Ericsson has sent out an internal memo announcing it'll lay off 8,500 employees worldwide. The move is part of the company's cost-cutting strategy due to slow demand for telecom equipment.
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Another tech company, Ericsson, has announced that it will cease its business operations in Russia over the next few months in its obligations to customers, as a result of the Ukraine war.
AT&T has joined the Ericsson Startup 5G hub which will allow the carrier to connect with startups developing new products and services that leverage 5G networks that have recently been deployed.
Ericsson Cloud RAN has passed the GSMA NESAS audit, and the products in scope for this audit include Central Unit-Control Plane, Central Unit-User Plane, Distributed Unit, and RAN Service Discovery.
Ericsson has launched the beta of Ericsson Routes, a service that it hopes will optimise the routes autonomous vehicles take by improving coverage in low-connectivity areas where information degrades.
Ericsson has released its latest Mobility Report and it reveals that mobile data traffic has increased 300-fold since 2011. It said that data usage increased faster as 5G came online.
The analyst firm TrendForce has stated that industrial metaverse revenue will reach $540 billion by 2025 as companies begin to incorporate technologies such as digital twins into their processes.
Ericsson has decided to buy the cloud-based communications provider Vonage. Ericsson expects the deal to close in the first half of 2022 and will pay $6.2 billion as part of the deal.
Ericsson has formed a partnership with MIT to begin work on hardware that will enable next-gen 5G and 6G networks. The partners did not provide a roadmap of when they expect to complete the work.
Ericsson has sponsored a new report which has found that connecting more schools to the internet in poor countries, would help to raise the GDP per capita of those countries by as much as 20%.
Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom, and Cosmote have carried out successful trials on W-band technology to boost capacity on 5G networks. They said it will also help in next-generation 6G networks.
Ericsson has announced the launch of Ericsson Open Lab, a virtual environment for Ericsson Cloud RAN customers and ecosystem partners to innovate on virtualized 5G RAN technologies.
Ericsson is working with Telia and Sahlgrenska University Hospital to build AI models that allow the hospital to receive COVID-19 patients in a more prepared manner, ensuring enough supplies.
Ericsson and Deutsche Telekom have found that solar grids can power two-thirds of the energy requirements needed for one of the latter's mobile sites located in Germany, helping cut emissions.
Nokia has become the head of an EU research project into 6G called Hexa-X. The firm said that it expects 6G to become commercially available to consumers in a decade around the year 2030.
BT will use Ericsson hardware in cities around the UK after the two firms came to an agreement. Ericsson already supplies hardware for BT's core network making it an end-to-end partner in places.
An ex-boss of BT, Lord Livingston, has been selected to head the U.K.'s Telecoms Diversification Task Force, a body that will provide expert advice to the government as it diversifies mobile networks.
The UK government has decided to ban Huawei hardware from 5G mobile networks from the end of the year. The government decided not to restrict its use in 2G, 3G, and 4G networks though.
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has rubbished the Attorney General's idea that the U.S. could buy a controlling stake in Nokia and Ericsson to make them more competitive against Huawei.
Ericsson announced today that it is backing out from the Mobile World Congress 2020 due to health risks from the novel coronavirus outbreak. The company says it will focus on local demos, instead.
The UK government has finally come to the decision that it will allow Huawei hardware to be used in 5G networks but with several restrictions. Only 35% of a network will be able to use Huawei tech.
A new report claims SoftBank is planning to drop Huawei-built hardware from its 4G network and switch to Nokia and Ericsson products over the next few years. This follows Japan's ban on Chinese tech.
5G infrastructure revenues could see a compound annual growth rate of 118% according to IDC. The firm claimed that the market's revenues will reach $26 billion in 2022, up from $528 million this year.
Ericsson and Telstra have completed the deployment and testing of a narrowband IoT data connection in Australia, extending its 3GPP standards-based range limit from 40km to 100km.
T-Mobile has been the most outspoken carrier in regards to its plans for 5G networks, and after doing the same with Nokia, it has now signed a $3.5 billion deal with its rival Ericsson.
Japanese mobile services provider, Docomo, has announced that it has attained success in evaluating 5G networks in real world scenarios and achieved speeds in excess of 2 Gbps.
Ericsson, one of the companies involved in developing 5G networks, has been field-testing some of its technologies and has achieved some very impressive speeds, as well as other improvements.
Erricson has filed not one, but seven patent related lawsuits against the Cupertino tech giant in a U.S. court, and is asking the International Trade Comission to block iPhone sales in the U.S.
A new report from Ericsson predicts that smartphone usage will triple by the end of this decade, with low-end market playing a key role. Mobile data traffic is also set to see a tenfold increase.
A new rumor claims that Microsoft's CEO selection committee has added Ericsson's president and chief operating officer Hans Vestberg to its list as a candidate for Steve Ballmer's job.
Microsoft and Ericsson had announced plans of Ericsson to buy Microsoft's Mediaroom end-to-end IPTV platform, in April 2013. Ericsson has now revealed that the acquisition has completed successfully.
Microsoft has entered into an agreement with Ericsson to sell its Mediaroom IPTV business. The deal is expected to close later this year and will make Ericsson the leading IPTV provider.
Microsoft is rumored to be putting up its MediaRoom IPTV division for sale, with wireless phone network company Ericsson said to be in talks to acquire the IPTV business.
Mozilla has announced plans to work with AT&T and Ericsson to work on a way for Firefox web browsers to make phone calls without the use of a plugin via the WebRTC standard.
A couple of blurry pictures seem to show a Sony smartphone prototype that is running Microsoft's Windows Phone, suggesting that Sony could be making a Windows Phone-based product.
Sony Ericsson has announced that all of its Android-based Xperia smartphones will be updated to accept the new Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) version of Google's mobile operating system.
Sony has opted to buy out Ericsson's share within their joint Sony Ericsson agreement, giving control of additional patents and also guaranteed continuation of the devices produced by both companies.
Sony Ericsson, the joint venture between two multinational corporations, may be coming to an end as we know it. Reports say that Sony is close to buying out Ericsson and moving its mobile business.
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