develop much in the ownership of TeliaSonera and its functionality suffered.

At the time, its main shareholders were French company Vivendi, the Spanish building company Grupo ACS and Scandinavian cell phone carrier Sonera ( now TeliaSonera ).

Nevertheless, after years of ignoring Spanish Government's threats to have their license removed, actual operations started in June 2006, when TeliaSonera, a minority holder until then, acquired up to 76. 56 % of Xfera's shares and stated that they would restart building its UMTS network and start offering mobile services later in the year.

TeliaSonera AB is the dominant telephone company and mobile network operator in Sweden and Finland.

TeliaSonera is now the largest Nordic and Baltic fixed-voice, broadband, and mobile operator by revenue and customer base.

In Denmark TeliaSonera operates a mobile operator ( Telia ), a mobile MVNO ( Call Me ) and a broadband supplier ( Telia ).

TeliaSonera owns 100 % of Omnitel, one of the largest telecommunication companies in the Baltic countries, and 88. 2 % of Teo LT, the largest landline phone operator in Lithuania.

TeliaSonera owns a 74, 3 % see-through stake of the Moldovan mobile operator Moldcell through Fintur Holdings.

TeliaSonera owns 80 percent of the shares and votes in Spice Nepal, the second largest mobile operator in Nepal.

TeliaSonera owns 35. 6 % of MegaFon, the second mobile operator in Russia

TeliaSonera owns 38 % of Turkcell, the leading mobile operator in Turkey.

* Yoigo TeliaSonera owned 3G operator in Spain

In June 2008, the firm abandoned a € 27 billion bid for Swedish operator TeliaSonera after the two companies failed to agree terms.

In 2004 Orange withdraws from Denmark: the operator Orange A / S ( formerly Mobilix, established in 1997 ) is sold to the Finno-Swedish operator TeliaSonera for 600 million Euros, paid in cash

* TeliaSonera, a Swedish / Finnish telecom operator

In 2007, Finnet companies, and TeliaSonera Finland discontinued their public telephones earlier and the last remaining operator Elisa Oyj did that during the beginning of the year.

Alfa Group and Swedish-Finnish TeliaSonera jointly own the Turkish mobile operator Turkcell, and the Russian mobile operator MegaFon.

In 1981, a mobile phone provider called Comvik started as an alternative mobile phone operator to Telia, now known as TeliaSonera.

On 16 March 2011 the right-center minority administration lost an important voting against the opposition consisting of Vänsterpartiet, Socialdemokraterna, Miljöpartiet and Sverigedemokraterna which stopped the selling of government-owned business, among those TeliaSonera.

Over 10 years, Alfa Group has found itself in legal battle with business partners from Canada ( NoreX ), Great Britain ( BP ), Sweden ( TeliaSonera ), Norway ( Telenor ), Turkey and Indonesia.

A market leader in many emerging markets, including India, parts of South East Asia and the former Soviet Union, ECI ’ s customer base includes Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Bezeq, Virgin Media ( formerly NTL ), KPN, UPC, Orange SA ( formerly Wanadoo ), Enertel, TeliaSonera, Svyaz Invest, VimpelCom, MGTS, Ukrtelecom, Kievstar, Tata, Bharti, China Telecom, Hutchison, SK Telecom, KT Corp. ( formerly Korea Telecom ), Chunghwa Telecom, Globe Telecom, Vtel, Intelsat, Telmex, ICE and many others.

After the fusion of Sonera Plaza with Sonera, which later fusioned with Telia to form TeliaSonera, Huuto. net followed along.

In June 2005 TeliaSonera sold Huuto. net to Ilta-Sanomat Oy and the website became the most popular Finnish classified advertising service.

The next-generation managed optical network provides connectivity between the cable landing points of the Baltic Cable System, Kingisepp and Kotka, implemented over TeliaSonera International Carrier's wholly owned fibre-optic infrastructure to Stockholm.

TeliaSonera is the result of a 2002 merger between the Swedish and Finnish telecommunications companies, Telia and Sonera.

In the beginning of 2008, TeliaSonera announced measures to save nearly 500 million Euros which would include 2900 redundancies: 2000 from Sweden and 900 from Finland.

TeliaSonera International Carrier ( AS1299 ) is a tier 1 carrier.

TeliaSonera is a 12. 25 % stakeholder of the Afghanistan Roshan ( telco ) cellphone network.

From May 15, 2010 after Azercell made rebranding, it entered into a network of TeliaSonera.

The company started in 1995 and was a merger between Telia Stofa and TeliaSonera.

However, Finland ’ s minister of communications, Suvi Lindén, has demanded that TeliaSonera first commit to a list of conditions pertaining to, among others, emergency calls and broadband speed, and TeliaSonera has agreed to act accordingly.

TeliaSonera owns 100 % of Eesti Telekom.

TeliaSonera and the Estonian government reached a deal over the sale of Eesti Telekom in September 2009.

Since 2007 TeliaSonera has owned 58. 55 % of the Geocell company, while Turkcell owns the remaining 41. 45 %.