STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Dec. 9, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Song Networks Holding AB (Stockholm:SONW) (Other OTC:SONWF) announces today that the Company's planned rights issuance now is, according to plan, fully guaranteed.
An additional piece of the ongoing restructuring of the Song Networks group is now in place. The planned rights issuance is now fully guaranteed. A consortium of Stena Adactum AB, Dunross & Co AB and Adolf Lundin provide the guarantee.
"I have all the time been convinced that the share issuance would be fully guaranteed, but it feels good to have the guarantee in place. I see this as an evidence of the investors' confidence in the new Song Networks," said Tomas Franzen, Chief Executive Officer Song Networks Holding AB.
For further information, please contact:
Song Networks Holding AB Tomas Franzen, Chief Executive Officer Phone: +46 8 5631 0111 Mobile: +46 701 810 111 tomas.franzen@songnetworks.net
About Song Networks, formerly Tele1 Europe, (Stockholm:SONW) (Other OTC:SONWF):
Song Networks is a data and telecommunications operator with activities in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The Company's business concept is to offer the best broadband solution for data communication, Internet and voice to businesses in the Nordic region. This means that Song Networks supplies communication solutions that are attractively customized for each corporate customer. Song Networks is currently the only pan Nordic operator investing in local access networks with broadband capacity. The Company has built local access networks in the largest cities in the Nordic region. The access networks, which are linked by a long-distance network is one of the fastest data and internet super-highways in Europe, with an initial capacity for customers of up to one gigabit. The Company was founded in 1995 in Sweden and has approximately 975 employees per 30 September. The head office is located in Stockholm and there are an additional 34 offices located in the Nordic region. For further information, please visit www.songnetworks.net
Certain statements contained in this press release contain "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S. federal securities law. Such statements are based on the current expectations of the management of Song Networks Holding AB only, and performance is subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these statements. Such risks include, but are not limited to, adverse regulatory, technological or competitive developments; decline in demand for the company's services or products; inability to timely develop, introduce and market new technologies, products and services; pricing pressures resulting from competition; unforeseen construction delays; and the inability to successfully manage systems failures or shutdowns and service interruptions or reduced services to customers. For a more detailed discussion of such risks and uncertainties affecting the company, please refer to Song Networks Holding AB's reports that are filed from time to time with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including the company's annual report on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K.
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