Friday, 27 April 2012 Samsung reported a record operating profit for the first quarter of this year, 5.85 billion dollars, almost doubling over the same quarter 2011.
Monday, 04 June 2012 Samsung Electronics announced today that it has acquired Nanoradio AB, a developer of ultra low power Wireless LAN chipsets for high-speed wireless access in mobile phones. Nanoradio is a small company with 60 employees.
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 TeliaSonera has increased its stake in the Lithuanian operator Teo LT and will make a bid for remaining shares, according to a press release.
Tuesday, 08 May 2012 Telecom Group Company has received an order from T-Mobile USA to participate in the operator network upgrades for mobile broadband based on LTE technology.
Monday, 30 April 2012 Norwegian telecoms operator Telenor writes down the value of its operations in India to zero. This means an impairment of Nkr3.9 billion made in the accounts of the first quarter.
Friday, 27 April 2012 Another fall out from the Telia’s collaboration with dictators as pointed out in the past days continues to have negative effects on the company as Swedbsnk sell stocks to safe faces
Wednesday, 25 April 2012 Ericsson delivered a mixed quarterly report on Wednesday morning. As a whole the report was slightly worse than expected and the telecom company's principal business unit Networks plummeted from last year.
Friday, 20 April 2012 IT giant Microsoft's Windows Phone division made a loss in the first quarter. Payments to keep Nokia going are reported to be largely behind this decline.
Friday, 20 April 2012 Telia will start charging for mobile IP telephony such as Skype, even in Sweden. No more free calls from VoIP services such as Skype and Viber.
Thursday, 19 April 2012 Finnish mobile giant, Nokia Corp. (NOK), the world's biggest handset maker last year, Thursday said it has faced greater than expected competitive challenge in its ongoing strategy overhaul, as the company reported heavy losses for the first quarter.
Thursday, 19 April 2012 Swedish telecom giants, TeliaSonera and Tele2 reported their performances this morning and it was not very encouraging as would have been expected.
Wednesday, 18 April 2012 That security services are using mobile operators to control the public in political events and in dictatorial countries have been reported in the past and Swedish companies have been identified as playing leading role. Most notable has been Ericsson but it has emerged that the Swedish – Finnish telecom company, TeliaSonera could have secretly worked directly with these dictators to eliminated challengers to the regimes.
Tuesday, 17 April 2012 Moody's lowers rating for Nokia and further reduction may be necessary if the company can not boost sales. After a tough time in the stock market continues Nokia's shares dropped yesterday.
Thursday, 12 April 2012 Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia's shares continued their downward spiral on Thursday following Wednesday’s profit warning. Nokia shares opened 5 percent down in morning trading on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
Wednesday, 11 April 2012 Shares in Nokia plunged 17 percent after the mobile phone giant surprised investors by saying it expected to make losses in the first half of 2012.
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 Analysts, Nomura expects that telecom operators will continue to be cautious with their investments in the first quarter, which will weigh on the results of Ericsson, Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper.
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 Network equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks (NOK, SI) said Tuesday it has been selected by StarHub Ltd (CC3.SG), a mobile operator in Singapore, as its Long Term Evolution (LTE) fourth generation mobile broadband infrastructure and services vendor.
Monday, 09 April 2012 Nokia’s next strategy is to launch its smart phones in the USA and that was done on Easter Sunday. As the US shops start carrying out Nokia’s flagship Lumia 900, the Finnish mobile phone giant is hoping for a new foothold in the smartphone market. But analysts say that the company has two or three years to make its strategy work.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Swedish telecom operators are looking for ways to stop their customers from making free calls via services such as Skype and Viber. "We must take payment," said Charlotte Züger at Telia to radio Sweden.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012 Swedish Mobile operators, Tele 2 and three are at war right now for new customers through two subscriptions that give customers half price. This has meant that it sold more subscriptions than usual.
Thursday, 22 March 2012 Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is to axe no more than 624 jobs from its operations in Finland, the company said on Thursday. Also other repots say Nokia will reduce 1000 jobs in Finland.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 It is hard for Swedish telecom companies to get customers these as such competition is fierce. It not led to a heavy price war, literally, but it has led to company “A” watching what company “B” is doing – very closely.
Friday, 16 March 2012 Nokia’s Executive Vice President of Design Marko Ahtisaari says in an interview with the Finnish business magazine Optio that he is looking for the next big leap in mobile user interfaces.
Monday, 27 February 2012 Telecom giant Ericsson increased its market share significantly in the last year, according to CEO Hans Vestberg. But even rival Huawei is growing and the Chinese company is using price as its competiveness strategy.
Monday, 27 February 2012 Sales of Nokia Lumia in the U.S. have exceeded expectations, as more phones where launched today. But investors are still worried about the price of the phones and there are questions about its competitiveness when other such as Sony just threw themselves int the mix.
Sunday, 26 February 2012 The divorce of Sony from Ericsson was already realised about two weeks ago and Sony Mobile will become the part of the big Sony family. Focus on quality and content will not come cheap. But with Sony’s strategic power, there is the chance that such will not be a big deal for the company.
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