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Trade Register System 12 April 2000

Reg. No. 740.009

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

Register number: 740.009

Company: Sonera Corporation

Handling office: Trade Register

Arkadiankatu 6 A

00100 Helsinki, tel. 09-6939 500

Contents of copy:

Articles of Association dated 12 April 2000

Period of validity: 12 April 2000 -

This information is a computer printout from the trade register system. This document is deemed original without being signed when printed on the National Board of Patents and Registration’s paper.

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ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF SONERA CORPORATION

1 The name and registered office of the company

The name of the company in Finnish is Sonera Oyj, in Swedish Sonera Abp and in English Sonera Corporation. The registered office of the company is in Helsinki.

2 Line of business of the company

The line of business of the company is general telecommunications operations, building and maintenance of telecommunications networks, and routing of telecommunications; provision of various telecommunications, data communications, Internet and value-added services; publications, content provision and information service business; electronic commerce; planning, development, manufacture, marketing and sales of terminal equipment, information systems, software, services and other products, and related research, consulting and maintenance operations, and other business related to them or supporting them. The company conducts its business either directly itself or through its subsidiaries or joint ventures. As the parent company of the Group companies, the company is responsible for the corporate administration. The company has the right to own shares and real property, trade in securities, and conduct other investment business.

3 Minimum and maximum capital

The minimum capital of the company is three hundred and nine million six hundred thousand euros (EUR 309,600,000), and the maximum capital is one billion two hundred and thirty-eight million four hundred thousand euros (EUR 1,238,400,000), within the limits of which the share capital may be increased or decreased without amending the Articles of Association.

The minimum number of shares is seven hundred and twenty million (720,000,000) and the maximum number of shares is two billion eight hundred and eighty million (2,880,000,000).

The company shares do not have a nominal value.

4 Book-entry securities system

After the registration date determined by the Board of Directors of the company, the company shares are registered in the book-entry securities system.

After the registration date, the right to receive dividends distributed by the company and the right to subscription in connection with an increase in the share capital shall belong only to a person

- who, on the record day, has been recorded in the shareholder register as a shareholder; or

- whose right to receive payment has, on the record day, been entered in the book-entry account of a shareholder registered in the shareholder register, and recorded in the shareholder register; or,

- where the share is nominee-registered, in whose book-entry account the share has been entered on the record day, and the custodian of whose shares has been recorded in the

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shareholder register on the record day as the custodian of the shares.

5 Administrative bodies of the company

The company's administrative bodies are the Supervisory Board, the Board of Directors, and the President and CEO.

6 Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board contains not less than fifteen (15) nor more than twenty-four (24) members.

The members of the Supervisory Board shall be experts in telecommunications or business management, and independent as required by the competitive situation.

The General Meeting elects the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board and no more than twenty-two (22) other members.

A person over the age of 67 cannot be elected as member of the Supervisory Board.

The term of office of a member of the Supervisory Board shall expire at the termination of the third Annual General Meeting following the election in such a manner, however, that a third of the members, or a number nearest to that, retires each year. The term of office of the members elected to the first Supervisory Board of the company shall be divided in such a manner that the term of office of the first third, or a number nearest to that, shall expire at the termination of the first Annual General Meeting following the election; that of the second third, or a number nearest to that, shall expire at the termination of the second Annual General Meeting following the election; that of the third third, or a number nearest to that, shall expire at the termination of the third Annual General Meeting.

7 Duties of the Supervisory Board

The duties of the Supervisory Board are:

1. to see that company matters are attended to according to sound business principles and in view of profitability, in compliance with these Articles of Association and decisions made by the General Meeting;

2. to decide on instructions to be given to the Board of Directors in matters that are far-reaching or important in principle;

3. to issue a statement to the Annual General Meeting regarding the financial statements, consolidated financial statements, and auditors’ report;

4. to issue a statement on the review of the Board of Directors, which shall be appended to a proposal for an issue of new shares, an authorization decision relating to an issue of new shares, a proposal for an issue of a convertible loan or bond loan with warrants or for an issue of warrants, and merger or demerger agreements.

8 Board of Directors

It is the duty of the Board of Directors to manage the company’s operations in compliance with the stipulations of the law and the Articles of Association. The Board of Directors comprises a Chairman, Vice Chairman, and not less than three (3) nor more than eight (8) regular members.

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The Chairman, Vice Chairman and members of the Board are elected at the Annual General Meeting.

The term of office of the members, Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board shall expire at the termination of the first Annual General Meeting following the election, and nevertheless before the age of 65 years.

The Chairman of the Supervisory Board has the right to attend Board meetings.

9 Signing for the company

The company is signed for by the President and CEO alone, and members of the Board of Directors, two together.

The Board of Directors may authorize other persons specified by name to sign for the company two together or severally together with a member of the Board.

The Board of Directors decides on procurations. Procuration can be granted only in such a manner that the holders of procuration sign for the company two together or severally together with a member of the Board or another person authorized to sign for the company.

10 Auditors

The company shall have at least one (1) and no more than three (3) auditors. The auditor shall be an auditor or public accounting corporation approved by the Central Chamber of Commerce.

The auditor’s term of office shall expire at the termination of the Annual General Meeting following the election.

11 Financial year

The company's financial year is the calendar year.

12 Notice of meeting

The Board of Directors shall provide a notice of a General Meeting and other notifications to shareholders by publishing an announcement in at least two (2) national newspapers determined by the Board of Directors not earlier than two (2) months prior to the deadline of registration referred to in the notice of the General Meeting and not later than twelve (12) days prior to the General Meeting.

13 Advance registration

In order to be allowed to attend a General Meeting, a shareholder shall register at the company before the expiration of the registration period indicated in the notice of the meeting. The period of registration shall not expire earlier than five (5) days prior to the meeting.

Once the company shares are registered in the book-entry securities system, it shall moreover be observed what the Companies’ Act stipulates on the right to attend a meeting of such a company.

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14 Shareholder’s right to submit an item to the General Meeting

A shareholder shall notify the Board of Directors in writing of an item to be submitted to the General Meeting in good time to allow the item to be incorporated in the notice of the General Meeting.

15 Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting shall be held once every year, within four (4) months of the end of the financial year, at a date determined by the Board of Directors. At the meeting shall be

presented

1. the financial statements, including the income statement, balance sheet and annual report, and the consolidated income statement and balance sheet;

2. the auditors' report, and any statement issued by the Board of Directors on account thereof;

3. the statement of the Supervisory Board on the financial statements, consolidated financial statements, and auditors’ report;

resolved upon:

4. the adoption of the income statement and balance sheet, and the consolidated income statement and balance sheet;

5. any measures warranted by the profit or loss shown in the adopted balance sheet or consolidated balance sheet;

6. discharging the members of the Supervisory Board and the Board of Directors, and the President and CEO from liability; and

7. the number of members of the Supervisory Board and Board of Directors and of auditors, and their remuneration;

elected

8. Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, and members of the Supervisory Board in place of those retiring;

9. Chairman, Vice Chairman and members of the Board of Directors; and

10. the auditors; and

transacted

11. any other business specifically indicated in the notice of the meeting.