Telia Company

Board/Management Information • Apr 8, 2010

Press Release

April 8, 2010

Timo Peltola, Vice-Chairman of the Board of TeliaSonera

Timo Peltola was elected Vice-Chairman of the board at the board meeting on April 7, 2010.

Timo Peltola, born 1946, was elected to the Board of Directors in 2004. Mr Peltola is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Neste Oil Oyj, member of the boards of Nordea Bank AB, SAS AB and AW-Energy Oy. He is also a member of the Advisory Boards of CVC Capital Partners and Sveafastigheter AB and advisor to CapMan Public Market Fund. Mr. Peltola served as President and CEO of Huhtamäki Oyj between 1989 and 2004. Mr. Peltola holds a Doctor degree in Economics hc.

The board also decided to elect the following persons to the Audit committee:

Maija-Liisa Friman (Chairman) Anders Narvinger Conny Karlsson Jon Risfelt

The board further decided to elect the following persons to the Remuneration committee:

Anders Narvinger (Chairman) Timo Peltola Lars Renström Per-Arne Sandström

At the Annual General meeting on April 7, 2010, Maija-Liisa Friman, Conny Karlsson, Timo Peltola, Lars Renström and Jon Risfelt were re-elected as ordinary members of the board. Ingrid Jonasson Blank, Anders Narvinger and Per-Arne Sandström were elected as a new ordinary members. Anders Narvinger was elected as Chairman of the Board.

TeliaSonera AB discloses the information provided herein pursuant to the Swedish Securities Markets Act and/or the Swedish Financial Instrument Trading Act. The information was submitted for publication at 3.15 p.m CET on April 8 2010.

TeliaSonera's press office for journalists can be reached at +46-771 77 58 30

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Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in the press release relating to future status or circumstances, including future performance and other trend projections are forward-looking statements. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. There can be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements due to many factors, many of which are outside the control of TeliaSonera.

TeliaSonera provides network access and telecommunication services in the Nordic and Baltic countries, the emerging markets of Eurasia, including Russia and Turkey, and in Spain. TeliaSonera is also the leading European wholesale provider of quality cross-border voice, IP and capacity services, with a wholly-owned international carrier network. TeliaSonera's services help people and companies communicate in an easy, efficient and environmentally friendly way. TeliaSonera creates value by focusing on providing world-class customer experience, securing quality in networks and achieving a best-in-class cost structure. In 2009, TeliaSonera's net sales amounted to SEK 109 billion, and at the end of December 2009 the total number of subscriptions was 147 million in 20 countries. The TeliaSonera share is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm and NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Read more at www.teliasonera.com