(Copenhagen – TM Forum DTW Ignite – June 18, 2024): Telenor Group today announced it will expand its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to advance its sovereign cloud posture by using AWS’s sovereign-by-design technology, and leveraging Telenor’s strategic investment in Skygard. Currently under construction, Skygard is state-of-the-art secure and energy efficient data centres that Telenor is building with its partners in Norway. In the first year of extended collaboration, Telenor will
Fornebu, Norway – June 14, 2024 – Norwegian businesses and public sector organisations are facing more frequent and severe cyberattacks. According to a survey conducted by Norstat, 1 in 5 business leaders reported having experienced cyberattacks in the past year – a staggering 130,000 Norwegian companies. In response to this growing threat, Telenor is establishing a new cyber security company to meet these increasing demands from businesses. “We have never experienced cyber threats as frequent a
Norway's Telenor picked the head of a regional bank as its new CEO on Thursday and said the telecom group's strategy and its goal of growing profitably would be unaffected by the management transition. Benedicte Schilbred Fasmer, currently the head of SpareBank 1 SR-Bank, will take the helm at Telenor on Dec. 1 when its present CEO Sigve Brekke retires, the two companies announced. "The telecoms industry is technology driven and customer focused, very much a parallel to banking," Fasmer told Reuters in a telephone interview.