TELE2 LAUNCHES ITS SIXTH GSM NETWORK IN RUSSIA
New York and Stockholm - Tele2 AB, ("Tele2"), (Nasdaq Stock Market: TLTOA and TLTOB and Stockholmsbörsen: TEL2A and TEL2B), the leading alternative pan-European telecommunications company, today announced that it has launched a GSM-network in Izhevsk, its sixth in Russia under the Tele2 brand.The population covered by the GSM-license in Izhevsk is 1.7 million and the region's mobile penetration is approximately 9%. Tele2 is the third mobile operator to launch GSM-services in the region. As in Irkutsk, Rostov, St Petersburg, Kemerovo and Omsk, the GSM-network in Izhevsk was launched based on