Telia vill sälja del av ryska telekomjätten Megafon
Telia Companys helägda dotterbolag, Sonera Holding B.V, vill sälja delar av innehavet i den ryska telekomjätten Megafon. Det framkommer av ett pressmeddelande på måndagskvällen.
Telia Companys totala ägarintresse i Megafon motsvarar cirka 25,2 procent av aktiekapitalet. En eventuell försäljning omfattar cirka 35 miljoner aktier i Megafon, vilket motsvarar 5,65 procent av bolagets aktiekapital.
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Wikipedia (en)
MegaFon (Russian: МегаФон), previously known as North-West GSM, is the second largest mobile phone operator and the third largest telecom operator in Russia. It works in the GSM, UMTS and LTE standard. Its main competitors are Mobile TeleSystems (MTS), VimpelCom (Beeline), and Tele2 (Rostelecom) in the cellular segment, and Rostelecom and Interregional TransitTelekom in the fixed-line seagment. As of June 2012, the company serves 62.1 million subscribers in Russia and 1.6 million in Tajikistan, South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It is headquartered in Moscow.
In 2002 the company changed its name from North-West GSM to MegaFon when it acquired several regional companies, becoming the first GSM company in Russia to cover all its territory. The name "MegaFon" in Russian is spelled and pronounced exactly like the Russian word for megaphone; other connotations are mega- as "big" and fon as "telephone".
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