Frequently asked questions

You can buy or sell Telenor shares through your banking connection, financial adviser, stockbroker or online broker. The commission charges for buying and selling shares vary between the different organisations.

You can find the value of your share by multiplying current share price with the number of shares you hold. Go to  the share  page.

You should contact your bank (the bank through which you bought your shares). If you do not know which bank that is, please contact Telenor’s registrar (see registrar information below).

You should contact your bank (the bank through which you bought your shares). If you do not know which bank that is, please contact Telenor’s registrar.

Please contact Telenor’s registrar at your earliest opportunity to establish which documents you will need to forward to them.

To get you VPS number, you should contact your bank (the bank through which you bought your shares). If you do not know which bank that is, please contact Telenor’s registrar.

The registrar manages Telenor’s share register on behalf of Telenor. The registrar is responsible for ensuring dividend payments, and can provide information about shareholding in Telenor and route you to your personal accountant/bank. Telenor has appointed DNB as its registrar:

DNB Bank ASA
Dronning Eufemias gate 30, Bygg M-10S, 0191 Oslo
Tel: +47 23 26 80 20
Email: kua@dnb.no

Dividend related questions can be directed to kua@dnb.no

The ADS holders should address any queries or instructions regarding their holdings to The Depositary Bank for Telenor’s ADR program:

Regular Correspondence
JP Morgan Chase Bank N.A.
P.O. Box 64504
St. Paul, MN 55164-0854
USA

Tel: 1-800-990-1135 (toll-free in the US and Canada)
Tel: 1-651-453-2128 (outside the US and Canada)
Tel: 1-651-453-2133 (for the hearing impaired)

Email: jpmorgan.adr@wellsfargo.com

DNB offers the following services:

Telenor’s dividend payments to shareholders, information on shareholding in Telenor, route you to your VPS account owner (the bank responsible for your shareholder account). If you need to transfer your stocks to another person, and change your personal information as name, address or bank account information

The proposed dividend is announced in connection with the annual results reporting. The dividend amount is subject to approval on the Annual General Meeting.

Telenor pays semi-annual dividends. The dividend is usually paid 1 – 2 weeks after the Annual General Meeting in May and the second installment in November. An overview of proposed dividend, ex.dividend and record dates is available on our dividend page.

Dividend on the Norwegian stock exchange shares is paid in NOK and is subject to Norwegian tax law. If you hold shares on the day of the Annual General Meeting you will receive dividend. If you sell your shares before the Annual General meeting you are not titled to receive dividend. You can go to our dividend page for more information about the tax treatment of the dividend.

You can go to our dividend page for more information about upcoming and previous years' dividends payments.

Telenor ASA do not have a reinvestment program. To buy Telenor shares contact your banking connection, financial adviser, stockbroker or online broker.

Telenor aims for a year-on-year growth in ordinary dividends per share. Telenor pays semi-annual dividends. In addition, buy-back of own shares and/or extraordinary dividend pay-outs will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

Please see our dividend web pages for information about proposed record dates.

To attend the Annual General Meeting you must be a Telenor shareholder.

You can register for the Annual General Meeting in two ways:

Two weeks before the Annual General Meeting you will receive a registration form to your registered postal address to be filled out and returned to DNB Bank.

You can register electronically on the AGM page. All details of the registration procedure will be published two weeks before the next meeting.

As a shareholder in Telenor you may appoint a representative by proxy to exercise the shareholder’s voting rights at the AGM. This may be done in two ways:

Two weeks before the Annual General Meeting you will receive a registration form to your registered postal address to be filled out and returned to DNB Bank.

You can appoint a representative electronically on the AGM pages. All details will be published two weeks before the next meeting.

To see current and historic share price (from year 2000 -> today) you can go to the share page

The Government of Norway is the majority shareholder with a 54% stake. For an updated list of the 20 largest shareholders, go to the major shareholdings page.

There are a number of analysts monitoring Telenor. See list of current analysts on the equity analysts page

Telenor is listed and traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange with the ticker symbol TEL.

There are only ordinary Telenor shares.

Yes, Telenor Group shares are included on the Oslo Stock Exchange Benchmark Index (OSEBX) as well as on leading international telecom indices.