TeliaSonera AB News

Finland completed its auction of 2.6 GHz spectrum yesterday, which lasted for five days and went 27 rounds.

Government sells licences to build out LTE networks for total of a 3.8 million. The Finnish government said Monday it had auctioned off four permits to build fourth generation, or 4G, mobile telephony and broadband networks, bringing in EUR3.8 million to state coffers.

Executive at Turkish mobile operator insists company's operations will be unaffected by Alfa/TeliaSonera deal.

Swedish telecoms company TeliaSonera is using coupons issued by the Azeri government in 1995 to buy the statea s stake in wireless operator Azercell, Bloomberg reports.

FreeMove, the mobile telecommunications alliance between Orange, TeliaSonera, TIM and T-Mobile has today announced the appointment of Fabien Gustafsson to the newly created position of General Manager, effective 3rd November.

TeliaSonera and Altimo have reportedly agreed to combine ownership interests into a new company.

Sweden-based TeliaSonera has reportedly announced its intention to boost investment in its Finnish subsidiary in a bid to regain the number one market position, Reuters claims.

TeliaSonera and Alfa Group said on Thursday they would combine their Eurasian mobile assets, a move that could help them resolve a bitter dispute over ownership of top Turkish operator Turkcell .

Nordic telecommunications operator TeliaSonera AB and Russia's Altimo will combine their stakes in mobile operators Turkcell and Megafon to create a new joint company, solving legal disputes, TeliaSonera said Thursday.

Billionaire Alisher Usmanov's AF Telecom Holding is considering swapping the MegaFon shares for part of the Svyazinvest fixed-line unit, which by mid-2011 is supposed to absorb seven of Svyazinvest's regional companies.

Huawei has been making strong progress in the first phase of LTE trials in Europe, with tests at TeliaSonera, Telenor and Vodafone Germany.

LTE , service providers are confounded with a number of issues surrounding the deployment of the technology.

Mobile operators and telecoms equipment manufacturers from around the world have agreed on how to carry text messages and voice calls over LTE, the planned successor to 3G.

AT&T*, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung Electronics Co.

Workers at a Star-Cell store use their mobile phones last week in Phnom Penh. T HE parent company of Cambodian mobile phone operator Star-Cell on Wednesday attributed a 56 percent second-quarter drop in subscribers to stepped up competition as a result of the a oenext-to-zero pricinga policy of a new entrant from Vietnam.

Regulatory News: TeliaSonera today issued a Eurobond of EUR 600 million under its existing EUR 7 billion EMTN programme.

AT&T*, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung Electronics Co.

With the future of telecoms privatization in Latvia stalled and highly politicized, there is a good chance that in the next three to five years, Lattelecom could end up sold or owned seperately from its distant sister company, mobile operator LMT .

A sales assistant checks her phone Thursday at a Star Cell sales office in Phnom Penh.

Even while the Indian operators get ready to launch 3G in the country, they should start thinking of LTE strategy... Archana Singh Thursday, October 29, 2009 Though 3G spectrum auction is yet to take place in the country, the operators should start formalizing the LTE strategy.