Société Européenne de communication s.a. ("SEC") announces the appointment of Lars-Johan Jarnheimer as company director

SOCIÉTÉ EUROPÉENNE DE COMMUNICATION S.A. ("SEC") ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF LARS-JOHAN JARNHEIMER AS COMPANY DIRECTOR Luxembourg, Frankfurt, New York, Stockholm, December 13 - Société Européenne de Communication ("SEC"), a leading, alternative European telecommunications provider, has appointed Mr Lars-Johan Jarnheimer as a Director of the Board of SEC. SEC was formed to take advantage of the deregulation process taking place in the European telecommunications market. The companies which comprise SEC include: Tele2 Europe, providing national and international long distance telephony services the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy and Luxembourg; Transcom Europe providing customer care services and call centers; Tango, the GSM 900/DCS 1800 cellular license in Luxembourg providing a broad range of mobile telecommunication services; 3C Communications, operating public pay telephones and public Internet services and Transac (formerly Transcom International) providing billing and transaction processing services. SEC has recently launched a 3 number of new operations including Everyday.com, C , and Intellinet. SEC A and SEC B shares are listed on: the Luxembourg Stock Exchange; the Nasdaq Stock market as ADS under the symbols SECAY and SECBY; the Frankfurt Stock exchange under the symbols SEN1 and SEN2 and the Stockholm Stock Exchange O-List in Stockholm under the symbols SECA and SECB. SEC's web site is located at http://www.sec.lu Contact: Anders Björkman Telephone: +352 45 95 45 1 President & Chief Executive Officer Société Européenne de Communication S.A. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/12/13/19991213BIT00190/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/1999/12/13/19991213BIT00190/bit0002.pdf