Amid Korean mobile-operator preparations for 4G, or next-generation broadband service, Ericsson, a Swedish telecom equipment manufacturer, is emerging as contender to Samsung Electronic’s interest in acquiring LG-Nortel.

After starting the world’s first commercial LTE (Long Term Evolution) service through Telia Sonera in Sweden and Norway last December, global mobile operators are now maneuvering to deploy the next generation of wireless broadband service.
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South Korea’s mobile wireless technology WiBro should implement a global bandwidth standard before the technology can be exported worldwide, the vice president of Intel said Friday.
“WiBro as a technology itself is suboptimal,” Sriram Viswanathan, vice …

Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications equipment provider, announced it will conduct the world’s first Long Term Evolution (LTE) Interoperability Test (IOT) in Europe this month with Samsung Electronics to verify the interoperability of the LTE network …

Regarding Ericsson’s plan to invest in Korea, reports of the amount of the investment conflict – Korea’s presidential office, Blue House, and the Sweden-based IT company say different things.
Regarding Ericsson’s plan to invest in Korea, …

Sweden’s telecom giant Ericsson will invest over 2 trillion won (US$1.5 billion) in South Korea over the next five years for its next-generation information and communications technology project, South Korea’s presidential office said Sunday.