TeliaSonera, ACN Communications Finland Enter Pact"

STOCKHOLM -(Dow Jones)- Nordic telecommunications operator TeliaSonera AB (TLSN.SK) Monday said its unit in Finland has concluded a cooperation agreement with ACN Communications Finland Oy.

According to the agreement, ACN Communications Finland discontinues its own branded mobile service and start s marketing Tele Finland's mobile service offering through its existing sales channel - Independent Representatives.

ACN's Finnish customers can continue as customers of Tele Finland.

ACN's assets, personnel, agreements or other business operations aren't assigned to Tele Finland by the agreement.

The company said that under the agreement, Tele Finland will offer ACN's customers a chance to continue effortlessly as Tele Finland's customers.

For the duration of the transition period, Tele Finland will provide ACN's customers with similar pricing as they have been offered by ACN.

"We have made the transition as easy as possible. All the customer's subscriptions will be transferred free of charge at one go, and the service will continue without any interruption despite the transfer. The customers needn't exchange their SIM cards, so their subscription numbers won't change and the telephone numbers saved on the SIM cards, for example, remain unchanged," said Arto Heimonen, managing director of Tele Finland.

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Posted to the site on 31st January 2005