Telia Company

Telia Company AB
Company typePublicly traded Aktiebolag
ISINSE0000667925 Edit this on Wikidata
IndustryTelecommunications
FoundedDecember 2002; 21 years ago (2002-12)
HeadquartersSolna, Stockholm, Sweden
Area served
Europe
Key people
Products
RevenueSEK 88.561 billion
7.712 bilion (2023)[1]
SEK 4.980 billion
€434 milion (2023)[1]
SEK 0.897 billion
€78 milion (2023)[1]
OwnerGovernment of Sweden (39.5%)[2][3]
Number of employees
20,800 [4]
Subsidiaries
Websiteteliacompany.com
Telia shared services center in Vilnius, Lithuania

Telia Company AB is a Swedish multinational telecommunications company and mobile network operator present in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

Telia also owns TV4 Media which includes TV4 in Sweden, MTV Oy in Finland, and C More Entertainment after acquiring them in 2019.

The company is headquartered in Solna and its stock is traded on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.

The company has been linked to corruption scandals in its dealings with the regimes in Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan.[5][6] Telia's bribery scandal in relation to the Ilham Aliyev regime in Azerbaijan has been described as "possibly the largest bribery in Swedish history."[7]

  1. ^ a b c "Financial overview". www.teliacompany.com.
  2. ^ "Shareholdings as of March 31, 2020".
  3. ^ Finland's Solidium sells Telia stake for 5.1 bln SEK Archived 20 March 2018 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b "Annual "and Sustainability Report 2019".
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference ester was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Ismayilova, Khadija (15 July 2014). "TeliaSonera's Behind-The-Scenes Connection To Azerbaijani President's Daughters". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  7. ^ "Offshores Close to President Paid Nothing for State Share of Telecom - Corruptistan". OCCRP. 2015.