Ericsson named as a leader in LTE Magic Quadrant

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 26, 2011 -- * Ericsson placed in Leaders quadrant in leading analyst firm’s LTE Network Infrastructure Magic Quadrant
* End-to-end vendors positioned based on ability to execute and completeness of vision
* Mobile broadband based on LTE technology provides consumers high speed wireless services with low latency

Ericsson recently announced it has been positioned in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for LTE. Gartner, a leading worldwide IT research and advisory firm, evaluated end-to-end vendors of LTE equipment (radio and core) based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision in the LTE market.

"Ericsson is committed to ensuring that consumers and businesses benefit from reliable, high quality mobile broadband services, and we are proud to be recognized in the Leaders quadrant of Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant for LTE," said Thomas Noren, Director LTE at Ericsson. "We believe our position in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant reflects Ericsson’s leadership in LTE, both in regards to us driving the technology and our large ongoing deployments of LTE around the world."

To date, seven of the top 10 operators ranked by revenue 2010 have selected LTE vendor for their network. Ericsson has signed commercial contracts with six of these seven operators.

Ericsson is the prime driver of open standards and has had the most significant impact on the LTE specifications released to date. Ericsson expects to hold 25 percent of all essential patents for LTE, making it the largest patent holder in the industry. Ericsson is the industry leader in managed services managing networks that serve over 800 million subscribers globally.

In addition to the LTE Network Infrastructure Magic Quadrant, Ericsson is included in the "Leaders" quadrant of Softswitch Architecture and FTTH Gartner Magic Quadrants.

About the Magic Quadrant:

The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2010 and 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Notes to editors
Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for LTE Network Infrastructure" by Sylvain Fabre, Deborah Kish, Akiyoshi Ishiwata, Akshay K. Sharma, Frank Marsala, Tina Tian, Jessica Ekholm, Joy Yang, May 26, 2011

Ericsson is also included in the following Magic Quadrant reports:

Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Fiber-to-the-Home" by Ian Keene, December 29, 2010

Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Softswitch Architecture" by Deborah Kish, Akshay K. Sharma, Joy Yang, Tina Tian, Bettina Tratz-Ryan, Sylvain Fabre, May 31, 2011

Gartner’s report, May 26 2011

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