Telia Company has entered into an agreement to sell its 100% ownership in Telia Latvija to Tet SIA.
Telia Latvia was founded in 1992 and is today a leading B2B (business-to-business) telecom services provider. The company has 46 employees and offers large businesses across Latvia solutions within four services segments: telecommunications services, cloud services, data center solutions and media solutions.
Tet is a local technology and entertainment operator in Latvia, offering a full range of ICT and pay-TV services to households, businesses, the government and municipal institutions, as well as electricity and other services. Tet is owned by the Republic of Latvia (51%) represented by SIA Publisko aktīvu pārvaldītājs Possessor and Tilts Communications A/S (49%), a wholly owned Telia Company entity. In addition to its minority holding in Tet, Telia Company also owns 60.3% in the leading Latvian mobile operator LMT.
Andreas Ekström, Telia Company Head of Latvia
We have run a competitive auction process for the sale of Telia Latvia during the autumn where a significant number of potential buyers were invited. We are pleased that we have now reached an agreement with Tet who with this acquisition will strengthen its positions withing the enterprise segment with Telia Latvia’s network and technology assets and highly skilled employees.
Uldis Tatarcuks, CEO of Tet
Tet’s strategy is to accelerate growth via acquisitions, and we are very excited about the opportunity to acquire Telia Latvia. We believe our businesses complement each other, especially within our data center and transmission business.
