Ericsson Creates More Business Units

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(This Day (Nigeria) Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ericsson, the world's leading telecom end-to-end solutions provider has disclosed that Ericsson is implementing a more customer-oriented organization with three business units, each optimized for its specific market segment.



According to a release made available to THISDAY, Ericsson is set to leverage its position in mobile networks, services, transmission and expand its leadership in next generation converging IP-networks with a focus on multimedia applications and services.

Svanberg stated that Ericsson sees opportunities to further strengthen its market and technology leadership by developments in the broadband industry - fixed as well as mobile - coupled with the move toward next generation networks that will create immense possibilities for richer multimedia services that will accelerate opportunities for growth. Multimedia is an area with obvious business opportunities and potentially a powerful driver for increasing network capacity and investments by operators.

According to Svanberg, the new organization will have an even stronger customer focus and pave the way for continuously improving efficiency in all areas. Also, to further strengthen Ericsson's technology leadership, an additional 500 engineers will be recruited to accelerate research, especially in the area of next generation IP-networks and multimedia technology.

The new Ericsson organization will have three business units; Networks, Global Services and Multimedia.

The integration of Ericsson's network operations into the Networks business unit, according to Svanberg, will enable a focused solutions offering that supports converging and more cost-efficient operations. The new unit will include mobile and fixed access, core and transmission networks as well as next generation IP-networks. Ericsson is the world leader in mobile networks and has a leading position in fixed networks. The new unit will have approximately 21, 500 employees.

The Global Services business unit comprises the professional services and network rollout units and will continue to support operators with technology evolution and efficient operations. It provides operators with economies of scale and proven expertise as well as first class operations with attendant considerable savings. Through its Global Services operations, Ericsson provides round-the-clock support to networks with 725 million subscribers and manages networks with 65 million subscribers. This unit, established in 1999 is unaffected by the re-organization. It has approximately 23,000 employees worldwide.

The new Multimedia Business unit said Svanberg will comprise the multimedia units within the former systems business unit, enterprise business unit, Ericsson mobile platforms and Ericsson Consumer & Enterprise Laboratories respectively. The new unit will have approximately 4,000 employees.

Ericsson Nigeria corroborating Ericsson's positioning to sustain its leadership and drive innovation in the telecom industry, added that "in the multimedia business, we have the content and application management, the technical excellence and execution resources as well as strong relationships with content providers and operators. And let's not forget another strong asset, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and our close relationship with Sony - which further strengthens our consumer perspective for superior end-to-end offerings".

The new organization, said Edwall will further consolidate Ericsson's ability to create synergies with telecom operators in Nigeria and elsewhere providing them with leading-edge expertise and experience and in turn, enabling them provide leading edge service, cost-effectively.

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