TeliaSonera and Orange Business Services Sign Agreement for Global Business Communications Solutions
Exhibit
99.1
TeliaSonera
and Orange Business Services Sign Agreement for Global Business Communications
Solutions
STOCKHOLM,
Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 2006—TeliaSonera (STO:TLSN) (HEX:TLS1V)
(NASDAQ:TLSN) and Orange Business Services have joined forces to offer
TeliaSonera corporate customers access to an extensive portfolio of truly
global, integrated, secure and customized communications solutions.
TeliaSonera
integrates its regional IP services in the Nordic and Baltic countries with
Orange global IP services, which enables TeliaSonera to offer customers seamless
and fully consistent communication services and solutions across the different
service platforms globally.
"Our
corporate customers with requirements beyond the TeliaSonera Nordic and Baltic
home markets will benefit from this agreement. This is an important step in
TeliaSonera's strive to create growth via new mobile and IP-based services
together with increased simplicity for our customers," says Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Group Vice President, Corporate Marketing, Products and
Services, TeliaSonera AB.
TeliaSonera
also has a partnership agreement with Orange within the mobile communications
area through FreeMove, the international mobile alliance between Orange,
TeliaSonera, XXX (Telecom Italia Group) and T-Mobile.
TeliaSonera's
and Orange Business Services' common ambition are to be a long-term strategic
resource for its customers. The solutions are designed to be scalable with
customer needs as well as to help expand and support clients' business
operations and improve efficiency.
"Orange
Business Services and TeliaSonera are both in the forefront of providing leading
IP services to support the business processes of corporate customers. Through
this contract we are looking forward to provide TeliaSonera's international
customers a truly global converged service offering," says Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx,
Senior Vice President EMEA, Orange Business Services.
Through
a
one-stop shopping and single-point of responsibility setup, the aim is to reduce
complexity, simplify customer contact and make it easier for Nordic and Baltic
customers with international requirements to buy services and manage their
communications needs. With convergence services it is getting more important
to
have a single supplier for both voice and data.
About
Orange Business Services
Orange
Business Services represents the business communications solutions and services
provided by the France Telecom Group as of June 1st, 2006. They were previously
sold under the France Telecom, Orange, Equant, Etrali, Almerys, EGT, Expertel
Consulting, France Telecom Intelmatique, SETIB and Solicia brands. The offers
include converged voice, data and mobile services as well as IT expertise and
managed services, all designed to transform business processes and improve
productivity. Orange Business Services is present in 166 countries and
territories and serves customers in 220.
Forward-Looking
Statements Statements made in the press release relating to future status or
circumstances, including future performance and other trend projections are
forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve
risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances
that will occur in the future. There can be no assurance that actual results
will not differ materially from those expressed or implied by these
forward-looking statements due to many factors, many of which are outside the
control of TeliaSonera.
TeliaSonera
is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic regions.
At
the end of December 2005 TeliaSonera had 19,146,000 mobile customers (69,887,000
incl associated companies) and 7,064,000 fixed telephony customers (7,688,000
incl associated companies) and 2,263,000 internet customers (2,331,000 incl
associated companies). Outside the home markets TeliaSonera has extensive
interests in the growth markets in Russia, Turkey and Eurasia. TeliaSonera
is
listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Net
sales January-December 2005 amounted to SEK 87.7 billion. The number of
employees was 28,175.
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CONTACT:
TeliaSonera AB
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