Ericsson, the world’s largest provider of mobile networks, Today announced the establishment of a new centre in Melbourne that will play a major global role in the development of LTE (Long Term Evolution), the next step in the evolution of mobile network technology.

Red Cross has launched a world first in First Aid with CPR instructions now downloadable to a mobile phone at the touch of a button.

In an historic step for the mobile industry, Telstra has activated in their Next G™ network an important new feature for the Mobile Packet Core network called 3G Direct Tunnel. Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) is the first vendor to deliver this significant advance to mobile operators.

The emerging “Individual TV Experience” will offer consumers an amazing new world of television viewing, while offering significant opportunities and challenges for network operators and service providers.

Ericsson is assisting Australia's Telstra to simplify its mobile network by deploying the world's first Mobile Softswitch Solution based on highly efficient blade technology.

Vodafone Australia has appointed Ericsson as the primary hardware and software vendor to support its national mobile broadband rollout, based on High-Speed Packet Access technology.

A new study of Australian operator Telstra's Next G network, which was supplied and installed by Ericsson, reveals that business users of the new mobile broadband service can reduce their carbon footprint  as well as improve their productivity.

A sample of Australian businesses are taking advantage of Telstra’s world-leading Next G™ wireless broadband and mobile services and seeing productivity gains averaging 9.3 per cent according to new preliminary research.

At Convergence Oceania in Auckland, Ericsson today introduced its Internet Payment eXchange (IPX) to the New Zealand market.

Broad portfolio of interactive, personalised solutions for mobiles and TV to stimulate market growth and generate advertising revenues

Ericsson customer Vector Communications won the 2007 Next Generation Fibre-Optic Network Innovation Award from the Telecommunications Users Associate of New Zealand (TUANZ) for its North Shore Education Access Loop (NEAL).

Following extensive testing Telstra today announced it had achieved the milestone of the same or better coverage on the Next G™ network as on CDMA.

At the Broadband World Forum in Berlin, Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) was awarded an InfoVision Award for its W25 fixed wireless terminal used for delivering broadband via HSPA.

Ericsson research suggests switching gears to move older consumers onto broadband.

In the first of its kind in Australia, 3 has been trialling new mobile TV technology with Ericsson which could see an expanded, higher quality mobile TV service on 3. The new technology is called MBMS – Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service – which works on 3G networks.

Ericsson acquisitions build compelling portfolio to become leader in multimedia and shape the future of mobile and broadband internet communications.

Ericsson and Telstra have successfully completed the world’s first live network trial for next-generation 40Gbps optical transmission technology in Australia.