Tele1 Europe and Sweden€s County Administrative Boards sign telephony agreement

Tele1 Europe and Sweden's County Administrative Boards sign telephony agreement 19 of Sweden's 21 county administrative boards are now signing agreements with Tele1 Europe (NASDAQ: TEUR Stockholm Stock Exchange: TEUR) to provide their directly-connected telephony services. The recommendation to change telephony services to Tele1 Europe has been made by a common forum of all Sweden's county administrative boards. A thorough decision-making process preceded the signing of this agreement where all the Swedish County Administrative Boards have been involved. The contract, which is worth about SEK 12 million, is based on a framework agreement, which the Swedish Agency for Administrative Development has entered into with Tele1Europe. Mats Domwall, Manager for IT Strategy for Sweden's County Administrative Boards, commented: - We obtained proposals from several telephone service providers, but none were able to combine cost efficiency with quality and to provide secure telephony solutions in the same way as Tele1 Europe. Our decision was also based on the openness, flexibility and expertise, which the company demonstrated during the contract negotiations. Tele1 Europe has the necessary flexibility and ability to adapt its telephony solutions to the unique requirements of each county administrative board. We are pleased to be working with a telephony service provider, which understands both the technical and commercial needs of an organisation that is as complex as ours. According to Mats Domwall, the fact that Tele1 Europe will be responsible for the direct telephony services is an important step in finding new co- ordination solutions for the county administrative boards. The next stage will include an overview of the requirements and solutions for mobile telephony. The county administrative boards are now only waiting for full number portability. Pelle Hjortblad, Managing Director of Tele1 Europe AB, said: - The fact that the county administrative boards in Sweden have chosen Tele1 Europe as their supplier of directly connected telephony services is incredibly important for us. We are now able to provide a major organisation with offices throughout the country with a high quality, flexible broadband-based telephony solution. We would also like the opportunity to develop our services in respect to mobile telephony and computing solutions." The contract of delivery is for two years with the option for a third year. For more information, contact: Tele1 Europe AB Pelle Hjortblad, Managing Director Phone +46 8 5631 01 10 Mobile: +46 701 81 01 10 E-mail: pelle.hjortblad@tele1europe.se Tele1 Europe Holding AB Ivar Strömberg, CEO Phone: +46 8 5631 00 01 Mobile: +46 701 81 00 01 E-mail: ivar.stromberg@tele1europe.se Länsstyrelsen Mats Domwall, IT-strateg Phone: +46 8 785 40 00 Tele1 Europe Tele1 Europe is a rapidly growing telecom and datacom operator with operations in Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Its business concept is to offer broadband solutions for data, telephony, and Internet to mid- sized and large businesses and organisations in the Nordic region. Tele1 Europe is currently the only Nordic data and telecommunications operator that invests in local access networks with broadband capacity. The local access networks are connected with long-distance networks and form Europe's fastest highway for data and Internet traffic with an initial capacity of up to one gigabyte. ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/06/29/20000629BIT00150/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/06/29/20000629BIT00150/bit0002.pdf