Ericsson has been in operations for 127 years globally; but the Philippine local company was set up in 1988. Before then, Ericsson was present in the country through its distributors.
Among Ericsson’s early contracts were the supply, design and implementation of the Smart’s TACS network, Smart’s LEC network and Sun Cellular’s LEC network. Ericsson was also a major partner for PLDT’s Zero Backlog Program. In 1999, Ericsson won the Globe GSM network expansion projects for the Visayas and Mindanao.
Today, Ericsson is still in the forefront in providing advance telecommunication solutions to the Philippine operators. The more recent projects of Ericsson are the GSM-BSS expansion project of Sun Cellular in the Visayas and Mindanao areas and the supply of GSM equipment to Globe’s rural expansion project.
Ericsson in the Philippines continues to provide the most advance technologies and solutions to the local market:
- Broadband Access Solutions
- Mobile Networks using digital technology
- Mobile Internet Solutions
- Internet and Datacom Networks
- Intelligent Network Solutions on both fixed and mobile networks
- Fixed Network Solutions covering switching, access and transport
- Optical Networks for high-capacity backbone solutions
- Network performance improvement
- Training Services for continuing telecom education and skills upgrade
- Mobile phones through our joint venture with Sony-Ericsson
Technical support such as network infrastructure design & planning, supply & installation, network engineering, system optimization and; financial services such as project financing are likewise included in Ericsson's portfolio of value-added services.
Our mission is simple. Ericsson aims to understand the customers' opportunities and needs to provide communications solutions better than any competitor. We will simplify communications for our customers -- network operators, enterprises and consumers.
