Ericsson chosen as WCDMA supplier to sunrise, Switzerland.Business Editors 3GSM World Congress 2002 STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 20, 2002 Ericsson (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ERICY) has been selected by Swiss operator sunrise as the supplier of WCDMA (Wideband CDMA) A 3G high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that use the TDMA or GSM technology worldwide, including AT&T (formerly Cingular) and T-Mobile in the U.S. infrastructure for their nationwide 3G network. The multi-year agreement is for a complete radio network solution, including all needed equipment and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. . Sunrise's choice of Ericsson as supplier of their 3G system follows extensive evaluation in tough competition with other vendors' offerings. Decisive factors cited by sunrise in their choice of Ericsson are their confidence in Ericsson's commercial and technical 3G solution, as well as capability to ensure system availability on time. "The agreement with sunrise further strengthens Ericsson's market leadership position in 3G and Mobile Internet. I am proud to have won sunrise's confidence and business based on Ericsson's leading 3G solutions and our capability and experience in an excellent local team," says Kristian Tear, President Market Unit Germany, Austria and Switzerland. "With this agreement, Ericsson has to date been named in 35 publicly announced WCDMA commercial agreements, significantly more than any other vendor." Ericsson is shaping the future of Mobile and Broadband Internet communications through its continuous technology leadership. Providing innovative solutions in more than 140 countries, Ericsson is helping to create the most powerful communication companies in the world. Read more at http://www.ericsson.com/press About sunrise Sunrise is the brand name of TDC TDC Top Dead Center TDC Time-to-Digital Converter TDC Tabular Data Control TDC Total Development Cost TDC Texas Department of Corrections TDC The Discovery Channel TDC Torpedo Data Computer TDC Theater Deployable Communications Switzerland AG, the company resulting from the merger of the telecommunications companies diAx and sunrise. The shareholders' meeting shareholders' meeting n. a meeting, usually annual, of all shareholders of a corporation (although in large corporations only a small percentage attend) to elect the Board of Directors and hear reports on the company's business situation. of TDC Switzerland AG is made up of: Tele Danmark 78.72%, d Holding 16.99%, SBB SBB Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Railway) SBB Sports by Brooks (sports webblog) SBB Sociedade Bíblica do Brasil (Portugese: Bible Society of Brazil) 2.34% and UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System 1.95%. sunrise offers its customers state-of-the-art telecommunications services in the areas of mobile phone, fixed network and Internet. The sunrise mobile phone network has the most modern GSM dual band infrastructure in Switzerland and already provides a mobile phone coverage of 97%. sunrise disposes of a high-quality, high-performance fiber optic network with a total length of 5900 kilometers - Swiss-wide. Presently, sunrise has approximately 2000 employees. |
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