Telenor Sverige (previously Vodafone Sweden, Europolitan and Nordic Tel), is a

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and

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Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

, owned by

Telenor Telenor ASA ( or ) is a Norwegian majority state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered at Fornebu in Bærum, close to Oslo. It is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies with operations worldwide, ...

. Telenor Sverige's network covers 99 percent of the country's population, with

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on 2G, 4G LTE and 5G NR under the

Net4Mobility Net4Mobility is a joint venture between Telenor Sweden and Tele2 Sweden. The company’s main goal is to build, own and operate a GSM (2G), LTE (4G) and 5G NR Network and Transmission Network in Sweden. The mobile network covers 99 percent of the ...

joint venture with Tele2, and on 3G UMTS with 3 Sverige outside Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Lund and Karlskrona, where it has its own 3G masts. Today, Telenor Sweden has over 2.5 million mobile subscribers, approximately 645,000 broadband customers and half a million TV customers. Telenor Sweden has a turnover of approximately SEK 13.1 billion (2015) and has approximately 1,900 employees.

History

In September 1992, the network went live under the name Europolitan, owned by Nordic Tel. Europolitan was the first mobile phone network company in Sweden to launch

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and

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. During the late 1990s,

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went on an acquisition spree that led to the acquisition of Nordic Tel. In the early-2000s various operating companies in the Vodafone Group changed their names to Vodafone. After several years of under-performance, Vodafone Sweden was sold on 31 October 2005 to

, the largest telecommunications company in Norway, for approximately €1 billion. It took the Telenor name on 20 April 2006. In 2014, Telenor Sverige launched the discount prepaid phone

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Vimla, meant to compete against

Comviq Comviq (originally Comvik) is since 2009 a Sweden, Swedish Prepaid mobile phone, prepaid and Postpaid mobile phone, postpaid mobile phone fighter brand, flanker brand, fully owned by Tele2. The original Comvik operation is the predecessor to two l ...

Halebop 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 ...

and

Hallon 3 or Three is a global brand name owned by Hutchison 3G Enterprises S.A.R.L., under which several UMTS-based mobile phone networks and broadband internet providers operate in Hong Kong, Macau, Austria, Denmark, Indonesia, Ireland, Sweden, and ...

, discount prepaid brands owned by

Tele2 Tele2 AB is a Swedish telecommunications operator headquartered in the Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major telephone operator in Sweden, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Tele2 also has a 25% share in T-Mobile Netherland ...

, Telia and 3 Sverige respectively. On 15 May 2018 the daughter company

Bredbandsbolaget Bredbandsbolaget (''The Broadband Company'', abbreviated BBB, B2 or BB) was a Swedish Internet service provider (ISP) owned by Telenor. It was founded in 1998 with a focus on high-speed Internet connection for homes and businesses using optical fib ...

merged into Telenor Sweden.

References

Vodafone Telenor Mobile phone companies of Sweden {{Sweden-stub