Ericsson News
Since a radical turnaround in 2003, Ericsson has dominated the wireless infrastructure market. It has built on its leading position in GSM and 3G technologies, and has filled in gaps in its offering via acquisitions, notably of many assets of bankrupt Nortel. This strengthened the Swedish giant’s activities in North America and the CDMA space. The company is under intense competitive pressure from Huawei though, and price wars in the mobile networks market have hurt its margin and sparked a wave of consolidation and cost cutting. These factors have forced Ericsson to broaden its operations and seek higher margin bases, most successfully in managing carriers’ networks on an outsourced basis. It is also developing businesses in fixed/mobile convergence and video, white label services for cellcos, and consulting. In its wireless infrastructure heartland it is leading the first wave of LTE contracts though it expects 3G to be the primary revenue growth generator for the medium term. Ericsson also has some important joint ventures, notably Sony Ericsson for handsets, and ST-Ericsson in chips.
LG aims to steal a march in TD-LTE smartphones
The ecosystem is building for the TDD flavor of LTE, but is still being heavily driven by China Mobile's very particular requirements. Despite the home advantage that may give Huawei and ZTE, Ericsson ...
- TD-LTE: A $91bn opportunity for carriers
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- China could get 4G licences this year
- Competition squeezes China Mobile's profit
Ericsson builds scale for its m-commerce platform
14 May, 2013
New alliance with Eurogiro allows half a million bank and post office branches to interconnect for mobile transactions
Services and profits slow at Ericsson
24 April, 2013
Networks business shows signs of full-year resilience, but modernization projects squeeze margins and services slow
Ericsson has disaster recovery for TV
10 April, 2013
The giant Swedish cellco outsourcer wants to offer across the board services to broadcasters
Ericsson may buy Microsoft Mediaroom
28 March, 2013
Would add new IPTV platform and carrier deals, while Windows giant would concentrate TV efforts on Xbox
Ericsson teams with SAP in M2M
7 March, 2013
In talks with operators like Telenor and Three to support expanded platform for enterprise services
Ericsson talks small cells but only extends AIR
13 February, 2013
Promises 70% better throughput with half the equipment, for its new antenna integrated radio base station unit
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