Regulatory News: TeliaSonera and Altimo have agreed to combine their ownership interests by contributing their respective direct and indirect interests in Turkcell and Megafon, into a new company. The purpose is to create a leading international operator, with over 90 million subscribers in Russia, Turkey and the CIS countries, and with well functioning corporate governance.

Regulatory News: TeliaSonera today issued a Eurobond of EUR 600 million under its existing EUR 7 billion EMTN programme. "We are very pleased with this deal which further improves our well-balanced debt maturity profile. The Joint Bookrunners mandated by TeliaSonera for this transaction were Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi and SEB.

AT&T*, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., and Sony Ericsson have defined the preferred way to ensure the smooth introduction and delivery of voice and SMS services on Long Term Evolution networks worldwide.

Nordic telecommunications operator TeliaSonera AB on Wednesday posted a 6 percent rise in third-quarter net profits, partly thanks to a jump in subscription numbers. The group, headquartered in Stockholm, said net profit in the July-September period increased to around 5 billion kronor from about 4.8 billion kronor a year earlier.

Steady progress resulted in highest EBITDA to date. Regulatory News: Third quarter -- Net sales increased 4.8 percent to SEK 27,069 million. Nine-month period -- Net sales increased 8.3 percent to SEK 81,751 million. Comments by Lars Nyberg, President and CEO. "During the third quarter we reported the highest EBITDA, excluding non-recurring items, in the company's history.