Latest Telecoms News from Sweden
Nokia Cuts 330 Jobs from its R&D Divisions
Nokia has announced another round of job redundancies affecting 330 staff. The planned changes are expected to affect up to 230 employees at Nokia's Oulu site in Finland and approximately 100 employees at Nokia's Copenhagen site....
TeliaSonera 3rd-Quarter Profits Up Slighty
TeliaSonera has reported that its 3rd-quarter net sales increased by 4.8 percent to SEK 27.1 billion, while net income rose to SEK 5 billion, from SEK 4.8 billion a year ago. ...
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Samsung to Supply LTE Modems to TeliaSonera from 2010
TeliaSonera says that it has secured delivery of Samsung supplied data modems for its LTE launch in Sweden and Norway in 2010....
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Ericsson Profits Slumped by 71% in 3rd Quarter
Wireless equipment maker Ericsson's profits dropped 71.5 percent in the third quarter as the global financial crisis hit demand for network equipment, the Swedish company said Thursday....
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MIMO Technology Boosts Usability of 60Ghz Band for Wireless Transmissions
For the first time, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin/Technical University Berlin, have demonstrated 60 GHz broadband radio for wireless transmissions....
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Sweden Consults on Auction of 800Mhz Radio Spectrum
Sweden's telecoms regulator, the PTS has issued a request for views on future use of the 800 MHz radio spectrum and the market's interest in licenses in the band....
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Swedish Networks Investigated for Radio Spectrum "Cartel"
The Swedish Competition Authority (Konkurrensverket) is reported to be investigating whether the division of the country's forthcoming LTE network by the country's mobile operators may have been an attempt to exclude other players from entering the market....
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Sweden to Adjust Radio Spectrum Fees to Reflect Usage
The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) has announced that it will gradually implement a new model for spectrum charges starting from next year that will penalise license holders who have not maximised the use of their radio spectrum....
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Android "Competence Center" Opened in Sweden
Software house, Enea says that it is establishing an Android OS competence center in Sweden to serve the mobile device community....
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Average Mobile Broadband usage Doubles in Sweden
The rapid growth of the average usage per mobile broadband subscriber in Sweden reconfirms the potential of 3G/HSPA technology to become a real alternative of fixed broadband. ...
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