Telia Finland

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On June 25, 2026, Telia Finland appointed Raivo Rosts as head of its consumer business and a member of the management team, effective August. Rosts joins from Tele2, where he served as consumer sales director at Tele2 Sweden and previously CCO at Tele2 Latvia. He replaces Tuula Heikkinen, who concludes a 20-year career at Telia after more than four years in the role. Previously, on June 23, Barclays upgraded Telia as part of a Nordic telco reshuffle, citing healthy fundamentals in Nordic telecom markets despite a temporary growth pause in Finland and Norway. On June 22, Telia Finland transferred part of its IT support business to CGI under a new contract, which includes Telia providing infrastructure and network services to CGI while CGI takes over Telia Cygate's data centre services and end-user IT support for Telia Finland's business customers, resulting in nearly 250 Telia employees transferring to CGI. Earlier in June, the company served as the official connectivity provider for NATO Innovation Range (NIR) Finnish testing activities from June 1 to June 10 in Joensuu, Turku, Oulu, and Riihimäki, bringing together Finnish defense companies, NATO, and allies to develop secure next-generation communications. This followed Telia Finland's June 9 announcement of a partnership with Nokia and Skyfora to present a method for detecting GNSS interference and monitoring atmospheric humidity at the NATO Innovation Range Finland 2026, with functionality activated on approximately 100 5G base stations and plans for further expansion.