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STOCKHOLM -- Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) has signed a memorandum of understanding to establish strategic cooperation with Datang Telecom Technology & Industry Holdings Co. Ltd. (Datang) to jointly develop advanced TDD solutions, with the goal to deliver richer mobile communications to consumers in China and around the world.
As part of the memorandum of understanding, Ericsson will start integrating Datang's current best-in-class TD-SCDMA radio access network equipment into its own 3G mobile communications offering.
More than six million mobile users in China are already enjoying mobile services through this technology. TD-LTE being the next generation of TD-SCDMA technology is also being tested pre-commercially to satisfy the growing appetite for higher speed and richer applications of the Chinese mobile subscribers in due time.
Ericsson set up a joint research center with Datang in Beijing as early as January 2008 to carry out research cooperation in TDD technology. The strategic cooperation formed now takes the relationship between the two parties to a substantially new level.
The strategic cooperation aims to leverage Ericsson's leading position in global mobile communications, its unique experience from global LTE commercial deployment and its common platform for FDD and TDD, as well as Datang's industry-leading expertise in TDD technology. Such move will increase the industrialization capabilities of TDD solutions by achieving economies of scale, improve the interoperability of operators' 2G/3G/4G networks, and provide support to a successful commercial launch of TD-LTE in China in the near future.
"Leveraging our global leadership position in LTE, we have been firmly committed to evolving TD-SCDMA to TD-LTE," said Mats H Olsson, Head of Region China & North East Asia of Ericsson. "Now we are further strengthening that commitment by this strategic cooperation with Datang. Our promise remains the same: we will always strive for providing the best TDD products and services to the Chinese consumers and to the world."
Ericsson AB (Nasdaq: ERIC)
Datang Telecom Technology Co. Ltd.
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