
Tele2 AB’s shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Stockholm on the Large Cap-list under the ticker symbols TEL2 A and TEL2 B. The fifteen largest shareholders at December 31, 2008 hold shares corresponding to 57 percent of the capital and 73 percent of the voting rights, of which Investment AB Kinnevik owns 28.2 percent of the capital and 45.4 percent of the voting rights. No other shareholder owns directly or indirectly more than 10 percent of the shares in Tele2.
The Board of Tele2 AB decided in 2008 to recommend an increase of the ordinary dividend of 11 percent to SEK 3.50 per share in respect of the financial year 2008. The Board has also decided to recommend a special dividend of SEK 1.50 per share.
The Board of Directors received authorization by the Annual General Meeting in May 2008 to purchase up to 10 percent of shares in the company. Tele2 has in September 2008 issued 850,000 Class C shares through a directed placement, which has immediately after the issue been repurchased. In addition Tele2 has during 2008 repurchased own shares of Series B of 4,500,000 shares.

Lars Torstensson
Tfn: +46 8 5620 0042
investor.relations@tele2.com
Skeppsbron 18
103 13 Stockholm
Tfn: +46 8 5626 4000
Fax: +46 8 5620 0040