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6 unusual facts about Telenor


Canal+ Group

The Nordic part was sold in October 2003 to the Telenor-owned Canal Digital, and the Canal+ brand has since been used with license.

Do You Do You Dig Destruction

The song was available from Djuice and Telenor in partnership with Universal Music and could be downloaded for free until the end of April.

FastTrack Scripting Host

Previously with Telenor, Denmark’s major telephone company, Pedersen performed various roles in systems administration, programming and web development.

Törökbálint

In the outskirts of Törökbálint, multinational companies, like Cora and Telenor give work for many inhabitants of the settlement.

Unitech Group

They have recently formed a large joint venture with Norway based Telenor Group to create Unitech Wireless.

WiMP

Telcos including Telenor, 3 and Play are among other WiMP distribution partners.


Iqbal Quadir

Quadir's vision of a large-scale commercial project led him to organize a global consortium involving Telenor, Norway’s leading telecommunications company; an affiliate of micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank in Bangladesh (winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize); Marubeni Corp. in Japan; Asian Development Bank in the Philippines; Commonwealth Development Corp. in the United Kingdom; and International Finance Corp. and Gonofone in the United States.

Norsk Data

In the UK Telenor kept the Norsk Data name for several years, focusing in on Hardware support and maintenance contracts, mainly with HMCG and local governments.

PowerTech Information Systems

PowerTech's original rival was OsloNett, which was started by IT professionals from the University of Oslo and was later acquired by Telenor.

Simula Research Laboratory

The other owners of Simula or its subsidiaries are Statoil, Telenor, Bærum Municipality, SINTEF, and Norwegian Computing Centre.

TDMoIP

TDMoIP was first developed in 1998 by RAD Data Communications (see U.S. patent number 6,731,649) and first deployed in Sweden in 1999 by Utfors (later acquired by Telenor).

Teledata Networks

The company had an installed base of millions of lines in over 100 countries worldwide, including Germany (Deutsche Telekom), Turkey (Turk Telekom), Brazil (Brazil Telecom, Telefonica & Global Village Telecom), Chile (Telefonica), Mexico (Telmex), Costa Rica (ICE), Israel (Bezeq), South Africa (Telkom), Australia (Telstra), Russia (Uralsviazinform & North West Telecom), Serbia (Telekom Srbija, Telenor) and Kazakhstan (KazakhTelecom).

Telenor Cinclus

In 2006, Telenor Cinclus signed an agreement with the energy companies E.ON and Fortum in Sweden to install 800,000 readers.


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