Ericsson sees no China 3G licenses this yr
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Ericsson  said on Friday  that it expected China to hold back again this year from  issuing licenses for high-speed 3G mobile phone networks,  though he was anyway upbeat on prospects for the market.
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Swedish telecoms group Ericsson have signed a one-billion-dollar deal with China Mobile to supply equipment to expand the Asian company&#39;s GSM coverage in 19 regions of China, Ericsson said Sunday.
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China has no timetable for issuing third-generation mobile telephone licences, a senior regulator announced on Thursday, saying 3G services still lacked a clear business model.
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The world&#39;s top cell phone maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) expects to start selling phones for China&#39;s 3G  mobile technology TD-SCDMA in the first half of next year, when  the network is up and running, a company official said.
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AT&T Inc. hasn't decided whether it will bid for the highly-desirable 700MHz band because it doesn't know if it can build a profitable business given the open-access rules set for the wireless spectrum by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July.
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ERICSSON Australia Pty Ltd has been chosen to supply and service Telstra Corp Ltd&#39;s 3G mobile capacity for the next five years.
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China may dish out its first 3G  license as early as this month, a senior industry executive  said on Tuesday, as China Telecom and Netcom soared on hopes  that Beijing would finally take the leap after three years of  false starts.
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TELSTRA has chosen Ericsson Australia to supply and service its 3G mobile capacity for the next five years. The agreement, signed late Christmas Eve, involved contracts worth more than $100 million to upgrade
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. International Trade Commission barred the import of future models of phones using Qualcomm third-generation chips, marking a blow to the vendor in itsÂ ongoing intellectual property battle with Broadcom. New models of phones and personal digital assistants that hit the market after Thursday and that include certain Qualcomm chips can't be imported to the U.S., according to the order. The Commission decided to limit the ban to forthcoming phones because banning all phones with Qualcomm chips would have been against public interest and could hurt the economy and U.S. consumers, it said in a statement. The decision to only focus on future devices was a compromise. Banning all phones would be a "great burden" to companies that may not have enough other products to choose from, the ITC said. However, banning only the chips and not actual phones wouldn't offer much relief to Broadcom as not many chips are imported. The compromise was designed to be acceptable to companies that buy the phones while still offering relief to Broadcom, the ITC said. The move follows aÂ Commission finding late last yearÂ that Qualcomm had infringed on a Broadcom patent that relates to power management. The patented technology helps save battery life when a mobile phone can't find a wireless signal. Broadcom has said that essentially all third-generation EV-DO (Evolution-Data Optimized) and WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) phones use it. The ban follows a hearing before the ITC that happened on May 21. During the hearing, Broadcom and Qualcomm were allowed to argue the merits of a ban. Broadcom asked the commission to ban all handsets with Qualcomm's WCDMA and EV-DO chips, excluding smartphones, PDAs, and laptop cards. Qualcomm asked the commission to consider the effect such a ban would have on consumers and emergency response agencies. The ban is effective immediately and becomes final in 60 days. The ITC case is just one of many between the two companies in their ongoing argument over patent violations. Last week,Â a jury found that Qualcomm had infringed on three other Broadcom patents, awarding Broadcom $19.6 million in damages. Qualcomm plans to challenge the ruling. The companies have also recentlyÂ dismissed other patent infringement cases against each other. Qualcomm faces legal challenges from other camps as well,Â an indication of how much these companies believe is at stake in the wireless industry. Qualcomm is separately embroiled inÂ a series of legal maneuvers with Nokia, which claims that the chip maker charges too much in licensing fees. A licensing agreement between the two expired in February, and they have yet to hammer out a new one.
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Ericsson ERICb.ST said on Thursday   it had won a contract from Taiwan's FarEasTone 4904.TW to   upgrade its 3G network and provide technology for multimedia   offerings such as music and video on phones.
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Telecoms network firm Ericsson  on Sunday signed a framework agreement to provide $1 billion worth of networking equipment to China Mobile Communications Corp.
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Blog: The International Trade Commission has denied a stay of a ban it imposed earlier this month on the import of new handsets using Qualcomm's 3G chips.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden --(Business Wire)-- Dec. 10, 2004 -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERICY) has been awarded a contract by China Telecom Corporation Limited (China Telecom) for building its next-generation IP backbone
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EU deal for low frequency 3G delayed European mobile operators will have to wait a while before they can deploy 3G technology into 900 and 1800 MHz, thanks to a power struggle between the EU Commission and its Parliament.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson will restructure and hire 500 more engineers to better meet demand for multimedia products and services, Ericsson's chief executive officer said Friday. Starting in 2007, Ericsson will reorganize into three units: networks, global services, and multimedia. The new engineers will primarily work in the multimedia group, and the bulk of them will be based in Sweden. The new group will help Ericsson better understand what types of multimedia services might become popular and how demands might vary, said Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and chief executive officer. "We and operators are still on a learning curve. When it comes to voice it's very easy," he said. "But with multimedia, what does a 13-year-old in Germany want and does an American 13-year-old feel the same? And that's much different than an adult in China." The new group will also aim to better leverage the company's relationship with Sony and with theirÂ mobile phone joint ventureÂ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. "When it comes to multimedia, we have exciting assets in Sony Ericsson and at Sony. We just haven't put it together and it's been embedded further down in the organization," he said. Svanberg offered an example of how Sony and Ericsson products might grow increasingly complementary. Currently, users of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot camera-phones can send photographs to an online blog. Soon, standalone Cyber-shot cameras are also likely to include connectivity so that users can send photos to a blog, he said. Because Ericsson supplies wireless network infrastructure and develops some chips for mobile devices, that type of product and application could be created through an alliance between Sony and Ericsson. The new networks group, which combines several existing network equipment groups, will have a renewed focus on converged networks that will help support some of the emerging multimedia services in the home. "In the perfect world we will have a converged network where you won't know if you're speaking on a mobile or a fixed network," Svanberg said. Similarly, a user could be watching TV at home, pick up a mobile phone to watch the same program while moving around the house and then continue watching while moving to an outside location. Such a service would operate over connected wireless and wireline networks. The third new business unit, global services, combines Ericsson's existing professional services and network rollout groups and will focus on services for operator customers. Ericsson acquiredÂ most of U.K. telecommunications equipment vendor Marconi late last year and is in the process of laying off 1,600 people as it digests the new company. That acquisition is part of a recent wave of consolidation in the competitive network equipment market, including theÂ merger of Lucent Technologies and AlcatelÂ and theÂ combination of Nokia's and Siemens' networks groups.
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InfoWorld - The Chinese government will not issue licenses for 3G (third-generation) mobile services until the first quarter of 2008, according to a Chinese report.
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Ericsson has been awarded an $805m contract by Guangdong Mobile Communication Corporation Limited (Guangdong Mobile, a whole-owned subsidiary of China Mobile HK Holdings, to expand its GSM network in Guangdong Province, China.