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Glocalnet was a Swedish Internet service provider owned by Telenor. [1] [2]

It was merged into Bredbandsbolaget which was later merged into Telenor Sverige.

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References

  1. Karlberg, Lars Anders (2004-10-26). "Glocalnet startar nytt bredbandskrig". Ny Teknik (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved 2009-03-04.
  2. Lindmark, Sven; Björstedt, Per (2006). Fransman, Martin (ed.). Global Broadband Battles: Why the U.S. and Europe Lag While Asia Leads. Stanford University Press. p. 250. ISBN   0-8047-5306-7 . Retrieved 2009-03-05.