14 DAY TRIAL // Ericsson's expansion in Romania is finally set clear. The mobile phone operator will open a new service center in Bucharest.
Ericsson expressed their intention on expanding over the Romanian mobile market at the beginning of this year. At that time, officials from Ericsson met with Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu in order to make note of the intention of bringing their services on the Romanian ground.
The Global Services Center will open in July, this year. For the beginning, it will have 200 employees, most of them Romanian graduates. Moreover, Ericsson and the Bucharest Politechnical University will both sign an agreement in order to make it easier to employ skilled young people, recently University graduates.
At the opening ceremony for this new Global Services Center, Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian will also take part along with the Romanian Agency for Foreign Investments (ARIS). The opening of this new center comes as good news for both Ericsson and Romania's economy, as this country has also proved appealing for Nokia when it came to expanding their production line.
"The opening of the new GSDC in Romania further proves Ericsson's ambition to grow and develop the services area, as well as our delivery capabilities", said Hans Vestberg, Executive Vice President and Head of Ericsson's Business Unit Global Services.
Moreover, "The increase in the services business and the new needs we are seeing within, for example, managed operations in IT management, application development and support areas are the main reasons for opening a new GSDC in Bucharest", said Fredrik T. Strand, Vice President and Head of Service Delivery at Business Unit Global Services.
The new center will start off with an estimate number of 200 employees, mostly young Romanian engineers. This is only a small number of the total of nearly 3000 people from the southeastern Europe that are currently working for Ericsson.