Telenor was founded in 1995 when Televerket was turned into a limited company. The logo and identity for the new company were created by Landor Associates in London, who also came up with the name with the Oslo agency Alfa & Omega. The symbol was designed to be 'warm and friendly'. The flash symbol in the logo was inherited from Televerket.
A modernised logo and identity was introduced in January 2001. Most elements from the former logo were kept, but straightened up. The flash symbol was straightened out into an arch.
The reason behind the redesign were said to be the developments in the telecom industry, most significantly the increased use of the Internet. Scandinavian Design Group were behind the new look.[1][2]
On 9 February 2006, Telenor introduced a completely new visual profile. It was created by Keshen Teo of Wolff Olins in London. At the same time, the Telenor subsidiaries Sonofon and Cybercity (Denmark), Pannon (Hungary) and ProMonte (Montenegro) adopted Telenor's symbol, retaining their local names for the time being, but they were renamed to Telenor on 18 May 2010.
Other operations: Maritime telecommunication:Telenor Maritim Radio (Norway) Financial:Telenor Microfinance Bank (Pakistan) Television services:Allente (Nordics), T-We (Norway), Telenor MyTV (Hungary) Machine-to-machine/IoT:Telenor Connexion Other holdings:VEON (14.8%) (Kyivstar/Other)
1Co-owned with Axiata. 2Sold to PPF Group in 2018 with the Telenor brand changed to Yettel in 2022. 3Sold to PPF Group in 2018, and later to 4iG in 2022 with the Telenor brand changed in the same year. 4Merged into Bharti Airtel in 2018 and closed. 5Became O2 Ireland; merged with Three in 2015.
