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TELE2 GETS CLEARANCE FROM SPANISH COMPETITION AUTHORITIES FOR THE ACQUISITION OF COMUNITEL

Stockholm – Tele2 AB, (“Tele2”), (Stockholmsbörsen: TEL2A and TEL2B), the leading alternative pan-European telecommunications company, today announced that the Spanish anti-trust authorities have approved the acquisition of Comunitel by Tele2.

Tele2 is pleased with this announcement and expects to close the acquisition, announced on July 14, by October 1, 2005.

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Lars-Johan Jarnheimer, Telephone: + 46 8 562 640 00 President and CEO, Tele2 AB

Håkan Zadler, Telephone: + 46 8 562 640 00 CFO, Tele2 AB

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