Telenor Xpress 4 - 2000

IPO Xtra Telenor

We are the leading telecommunications company in Norway, home to one of the world’s most advanced telecommunications markets. Telenor also hassubstantial international operations and investments, particularly in mobile communications, Internet services, satellite communications and pay-television services.

MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS
Telenor is the leading provider of mobile telecommunications services in Norway, with an estimated market share of 69 per cent for digital service. Telenor Mobile Communications’ extensive international interests include strategic investments in a number of mobile operators in the Nordic region, Europe and Southeast Asia. Including share of customers in associated companies, Telenor had 5.3 million mobile subscribers as of September 30 2000.

TELECOM
Telenor is the leading provider of fixed network telecommunications services in Norway, offering a full range of services to residential business and wholesale customers. Telenor has the highest penetration rate of digital or ISDN access channels in the world. Telenor also provides businesses with a range of managed telecommunications and information technology services.

BROADBAND SERVICES
Telenor is the leading provider of television-based broadband services to consumers in the Nordic region through home satellite dish, cable and terrestrial broadcast transmission. Telenor is also the leading provider of satellite broadcasting services in the Nordic region and one of the leading providers of global satellite-based mobile communications within both the maritime and land mobile markets.

INTERNET (NEXTRA)
Telenor is the leading Internet service provider in Norway within both the residential and business segments. Under the Nextra brand, Telenor provide Internet and other IP-based communications services in Norway and twelve other European countries, with a focus on small to mediumsized businesses.

MEDIA
Telenor Media is the leading provider of directory information and directory advertising in Norway. Telenor Media publishes over 100 different directories in the domestic market and a wide variety of directories in nine other European countries. Telenor Media’s total circulation is 19.5 million.

EDB BUSINESS PARTNER
EDB Business Partner is a leading Norwegian information technology company providing software and service systems and computer operations to medium-to-large businesses in banking, finance, and telecommunications and to the public sector. Telenor owns 52.6 per cent of EDB Business Partner.

BRAVIDA
Bravida is Norway’s largest provider of network installation, maintenance and operating services. At present, Telenor controls 48 per cent of the company.



Text by: Alexander Wardwell