Ericsson, Sprint
Sprint has announced a new $1 billion credit agreement that will be used to purchase equipment from Ericsson for the carrier's Network Vision project. Deutsche Bank leads the group of banks that will be providing the credit facility, and the purchased equipment will help Sprint build out its LTE network,...

Ericsson
ST-Ericsson, as the name implies, is a joint venture that was setup between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson back in February 2009. You’ve probably never heard of them, and for good reason too. There’s no nice way of saying, so here it goes: They move at a snail’s in an industry that demands them to run...

HTC, Ericsson
Apple’s engineers custom designed the A4, A5, and A5X chips that are found inside their products. Samsung puts their own Exynos chips inside their smartphones and tablets. Back in February of this year, Huawei announced that they’re going to fit a custom chip inside their flagship Android device, the...

Ericsson
Until now, the way voice has worked on handsets with a 4G LTE air interface has been, well, interesting. That is to say, thus far all voice calls haven't been over 4G LTE but conventional circuit-switched (as opposed to packet-switched) 2G or 3G networks like CDMA2000 1x in 3GPP2 land, or WCDMA/GSM in...

Ericsson
We all know that mobile is big business and that usage is exploding all around the globe, but Ericsson decided to put some numbers on just how crazy it's all going to get. The company has a number of predictions based on its Traffic and Market Data report, which point to mobile data usage increasing...

Cell Phones, Ericsson
Ericsson has demonstrated the next generation of LTE networks in Sweden that promises 10 times the speed of the already fast LTE that we know today.

Called LTE Advanced, the new network uses larger chunks of carrier spectrum and extended multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) functionality to hit...

Ericsson
Ericsson has launched a new service in Europe called Ericsson Money that allows users to send and receive funds via their mobile phones. There is an eWallet function that allows users to load money on...

Ericsson
Clearwire has announced a new partnership between it and Ericsson that will have Ericsson handling the day-to-day operations and management of Clearwire's 4G network. The deal is for seven years and w...

Ericsson
Like nostrils, tensions are flaring between two powerhouses in the wireless industry. Ericsson and ZTE have chosen to trade off the role of both plaintiff and defendant, since each company is suing th...

Ericsson
Smartphones continue to improve in the "smart" areas: better screens, faster processors, more memory, etc., but there's not been a lot of innovation in the phone aspect of those devices. HD voice tech...