Ericsson, Intel to collaborate on mobile broadband services  

CHENNAI: Ericsson has announced a joint effort with Intel Corporation to
accelerate deployment of services and applications on mobile PCs, powered by
Ericsson's mobile broadband and IMS solutions and Intel Core Micro-architecture
for mobile clients and servers. 

The joint effort aims to accelerate the market uptake of mobile broadband and
multimedia services usage, through a more convenient and attractive experience
for consumers and enterprises. 

Ericsson said in a statement that both companies would work together on
integrating solutions for mobile operators, enabling them to provide mobile
broadband service packages for both enterprises and consumers using the mobile
PC. These integrated solutions will be based on Ericsson's HSPA (high speed
packet access) platform for mobile broadband and IMS platform for convergence
with Intel's Mobile technology, providing best user experience, security and
reliability. 

The collaboration also includes marketing and technology enabling programs
for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to develop, validate and bring to market
multimedia applications for mobile networks. 

Bert Nordberg, executive vice president, Ericsson, said, "The mobile PC
with embedded mobile broadband represents an exciting and strong revenue
opportunity for mobile operators, both for access and services.” 

Ericsson and Intel have a mutual interest to stimulate the market, to promote
open standards and make it easier to create and deploy new services for mobile
broadband. The aim is to accelerate the market adoption of multimedia services
such as enterprise, communication and collaboration, interactive TV, gaming,
music, community networking and professional applications. 

Ericsson will demonstrate mobile broadband and IMS-based services on mobile
PCs powered by HSPA and Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology during ITU Telecom
World 2006, which will take place in Hong Kong on December 4-8.