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Sony Ericsson Brand to Be Phased Out, New Sony Handsets Launching in Mid-2012

Following the recent acquisition of Ericsson’s share in the Sony Ericsson joint venture, Sony has recently confirmed plans to rebrand the entire line-up of smartphones sometime next year.  According to Times of India, citing a Sony senior executive, the Sony Ericsson brand will be dropped in mid-2012 and n...

5 December 2011
06:31 GMT

Xperia ray Arrives at TELUS on November 2

It looks like Sony Ericsson continues to exist as a brand, at least until early 2012, when Sony is expected to take full control of the joint venture. In this regard, Canadian carrier TELUS and Sony Ericsson are about to announce the Xperia ray smartphone.According to the folks over at MobileSyrup (via tipster), the ...

31 October 2011
15:31 GMT

Official: Sony Buys Out Ericsson's Stake in Sony Ericsson

Speculations about the possible dissolve of the Sony Ericsson joint-venture have come and gone for years, but earlier this month sources close to the matter claimed that the move is imminent and scheduled for the end of the year.Today, both companies announced they have come to an agreement to make the Sony Ericsson ...

27 October 2011
03:37 GMT

Sony Close to Buy Out Ericsson's Stake in Sony Ericsson Joint Venture

Created in October 2001, Sony Ericsson joint venture may soon become a thing of the past, as rumors in the market claim that Sony is determined to buy out Ericsson's stake.The reason behind Sony's decision may lie in the fact that the Japanese giant wants to integrate the smartphone business with its tablet...

7 October 2011
03:58 GMT

Telefonica Selects Ericsson for Network Maintenance Services in Brazil

Telefonica and Ericsson have just announced a new agreement that will provide Brazilian subscribers living in the city of Sao Paulo with new and improved fixed network services. Furthermore, this is more of an expansion of the collaboration between the two companies that worked together in the past to offer custom...

19 July 2011
13:31 GMT

Ericsson Demonstrates LTE Advanced, 10 Times Faster than 4G Speeds

It seems that the higher data transfer speeds of the LTE are not enough anymore, as Ericsson has just demoed the LTE Advanced technology, the next step of the 4G standard. Amazing, to say the least, but during the demonstration, which was held in Kista, Sweden, Ericsson managed to attain speeds more than 10 times ...

28 June 2011
12:31 GMT

Ericsson to Manage Clearwire's 4G Network for the Next 7 Years

Clearwire and Ericsson have just announced a surprisingly long seven-year partnership that will transfer the everyday management of Clearwire's 4G network to Ericsson. In addition, approximately 700 Clearwire employees are expected to begin performing their network functions as Ericsson employees in locations...

19 May 2011
13:31 GMT

Sony Ericsson Executive Talks About the PlayStation Phone

A senior executive from Sony Ericsson has suggested that the much rumored PlayStation Portable phone is real and that it could be officially announced soon as the company tries to attract customers away from Apple made products by offering a similar experience with a focus on gaming.Bert Nordberg, who is the Chief Ex...

4 January 2011
02:21 GMT

Sony Ericsson Executive Talks About the PlayStation Phone

A senior executive from Sony Ericsson has suggested that the much rumored PlayStation Portable phone is real and that it could be officially announced soon as the company tries to attract customers away from Apple made products by offering a similar experience with a focus on gaming.Bert Nordberg, who is the Chief Ex...

23 November 2010
18:31 GMT

ZTE Does $3 Billion Deal with Five Major US Technology Vendors

Chinese telecommunications equipment provider and handset maker ZTE recently announced that it has signed 3-years purchase agreements with five major U.S. technology vendors, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Freescale, Altera and Broadcom. The deal is valued at almost 3 billion USD and marks ZTE's commitment to the ...

26 October 2010
06:27 GMT

Rogers Starts LTE Trials in Canada

Canadian wireless carrier Rogers Communications Inc. went official with plans to deploy a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network in Canada in the near future, and announced the kick off of a comprehensive LTE trial with Ericsson in the Ottawa area.It's a common fact that LTE is a fourth generation (4G) wireless tech...

7 October 2010
13:31 GMT

MetroPCS and Ericsson Bring LTE to Dallas/Fort Worth

Mobile phone carrier MetroPCS and telecommunications solutions provider Ericsson have just announced the roll-out of a LTE network in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area. MetroPCS' Long Term Evolution (LTE) network is expected to offer enhanced mobile broadband capabilities, and to power content-rich applic...

30 September 2010
07:19 GMT

Ericsson to Offer Managed Services to China Mobile

Infrastructure services provider Ericsson has been recently selected by China Mobile Hebei, a provincial company of China Mobile, for the delivery of managed services. According to the company, Ericsson would offer these services for all of the 22,000 2G/3G (GSM/TD-SCDMA) base station sites the carrier has in the He...

19 July 2010
06:47 GMT

Ericsson Selected for Network Enhancement in Indonesia

Today, leading telecommunications solutions provider Ericsson announced that it has been selected by Indonesia's leading operator Telkomsel for the introduction of a new Dynamic End-to-End Policy Control solution that should offer service differentiation for its over 86 million subscribers. Telkomsel becomes th...

14 July 2010
16:01 GMT

Ericsson Showcases Complete TD-LTE Solution

Today, leading provider of telecommunications infrastructure provider Ericsson announced the showcasing of its complete end-to-end TD-LTE solution at a China Mobile event in Shanghai, China. According to the company, this is the first time when it demonstrates its complete solution, which included ST-Ericsson device...

12 July 2010
11:25 GMT

Mobile Subscriptions Already Top 5 Billion, Ericsson Says

According to leading telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider Ericsson, the number of mobile subscriptions all around the world already passed the 5 billion mark. The company says that the 5 billionth mobile subscriptions was added to the count on Thursday, July 8, 2010, and that this is yet another impo...

9 July 2010
08:41 GMT

Ericsson and Datang to Jointly Develop TD-LTE Systems

Ericsson has decided to collaborate with China's Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Holdings for the development of new TDD solutions. The memorandum of understanding states, amongst other things, that Ericsson has to begin the integration of Datang's TD-SCMA radio access network equipment into the Ericss...

21 April 2010
09:05 GMT

Ericsson Completes Acquisition of Nortel's GSM Business

Ericsson, leading infrastructure solutions provider, announced the completion of the purchase of all the assets of Nortel's GSM business on April 1, 2010. The closing of the deal follows the announcement made on November 25, 2009, according to which Ericsson has agreed to the purchase of all of these assets, th...

2 April 2010
13:01 GMT

Ericsson Signs Deals with China Mobile and China Unicom

Telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider Ericsson recently announced the signing of 2G/3G frame agreements with Chinese wireless operators China Mobile and China Unicom, aimed at the expansion of their networks. According to the company, the new deals will offer carriers the possibility to enhance China&...

30 March 2010
04:30 GMT

SingTel and Ericsson Start LTE Trials

Wireless carrier SingTel and leading telecoms infrastructure solutions provider Ericsson announced recently the first demonstration of an LTE trial at the operator's headquarters in Singapore, Comcentre. According to the duo, they plan on progressively upgrading during the following 12 to 14 months the mobile b...

17 March 2010
05:33 GMT

AT&T Announces Selection of LTE Equipment Suppliers

Mobile phone operator AT&T announced today that it had selected two suppliers for the deployment of its already unveiled LTE mobile broadband network, namely Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson. According to the company, the selection of equipment partners will be followed by field trials of LTE technology later during the ...

10 February 2010
08:34 GMT

84Mbps 3G Network Soon to Be Fired Up in Scandinavia

The world's fastest 3G network has been announced as being on its way to be fired up in Denmark and Sweden by wireless carrier 3 Scandinavia and telecommunications solutions provider Ericsson. The two companies have signed a 3-year partnership through which they plan on deploying the first 3G network in the wor...

20 January 2010
10:35 GMT

Ericsson Makes New Management Changes

Telecommunications infrastructure solutions provider Ericsson announced recently a series of changes in the management team of the company. According to the company, its business unit Global Services has now Magnus Mandersson as its leader, while the head of business unit CDMA Mobile Systems is now Rima Qureshi. At ...

20 January 2010
03:38 GMT

Ericsson Slashes 950 Jobs in Sweden

Leading telecommunications solution provider Ericsson is set to cut a number of around 950 jobs in Sweden, in an effort to further reduce costs. The new job slashes will diminish the company's total workforce in the country by around 5 percent, and are determined by the closing of one of Ericsson's base st...

10 December 2009
14:11 GMT

Ericsson-Nortel Deal Gets Green Light from Canadian Government

Infrastructure solutions vendor Ericsson announced a while ago that it planned on purchasing Nortel Networks' CDMA and LTE assets, and that it had placed a $1.13 billion bid for the businesses, something that made Research In Motion shout out loud that the Canadian government should step to the front and block t...

18 September 2009
17:31 GMT

MetroPCS Selects Vendors for 2010 LTE Launch

Unlimited, contract-less wireless communications service provider MetroPCS announced on Tuesday that it had selected the infrastructure and handset vendors for the launch of its 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) Broadband services, slated for the second half of 2010. According to the company, Ericsson will be the infrastr...

16 September 2009
13:21 GMT

Ericsson Becomes Supplier for AT&T

Infrastructure solutions provider Ericsson has announced recently that wireless carrier AT&T chose it to become one of the two suppliers for the carrier's Wireline Access products and services. According to the company, the new deal is a breakthrough win for its wireline business on the North American continent....

7 September 2009
10:47 GMT

Ericsson CTO: LTE Is 4G, WiMAX Isn't

Long Time Evolution, also known as LTE, is the 4G standard expected to see the highest traction on the market as soon as the first networks based on it begin to roll out commercially. It won't be too long before the technology reaches consumers, as the first 4G networks based on LTE are expected to be deployed a...

14 August 2009
08:18 GMT

Ericsson Bids for Nortel's CDMA and LTE Units

Swedish telecommunication equipment company Ericsson announced on Saturday that it had placed a bid of $1.13 billion in an auction for Nortel Networks' CDMA and next-generation LTE wireless technologies divisions, and that it won. According to the company, the agreement between bankrupt Nortel and Ericsson state...

27 July 2009
05:04 GMT

Sprint-Ericsson Deal Is a Win-Win, Strategy Analytics Says

Wireless carrier Sprint and telecommunications and infrastructure provider Ericsson recently announced a seven-year managed services deal for day-to-day operations of the operator's wireless and wireline networks. The $4.5-5 billion deal has been already analyzed by the research firm Strategy Analytics, and is c...

14 July 2009
09:11 GMT

Ericsson Ends Network Upgrade for Vodafone Essar in Record Time

Ericsson, the leading telecommunications equipment and infrastructure provider, announced today the completion of the largest upgrade of a live mobile network in the world, which has been made in a record time. The company announced that it had had to replace more than 10,500 of Vodafone Essar's GSM radio sites,...

14 July 2009
06:40 GMT

Sprint and Ericsson Ink a 7-Year Network Services Deal

Wireless carrier Sprint and telecommunications equipment vendor Ericsson announced on Friday a unique network services agreement. The deal between the two spans over a seven-year term and is expected to offer the former the possibility to see impressive enhancements to its network, while also enabling the latter to e...

10 July 2009
02:58 GMT

Sony Is Putting Together a Team to Create the PSP Phone

Sony has long said that it does not want to compete with the iPhone and the various clones of the Apple product that make it on the market. The official position of the Japanese company is that the existence of such products only emphasizes the “premium” position on the market that the PlayStation Portabl...

30 June 2009
04:43 GMT

Ericsson Licenses Its First LTE Technology

Ericsson announced on Wednesday the signing of its first Long Term Evolution (LTE) agreement. The new deal shows that the licensing of the company's technology will play an important role in its strategy for moving forward at a time when the adoption of LTE is increasing all around the world. A wide range of com...

25 June 2009
04:43 GMT

Ericsson Will Sustain Sony Ericsson, CEO Says

It seems that the Japanese-Swedish joint venture Sony Ericsson still has some more time to live before falling apart, as Ericsson, a leading mobile telecom equipment maker, stated on Wednesday that it intended to pump money into the company in case it needed it, something that should put an end to previous rumors tha...

24 April 2009
06:28 GMT

Ericsson Plans to Demo 56Mbps on HSPA at CTIA

Ericsson, leading provider of technology and services to telecom operators, announced recently that it would continue to work on the increase of HSPA speeds so as to be able to offer users a leveraged experience, while also sustaining the development of mobile broadband. Leveraged speeds means higher data rates, and,...

31 March 2009
08:29 GMT

Chinese 3G Network Deployments Start Moving Up

It seems that things are starting to look up for the deployment of 3G networks in China. Huawei, one of the companies expected to make moves in the area, has already announced that it has managed to deploy the first WCDMA commercial network for China Unicom in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. The company has awarded...

21 March 2009
05:42 GMT

Sony and Ericsson Might Break Up After All

It seems that the joint venture between Sony and Ericsson might come to an end after all. There have been a lot of speculations going around about the breakup between the two companies, and it seems that the infrastructure provider, Ericsson, has finally decided that it is time to leave the mobile phone game and retu...

19 March 2009
03:36 GMT

3G Services Launched in 11 Cities in India

Ericsson has recently announced an update to the contract the company signed back in September 2007 with India's BSNL, stating that it achieved the biggest simultaneous launch of 3G services to date in the country. Ericsson will deploy 3G services over 11 major cities in India. BSNL announced that its rollout ...

27 February 2009
08:44 GMT

Orange and Ericsson Deploy Solar-Powered Base Stations

Orange Guinea Conakry and Ericsson announced recently the deployment of over 100 base stations that are fully powered by solar energy, meant to provide connectivity in remote parts of rural Africa. The mobile phone carrier is trying to increase its coverage in both rural and urban areas through Ericsson's energy...

19 February 2009
03:48 GMT

Ericsson Announces HSPA Downlink Speeds of Up to 42Mbps

Ericsson announced that it would demonstrate its new HSPA multi-carrier technology at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week. According to the company, the technology will enable for peak downlink data rates of up to 42Mbps. Australian operator Telstra is currently working on HSPA downlink data rates of up ...

11 February 2009
09:29 GMT

Chinese 3G Tender Won by Five Firms

The latest WCDMA infrastructure tender from China Unicom is reported to have as its biggest winners Huawei, Motorola and Ericsson, according to the South China Morning Post, which cites industry sources. China Unicom has been recently granted a license for the deployment of a 3G network based on the European WCDMA te...

26 January 2009
09:51 GMT

Sony Ericsson and 3 Scandinavia Unveil First Ever 21MB/s Downlink Speed Network

Through such unveilings and events, Sony Ericsson is demonstrating why it is the one of the most appreciated and respected mobile manufacturers in the world, and most importantly, why it is also the sales market leader in areas such as 2G and 3G devices.In any case, Sony has surely made most of its 195 million subscr...

9 December 2008
04:29 GMT

Ericsson and Telefnica Sign New Latin American Deal

Ericsson, the well-known Swedish telecommunications company, announced today that it has signed a new business consulting and systems integration agreement with Telefnica, one of the largest mobile operators in the world, allowing the carrier to enhance the control over its revenue streams. According to the agreeme...

24 July 2008
10:30 GMT

Ericsson and 3 Can Provide 5.8 Mbps HSPA Upload Speeds in Italy

Ericsson and 3 Italia (Italy's 3) recently announced they have established a cutting-edge 3.5G HSPA commercial network that allows data transfer speeds of up to 5.8 Mbps in uplink. This achievement is an important step towards the deployment of an HSPA Evolution network. With uplink transfer speeds of 5.8 Mbps, ...

17 July 2008
12:05 GMT

Ericsson Brings Formula One to Spanish Mobile TV Users

Ericsson, together with Telecinco and Boomerang TV, announced the availability of Formula One live content for all the Spanish mobile TV users. From now on, Formula One (F1) fans in Spain will be able to view the races of this season on their mobile phones, thanks to Ericsson and HyC, the Spanish company that Ericss...

15 July 2008
12:21 GMT

The First "Solar Network" Deployed by Ericsson in South America

Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications giant company, announced today that it would deploy what we can call a "solar network" for Digicel, a leading Caribbean mobile operator, in Suriname.Ericsson will provide a solar-powered site solution for Suriname's remote areas that have limited access to electricity. Th...

2 July 2008
05:57 GMT

Telstra Enhances Its Next G Network

Telstra, Australia's leading mobile carrier, together with Ericsson, have announced a new feature for the Next G Australian network, namely the so-called 3G Direct Tunnel. This 3G Direct Tunnel will allow Telstra's network to function at an increased capacity and, therefore, to support the continuously grow...

11 June 2008
11:02 GMT

Ericsson Improves Era's Network in Poland

Ericsson announced today that it has signed a deal with PTC (Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa), according to which it will provide its Mobile Softswitch Solution to the Polish mobile operator, in order to increase its network's capacity, coverage and overall performance. PTC offers mobile services in Poland under t...

9 June 2008
10:53 GMT

Meteor Expands Its 3G Network

While in India Ericsson is helping disadvantaged people, back in Europe, the Swedish telecommunications giant is taking care of more technical things. The company has announced a new deal with the Irish mobile operator Meteor, according to which it will be the exclusive supplier of the carrier's future nationwid...

5 June 2008
13:17 GMT


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