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...It was wiped out in the 4G era, when Huawei, Sweden’s Ericsson and Finland’s Nokia grew to dominance, controlling 80 per cent of the global market, according to research group Omdia....
...world's biggest mobile phone convention, joining LG, Ericsson and Nvidia in pulling out of the show....
...He says Huawei is 18 months ahead of competitors in 5G, an assertion contested by its biggest rivals, Ericsson and Nokia, which have won contracts with Telefónica Argentina and T-Mobile USA respectively....
...However, it is the network equipment companies — notably Ericsson, Nokia and Huawei — that will be shouting loudest at MWC....
...The new price plans, designed to deflect the impact of aggressive packages of T-Mobile USA and Sprint, helped Verizon add 590,000 contract smartphone customers in the second quarter....
...Sony, which has its own Ear assistant, is also expected to make some noise....
...Last year, Apple and Ericsson began a dispute over whether the Swedish technology group’s 4G mobile patents are essential for the manufacture of the iPhone and how much Apple should pay if they are....
...He predicts that its market share will fall to 22% by the end of 2007, with Sony Ericsson and LG the main beneficiaries....
...Analysts had widely assumed that Mr Totoki would press for deeper reductions in headcount to turn round the business, saying its workforce in Europe dating back to Sony’s joint venture with Ericsson should...
...Ericsson is one of the largest owners of patents for technology used in the mobile phone industry, even though it stopped making handsets after withdrawing from a joint venture with Sony in 2011....
...The two companies will also co-produce new content — and sell advertising space across mobile, desktop and TV screens....
...Rockstar, whose members also include BlackBerry, Ericsson and Sony, acquired 6,000 patents in the 2011 deal, of which 2,000 of the most valuable were distributed among individual members of the group....
...Verizon, the telecoms group, plans to launch an online video package for mobile devices....
...With the Walkman in 1979, Sony heralded the age of mass-market, portable music....
...With the Microsoft event scheduled for Thursday morning, Sony followed Samsung’s presentation with its largest launch since it bought Ericsson out from their mobile joint venture two years....
...The stakes were raised in the many-faceted patent wars in October, when the Rockstar consortium – a group including Apple, Microsoft and Sony that paid $4.5bn for a set of Nortel patents in a 2011 auction...
...Mr van Schie described 2013 as Sony’s “breakthrough year” in the mobile market after buying out partner Ericsson from its flagging joint venture....
...The trigger could be the potential sale of T-Mobile USA to Dish Network, according to CCS, which would allow Deutsche Telekom to focus on European operations and tie-up with Orange to challenge Verizon and...
...Sony, which last year took full control from its mobile joint venture partner Ericsson, is another “sub-scale” producer that is at risk of being squeezed out, he added....
...of Xperia smartphones, a year after buying out Ericsson, its former mobile joint venture partner....
...John Legere, T-Mobile USA’s new chief executive, used the show to announce an accelerated rollout of LTE and a new partnership with Major League Baseball....
...Mr Nordberg now has a chief executive he knows well: Anders Runevad, a former colleague from both Ericsson and its mobile phone joint venture with Sony....
...FIH, Hon Hai’s handset division, was once kept busy manufacturing for Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson....
..., a joint venture with Ericsson of Sweden....
...While its parent Hon Hai Precision is famous for assembling Apple products, the Hong Kong-listed FIH’s customers are Nokia, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson, which are all struggling to compete with Apple and...
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