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* Ericsson Connected Vehicle Cloud takes First Place in Enterprise
Solution –
General Business category

* Awards program included nearly 300 entries based on innovation,
functionality, technological importance, implementation and overall
“wow”
factor

* Transport and Automotive solution delivers significant opportunity for
stakeholders in the automotive and technology ecosystems to reach
drivers
and passengers in new ways

Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) is named a winner in the 2013 CTIA Emerging
Technology
(E-Tech) Awards competition, which honors the industry-s most innovative
new
wireless products and services in mobile apps, consumer electronics,
enterprise
and vertical markets, and network. Ericsson Connected Vehicle Cloud took
First
Place in the Enterprise Solution – General Business category for its
innovation,
functionality, technological importance, implementation and overall “wow”
factor.

“This year-s awards highlight the awe-inspiring and significant impact the
wireless industry has on every sector and on our daily lives. We-re pleased
to
showcase the vision and ingenuity from our industry at CTIA 2013, which is
North
America-s largest mobile marketplace. We congratulate Ericsson on its
Connected
Vehicle Cloud for its E-Tech Award,” said CTIA Vice President and Show
Director
Robert Mesirow.

Ericsson-s Connected Vehicle Cloud delivers significant opportunity for
stakeholders in the automotive and technology ecosystems to reach drivers
and
passengers in new ways. Based on the Ericsson Service Enablement Platform,
it
connects application developers, government organizations, businesses,
automotive manufacturers and consumers. It targets existing and future
demands
on scalability, security and flexibility in the global automotive industry.
The
result is a transformed driving experience and new opportunities for
players in
the automotive ecosystem

“The automotive industry is an increasingly global business, and connecting
vehicles demands a new profitable innovative business model that will
leverage
the potential of the automotive ecosystem and connect the car with other
connected industries,” said Per Borgklint, Senior Vice President and Head
of
Business Unit Support Solutions, Ericsson. “The Connected Vehicle Cloud
builds
on and combines today-s telecom network capabilities and delivers
dramatically
improved quality of experience. We are thrilled to be recognized for the
innovation this solution brings to market as we help to advance the
connected
vehicle market.”

Nearly 300 CTIA E-Tech entries were judged by a panel of highly-respected
industry experts, reporters and analysts. The winners were announced during
the
CTIA Conference at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas.

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Ericsson is a world-leading provider of communications technology and
services.
We are enabling the Networked Society with efficient real-time solutions
that
allow us all to study, work and live our lives more freely, in sustainable
societies around the world.

Our offering comprises services, software and infrastructure within
Information
and Communications Technology for telecom operators and other industries.
Today
40 percent of the world-s mobile traffic goes through Ericsson networks and
we
support customers- networks servicing more than 2.5 billion subscriptions.

We are more than 110,000 people working with customers in more than 180
countries. Founded in 1876, Ericsson is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.
In
2012 the company-s net sales were SEK 227.8 billion (USD 33.8 billion).
Ericsson
is listed on NASDAQ OMX, Stockholm and NASDAQ, New York stock exchanges.

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