Ericsson to focus on Mobile Internet

Stockholm, Sweden: Chalking out the strategy of the company, Ericsson's global CEO Carl Henric Svanberg said that the company will continue to focus on the mobile Internet since that is the only way for a vast majority to access the net.

“Research and development is one of the main focus areas for the company with Ericsson having around 25,000 employees working in this segment. On the other hand, manufacturing is clearly not the focus area for the company since only 5,000 of around 75,000 employees across the globe are in manufacturing. We want to be at the forefront of the technological innovation,” says Carl Henric Svanberg, global CEO, Ericsson.

“These are very exciting times for us and we believe that the technology can play a major role in solving the problems of the developing world. For instance, Mobile Internet will be the only way a vast majority will access the Internet. It is going to be the beginning of the modern, intelligent society. As of now there are 4 bn mobile phone users in the world and we believe that by 2012, there are going to be 50 bn connected devices across the globe,” he said in his opening remarks at Ericsson Innovation Forum here at Stockholm.

The company reiterated its commitment to play an important role in reducing the CO2 emissions. “IT has a tremendous role to play in the reduction of CO2 emissions though the segment is contributing only 2% in the global C02 emissions. However, it is the key to reduce the other 98% of CO2 emissions,” says Hakon Eriksson, Global CTO of Ericsson.

In the same vein, convergence between the fixed and mobile will be the future of telecommunications. “We believe that voice will not be the dominating part of it. There are going to be around 3 bn subscribers of mobile broadband and 80% of them are going to be on mobile broadband, mobile netbooks, along with other devices are going to change the way people access Internet. Mobile WiMax is going to be just 1% of the mobile subscribers by 2014,” Hakon said during his presentation.

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