![[Telia logo. Click here to view gif]](picts/telia-large.gif)
Telia has a long history dating back to the middle of the 19'th century with Kongl Telegraph Verket (``Royal Telegraph''). Later Kungl. Televerket (``Royal Telecom'').
1 July 1993 Televerket (``Dept of Telecom'') became Telia AB. At the same time the new regulatory body Post- & Telestyrelsen (``Board of Post & Telecom'') PTS was inaugurated.
Telia is 100% owned by the government but isn't favoured as in e.g. France or Germany. Privatization isn't on the (Socialist) government agenda (elections in 1998). Telia wants to issue new stock sometime next year and the government will probably allow that but will maintain ownership majority. In a five year perspective Telia will most probably be privatised.
Telia also operates an IP network (former TipNet), X.400 and X.25 network (don't all former and current PTTs. Sorry, no webpage :-)) and owns one fourth of Unisource.
The Telia landline network is built around the AXE10 platform
from Ericsson.
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Telia Mobitel
There's detailed information about Telia's internal structure
on their web server. But
for now let's just mention that one of its most important
subsidiaries is Telia Mobitel (former ``Televerket Radio'').
During 1996 Telia will undergo a major restructuring where Mobitel will be merged with Telecom Services thus erasing the border between landline and wireless telecom.
Mobitel uses AXE10 exchanges from Ericsson and Ericsson radio equipment for the analog networks. In the GSM network both Ericsson and Nokia radio equipment is used.
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The map to the right shows 2W-handheld coverage for GSM
sometime early autumn '95. NMT450i coverage is almost total,
even in the worst outback, and is somtimes ok even in the
Finnish (Åbo) archipelago. NMT900 coverage is also very good
to but has shaky coverage in the most extreme outback.
[ Comviq | Europolitan | Telia Mobitel ]
September there were newspaper articles about Telia negotiating a takeover with Sonofon GSM A/S in Denmark. Sonofon is the private GSM carrier and has about half of the 200 k Danish subscribers. Telia doesn't want to comment, but Sono's owners say that ``during negotiations one can't speak of details in public''. Telia has also applied for frequencies in the Danish 1800 MHz band (DCS).
It would seem as Telia's strongest foreign move at the moment is made in the Danish market. Telia's ambition is to be number two in Denmark. To be able to be number two in Denmark (or for someone else in Sweden for that matter) a full range of telecom services must be available to the customers. This includes ``traditional'' mobile telephony such as GSM and the possibility to circumvene local loop with DCS and/or DECT. DCS is much better suited for Denmark than any other Nordic country since Denmark is rather small and very densely populated. Tele Danmark has 95% of Denmark (area, not pop!) covered by its GSM network!
This clearly demonstrates Telia's ambition to become the truly pan-Nordic operator. But, the matter is finally decided by the Swedish socialist government that refuses to both de-regulate the home-market fully and privatise Telia. Only a privatised Telia can raise the capital needed for this expansion and only fair competition at home will persuade neighbour governments not to stop Telia.
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