阅读提示：可能提起挪威的telenor公司熟悉的人不多，可是相信一说到Opera浏览器，知道的人就多的多了吧——至少笔者就在用。要知道开创Opera浏览器并最终开办Opera公司的人原先就是来自telenor公司的。

Telenor是挪威的本土电信公司，总部位于奥斯陆附近的福内布。今日的Telenor主要是家国际化的移动通讯公司，在斯堪的纳维亚半岛、东欧和亚洲的共有12家子机构及公司的动作。不仅如此，它还在众多斯堪的纳维亚半岛拥有扩展业务如宽带和电视节目发行等。

最早Telenor是家叫作Televerket的、从1855年便开始运作的国有垄断公司。到1994年，后来叫作Norwegian Telecom（挪威电信）的股份有限公司建立。到了2000年的12月，公司部分实现私有化并在股票交易所上市。

Telenor研发部门是挪威在信息和传播技术领域内最大的研究的机构。（怪不得Opera的创意会来自Telenor！）公司持续在GSM标准上下大力进行研究，其员工近半都是在挪威以外的国家工作。

在2005年3月14日Telenor宣布其在巴基斯坦的公司开始运行，并宣称未来的重点放在新兴的亚洲和大洋洲的地区的市场上。

Telenor is the incumbent telco in Norway. The headquarter is located at Fornebu, close to Oslo. Today, Telenor is mostly an international Mobile company with 12 operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia. In addition, it has extensive Broadband and TV-distribution operations in the three Scandinavian countries.

History

Telenor was formerly a state-operated monopoly, and called Televerket that has been in operation since 1855. In 1994, the then Norwegian Telecom was established as a public corporation. In December 2000, the company was partly privatised and listed on the stock exchange.

Due to Norway's small population and topography, Telenor still dominates the market place in Norway. However, competition has at times been intense in the mobile market and ADSL market.

Telenor R&D is Norway's largest research establishment within ICT.

Internationalisation

In the second half of the 1990s, Telenor became involved in mobile operations in a number of countries: Russia (1994), Bangladesh, Greece, Ireland, Germany and Austria (1997), Ukraine (1998), Malaysia (1999), Denmark and Thailand (2000), Hungary (2002), Montenegro (2004), Pakistan (2004). Greece, Ireland and Germany was sold in 1999/2000 and profits were re-invested in the emerging markets.

Approximately half of Telenor's employees work outside Norway.

Telenor holds a prominent position in the Scandinavian Broadband and TV market, both with regard to the number of subscribers and to the extent of coverage.

Interesting tidbits

Telenor Mobil SIM

The Opera web browser was created in 1994 by Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy during their tenure at Telenor. Opera Software was established in 1995 after the pair went on to continue development of their browser.

Telenor was among the active telcos in developing the GSM standard and has subsequently reaped the benefits of this through its foray into emerging markets.

Probable strategy

Continue its focus on mobile operations in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia, become the largest provider of TV and Broadband to customers in Scandinavia, and sell non-core assets outside this scope.

The company started commercial operations in Pakistan on 14 March 2005 and has made an announcement that it shall be focusing on the emerging markets in Asia and Pacific region.