EDGE Evolution is set to triple data speeds in existing GSM networks, helping to deliver mobile broadband to the low-income market segment.
Being a good bit-pipe provider is the essence of being a successful operator. But it doesn't just mean offering powerful transport pipes. It also means employing intelligent mechanisms to support differentiated services and end-user needs.
Ericsson's managed services agreement with Bharti Airtel is bearing fruit. By integrating a new site into Bharti's network every 40 minutes, Ericsson has doubled network capacity in the past 12 months, letting Bharti to do what it does best: taking care of customers.
Navigation services are emerging as one of the hottest trends in the mobile sphere. Just in the past 12 months, big players such as Verizon, Bell Mobility, Orange UK and Sprint Nextel successfully launched location applications.
Ericsson has unveiled its annual Corporate Responsibility Report, detailing Ericsson's environmental, economic and social commitment and performance during 2006.
A new study shows significant demand for high-end mobile phones in developing countries, contradicting the belief that low-cost, bare-bone phones are the only handsets that will sell in high-growth markets.
Squashing the home-PC internet experience onto the mobile screen is not the answer when it comes to making the web mobile - supporting current mobile needs with the phone is.
Interactive TV gets viewers involved and engaged, changes old habits, and creates new opportunities for telecom operators. It causes viewers to lean forward, take note and contribute with their own opinions.
Gone are the days where people sit back passively and watch TV. By accessing and participating in programs whenever and wherever they want, mobile TV is transforming the way consumers watch television.
Though still in its infancy, evolved TV (IPTV and mobile TV) is already popular, especially among early adopters aged 18-35. Mobile operators are opening up to new collaborations with content providers and broadcasting companies in order to get a share of the market.
Ericsson's Automatic Data Retention Solution (ADRS) will help operators comply with the European Union's (EU) directive on data retention to combat serious crimes.
It is easy to imagine using a mobile to trade stocks, but what about livestock? After generations of traditional trading, nomadic shepherds in Afghanistan - and rural people everywhere - are benefiting from mobile technology.
It's an often used phrase, and you may think you know what it is - but do you?! Ericsson Power Modules' explains what it really means.
Operator MTN is piloting an innovative franchising model with local entrepreneurs in South Africa to boost poor and rural communities' access to communications via high-speed broadband internet access.
Ericsson recently released architecture for telecom management that helps operators to manage their networks in a more cost-efficient way.
Growing operator focus on the valuable SME sector is being undermined by widespread misconceptions about the quality, breadth and availability of VoIP (voice over IP) services, recent US research shows.
A mobile portal, developed by Ericsson and incorporating other third party products, gave American football fans an interactive mobile experience at a recent championship game.
T-Mobile UK recently chose Ericsson to act as a prime integrator in a major swap out of its 2G and 3G core network. A prime integrator helps operators stay competitive by transforming their businesses in an ever-changing telecom environment.
MX-ONE™ Version 3 makes integrated IP communication with mobility a reality for enterprise users, bringing a full-featured IP-PBX system for enterprises mobilizing their IT and communications infrastructure.
When it comes to mobile broadband and multimedia services for mobile devices, Nordic consumers have not been easy to win over. Their Baltic neighbors, however, have been much more positive.
Customers are willing to pay for advanced mobile services if attractive pricing models exist. What is important to keep in mind when offering customers enhanced services?
Ericsson is to collaborate with Sun to develop an open-source, Java-based multimedia application server, to be used for Ericsson's new multimedia applications. The IMS ecosystem will benefit from third-party and independent application developers.
Ericsson’s vision of mobile unified communications – providing mobile enterprise applications on any platform – was realized with the presentation of the soon-to-be-launched Mobile Gateway at the Partner Growth forum held in Bilbao, Spain, in March
Awkward video conferencing is set to become extinct with the evolution of Ericsson Virtual Presence (ViPr) – a real-time, face-to-face, interactive solution that allows for the human touch, regardless of distance.
There is definitely life after voice. A new report lists the top 10 data services from the world's most successful mobile operators. Packages of text messages that withstand price drops, and lucrative bundles of mobile and fixed internet services are the chosen winners.
Mobile broadband standards have provided the market momentum and economies of scale for more than 100 commercial HSPA networks to serve millions of people in more than 50 countries.
By adopting the managed services concept, telecom operators are finding new ways to reduce their costs and get new services to market quickly.
In a bid to introduce Japan's mobile phone culture to the US, Tokyo-based KDDI has begun offering mobile phone services in America.
Women are the key to growing the residential telephony market beyond today's important but "boring" medium into a multimedia experience in line with the mobile, latest research from Ericsson ConsumerLab suggests.
Unstoppable and ubiquitous: the strength of mobile broadband can be felt all over the world.
Telecom operators are looking for integrated IPTV solutions for the entire network, all the way to the home. The ability to offer end-to-end solutions is therefore crucial for suppliers.
Teens are often seen as the leaders in technology consumption. Tuned into the latest advancements, these insatiable technophiles have been the first at the telecoms table. But with parents becoming more tech aware, the family feast is transforming.
Ericsson and other leading vendors and operators have joined a trial initiative to make next-generation mobile networks a commercial reality within two-and-a-half years.
As the spread of GSM continues at tremendous speed, new markets are presenting opportunities and challenges alike, especially when it comes to total cost of ownership, price pressure and tariffs for calls and data services.
Ericsson's communication and information sharing solutions for national security and border control have been attracting plenty of interest and demand at recent international conferences attended by defense officials and emergency operations staff.
In a bid to save money and position themselves better in a competitive marketplace, operators from Austria to Australia are choosing HSPA over other, non-3GPP technologies.
Roaming costs have been history since October 2006 - at least for One Network customers in eastern Africa. The world's first border-free network, operated by Celtel, lets Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan customers communicate freely across borders.
When it comes to fixed-mobile convergence, the US is at the forefront. Today, fixed and mobile operators in the country are in a race to bring broadband to any screen - creating new opportunities for consumers as well as for vendors with the right portfolio.
Fixed broadband reaches most households in the US and Western Europe, but, in many other regions broadband is available to less than 10 percent of homes. How can affordable broadband be made available to everyone?
Redback Networks’ SmartEdge 1200 multi-service edge router launch is a boost to Ericsson’s Full Service Broadband ambitions. By connecting fixed and wireless networks, Ericsson will enable a world where any network can deliver any service to any internet-enabled device.
As Mobile TV continues to unify North America's entertainment and communication services, the US is leading the charge to even more convergence.
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent over 99 percent of all companies in the EU and the United States. For operators, they provide four times more average revenue per user than individual consumers do.
Ericsson's G-PON solution has been bolstered after it bought Entrisphere. Now AT&T have selected Ericsson to deliver broadband services to its customers.
It may be said that no country is as diverse as the US. But if there is one thing 300 million Americans truly have in common, it is television. This is why the US market points the way for fixed and mobile operators that are adding TV and video to their service portfolios.
The future of multimedia over IP-based networks - the convergence of voice, video and high-speed data - is via broadband, and the future of broadband is GPON.
The CEOs of Redback Networks, Entrisphere, and TANDBERG Television on how being part of Ericsson helps their customers.
With 53 mobile telephones for every 100 residents, Brazil presents a huge, untapped opportunity. A small operator in northeastern Brazil, backed by American investors, has shown what South America’s most populous country has to offer visionary providers of mobile telephony.
In a bid to ensure the efficient use of emergency positioning solutions, Ericsson is urging network infrastructure improvements before products with high-accuracy positioning are rolled out.
The easiest and fastest route to establishing a mobile TV network is to use what's already there – the 3G mobile network and its proven mobile handsets.
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