16.03.2006 07:16:00

TeliaSonera joins FreeMove

TeliaSonera (TLSN)(HEX:TLS1V) (STO:TLSN) has joinedFreeMove, the mobile alliance between Orange, Telefonica Moviles(1),TIM (Telecom Italia Group) and T-Mobile.

The FreeMove alliance is focused on the development of roamingbusiness and delivering competitive services to multinationalcustomers. Collectively, FreeMove alliance members now span 26 marketsand reach more than 230 million customers across Europe. The FreeMovealliance was formed in 2003 aiming to take the complexity out ofinternational mobile services. Freemove and TeliaSonera share theambition to deliver an outstanding experience to customers whentraveling abroad, through seamless access to familiar services such asvoice mail, customer service and direct-dial.

"TeliaSonera is happy to announce its partnership with theFreeMove alliance which we see as an important step in our vision tosimplify customers' everyday lives with easy to use communicationservices. We look forward to developing an improved communicationsexperience together with FreeMove. Joining this alliance strengthensTeliaSonera's international presence and provides our multi nationalcustomers with an extended reach of their communications homeenvironment", says Terje Christoffersen, Group Vice President, Head ofCorporate Marketing, Products and Services, TeliaSonera

Hubert Strokosch, Member of the FreeMove Management Board,commented:

"TeliaSonera is an ideal fit for FreeMove, with leadership in keyNordic and Baltic markets, established network quality and a sharedvision towards delivering simple, accessible services for customers.The expansion of FreeMove underlines the commitment that its membershave to continue delivering on that vision."

TeliaSonera will collaborate on the following FreeMove activities:

-- Improved international offering of the customers

-- Enhanced care provided to international customers

-- Improved competitive positioning

-- Joint procurement opportunities

(1) Telefonica Moviles, a founding member of FreeMove, hasannounced its intention to leave the alliance and for this reason itwill not participate in the agreements with TeliaSonera

About Orange

Orange and wirefree and any other Orange product or service namesincluded in this material are trademarks of Orange PCS. The Orangegroup is one of the world's largest mobile communications companiesand a subsidiary of the France Telecom group and has reportingoperations in 17 countries across Europe and beyond. Within the Orangegroup, the Orange brand operates in the UK, France, Poland,Switzerland, Romania, Slovakia, the Ivory Coast, the DominicanRepublic, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Botswana, and Madagascar. TheOrange group also has controlled operations in Belgium (Mobistar), ajoint controlling interest in Egypt (MobiNil) and minority interestsin Portugal (Optimus) and Austria (One). As at the end of December2005, Orange had 14.9 million active customers in the UK, and over22.43 million registered customers in France. As at the end ofDecember 2005 (excluding 9.92 million customers in Poland) Orangereporting companies had over 71 million customers worldwide includingover 10 million Amena customers in Spain. Orange, along with TIM,Telefonica and T-Mobile, is a founding member of the FreeMovealliance. Further information about Orange can be found on the Orangewebsite at www.orange.com.

About Telefonica Moviles

Telefonica Moviles, a member of the Telefonica Group, is theworld's second- largest multinational mobile phone company, with morethan 94.4 million customers at year-end 2005 and operations in 15countries across three continents The Telefonica Group also has astrong presence in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany, throughits sister company 02. During 2005, Telefonica Moviles obtained 16.514billion euros in revenues (+40.5%), 5.817 billion euros in OIBDA(+26.8%) and 1.919 billion in net income (+13.4%) , the highest in thecompany's history. Telefonica Moviles trades on Spanish stockexchanges and on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TEM. For furtherinformation on Telefonica Moviles, please see our website:www.telefonicamoviles.com

About TIM

The Telecom Italia Group is Italy's leading ICT enterprise and amajor player on the world stage. The Group's solid financial footingand competitive stance have made it a significant force in strategicmarkets ranging from fixed-line and mobile telecommunications to theinternet and high growth data services and broadband. The Group isdriven by innovation, professionalism, high standards of service and afocus on the customer.

The Group has adopted a "one company model" to maintain itscompetitiveness in an increasingly dynamic marketplace, and adopted aunified convergence-driven strategic approach to its variousbusinesses and fixed-line/mobile platform integration.

The Telecom Italia Group closed its 2005 accounts with revenues ofEUR 29,919 million and EBITDA of EUR 12,517 million.

In Italy the Group supplies over 25 million fixed-network linesand 28.6 million wireless lines (31 December 2005).

Telecom Italia's international presence focuses on broadband (over7 million access at December 2005), fixed-line and mobile telephony.Mobile operations outside Italy are concentrated in Turkey, andBrazil, where TIM launched the country's first GSM service - animportant step in the Group's primary international growth project:South America's first GSM network.

About T-Mobile

T-Mobile International is one of the world's leading companies inmobile communications. As one of Deutsche Telekom`s three strategicbusiness units, T-Mobile concentrates on the most dynamic markets inEurope and the United States.

By YE 2005, nearly 87 million mobile customers were served bycompanies of the Deutsche Telekom group. And all that over a commontechnology platform based on GSM, the world's most successful digitalwireless standard. This also makes T-Mobile the only mobilecommunications provider with a seamless transatlantic service.

For more information about T-Mobile International, please visitwww.t-mobile.net

For further information about Freemove, please contact:

Sebastian Mathews

Burson-Marsteller

+44 (0)20 7300 6130/ +44 (0) 7939 287 860

sebastian_mathews@uk.bm.com

Or

Andy Rowlands

Burson-Marsteller

+44 (0)20 7300 6494/ +44 (0)7952 594 784

andy_rowlands@uk.bm.com

Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in the press release relating to future status orcircumstances, including future performance and other trendprojections are forward-looking statements. By their nature,forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because theyrelate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in thefuture. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differmaterially from those expressed or implied by these forward-lookingstatements due to many factors, many of which are outside the controlof TeliaSonera.

TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in theNordic and Baltic regions. At the end of December 2005 TeliaSonera had19,146,000 mobile customers (69,887,000 incl associated companies) and7,064,000 fixed telephony customers (7,688,000 incl associatedcompanies) and 2,263,000 internet customers (2,331,000 incl associatedcompanies). Outside the home markets TeliaSonera has extensiveinterests in the growth markets in Russia, Turkey and Eurasia.TeliaSonera is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the HelsinkiStock Exchange. Net sales January-December 2005 amounted to SEK 87.7billion. The number of employees was 28,175.

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