article be merged with telia company . discuss proposed since september 2016 . this article has multiple issues . please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message this article relies too much on references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message telia carrier industry telecommunications founded 2003 headquarters farsta stockholm sweden area served europe asia americas key people brendan ives ceo products international wholesale telecommunications and ip services number of employees 450 end 2014 1 parent telia company website www.teliacarrier.com telia carrier formerly named teliasonera international carrier tsic is an international provider of telecommunication services based in stockholm sweden . it is wholly owned by telia company the largest telecommunications group in the nordic and baltic regions . it is listed on the stockholm and helsinki stock exchanges . it is a tier 1 network provider assigned autonomous system number as1299 . by the end of 2014 telia was the second largest carrier in the world . 2 contents 1 services 2 customers 3 awards and recognition 4 first terabit optical trial 5 corporate community support 6 references 7 external links services edit the core business of telia carrier is to provide fiber based telecommunications services and infrastructure . the company is an ip connectivity supplier globally and the largest in europe . 3 not in citation given it also provides services to broadcast media education and online gaming companies . the company owns and operates a 43000km fiber network which covers 200 points of presence in cities in 59 countries of europe north america and asia . 4 the network is centrally managed and monitored and optimized from network operations centers 24 7 365 . customers edit the company s customer base is mainly wholesale and includes the telecoms service providers viasat 5 and rostelecom 6 the content providers facebook 7 populis 8 twitchtv 9 activision blizzard 10 and the content delivery networks cdnetworks . 11 12 in may 2012 teliasonera international carrier announced it had been selected to build and manage a pan european optical network for facebook . 13 the multi terabit optical network will allow facebook to serve users in africa middle east and europe from a data center in lule sweden near the arctic circle . awards and recognition edit in november 2011 the company won best pan european wholesale offering at the annual capacity awards 14 as well as best wholesale carrier at the world communication awards wca . citation needed telia carrier also received the latter in 2007 and 2009 and has been a finalist in this category every year since 2005 . citation needed in addition wca recognized the company for best customer care in 2010 and best new service for child safeguard a tool to deny access to websites carrying images of child sexual abuse in 2009 . citation needed in 2011 telia carrier also won an award at the eco gala from the germany isp industry . 15 not in citation given first terabit optical trial edit this section does not cite any sources . please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . april 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message in november 2011 telia carrier and infinera announced completion of the world s first terabit optical transmission based on 500gbit s super channels . the demonstration was performed on 1105 km of optical fiber between los angeles and san jose california . the trial was conducted with elements of the new infinera dtn x platform and demonstrated twice the capacity of previous trials by adding a terabit of bandwidth to a route carrying 300gbit s production capacity . corporate community support edit since 2008 telia carrier has donated free service to the wikimedia foundation being the only global tier 1 carrier to do so as of february 2012 . citation needed references edit annual and sustainability report 2014 pdf . teliasonera . retrieved 18 august 2015 . a baker s dozen 2014 edition . dyn research . 4 february 2015 . retrieved 22 february 2015 . the internet intelligence authority . renesys . retrieved 13 october 2013 . peering networks detailed view . peeringdb.com . 19 july 2013 . retrieved 13 october 2013 . 1 dead link 2 dead link wauters robin 14 may 2012 . teliasonera to build facebook s new pan european optical network . thenextweb.com . retrieved 13 october 2013 . 3 dead link 4 dead link 5 dead link 6 dead link 7 dead link 8 dead link capacity magazine awards 2011 . capacitymagazine.com . 23 november 2011 . retrieved 13 october 2013 . eco gala 2011 eco verband der deutschen internetwirtschaft e.v . eco.de . 30 june 2011 . retrieved 13 october 2013 . external links edit official website global network map brendan ives talks to capacity tv v t e telia company mobile operators azerbaijan cambodia denmark finland estonia georgia kazakhstan latvia lithuania moldova nepal norway spain sweden tajikistan uzbekistan retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title telia carrier & oldid 740202648 categories tier 1 networkshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2013articles to be merged from september 2016all articles to be mergeduse dmy dates from april 2016articles needing additional references from april 2013all articles needing additional referencesarticles lacking reliable references from april 2013all articles lacking reliable referencesall articles with failed 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