FreeMove expands its footprint with TeliaSonera

New Partner Bolsters Alliance’s Competitiveness in the Multinational Market

London, Rome, Bonn, Stockholm, 16 March 2006. FreeMove, the mobile alliance between Orange, Telefónica Móviles¹, TIM (Telecom Italia Group) and T-Mobile, today announces that TeliaSonera, the leading Nordic and Baltic operator, will partner with the alliance.

TeliaSonera, with operations in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Lithuania², delivers complementary geographical strength to the alliance as well as leadership in the business market. Collectively, FreeMove alliance members now span 26 markets and reach more than 230 million customers across Europe.

The partnership with TeliaSonera will contribute to FreeMove’s ambition to deliver an outstanding experience to customers when traveling abroad, through the realisation of a ‘virtual home environment’, delivering its customers with seamless and reliable access to familiar services such as voice mail, customer service and direct-dial.

In addition, FreeMove remains committed to delivering a competitive service to its growing portfolio of multi-national customers (MNC’s). With the inclusion of TeliaSonera, the only operator with complete mobile coverage of the Nordic region, the alliance is in a superb position to meet the needs of the MNC market.

Since the launch of FreeMove in 2004 it has become a major player in the provision of mobile services to multi-national companies, doubling its bids and winning over 180,000 new SIM cards in 2005. Recent service advancements from FreeMove for MNC’s have included:

1. a special FreeMove for BlackBerry™ offer which enables MNCs to order BlackBerry™ services across multiple countries covered by the alliance at a standard price, giving these customers greater predictability and control of costs.
2. Consolidated reporting - a key benefit of the alliance is to provide MNC customers with consolidated information to help them understand their European mobile usage. FreeMove will shortly be making customers’ reports available for download from a secure part of the FreeMove website
3. Global account management - FreeMove offers a central point of contact for sales and bid management helping to streamline procurement and management of mobile services

FreeMove intends to build on its successes throughout 2006 with a number of significant service developments for the MNC market.

Hubert Strokosch, Member of the FreeMove Management Board, commented: “TeliaSonera is an ideal fit for FreeMove, with leadership in key Nordic and Baltic markets, established network quality and a shared vision towards delivering simple, accessible services for customers. The expansion of FreeMove underlines the commitment that its members have to continue delivering on that vision.”

Terje Christoffersen, Group Vice President, Head of Corporate Marketing, Products and Services, from TeliaSonera said: “TeliaSonera is happy to announce its partnership with the FreeMove alliance which we see as an important step in our vision to simplify customers’ everyday lives with easy to use communication services. We look forward to developing an improved communications experience together with FreeMove. Joining this alliance strengthens TeliaSonera’s international presence and provides our multi-national customers with an extended reach of their communications home environment.”

Notes to editors

¹ Telefónica Móviles, a founding member of FreeMove, has announced its intention to leave the alliance and for this reason it will not participate in the agreements with TeliaSonera

² TeliaSonera’s 100 per cent-owned affiliates will join the FreeMove alliance (Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Lithuania). TeliaSonera is also present through subsidiaries in Latvia, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldova and through associated companies in Russia and Turkey.

About Orange
Orange and wirefree and any other Orange product or service names included in this material are trademarks of Orange PCS. The Orange group is one of the world’s largest mobile communications companies and a subsidiary of the France Telecom group and has reporting operations in 17 countries across Europe and beyond. Within the Orange group, the Orange brand operates in the UK, France, Poland, Switzerland, Romania, Slovakia, the Ivory Coast, the Dominican Republic, Cameroon, the Netherlands, Botswana, and Madagascar. The Orange group also has controlled operations in Belgium (Mobistar), a joint controlling interest in Egypt (MobiNil) and minority interests in Portugal (Optimus) and Austria (One). As at the end of December 2005, Orange had 14.9 million active customers in the UK, and over 22.43 million registered customers in France. As at the end of December 2005 (excluding 9.92 million customers in Poland) Orange reporting companies had over 71 million customers worldwide including over 10 million Amena customers in Spain. Orange, along with TIM, Telefonica and T-Mobile, is a founding member of the FreeMove alliance. Further information about Orange can be found on the Orange website at www.orange.com.

About Telefónica Móviles
Telefónica Móviles, a member of the Telefónica Group, is the world’s second- largest multinational mobile phone company, with more than 94.4 million customers at year-end 2005 and operations in 15 countries across three continents The Telefónica Group also has a strong presence in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Germany, through its sister company 02. During 2005, Telefónica Móviles obtained 16.514 billion euros in revenues (+40.5%), 5.817 billion euros in OIBDA (+26.8%) and 1.919 billion in net income (+13.4%) , the highest in the company’s history. Telefónica Móviles trades on Spanish stock exchanges and on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TEM. For further information on Telefónica Móviles, please see our website: www.telefonicamoviles.com

About TIM
The Telecom Italia Group is Italy’s leading ICT enterprise and a major player on the world stage.The Group’ssolid financial footing and competitive stance have made it a significant force in strategic markets ranging from fixed-line and mobile telecommunications to the internet and high growth data services and broadband. The Group is driven by innovation, professionalism, high standards of service and a focus on the customer.
The Group has adopted a “one company model” to maintain its competitiveness in an increasingly dynamic marketplace, and adopted a unified convergence-driven strategic approach to its various businesses and fixed-line/mobile platform integration.
The Telecom Italia Group closed its 2005 accounts with revenues of €29,919 million and EBITDA of €12,517 million.
In Italy the Group supplies over 25 million fixed-network lines and 28.6 million wireless lines (31 December 2005).
Telecom Italia’s international presence focuses on broadband (over 7 million access at December 2005), fixed-line and mobile telephony. Mobile operations outside Italy are concentrated in Turkey, and Brazil, where TIM launched the country’s first GSM service – an important step in the Group’s primary international growth project: South America’s first GSM network. Additional information on TIM can be found on www.tim.it.

About T-Mobile
T-Mobile International is one of the world’s leading companies in mobile communications. As one of Deutsche Telekom`s three strategic business units, T-Mobile concentrates on the most dynamic markets in Europe and the United States.
By YE 2005, nearly 87 million mobile customers were served by companies of the Deutsche Telekom group. And all that over a common technology platform based on GSM, the world’s most successful digital wireless standard. This also makes T-Mobile the only mobile communications provider with a seamless transatlantic service.
For more information about T-Mobile International, please visit www.t-mobile.net.

About TeliaSonera
TeliaSonera is the leading telecommunications company in the Nordic and Baltic regions. At the end of December 2005 TeliaSonera had 19,146,000 mobile customers (69,887,000 incl associated companies) and 7,064,000 fixed telephony customers (7,688,000 incl associated companies) and 2,263,000 internet customers (2,331,000 incl associated companies). Outside the home markets TeliaSonera has extensive interests in the growth markets in Russia, Turkey and Eurasia. TeliaSonera is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange and the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Net sales January-December 2005 amounted to SEK 87.7 billion. The number of employees was 28,175. Further information can be found at www.teliasonera.com.

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