STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 12/14/11 –* Cesare Avenia, Chief Brand Officer steps down, effective December 21, 2011
and leaves Ericsson-s Executive Leadership Team* Avenia has been key to implementing Ericsson-s brand platform and will
continue to support this work as Senior Advisor to Group Functions
Communications and
Sales and Marketing* No replacement as Chief Brand Officer will be recruitedEricsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced that Cesare Avenia will step down fro
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 12/12/11 –* Håkan Eriksson takes on new role as Head of Ericsson in Australia,
New
Zealand and Fiji, effective February 1, 2012* Håkan Eriksson has been key in the company-s work to establish
market
leadership in 3G and 4G/LTE* New CTO will be announced separatelyEricsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) today announced that Håkan Eriksson, Senior
Vice
President, Chief Technology Officer, Head of Group Function Technology &
Portfolio Management a
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 11/28/11 –BhartiAirtel, ("Airtel") a leading global telecommunications company with
operations in 19 countries across Asia and Africa today expanded its
managed
services agreement with Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) for its India operations.
Under
this new five-year multi-vendor, multi technology managed services
agreement
Ericsson will operate, maintain and provide services across 70 percent of
BhartiAirtel-s network in India.In addition to the standard
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 11/23/11 –• Ericsson and Arthur D. Little-s latest Networked Society City Index
ranks cities in terms of their ability to use ICT to benefit their citizens• Top-ranking cities Seoul, Singapore and Stockholm show the benefits
of engaging a society as a whole• London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing
complete the top 10• ICT-based applications such as e-government and smart transport can
improve citizens- lives, helping to overcome
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 11/13/11 –* Access to broadband can bring learning to more people* Broadband enables new ways of teaching and learning* Collaboration essential across public and private sectorsThe Networked Society Forum, NEST, hosted by Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), has
wrapped up in Hong Kong, having sparked new inspiration among
representatives
from the public and private sectors to lift education on the global agenda.NEST forum participants prioritized target areas for furth
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 11/11/11 –* The first NEST – The Networked Society Forum – initiated and hosted by
Ericsson, takes place in Hong Kong from November 11-13* Leaders and authorities from the ICT industry and governments will gather
to
discuss how ICT can accelerate education and learning for everyone,
everywhere* Discussions at the forum will focus on Access for all; Redefining
education;
and Bridging the education gap* Hosted by Ericsson-s President and CEO Ha
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 11/07/11 –* New report from Ericsson says mobile data traffic will grow 10-fold
between
2011 and 2016, mainly driven by video* Mobile broadband subscriptions grew by 60 percent in one year and are
expected to grow from 900 million in 2011 to almost 5 billion in 2016* By 2016, users living on less than 1 percent of the Earth-s total land
area
are set to generate around 60 percent of mobile trafficIn its new Traffic and Market Data report, which pr
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 10/28/11 –Ericsson-s (NASDAQ: ERIC) Board of Directors has appointed Magnus Mandersson
Executive Vice President as of November 1, 2011. Mandersson is currently
Senior
Vice President and Head of Business Unit Global Services, a position he
will
remain in.Magnus Mandersson joined Ericsson in 2004 to run Ericsson-s Managed
Services
business globally and is now head of Ericsson-s overall services offering
around
the world.Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, says;
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 10/27/11 –Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) and Sony Corporation ("Sony") today announced that
Sony
will acquire Ericsson-s 50 percent stake in Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications
AB ("Sony Ericsson"), making the mobile handset business a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Sony.The transaction gives Sony an opportunity to rapidly integrate smartphones
into
its broad array of network-connected consumer electronics devices –
including
tablets, televisions an
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — (Marketwire) — 10/25/11 –* People in Puerto Rico will be able to enjoy a superior experience in
data
applications, including internet surfing, online gaming, social media
and
video conferencing
* Deal includes Managed Services and a complete LTE radio solution with
Evolved Packet Core (EPC), Mobile Backhaul supporting Multi-Protocol
Label
Switching (MPLS)
* LTE offers a great user experience enabling all types of latency-
sensitive
and bandwidth-dem
