Telia Norge AS, formerly NetCom AS, is a

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. Founded in 1993, it is the second largest mobile phone operator in Norway. The company has about 1.641 million subscribers (April 2013), and the company headquarters are located in

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. It is owned by the

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company

Telia Company Telia Company AB is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Telia also owns TV4 Media which includes TV4 in Sweden, MTV Oy in Fi ...

. The Telia office in Trondheim consists mainly of sales, customer service and technical departments. Telia was for a while the exclusive carrier for iPhone (iPhone 3G) in Norway, until

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signed an agreement with

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to also distribute the device in

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Availability for tracking customers whereabouts

An article form

Dagens Næringsliv ''Dagens Næringsliv'' (Norwegian for "Today's Business"), commonly known as ''DN'', is a Norwegian newspaper specializing in business news. , it is the third-largest newspaper in Norway. Editor-in-chief is Janne Johannessen, who was appointed i ...

on September 16, 2013, stated that a security weakness at Telia resulted in the availability of "—with simple resources, to track he whereabouts ofmembers of parliament and other Telia customers abroad, when they were on a job

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or on a holiday"—until the weakness was rectified (''tette hullet'') on September 12, 2013.Kunne spore stortingspolitikere i utlandet
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Name change to Telia

On 1 March 2016 NetCom changed its name to Telia, most likely to avoid confusing their customers as they have been sharing TeliaSonera's logo for multiple years prior to the name change. They launched their "ROAM LIKE HOME" offer right after, allowing customers to use their existing mobile subscriptions in all Nordic and

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countries (With the exception of

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and the

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). They were the first mobile operator in Norway to provide a service of this nature. Until now, competing mobile operators had simply been offering roaming packs of mobile data at slightly discounted rates.

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* Mobile phone companies of Norway Companies formerly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange 1993 establishments in Norway {{Norway-company-stub