12/9/2004 09:00 CET (TeliaSonera International Carrier) TeliaSonera International Carrier and Blizzard Entertainment® Announce Hosting Agreement in Europe European Hosting Solution Confirmed for World of Warcraft®

TeliaSonera International Carrier and Blizzard Entertainment® today announced that TeliaSonera International Carrier will provide the hosting solution in Europe for Blizzard Entertainment's upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game, World of Warcraft®.

The massive deployment of several hundred servers will be connected with multi-gigabit IP links to the TeliaSonera International Carrier's wholly owned Viking IP network. This will allow for seamless access to Blizzard's virtual world. TeliaSonera International Carrier will provide the hosting services through its Internet Data Centres in Paris and Stockholm.

In addition to providing hosting for World of Warcraft, the new agreement significantly expands the hosting services in Europe that TeliaSonera International Carrier currently provides to Blizzard Entertainment for its free online gaming network, Battle.net®.

"We are very proud of our close relationship with Blizzard Entertainment, one of the world's dominating companies in the gaming industry", says Eva Lindqvist, President of TeliaSonera International Carrier. "Online gaming has had enormous growth in the gaming sector. This agreement confirms our position as the leading supplier of IP connectivity in the Pan-European market."

"TeliaSonera has been providing a best-of-class hosting solution for Battle.net in Europe for many years, and we're very pleased to be expanding this service for World of Warcraft," commented Paul Sams, senior vice president of business operations at Blizzard Entertainment. "We're confident that TeliaSonera's high-quality, highly accessible IP network will provide a stable infrastructure in which European players can easily explore and enjoy World of Warcraft."