Building the company
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.
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The history of TeliaSonera spans more than a hundred years, from the first electric telegraph line to modern society. Two companies with different backgrounds became one in TeliaSonera. This is the history of their creations, and their joint ventures as one company.
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Telia + Sonera = TeliaSonera
During the 1990s, the world's telecom markets were changed to their very foundations. Competition had begun in Sweden as early as the 1980s, long before most other countries. In the rest of Europe, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and development of the EU's telecom policy in the years thereafter led to an entirely new situation that both placed many new demands but also created just as many opportunities. Read more