Telia experienced widespread IT issues across Sweden, disrupting calls, mobile access, texting, internet, and its website for thousands of customers nationwide.The critical service outage significantly affected card payments at Coop grocery stores and disrupted the police non-emergency number 11414, leading Region Stockholm to declare a state of emergency.Telia's Head of Communications,
Roija Rafii, confirmed a power failure caused the problems, which received the highest priority and were subsequently resolved, with services gradually returning to normal.