https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Norwegian telecom giant Telenor is plotting a potential merger of its Asian operations with Malaysia's Axiata. https://www.thelocal.no/20190506/telenor-and-axiata-in-talks-to-merge-asian-businesses Mon, 06 May 2019 15:36:21 +0200 telenor-and-axiata-in-talks-to-merge-asian-businesses Norwegian telecoms company Telenor has been reported to Sweden's Data Protection Authority (Datainspektionen) after it erroneously collected the personal data of at least 120,000 customers without permission. https://www.thelocal.no/20180705/telenor-erroneously-collects-personal-data-of-more-than-100000-people-in-sweden Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:06:18 +0200 telenor-erroneously-collects-personal-data-of-more-than-100000-people-in-sweden Indian telecom giant Bharti Airtel will buy the local operations of Norway's Telenor, it said Thursday, as the ultra-competitive mobile market is shaken up by the country's richest man. https://www.thelocal.no/20170223/norways-telenor-sells-out-of-india-as-ambani-weighs-in Thu, 23 Feb 2017 21:26:57 +0100 norways-telenor-sells-out-of-india-as-ambani-weighs-in Norway's telecoms operator Telenor risks a €100 million fine for abuse of a dominant market position, the country's competition authority warned on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20161123/telenor-risks-100m-euro-anti-competition-fine Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:32:30 +0100 telenor-risks-100m-euro-anti-competition-fine Norwegian telecoms operator Telenor said on Wednesday it expected its earnings to slow this year after provisions and impairment losses heavily impacted its 2015 earnings. https://www.thelocal.no/20160211/telenor-sees-slowdown-in-2016-as-profits-plunge Thu, 11 Feb 2016 10:45:40 +0100 telenor-sees-slowdown-in-2016-as-profits-plunge Telenor on Wednesday suspended its finance director, legal head, and two other executives, as part of its deepening internal investigation into possible complicity with alleged corruption at VimpelCom, the Russian telecoms group. https://www.thelocal.no/20151112/telenor-suspends-four-execs-over-vimpelcom Thu, 12 Nov 2015 08:24:06 +0100 telenor-suspends-four-execs-over-vimpelcom Former Telenor chief executive Jon Fredrik Baksaas risks criminal charges in the US and elsewhere if Russian mobile firm Vimpelcom is found guilty of corruption, Norways NRK has reported. https://www.thelocal.no/20151104/telenor-ex-ceo-risks-corruption-charges-in-us-nrk Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:43:04 +0100 telenor-ex-ceo-risks-corruption-charges-in-us-nrk The incoming chief executive of Norwegian telecoms company Telenor himself uncovered the suspicious information that forced the resignation of the company’s chairman on Friday, Norway’s VG newspaper has reported. https://www.thelocal.no/20151102/telenor-ceo-was-behind-chairman-exit Mon, 02 Nov 2015 09:55:27 +0100 telenor-ceo-was-behind-chairman-exit Former Telenor head Jon Fredrik Baksaas has been ranked the seventh best-performing chief executive in the world by the respected Harvard Business Review. https://www.thelocal.no/20151013/ex-telenor-boss-one-of-worlds-best-ceos Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:54:53 +0200 ex-telenor-boss-one-of-worlds-best-ceos Norwegian mobile phone giant Telenor is to sell off its $2.4bn minority stake in Russia's VimpelCom, after the company was accused of paying bribes to the Uzbek president's daughter. https://www.thelocal.no/20151005/telenor-to-sell-russia-mobile-stake-over-corruption Mon, 05 Oct 2015 13:42:23 +0200 telenor-to-sell-russia-mobile-stake-over-corruption Norway’s Telenor has appointed its Asia head Sigve Baksaas as its new chief executive, rejecting calls for it to put one of its several high-powered female executives in the role. https://www.thelocal.no/20150512/telenor-anoints-asia-head-as-new-chief-exec Tue, 12 May 2015 10:22:44 +0200 telenor-anoints-asia-head-as-new-chief-exec The next chief executive of Telenor, state-owned international phone giant, would ideally be a woman, Norway’s industry minister has said, as the country seeks to end men’s continuing dominance of executive positions. https://www.thelocal.no/20150319/make-next-telenor-chief-a-woman-minister-urges Thu, 19 Mar 2015 09:17:37 +0100 make-next-telenor-chief-a-woman-minister-urges Norwegian phone giant Telenor has reported disappointing profits on the back of high costs and squeezed margins in its fast-growing Asian business, sending its shares down more than 6.4 percent by the end of trading on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20150211/telenor-shares-slump-on-downbeat-thai-figures Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:59:51 +0100 telenor-shares-slump-on-downbeat-thai-figures Norwegian telecom operator Telenor and Swedish-Finnish rival TeliaSonera on Wednesday said they would merge their operations in Denmark, which last week was deemed the world's most connected country. https://www.thelocal.no/20141204/telenor-and-teliasonera-to-merge-danish-operations Thu, 04 Dec 2014 09:36:00 +0100 telenor-and-teliasonera-to-merge-danish-operations Norwegian telecom giant Telenor was allegedly involved in a corruption scandal in Uzbekistan with ties to President Islam Karimov's daughter, Norwegian media reported Saturday. https://www.thelocal.no/20141115/norways-telenor-in-bribe-scandal Sun, 16 Nov 2014 00:13:00 +0100 norways-telenor-in-bribe-scandal Many of Norway's top banks and financial institutions were simultaneously hacked in the country's biggest-ever computer network attack. https://www.thelocal.no/20140709/banks-hacked-by-mystery-cyber-gang Wed, 09 Jul 2014 12:57:00 +0200 banks-hacked-by-mystery-cyber-gang Norway's government on Thursday announced plans to sell off a 47 billion Norwegian kroner ($7.8 billion) tranche of shares in mobile phone giant Telenor and the industrial conglomerate Kongsberg Gruppen. https://www.thelocal.no/20140620/norway-mulls-8bn-sale-of-telenor-and-kongsberg-shares Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:57:00 +0200 norway-mulls-8bn-sale-of-telenor-and-kongsberg-shares Norway's Industry Minister Monica Maeland has defended the embarrassing apology forced on state-owned phone company Telenor by Thailand's military junta, saying the situation for the company is "very challenging". https://www.thelocal.no/20140618/norway-minister-defends-telenors-thai-apology Wed, 18 Jun 2014 16:14:14 +0200 norway-minister-defends-telenors-thai-apology Thailand's military junta has threatened to block Norway's Telenor from bidding in the country's upcoming 4G auctions in retaliation for revealing that it was ordered to block Facebook in the immediate aftermath of last month's military coup. https://www.thelocal.no/20140611/thai-junta Thu, 12 Jun 2014 01:20:14 +0200 thai-junta Norway's industry minister has defended the country's majority state-owned telecoms company Telenor for blocking access to Facebook in Thailand on the orders of the country's new military junta. https://www.thelocal.no/20140611/minister-defends-telenors-thai-facebook-block Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:48:00 +0200 minister-defends-telenors-thai-facebook-block