(IN BRIEF) Telenor Group has appointed Jon Omund Revhaug as Head of Telenor Asia and Sigvart Voss Eriksen as Head of Telenor Nordics, both of whom bring extensive telecommunications expertise to their new roles. Revhaug, a Telenor veteran with significant … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Management, News, Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged appointment, Bangladesh, Benedicte Schilbred Fasmer, CEO, Chief Communications Officer, customer-facing transformations, Cybersecurity, dtac, growth strategy, Jon Omund Revhaug, leadership, Malaysia, Omny, Operational Excellence, scaling operations, Sigvart Voss Eriksen, telecommunications expertise, Telenor Asia, Telenor Group, Telenor Myanmar, Telenor Nordics, Telenor's key markets, THAILAND, Thomas Midteide, TRUE
(IN BRIEF) Telenor Group has launched its AI Factory, an initiative backed by a 100 million NOK investment to support AI-driven transformations in various industries. Powered by NVIDIA’s AI platform, the AI Factory aims to accelerate AI adoption in the … Read the full press release
Posted in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business, Construction, Environment, Financial, Government, Industrial, Infrastructure & Utilities, Investment, Management, News, Norway, Technology, Telecom, Transportation & Logistics
Tagged AI Factory, AI Transformation, Christoffer Jørgenvåg, Hive Autonomy, INNOVATION, Jannicke Hilland, NVIDIA, partnership, sustainability, Telenor Group
(PRESS RELEASE) FORNEBU, 8-Jul-2021 — /EuropaWire/ — Telenor Group announces that it has entered into an agreement with M1 Group for the sale of 100 percent of its mobile operations in Myanmar. The transaction is worth of a total consideration of 105 million … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Investment, Management, News, Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged divest, M1 Group, Mobile Operations, Myanmar, Sigve Brekke, TELECOM, Telenor Group, Telenor Myanmar, Tormod Sandstø, Øystein Myrvold
(PRESS RELEASE) FORNEBU, 1-Nov-2019 — /EuropaWire/ — Jukka Leinonen has been appointed head of Telenor Group’s newly formed Nordic cluster. Leinonen is currently the CEO of the Finnish telcom operator DNA and will retain this position aside becoming a part … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Denmark, Finland, Internet & Online, Management, News, Norway, Sweden, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 5G, appointment, CEO, DNA, Finland, Hanne Knudsen, IoT, Jukka Leinonen, Petter-Børre Furberg, Sigve Brekke, telcom operator, Telenor Denmark, Telenor Group, Telenor Sweden
Ericsson to transform Telenor’s core network in Sweden, Denmark and Norway by deploying Ericsson Cloud Core solutions for 5G across multiple data centers New deal encompasses Ericsson’s full portfolio of Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) and related services Telenor subscribers will … Read the full press release
Posted in Denmark, Internet & Online, Norway, Sweden, Technology, Telecom
Tagged 5G, Arun Bansal, Cloud, Denmark, Ericsson, Morten Karlsen Sørby, Norway, Sweden, Telenor Group
Today (2018-10-31), a group of Nordic-based CEOs announced a joint initiative to speed up the realisation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Representatives from the group presented their shared ambitions to Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg during the 70th … Read the full press release
Posted in Economy, Environment, Government, Norway, Sweden
Tagged Birgitte Bonnesen, Equinor, Erna Solberg, Hydro, initiative, INNOVATION, Ìslandsbanki, Nokia, SAS, SDGs, Swedbank, Telenor Group, Telia Company, the GSMA, UN Sustainable Development Goals, Vestas, Yara International
Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar/ Fornebu, Norway, 28-Aug-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Telenor Group and UNICEF today announced that its successful mobile birth registration pilot will be scaled to Myanmar. The organisations signed a partnership agreement for a Mobile Birth and Death … Read the full press release
BARCELONA, 28-Feb-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — Working Group Two, the ground-breaking cloud based core network, is ready for commercial launch. Swedish mobile virtual network operator Vimla is the first commercial customer of the platform, which enables faster and scalable service innovation … Read the full press release
Posted in Norway, Spain, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Cloud, Erlend Prestgard, JL Valente, Johan Littorin, Mobile, Mobile World Congress, MWC18, Sigve Brekke, telco, Telenor Group, telephony, WG2, Working Group Two
Telenor Group has joined the Telecom Infra Project (TIP). The global mobile operator will contribute to two TIP project groups focused on wireless networking: OpenCellular and mmWave. FORNEBU, 28-Feb-2018 — /EuropaWire/ — News that Telenor Group became a member of TIP … Read the full press release
Posted in Internet & Online, Norway, Spain, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Axel Clauberg, Chris Daniels, MWC18, Networking, Ruza Sabanovic, TELECOM, Telecom Infra Project, Telenor Group, TIP project, Wireless, wireless networking
Telenor Group today (21 August 2017) announced that Cecilie B. Heuch has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, effective 1st December 2017. Heuch succeeds Jon Erik Haug who will stay in his current role until Heuch joins … Read the full press release
Posted in Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Cecilie B. Heuch, Jon Erik Haug, Telenor Group
Telenor Group notes that VimpelCom Ltd. in a press release on 3 November 2015 has announced that they will make a provision of USD 900 million in their third quarter financial statements for a resolution of the investigations into VimpelCom’s … Read the full press release
Posted in Financial, Investment, Management, Norway, Russia, Telecom
Tagged Telenor Group, VimpelCom
In the second quarter of 2015, Telenor Group reported revenues of NOK 30.2 billion and organic revenue growth of 6%. EBITDA before other items was NOK 10.6 billion, the EBITDA margin 35% and operating cash flow NOK 4 billion. Net … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Telenor Group
Telenor Group is pleased to present 28 young social entrepreneurs, who will join our second ever Youth Summit next month in Norway. Fornebu, Norway, 13-11-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — The summit, in partnership with the Nobel Peace Center, will give youth from across … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Bente Erichsen, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Telenor Group, young social entrepreneurs, Youth Summit
SOFIA, 19-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — GLOBUL is the first telecom in Bulgaria to introduce a filter that blocks web domains containing child sexual abuse materials. The initiative was launched in cooperation with the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior. The news was … Read the full press release
Fornebu, Norway, 10-9-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Today’s opening of Telenor Group’s first wholly-owned financial institution Telenor banka in Serbia provides customers with innovative mobile banking services and represents a milestone in the company’s development of online financial services and mobile banking in … Read the full press release
Posted in Banks, Business, Financial, Internet & Online, Norway, Serbia, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Jon Fredrik Baksaas, KBC Banka, Kjell-Morten Johnsen, Telenor banka, Telenor Group
Fornebu, Norway, 14-8-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — Telenor Group invites to an update on sustainability in Myanmar on Tuesday 19 August at 14:00 hrs Norwegian time/CET. The session is expected to last for an hour. The update, which will also be broadcast live over … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Management, Norway, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Jon Fredrik Baksaas, Petter Furberg, sustainability in Myanmar, Telenor Group
Amsterdam, 25-3-2014 — /EuropaWire/ — “VimpelCom Ltd.” (“VimpelCom”, “Company” or “Group”) (NASDAQ: VIP) a leading global provider of telecommunications services, today announces the appointment of Yogesh Malik as Group Chief Technology Officer, with immediate effect. Yogesh has also been appointed a member … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Management, Netherlands, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Bobby Leach/Artem Minaev, Gerbrand Nijman, Jo Lunder, Telenor Group, Uninor, VimpelCom, Yogesh Malik
23-7-2013 — /EuropaWire/ — In the second quarter of 2013, Telenor Group reported revenues of NOK 25.7 billion, representing an organic revenue growth of 2%. EBITDA before other items was NOK 8.86 billion, EBITDA margin was 34%, and operating cash flow … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Financial, Investment, Norway, Telecom
Tagged GROWTH, Jon Fredrik Baksaas, profitability, Q2 2013, revenues, Telenor Group
Fornebu, Norway, 3-5-2013 — /europawire.eu/ — Telenor Group has recently signed a cooperation agreement with Northeastern University, a private research institution in Boston, USA. The cooperation will cover two projects within the use of ‘Big Data’ in telecommunication. “Our cooperation with Northeastern … Read the full press release
Posted in Business, Education, Internet & Online, Marketing, Media, Norway, Science, Technology, Telecom
Tagged Beyond data donation, Big Data, Bjørn Taale Sandberg, Boston, Complex Network Research, Dashun Wang, David Lazer, Fornebu, Hilde Tonne, Northeastern University, Predicting success, telecommunication, Telenor Group, United States, Viral spreading
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