TeliaSonera: Lars-Erik Nilsson Proposed as a New Member of Teliasonera's Board of Directors

Lars-Erik Nilsson is proposed to be elected as a newmember of TeliaSonera's Board of Directors. Lars-Erik Nilsson is theChairman of the Board of Directors of Axis AB, Teligent AB,Informationsforlaget Heimdahls AB, IT-Hantverkarna AB and Luvit AB andmember of the Board of Directors of Oleinitec AB and Consellar AB.Lars-Erik Nilsson was President of Compaq Sweden between 1987 and 2001and was thereafter Chairman of the Board of Directors in the companybetween 2001 and 2002. Between 1970 and 1986 he was the Sales andMarketing Director of Ericsson Signalling Systems. Lars Erik Nilsson'sprincipal education is Master of Science in electronics andtelecommunication. He was born in 1943. Lars-Erik Nilsson has 4,000TeliaSonera shares.

TeliaSonera's Board member Paul Smits has declined to offerhimself re-election. In other respects, it is proposed that thepresent members be re-elected to the Board of Directors. According tothe proposal, TeliaSonera's Board of Directors would thus be composedof the following members after TeliaSonera's Annual General Meeting tobe held on April 27: Tom von Weymarn (Chairman), Carl Bennet (ViceChairman), Eva Liljeblom, Lennart Laftman, Sven-Christer Nilsson, TimoPeltola, Caroline Sundewall and Lars-Erik Nilsson.

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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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