ARTICLES
“We liked discussing things with each other, often quite profoundly, but the ball always ended up in my court. I had to find the answers to the questions I had asked.”
Big bang
About the amazing popularity of GSM and Ericsson’s tremendous growth. The major battles in the contest to create the third generation of mobile telephony. How Ericsson and Nokia become allies in the struggle for a world standard, and how Ericsson conquers the US yet again. Quarterly report capitalism. How operators empty their coffers and almost kill the vendors. How a traveling roadshow rescues Ericsson.
- Jan Uddenfeldt
- The launch of CDMA
- The bubble bursts
- Wrong direction
- The first million GSM subscribers
- The impact of competition
- New Nordic cooperation?
- Massacre in Paris
- AXE-N
- Record growth for Ericsson
- The internet and the new world
- Ericsson’s new strategy
- The winning factors
- EEC-funded research programs
- Wideband CDMA
- Shock in Japan
- Nokia the perfect partner
- Battle on several fronts
- The campaign starts
- Drama at ETSI
- Capitulation
- A new fight
- Mock trials
- A stroke of genius
- Ericsson as a CDMA supplier
- GSM in the US
- AT&T Wireless takes sides
- Hubris
- "I really don’t have the time"
- Move to London?
- Nilsson takes over
- Problems with mobile phones
- Changes
- A predicament
- Hellström takes the helm
- Collaboration with Microsoft
- Earnings down, stock up
- Historic highs
- Crisis
- The Titanic feeling
- "They just thought it would go on"
- The problem with mobile phones
- Three important decisions
- The first cutbacks
- Second round of cuts
- Cash flow in focus
- A new chairman of the board
- Like a traveling roadshow