TeliaSonera AB is reported to be considering pulling the plug on its Spanish subsidiary Yoigo. Reuters reports that the Stockholm-based telecommunications operator is to unveil news about the future of its Spanish business in connection with the release of its fourth-quarter earnings report this Friday. The operator’s Chief Executive Lars Nyberg, who replaced Anders Igel last year, is reported to be unconvinced by his predecessor’s venture into the Spanish market. A Dow Jones Newswire report later quotes a TeliaSonera spokesman saying only that  “we said it was going according to plan at the 3Q release, and we have no new message today.”

Launched in December 2006, Yoigo is Spain’s smallest operator with approximately 330,000 customers. It markets itself as a ‘low-cost’ mobile operator with reduced tariffs. Last month Yoigo announced a network sharing deal with local rival Orange aimed at improving service coverage throughout Spain, speeding up network deployment, and reducing the number of mobile masts necessary for the deployment of two operator networks.