Ericsson has presented a full picture of new products, services and solutions to support its customers in network evolution, process transformation and innovation and capturing growth opportunities at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013, held in Barcelona. Ericsson showcased its combined technology and services leadership for the Information and Communications Technology industry.
Hans Vestberg, President and CEO, MWC in the annual press conference said, "Our heritage has been to lead the industry through its technology and business transformations. Our journey has taken us with customers from fixed to mobile, then bringing services, and now extending to process transformation across other industries."
He further added, “By the end of 2013, more than 50% of phone shipments will be smart phones, driven by more affordable models. Online interaction enriches our living, working and entertainment and breaks down barriers of time and place. By the end of 2013, there will be more mobile internet users than fixed internet users
Another prediction that 2013 will be the year LTE subscriptions exceed 100 million was made by Vestberg. By the end of Q4 2012, Ericsson had supplied more than 60 live commercial LTE networks on all continents. About 50% of all smartphone traffic on LTE runs through Ericsson networks. The cloud solutions will be based on a combined software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from the partnership of Ericsson and SAP within M2M.
The launch of LTE Broadcast is Ericsson's new offering for operators and their media partners to capture new revenues, by providing premium services with guaranteed quality and cost-efficient delivery over LTE.
