The separate brands Telia and Sonera continued to be used in the Swedish and Finnish markets respectively until March 2017 when Sonera was rebranded to Telia.
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15 Facts About Sonera
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On 12 April 2016, the company was renamed to Telia Company, dropping the Sonera part, rebranding the company to aid recover after bribery and money laundering allegations.
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Sonera started in 1995, the result of a merger between Telia Stofa and TeliaSonera.
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Telia Broadband was relaunched in 2008 because of the need for TeliaSonera to offer both mobile and broadband in all of their home markets .
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In September 1999, Sonera became the world's first mobile operator to launch mobile Internet services via Wireless Application Protocol .
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In October 2015, TeliaSonera announced the merger of Teo and Omnitel, through the acquisition of Omnitel by Teo.
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TeliaSonera purchased a majority stake in Star-Cell in 2008 which was the number four player in the market at that time.
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TeliaSonera owned a majority stake in Ncell, the largest mobile operator in Nepal with US$16.
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TeliaSonera exited Nepal without settling billions of Capital Gains Tax owed to Nepalese government.
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Some former TeliaSonera executives were under preliminary investigation by Swedish prosecutors for allegations of bribery and money laundering associated with the acquisition of their 3G license in Uzbekistan from Takilant Limited, registered in Gibraltar.
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When Telia and Sonera merged in 2002, TeliaSonera used a simple wordmark as the logo.
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In 2011, TeliaSonera released its new purple pebble logo to the corporation and its affiliate brands.
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In 2016, TeliaSonera changed name to Telia Company and presented an updated pebble brand profile, designed by Wolff Olins, to be used by all Telia brand companies.
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TeliaSonera has been accused of indirectly supporting dictatorships, allowing them to do man-in-the-middle attacks on their citizens.
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When TeliaSonera exited Nepal there were voices raised in the public debate in Nepal that it had evaded approximately 36 billions of Nepalese Rupees Capital Gains Tax owed to Nepalese government, when it sold its stake to Axiata, a Malaysian Telecom Group, a claim which has been refuted by Telia Company on several occasions.
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