Ericsson is to cut 1,500 jobs in Sweden, the company announced this week. Officials from the Telecom giant said that the move is being made to help reduce costs. The cuts are expected to affect employees across all sectors of the business, including sales, research and development, supply and service delivery, and general administration.
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Ericsson announces 1,500 job cuts in Sweden
Posted on 15 November 2012.
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Nokia Siemens falls further behind Ericsson
Posted on 02 November 2010.
Finnish-German telecoms giant Nokia Siemens Networks has fallen further behind mobile phone rival Ericsson of Sweden, according to an analysis of both companies’ third quarter figures.
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Sweden’s Ericsson inks huge deal with US-based Sprint
Posted on 17 July 2009.
Sweden’s massive communications company, Ericsson, has signed a deal with Sprint Nextel to take over the day-to-day management of the US telecom network. The 7-year contract is worth up to US$5 billion, and positions Ericsson strategically within the competitive US mobile provider industry.
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Ericsson suffers drop in profits
Posted on 07 May 2009.
The Swedish mobile phone giant, Ericsson, has suffered a 30 percent drop in its first quarter net profits compared to the same period in 2008. The world’s leading supplier of mobile phone network equipment is still managing to beat the gloomy predictions of market analysts, however.
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The Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference 2009 proudly presents its keynote speaker, Ericsson‘s Allen McCaskill
Posted on 19 February 2009.
With more than twenty years of experience, Allen McCaskill, the Senior Director of Media for Ericsson Worldwide and Head of UK TV & Media Practice is one of the keynote speakers at the upcoming Reykjavik Internet Marketing Conference this March.
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Ericsson to lay off 5,000 despite posting profit
Posted on 31 January 2009.
Despite the fact that it posted a surprisingly strong profit in the fourth quarter of 2008, Sweden’s telecom company Ericsson announced it was planning to terminate 5,000 jobs, 1,000 of which will be in Sweden. The rest of the 4,000 layoffs will affect Ericsson’s other business sites around the world.
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