Telenor Norway CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY 2012 Page 20

4G to the people became a reality in 2012
On 10 October 2012 we opened Telenor Norway's fourth
generation mobile network (4G) in the following 11 cities and
communities: Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Lørenskog,
Sandnes, Lillestrøm, Asker, Bærum, Lofthus in Hardanger and
Longyearbyen. This expansion has continued rapidly, and by
the end of 2012 Telenor was able to provide 4G coverage to
more than one in three Norwegians. The next towns where
we launched the 4G network in 2012 were Porsgrunn, Skien,
Fredrikstad, Sarpsborg, Drammen and Kristiansand. By 2015
as many as nine out of 10 people in Norway will have access
to 4G. Like the majority of other mobile operators in Europe
we have so far used the 2600 MHz band for 4G coverage.
In the future we will primarily be using the 1800 MHz band
to provide 4G coverage in order to offer even wider mobile
coverage and improved indoor coverage.

Today's rapid development of digital services is placing an
increased demand on the mobile network and 4G represents
an important step towards even greater capacity and higher
speeds. 4G from Telenor supports efficient streaming and
downloading of movies and music, photo sharing and video
conferencing any time, any place. Data transfer within the
4G network is up to 10 times faster than before, which makes
for a much better user experience.

However Telenor's 4G network is not just for surfing on
PCs and tablets. Towards the end of 2012 we were the first
Norwegian telecoms operator to launch 4G for mobile
phones. There are now more and more new mobile phones on
the market that let users surf extremely quickly on Telenor's
4G network.

more speed
and better
experiences

4G FACTS

The 4G network is a mobile data
network on which you can surf up to
10 times faster than on the normal
mobile network. The speed of data
transmission on the 4G network is up
to 40 Mbit/s.

The 4G network lets you watch HD-
video on PCs, tablets and mobile
phones.

In order to receive 4G on your mobile
you need a 4G mobile phone and a
4G SIM card.

www.elektronikkbransjen.no

30 million MB

per day

over 100%

Mbit/s

In 2011 the corresponding
figure was 65%

of mobile phones in

Telenors network were

smartphones

At the end of 2012

Data usage
by mobile phones grew by

in 2012

Telenor's mobile customers

use around 30 million

megabytes in the course

of a single day.

This corresponds to

30-35 million front pages

of Norway's most read

newspaper, Verdens Gang.

Broadband speed is measured in

megabits per second (Mbit/s)

A megabit (abbreviated as Mb or Mbit)

is a unit for measuring the amount of

information or data flow. One megabit

equals 1,000,000 bits or 1,000 kilobits.

When comparing broadband speed

we talk about how much data can be

transmitted in one second.

This value is expressed in Mbit/s.

The higher the value for Mbit/s

the faster the broadband.

Frequency is measured in Hertz

Hertz (abbreviated Hz) is the unit of

frequency or cycles/events per second.

One hertz simply means "one cycle/event

per second". One megahertz (MHz) is

"one cycle/event per microsecond", 900

MHz is "900 hundred cycles/events per

microsecond" and so on.

Of all the mobile phones sold on

the Norwegian market in 2012

86%

were

smart phones

aT Telenor we aim To give our CusTomers The besT ThaT
modern CommuniCaTions TeChnology Can offer. our goal
is ThaT CusTomers should noT have To deal wiTh TeChniCal
deTails - "Things should JusT work". in The auTumn of 2012
we opened our 4g neTwork To TableTs and CompuTers and
by The end of The year we had also given mobile users The
opporTuniTy To surf The 4g neTwork.