A broad foothold as a business-oriented ISP in Europe was early secured. At the start of 2001, this establishment period was over and emphasis was placed on consolidation. The business area has also prepared for a new phase in the development of services for the residential market. From focusing on basic access services, more emphasis will now be placed on following the users demands for more integrated communications services with an increasing amount of multimedia content. The principal areas are access, hosting and communications.
Internet access is the business area s largest product, which offers number of different solutions.
Integrated communications packages for e-mail is the most important service in the communications area, and Telenor offers a range of solutions including the most advanced electronic mail services in the market. Telenor s hosting services range from storage of simple web pages to advanced multimedia and e-commerce solutions. Telenor leases capacity for its backbone network based on flexible contracts. Nextra currently has a seamless, logical IP network, Nextbone, with multimegabit capacity, ten access points and its own network routers in Europe and New York. New access points and additional high-speed lines between Europe and the US were established in 2000.