TeliaSonera gets clearance to acquire Chess/Sense in Norway

The Norwegian Competitive Authority has today approved TeliaSonera´s acquisition of 91.2 percent of Vollvik Gruppen AS which owns 100 percent of the service provider Chess/Sense. The closing of the transaction is to be done as soon as possible.

TeliaSonera will, within three business days following the transaction, make a voluntary offer at the same price per share (NOK 11.03) for the remaining 8.8 percent of the shares in Vollvik Gruppen AS. For further information journalists can contact: Kjell Lindström, Director of Communications, TeliaSonera Norway, Denmark & the Baltic countries, +46-(0)8-713 58 30 Forward-Looking Statements Statements made in the press release relating to future status or circumstances, including future performance and other trend projections are forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements due to many factors, many of which are outside the control of TeliaSonera.