the State has a minority shareholding in Telia at 37.3 percent. The government has no plans to divest it ownership. However, in connection with a bill to the riksdag on a buy-back program of shares as the board of directors of Telia to implement, so have several bourgeois parties exercise if, instead, dispose of the ownership.
won a majority in the industry and then he had swung in the question.
But it is not about to sell the whole state ownership. The defence committee has in a statement warned that it must be preceded by a thorough risk and impact assessment and that the tools to prevent and prevent possible risks must first be in place.
Industry shares this view.
“We want to make the government see whether it is possible to dispose of the commercial part of Telia, in return for that you get a bigger and better control over the security-sensitive systems,” says the committee’s chairman Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M) to the TT.
today is the state as a minority shareholder in Telia a passive owner, which is problematic from a security aspect, since it is security-sensitive systems and infrastructure in Telia. As a minority shareholder, the state has not full right of disposition over these systems, ” he says.
would reinforce this control, a sale of the commercial part of the Telia to reduce the state dominance in the media market, which occurs if the Telia purchase TV4, the view of the committee.
– Then, we solve two problems at once. The government has, in the absence of the corporate governance really just sat and looked at when this Bonnieraffären likely to go through, ” says Carl-Oskar Bohlin (M).
the Issue is currently crucial in the EU-commission.
– Would it go through the state a very big player in the media market, and we think that is unfortunate, ” says Bohlin.
the social democrats, the green Party and the Left party has reservations against the proposal in committee.
