ARTICLES
“Engineers are motivated all the time by the idea of improving things… As long as she knows what the problem is, an engineer can make sure it is solved.”
The future is now
The never-ending battle over future technological solutions. The hype around WiMAX and the hunt for the best broadband concept. Investments in multimedia, setting up in Silicon Valley and new acquisitions. An unexpected profit warning and the reaction it provokes. How the telecommunications sector faces a new crisis. How business becomes much more service-driven. How Ericsson triumphs with LTE in the fourth battle over standards. Open systems as a factor of strength. How the future is always being created now.
- When Marie Westrin
- A never-ending battle
- A new stage of development
- Not enough growth for CDMA
- The main approaches to 4G
- Power play in the 450 MHz band
- Cooperation with 3G operators?
- Breakthrough for Managed Services
- Acquisition of Marconi
- Focus on multimedia
- Acquisitions in Silicon Valley and Scandinavia
- Eternal life for GSM, no to WiMAX
- Mutual skepticism
- The importance of standardization
- New major deals in Services
- New dynamics
- The fate of Nordisk Mobiltelefon
- China’s choice
- Openness a Nordic specialty?
- The idea of patents
- Finally starting to choose
- Threats from competitors
- Who will be first with LTE?
- A sudden phone call
- 2009
- 50 billion connections?